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Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight on June
4, 1975, Los Angeles, California) is an United
States|American actor|actress who is renowned for
her exotic looks, full lips, wild child image,
numerous tattoo|tattoos and humanitarian work with
refugees.  She has received three Golden
Globe|Golden Globes as well as an Academy Award
for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as
Lisa Rowe in the film|movie Girl, Interrupted. 
Additionally, Jolie has starred in five student
movies, all of which were directed by her brother
James Haven.

In July 2005, Jolie became the third actress to
join the coveted "$20 Million Club" of actresses
commanding fees of $20 million per movie. She
joined Cameron Diaz and Julia Roberts when she
signed to do Mr and Mrs Smith for that amount.
Jolie became a citizen of Cambodia by decree of
its King of Cambodia|King Norodom Sihamoni on
August 11, 2005; the citizenship was awarded to
her in honor of her environmental work in the
country. She is expected to retain her American
citizenship.

==Biography==
Jolie is the daughter of actor Jon Voight and
Marcheline Bertrand. She is of Czech,
French-Canadian, and Iroquois descent. As a child
she dreamed of becoming a funeral director.  She
attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute from
the age of 11, later attending Beverly Hills High
School. Though she enrolled at the film school at
New York University after finishing Gia, she did
not complete her studies.   

Jolie has been long estranged from her father,
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 claimed that she has "serious emotional
problems" on Access Hollywood, and she legally
dropped Voight as her last name.


Jolie has been a UNHCR Goodwill
Ambassador|Goodwill Ambassador for the United
Nations High Commission for Refugees since 2001,
and frequently travels to remote 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 United
Nations|U.N.. In a January 2005
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/01/29/davos.j
olie.reut/index.html interview with Reuters, Jolie
criticized fellow actors for not being committed
enough in helping others, and stated that she
gives one-third of her income to charitable
organizations.

Jolie was also one of the first
celebrity|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. However, no adoption ever
took place. 

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
(document)|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. There is no evidence
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 City|New York and Los Angeles and
appeared in numerous music videos including those
of Meat Loaf, Lenny Kravitz, and The Rolling
Stones.

For several years prior to mid 2005, Jolie did not
have a hit movie. Several of her movies, such as
Alexander (movie)|Alexander, Sky Captain, and Lara
Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life|Tomb Raider:
The Cradle of Life were major box office
disappointments although Jolie usually received
good notices. She did provide the voice of Lola in
the successful animated film, Shark Tale. 
Nonetheless she remains one of Hollywood,
California|Hollywood's most in-demand actresses.

In early 2005, Jolie found herself at the center
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 spy comedy
Mr. and Mrs. Smith, something she denies. 

Thanks to a mixture of generally good reviews and
advance publicity due to all the rumors, Mr. and
Mrs. Smith opened in the No. 1 position at the box
office after it was released in early June 2005,
providing Jolie with her first box-office success
in several years.

In March 2005, Jolie was named the third sexiest
woman in the world by FHM magazine, from fifteen
million votes worldwide.

Since taking on her goodwill ambassador duties,
Jolie has on numerous occasions made public
statements that she wants to quit acting and
concentrate of her UN work (for example, see
Ireland On-Line in June 2005
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/entertainment/story.asp
?j=145628738&p=y456z9444). However, she has also
stated that her work provides the income necessary
for her to continue travelling the world on behalf
of the UN.

Jolie continues to balance the demands of being a
movie star with that of being a humanitarian,
despite an apparently grueling schedule. On June
7, 2005, the Associated Press wire service
reported on Jolie giving a presentation in
Islamabad, Pakistan. That very same day, she
attended the premiere of Mr. and Mrs. Smith in Los
Angeles.

She now lives full-time in Buckinghamshire, United
Kingdom|UK and reportedly plans to purchase
property in Cambodia.

In late June 2005, the New York Post reported a
claim that Jolie is pregnant, a report republished
on June 30 by Britain's Sky TV, Sun Media
Corporation in Canada, and the Asia|Asian
Hindustan Times, among others. Her publicists
presently deny this report. On July 5, 2005,
People magazine reported that Jolie was in the
final stages of adopting a baby girl, who had been
orphaned by AIDS, from Ethiopia. Jolie has named
her daughter Zahara Marley Jolie.

The American magazine Us (magazine)|US Weekly, in
reporting Jolie's second adoption, indicated
erroneously that Jolie and Pitt had adopted the
girl together. When the magazine realized its
error, the presses were stopped and an apology
issued to Jolie and Pitt; printing of the issue
resumed with the correction made, though a number
of copies with the error were still released to
the public. Reportedly, however, Pitt was present
when Jolie signed the adoption
papers.http://www.imdb.com/news/wenn/2005-07-08/

Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni awarded Jolie a
Cambodian citizenship for her conservation work in
the country.

