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Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie, (born Angelina Jolie Voight on June 4,
1975, Los Angeles, California, USA) is an American actress,
who is as renowned for her exotic looks, full lips and
tattoos, as for her acting ability. She is a  respected
artist and has received three Golden Globes, as well as
an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance
as Lisa Rowe in the film Girl, Interrupted. Additionally
Jolie has starred in five student films, all of which
were directed by her brother James Haven.
Jolie, the daughter of actor Jon Voight and Marcheline
Bertrand, was born in Los Angeles, California. She is
of Czech, French-Canadian, and Iroquois descents. As a
child she dreamed of becoming a funeral director. She
attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute from the
age of 11 and later completed a degree in film at New
York University.
Jolie has been long estranged from her father, actor
Jon Voight, though a reconciliation was attempted by his
appearing with her in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. In the
October 2004 issue of Premiere Magazine, Jolie indicated
that she was no longer interested in pursuing a relationship
with her father. Soon after he exploited a claim that
she has "serious emotional problems" on Access
Hollywood, she legally dropped Voight as her last name.
Jolie has been a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations
High Commission for Refugees since 2001, and frequently
travels to far-flung countries to draw attention to the
plight of people in Third World nations. In 2003, she
published Notes from My Travels, a collection of journal
entries chronicling her early work with the U.N.. In a
January 2005 interview (http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/01/29/davos.jolie.reut/index.html)
with Reuters, Jolie criticized fellow actors for not being
committed enough in helping others, and stated at she
gives one-third of her income to charitable organizations.
Jolie was also one of the first celebrities to accept
an invitation to be one of the bearers of the Olympic
Torch during the 2004 Olympic Games, though she was ultimately
unable to participate due to filming commitments.
In the fall of 2004, it was reported that Jolie has started
proceedings to adopt another child, this time from Russia.
Around the same time, Lauryn Galindo, the Hawaii-based
adoption facilitator whose services Jolie had used to
adopt Maddox, was sentenced to 18 months in prison after
pleading guilty to visa fraud and money laundering charges.
She had been falsifying records of children to be adopted
in visa applications to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services, and several of the children she placed had not
been abandoned at all but were enticed away or bought
from their birth families. It does not appear that Maddox
was among them, although the investigation is continuing.
Besides her acting and humanitarian endeavors, Jolie
also worked as a professional model in London, New York
and Los Angeles and appeared in numerous music videos
including those of Meat Loaf, Lenny Kravitz, and the Rolling
Stones.
As of early 2005, Jolie has not had a substantial hit
film in several years, with several of her movies, such
as Alexander, Sky Captain, and the second Lara Croft film
being major box office disappointments. She is also the
voice of Lola in Shark Tale. Nonetheless her exotic looks
and acting talent still make her one of Hollywood's most
in-demand actresses.
In early 2005, Jolie found herself at the centre of a
well-publicized Hollywood "scandal" when she
was accused of being the "other woman" in the
marital break-up of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. The
allegation was that she and Pitt had started an affair
during filming of the yet-to-be-released spy comedy Mr.
and Mrs. Smith, something she denies.
In March of 2005, Angelina Jolie was named the sexiest
woman in the world by FHM magazine out of 15 million worldwide
votes.
She now lives full-time in Buckinghamshire, UK.
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