BIOGRAPHY OF ANGELINA JOLIE

                                         Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie Voight was born on June 4, 1975 in Los Angeles, California is an American actress.

Daughter of actress Marcheline Bertrand and actor Jon Voight. Sister of the actor James Haven and niece of the singer and songwriter Chip Taylor. His godfathers were the actors Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell.

On the part of father has German and Slovak ancestry, and on the part of mother, French-Canadian, Dutch and German.

After the separation of their progenitors in 1976, Jolie and its brother lived with its mother who left the action to dedicate to raise their children.

When he was six, along with his mother and his partner, filmmaker Bill Day, they moved to Palisades, in Orangetown, Rockland County, New York. They returned to Los Angeles five years later.

During his student years he participated in a theater group, where he coincided with other future stars like Ed Harris and Holly Hunter. Following this experience, he enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Institute, where he trained for two years and appeared in several theatrical productions. She also attended Beverly Hills High School, where she said she felt isolated among the children of some of the better-off families because her mother survived on a modest income. He was mocked for his thinness, wearing glasses and orthopedic appliances. She was transferred to Moreno High School, an alternative school where she became a punk.

She left her acting classes and her aspirations were to become funeral director, so she did embalming studies. At age sixteen, he graduated from high school and rented his own apartment, before returning to acting studios. By then he suffered from insomnia, eating disorder and began to experiment with drugs; At age 20, said he had consumed "nearly all possible," in particular heroin. She suffered episodes of depression and twice planned to commit suicide (at age 19 and at 22, when she tried to hire a hit man to kill her). At age 24, she experienced a nervous breakdown and remained 72 hours in the psychiatric ward of UCLA Medical Center. Two years later, after the adoption of his first child, he found stability in his life.

He worked as a model and appeared in music videos of Lemonheads, Rolling Stones or Lenny Kravitz. In 1998 appears in the film Hell's Kitchen, and also in Playing by Heart, next to Sean Connery. He stars Out of Control, opposite John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton and Cate Blanchett. He then works with Denzel Washington on The Bone Collector. Incarnates Lisa Rowe in Inocencia interrupted of 1999, based on the life of "Susanna Kaysen", that interpreted the actress Winona Ryder. Jolie won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. He then appears in 60 seconds as an ex-girlfriend of a car thief played by Nicolas Cage.

Health

Angelina Jolie is an unconventional actress and proof of this was her decision to undergo surgery to remove the ovaries and fallopian tubes in order to minimize the chances of suffering cancer, a disease that died her mother, her grandmother and your aunt. Two years earlier the actress had undergone a preventive mastectomy. Both procedures performed because she, like many other women in the world who do not know, are carriers of genetic mutations BRCA1 and BRAX2, which raise the risk of breast and ovarian cancer.