Angelina Jolie

Birthplace: Los Angeles, California
Birthday: June 4, 1975

From wild-child Hollywood brat to, Academy Award winner, to respected U.N. Goodwill Ambassador, actress Angelina Jolie underwent a series of metamorphic transformations over the course of her career. An exceedingly beautiful, strikingly talented performer, Jolie broke on to the scene in the mid-1990s, quickly gaining a reputation for both her on-screen work as well as her outrageous off-camera antics. Interestingly enough, however, within a decade, Jolie shed her reckless image and successfully managed to re-invent herself – not only as an ar…more

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Actor

Gia
Gia Carangi
Think: MTV Diary: Angelina Jolie and Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in Africa
Herself
The Fever
Young Woman in the Church
What's Going On?
George Wallace
Cornelia Wallace

Other

AFI's 100 Years..100 Heroes and Villains
Film Clips

Producer

PU-239
Executive Producer

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Career Milestones

2007
Cast in "A Mighty Heart," as Marianne Pearl, the wife of Wall Street Journal reporter, Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and killed in 2002 while reporting in Pakistan; produced by her partner Brad Pitt; earned an Independent Spirit Award Nomination for Best Actress; also received Golden Globe and SAG nominations for Best Actress
2007
Made directorial debut with the documentary "A Place in Time"
2007
Portrayed Grendel's mother in Robert Zemeckis' big-budget film version of the epic poem "Beowulf"
2006
Played a CIA agent's (Matt Damon) long-suffering wife in Robert De Niro's "The Good Shepherd"
2005
Appeared in the MTV special "The Diary of Angelina Jolie & Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in Africa," which will follow their trip to Sauri, a remote group of villages in western Kenya