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Who is Angelina Jolie?
Angelina Jolie is a renowned, award-winning actress, humanitarian, and former UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador who now acts as a UNHCR Special Envoy. Her rise to fame was due to her portrayal of American supermodel Gia Carangi in the critically acclaimed HBO biographical film ‘Gia’. Her career was catapulted after she won an Academy Award for her performance in Girl, Interrupted and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider was a commercial success.
Jolie’s humanitarian efforts are widely recognized beyond her acting. Her travels have taken her to conflict zones, such as Cambodia, Darfur, and Syria, where she advocates for refugees and displaced people. The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award is just one of the accolades she has received for her humanitarian work. Forbes consistently ranks her among the highest-paid actresses, and she has been named ‘the most beautiful woman’ by magazines such as Vogue, Esquire, Vanity Fair, and Hello!
Besides being successful professionally, Jolie has also received significant media attention for her personal life, particularly her relationship with Brad Pitt. The couple referred to as ‘Brangelina’ had six children, three of whom were adopted and three of whom were genetically inherited. Jolie and Pitt filed for divorce in September 2016 after being together for over a decade, and their legal battle went on for several years.
| Real Name/Full Name | Angelina Jolie Voight |
| Date Of Birth | 4 June 1975 |
| Age | 50 years old |
| Birthplace | Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, United States. |
| Nationality | American. |
| Religion | Christianity. |
| Zodiac sign | Gemini. |
| Father Name | Jon Voight. |
| Mother Name | Marcheline Bertrand. |
| Hair Color | Brown |
| Eye Color | Blue |
| Height | 5 feet 7 inch |
| Weight | 58 kg |
| Marital Status | Divorced |
| Spouse Name | Brad Pitt (M. 2014 TO Div. 2019), Billy Bob Thornton (M. 2000 TO Div. 2003), Jonny Lee Miller (M. 1996 TO Div. 1999). |
| Children Name | Shiloh Jolie, Knox Léon Jolie-Pitt, Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt, Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt, Vivienne Jolie, and Zahara Marley Jolie. |
| Siblings Name | James Haven. |
| Profession | Actress, Filmmaker, and Humanitarian. |
| Net Worth | $200 Million. |
Early Life & Education
June 4, 1975 marked Angelina Jolie Voight’s birth in Los Angeles, California, United States. She possesses both American and Cambodian citizenship. Jon Voight, the father, and Marcheline Bertrand, the mother, are the parents of her. James Haven is the only brother she has. Barry Voight and Chip Taylor are her uncle and aunt. After her parents’ painful separation in 1976, Angelina Jolie and her brother were raised by their mother, who had to drop her acting plans to focus on raising her children.
Angelina Jolie graduated from Beverly Hills High School before transferring to Moreno High School, where she obtained her high school qualifications. At 16, she completed her high school education Angelina Jolie’s desire to become an actress drove her to enroll at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, where she trained for two years and appeared in several stage productions.
Growing up, she spent most of the time watching films with her mother, and it was as a result, rather than her father’s successful career, that inspired her interest in acting. At the age of six, Angelina Jolie and her family relocated to Palisades, New York, where Marcheline Bertrand and Bill Day, who is also a filmmaker, lived. Even so, they came back to Los Angeles five years later. During her teenage years, she struggled with emotional connection with others and as a result, she self-harmed several times.
Career
Angelina Jolie made her film debut in the 1982 movie ‘Lookin’ to Get Out’, which was also directed by her father. The movie was released when she was only seven years old. Her role as a near-human robot was played by her in the 1993 film ‘Cyborg 2’ as Casella ‘Cash’ Reese. The film’s failure greatly demoralized her. Her performance in ‘Hackers’ in 1995 resulted in a lot of praise, particularly from The New York Times. The Rolling Stones’ music video featured her as a stripper for the next two years.
In 1998, she played the role of Gia in the HBO biographical series ‘Gia’, which was centered around the life of supermodel Gia Carangi. Following a string of successes, she became internationally recognized with the 2001 film ‘Lara Croft: Tomb Raider’, which established her in Hollywood. Her roles have included an FBI profiler in ‘Taking Lives’ in 2004 and an assassin in ‘Mr. and Mrs. Smith’ as well as a disturbed wife in ‘The Good Shepherd’. The documentary ‘A Place in Time’ was Jolie’s first directorial debut in 2007.
In 2007, Jolie made her directorial debut with the documentary ‘A Place in Time’, which captures the life in 27 locations around the globe during a single week and features fellow actors such as Jude Law, Hilary Swank, Colin Farrell and Jonny Lee Miller. She also voiced the of part Grendel’s mother in the animated adaptation of Anglo-Saxon epic poem ‘Beowulf’, directed by Robert Zemeckis.
An Oscar-winning actress, humanitarian ambassador, femme fatale, author, pilot and now mother, Jolie has proved herself brilliantly adept at juggling her many roles – and hopefully will continue to do, for many years to come.
In 2008, she played a role in the action movie titled ‘Wanted’, which received her significant critical acclaim. Angelina Jolie acted as the lead in Salt, a film released in 2010, the following year. In 2011, she made an appearance in The Tourist with Johnny Depp. Angelina Jolie produced and directed a 2011 film called In the Land of Blood and Honey, which depicts a love story that takes place during the Bosnian War.
She next completed her second directorial venture, in a film titled Unbroken in 2014, which is based on a World War II hero named Louis Zamperini (1917–2014), a former Olympic track star who survived a plane crash over the sea and spent two years in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp. Angelina Jolie‘s next directorial venture was in a marital drama titled By the Sea in 2015, where she starred alongside her husband, Brad Pitt, marking their first collaboration since 2005’s Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
Angelina Jolie’s cinematic output remained infrequent as she preferred to devote herself to her humanitarian work. In 2017, there was an initial appearance in a movie called ‘They Killed My Father’. In addition to being responsible for the film’s direction, Angelina Jolie also wrote a screenplay with Loung Ung, her longtime friend. The film was made specifically for a Cambodian audience and Netflix agreed to the use of an all-Khmer cast and script.
