Angelina Jolie

In the Era of 60s there born a star of decades Angelina Jolie. Angelina Jolie is an American actress who has received an academy Award two Screen Actors Guild Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. Jolie promotes humanitarian causes noted for her work with refugees as a Goodwill Ambassador for the U.N. She has been cited as one of the world s most attractive people for which she has received substantial media attention.Actress humanitarian. She rose to stardom in the 1990s. She began acting at a young age studying at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute while in her early teens. Jolie later attended New York University.In the 1990s Angelina Jolie became a popular actress. She gave a star making performance in the 1998 television film Gia based on the short tragic life of model Gia Marie Carangi which won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress.

Another great dramatic role in Girl Interrrupted 1999 brought Jolie her first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has continued to take on a variety of interesting roles such as an adventurer in the Lara Croft films a FBI profiler in Taking Lives 2004 an assassin in Mr. and Mrs. Smith 2005 and a neglected troubled socialite wife in The Good Shepherd 2006.In 2007 Jolie gave a brilliant performance as Mariane Pearl the pregnant widow of Wall Street Journal reporter Danny Pearl in A Mighty Heart. The film was based on Mariane Pearl s account of her husband s abduction and murder.

He also took part in the field of humanity. Angelina Jolie was made a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency in 2001. She has made headlines for her work to obtain aid for refugees in Cambodia Darfur and Jordan to name just a few.In 2005 Jolie received the Global Humanitarian Action Award from the United Nations Association of the USA for her activism on behalf of refugee rights. She continues to travel the world to drawing attention to global issues.Famous for her off screen romances Angelina Jolie has been married twice. She married Hackers co star Jonny Lee Miller in 1995. The couple divorced in 1999. The next year Jolie married Academy Award winning actor Billy Bob Thornton. That union lasted until 2003.

In 2002 Angelina Jolie adopted a son from Cambodia and named him Maddox. Three years later she adopted a daughter Zahara and later in 2005 actor Brad Pitt filed paperwork to adopt both of Jolie s children.Jolie and Pitt met during the making of Mr. and Mrs. Smith in 2004. The couple s first biological daughter Shiloh was born in the African country of Namibia in 2006. Jolie Pitt and their children had traveled there to avoid the media frenzy that seemed to follow them wherever they went.After the joy of welcoming her third child to the world came great sadness for Jolie. 

She experienced a great personal loss in the beginning of 2007   her mother died of cancer after fighting the disease for many years.In March 2007 Angelina Jolie added a new member to her family. She adopted a three year old boy from a Vietnamese orphanage. Her son is named Pax Thien.

Jolie gave birth to twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline on July 12 2008 in a seaside hospital in southern France. The rights for the first images of the twins were sold to People and Hello! magazines for $14 million. The photos are the most expensive celebrity pictures ever taken.In October of 2008 Jolie appeared in the Clint Eastwood directed thriller The Changeling. Jolie played Christine Collins a mother whose son reappears after his kidnapping. Collins is sure the returned boy is not the one to which she gave birth and her fight reveals a police conspiracy. In 2009 Jolie received an Oscar nomination for Best Actress for the role. Thus she became the favorite of every young hearts.