Angelina Jolie
was born to actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand (the
couple divorced shortly thereafter) and began her own acting
career at age 5 alongside her Oscar-winning father in Lookin’
to Get Out (1980). The talented youngster enrolled in the
Lee Strasberg Theater Institute at age 11, and continued her
career into her teens with professional modelling and music
video shoots. Already well-trained for the stage and screen,
she followed up the Strasberg education with film studies
at New York University and the Met Theatre Group in Los Angeles.
She debuted on stage in Room Service during that time, and
was directed by her brother, James Haven, in five student
movies.
The still teenaged Jolie spent
the next few years getting good reviews in good films of various
quality. She shone in Cyborg II: Glass Shadows (1993), Hackers
(1995), Foxfire (1996), Love Is All There Is (1996), Without
Evidence (1995), Mojave Moon (1996), Playing God (1997), George
Wallace (TV - 1997 - for a Golden Globe win and an Emmy nomination),
True Women (TV - 1997), Playing by Heart (1998 - for a National
Board of Review Breakthrough Performance award), and Gia (TV
- 1998 - for another Golden Globe, a Golden Satellite, a Screen
Actors Guild award, and a second Emmy nomination). That year
she married fellow actor, Jonny Lee Miller, and added unpredictability
to her growing fame with her reported wedding outfit -- black
rubber pants and Miller’s name in blood on the co-ordinating
white shirt. The couple divorced a year later. Jolie just
recently married Billy Bob Thornton and sports his name on
her person in tattoo ink.
1999 brought Pushing Tin (1999),
Hell’s Kitchen (1999), The Bone Collector (1999) and
the much lauded Girl, Interrupted (1999 - for a Golden Globe,
a Screen Actors’ Guild award, a ShoWest award, and the
big one: an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress).
The Oscar ceremony brought
further notoriety to Jolie. Critics sneered at her gothic
get-up and her gushing adoration for Haven -- when folks can’t
fault your performances, they’ll get you for brotherly
love.
Upcoming for the actor are
the films Dancing In The Dark, Gone In 60 Seconds, Tomb Raider
and Along Came A Spider. She will assuredly be busy for quite
some time. At age 24, with the entertainment industry’s
top awards on her mantel and stellar talent to spare, Jolie
is a Hollywood legend in the making.
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