Angelina Jolie reprised the role of Maleficent in a Disney fantasy sequel titled Maleficent: Mistress of Evil in 2019, which experienced unfavorable reviews from critics nonetheless performed moderately well commercially, with a global gross of over $490 million. In a fantasy film called Come Away, she played the sad parents of Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan alongside David Oyelowo.
Those Who Wish Me Dead, directed by Taylor Sheridan, stars Angelina Jolie and is based on Michael Koryta’s novel of the same name, which will be released in May 2021. She is also built to produce and act in an adaptation of a 2014 James Scott novel titled The Kept and will portray a fictional warrior called Thena in an upcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film titled Eternals.
Filmography
Movies
- 2025 Couture
- 2024 Maria
- 2021 Eternals
- 2021 Those Who Wish Me Dead
- 2020 Come Away
- 2020 The One and Only Ivan (voice)
- 2020 The True Story of Angelina Jolie
- 2019 Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
- 2016 Kung Fu Panda 3 (voice)
- 2015 By the Sea
- 2015 The Keyboard Cowboys: A Look Back at Hackers
- 2014 Maleficent
- 2013 Valencia
- 2012 Kung Fu Panda: Awesome Secrets Collection (voice)
- 2012 Kung Fu Panda Po’s Winter Wonderland
- 2011 Kung Fu Panda: Secrets of the Masters (voice)
- 2011 Kung Fu Panda 2 (voice)
- 2010 The Tourist
- 2010 Kung Fu Panda Holiday (voice)
- 2010 Salt
- 2008 Changeling
- 2008 Premio Donostia a Antonio Banderas
- 2008 Wanted
- 2008 Kung Fu Panda (voice)
- 2007 Beowulf
- 2007 A Mighty Heart
- 2006 The Good Shepherd
- 2006 U2: 18 Videos
- 2005 Mr. & Mrs. Smith
- 2004 Alexander
- 2004 The Fever
- 2004 Shark Tale (voice)
- 2004 Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
- 2004 Taking Lives
- 2003 Beyond Borders
- 2003 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life
- 2003 Trading Women
- 2002 Life or Something Like It
- 2001 Original Sin
- 2001 Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
- 2000 Gone in 60 Seconds
- 1999 Girl, Interrupted
- 1999 The Bone Collector
- 1999 Pushing Tin
- 1998 Playing by Heart
- 1998 Hell’s Kitchen
- 1998 Gia
- 1997 Playing God
- 1997 George Wallace
- 1996 Mojave Moon
- 1996 Foxfire
- 1996 Love Is All There Is
- 1995 Without Evidence
- 1995 Hackers
- 1994 Meat Loaf: Bat Out of Hell II – Picture Show
- 1993 Cyborg 2: Glass Shadow
- 1982 Lookin’ to Get Out
TV Series
- 2005 The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer (TV Series)
- 2003 Anderson Cooper 360 (TV Series)
- 1997 George Wallace (TV Series)
- 1997 True Women (TV Series)
- 1996 E! True Hollywood Story (TV Series)
- 1992 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (TV Series)
Personal Life
Angelina Jolie was in a serious relationship with Anton Schneider, who was identified as her boyfriend for two years starting at the age of 14. Her mother permitted them to live together in her house. During the filming of Hackers in 1995, Angelina Jolie reportedly had a romance with a British actor named Jonny Lee Miller, who is her first lover since the relationship in her early teens. Despite not being in touch for several months after production ended, the couple eventually reconnected and married in late March 1996. Despite that, the relationship ended for good the next year, but she still maintained good relations with Jonny Lee Miller. Angelina Jolie started their divorce in February 1999 and it was finalized shortly before she got back into marriage the following year.
On May 5, 2000, she married Billy Bob Thornton, who was an actor, after a two-month courtship in Las Vegas. The couple met on the set of Pushing Tin in 1999 but did not pursue a relationship at that time as Billy Bob Thornton was engaged to another actress called Laura Dern, while Angelina Jolie was dating an actor named Timothy Hutton. Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton made an announcement about adopting a child from Cambodia in March 2002, but they unexpectedly separated three months later. May 27, 2003 was the date when their divorce became official.
During Mr. & Mrs. Smith’s filming in 2005, she admitted to falling in love with Brad Pitt, but she denied allegations of an affair. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt remained silent about their relationship until January 2006, when she confirmed she was pregnant with Brad Pitt’s child. Before they announced their engagement in April 2012, their family had grown to include six children, three of whom were adopted. On August 23, 2014, at their estate Château Miraval located in Correns, France, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt wed after a long engagement. She later changed her name to ‘Jolie Pitt’. On September 15, 2016, the couple ended their two-year marriage. She filed for divorce on September 19 and cited irreconcilable differences. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were subsequently declared divorced after the court restored them to single status on April 12, 2019.
There are six children in Angelina Jolie’s family, including three sons and three daughters. Three children were adopted internationally, while three of them were biological. Angelina Jolie’s children are Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, Vivienne Jolie-Pitt, Maddox Jolie-Pitt, Zahara Jolie-Pitt, Knox Jolie-Pitt, and Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt.
Net Worth
As of 2025, Jolie’s net worth has been estimated to be $200 million. Her income is generated by acting, directing, producing, and endorsements, which includes a $10 million contract with Louis Vuitton. Her properties in Los Angeles and Cambodia are a reflection of her connection to the country where her son, Maddox, was adopted.