== Trivia ==

===Tattoos===
Jolie's inventory of tattoos has become the
subject of much media attention, and she
infrequently adds or even changes existing
tattoos. She has said that all the tattoos she
possesses have a special meaning. Here is a
description of her current tattoos:

*the letter H (for her brother James Haven) on the
inside of her left wrist.
*"A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages"
(Tennessee Williams) on her left forearm.
*a dragon on her left arm.
*a large prayer for her son Maddox on her left
shoulder which covers up the Chinese/Japanese
"death" tattoo.
*two pointy black tribals on the lower parts of
her back.
*Quod me nutrit me destruit (Latin for "What
nourishes me destroys me") several inches below
her navel.
*a tilted Latin cross on the lower left of her
abdomen.
*a large Asian tiger on her back.
*a dragon under the tiger.
*a window between the two tribals on her lower
back.
*XIII (number 13 in Roman numerals) on her left
forearm.
*Arabic language|Arabic for "strength of will."
(ﺍﻟﻌﺰﻳﻤ&
#65172;) on her right forearm.
*"know your rights" just under her neck between
her shoulders.

Lasered/Covered:
*"Billy Bob", the name of her latest husband Billy
Bob Thornton, on her left arm.
*a Chinese/Japanese character for courage now
covered by the Tennessee Williams quote.
*a Chinese/Japanese character for death (死)
now covered by a prayer for Maddox.
*a tattoo both Billy Bob Thornton and Angelina had
a copy of. It was on her right forearm, now
covered by the "strength of will" tattoo.
*a dragon she got in Amsterdam while drunk, now
covered by the latin cross.

Jolie has gone on record as saying that a positive
effect resulting from the large number of tattoos
on her body is that, while she is not opposed to
film nudity, filmmakers have been forced to become
more creative when plotting any nude or love
scenes involving her. Make-up has been used to
cover up the tattoos in productions such as the
Tomb Raider movies and Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

===Other trivia===
* She has said she is Bisexuality|bisexual and
once claimed to have been in love with fashion
model Jenny Shimizu, her co-star in the film
Foxfire.

* She is left-handed.

* She claims to have a fondness for Liverpool
F.C.|Liverpool Football Club, having revealed that
her baby son, Maddox, "only wants to play for
Liverpool" after he was admitted to Alder Hey
Hospital in Liverpool for treatment.

* She has continually denied rumors of an
incest|incestuous relationship with her brother,
James Haven. During her acceptance speech for
winning the Best Actress in a Supporting Role
award for Girl Interrupted during the 72nd Academy
Awards|2000 Academy Awards, Jolie stated "I'm so
in love with my brother" which, combined with her
affectionate behavior towards her brother that
night, sparked the rumors.

==Filmography==

*Lookin' to Get Out (1982)
*Cyborg 2 (1993)
*Angela & Viril (1993) (short subject)
*Alice & Viril (1993) (short subject)
*Without Evidence (1995)
*Hackers (movie)|Hackers (1995)
*Mojave Moon (1996)
*Love Is All There Is (1996)
*Foxfire (1996 movie)|Foxfire (1996)
*Playing God (1997)
*Gia (1998)
*Hell's Kitchen (1998)
*Playing by Heart (1998)
*Pushing Tin (1998)
*The Bone Collector (1999)
*Girl, Interrupted (1999)
*Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000 movie)|Gone in Sixty
Seconds (2000)
*Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
*Original Sin (2001)
*Life or Something Like It (2002)
*Trading Women (2003) (documentary) (narrator)
*Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003)
*Beyond Borders (2003)
*Taking Lives (2004)
*Shark Tale (2004) (voice)
*Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
*The Fever (2004) 
*Alexander (movie)|Alexander (2004)
*Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005) 
*The Good Shepherd (2006) (currently in
pre-production)

== External links ==
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*imdb name | id=0001401 | name=Angelina Jolie
*
http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/help?id=3f94
ff664 Angelina Jolie, UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador
* http://www.elros.altervista.org/ Angelina
Jolie's Refugee Journals
* http://www.joliecommunity.com/ jComm - Jolie
Community and http://www.souliejolie.com/ Soulie
Jolie 
*
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/08/12/cambod
ia.jolie.ap/index.html CNN news story on Jolie
granted Cambodian citizenship