Biography
From Hollywood wild child to Academy Award winner to U. N. Goodwill Ambassador, actress Angelina Jolie underwent a series of metamorphoses over the course of her much-storied life and career. Both strikingly beautiful and exceedingly talented, Jolie - who was the daughter of Jon Voight - earned her first acclaim in the television movie "Gia" (HBO, 1998). She quickly developed a reputation for her outrageous off-camera antics, leading to a …
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Career Milestones
| Acted in five student films directed by her brother, James Haven Voight | ||
| Appeared in music videos by Meat Loaf, The Lemonheads, Rolling Stones and others | ||
| As part of the Met Theater group in Los Angeles, worked with such veteran actors as Holly Hunter, Ed Harris and Amy Madigan | ||
| Briefly worked as a professional model | ||
| Made stage debut in "Room Service" playing a German dominatrix | ||
1976 | Moved to Palisades, New York with mother and brother | |
1980 | Made her feature debut in Hal Ashby's "Lookin' to Get Out"; co-produced and co-written by her father; credited as Angelina Jolie Voight (released in 1982) | |
1986 | At age 11, began studying acting at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in NYC | |
1993 | Co-starred in the direct-to-video sci-fi film "Cyborg II: Glass Shadows" | |
1995 | Cast in first lead role in a theatrical release, "Hackers"; co-starred with future husband, British actor Jonny Lee Miller | |
1996 | Starred in the feature "Foxfire" | |
1997 | Portrayed the politician's first wife Cornelia Wallace in the TNT miniseries "George Wallace"; received an Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actress | |
1998 | Earned raves reviews for her performance as Gia Carangi, a drug addicted, bisexual model who died of complications from AIDS, in the HBO film "Gia"; received an Emmy nomination for Best Actress | |
1998 | Had supporting role as a club kid in the ensemble comedy-drama "Playing By Heart" | |
1999 | Cast as a tough detective assisting a quadriplegic colleague (Denzel Washington) in tracking a serial killer in "The Bone Collector" | |
1999 | Portrayed the wife of an air traffic controller (Billy Bob Thornton) in Mike Newell's "Pushing Tin" | |
1999 | Won an Academy Award for her supporting role in "Girl, Interrupted" a drama based on the memoirs of a woman's two-year stay in a psychiatric hospital | |
2000 | Acted opposite Nicolas Cage in "Gone in 60 Seconds" | |
2001 | Achieved international fame playing the videogame heroine Lara Croft in "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" | |
2001 | Starred opposite Antonio Banderas in "Original Sin" | |
2002 | Appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees | |
2002 | Portrayed a TV reporter forced to question her choices in "Life or Something Like It" | |
2003 | Reprised her role as Lara Croft for "Lara Croft and the Cradle of Life: Tomb Raider 2" | |
2003 | Starred opposite Clive Owen in "Beyond Borders" | |
2004 | Co-starred with Colin Farrell in Oliver Stone's "Alexander" playing Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great | |
2004 | Portrayed Captain Franky Cook in the Sci-fi thriller "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" opposite Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow | |
2004 | Starred as Special Agent Illeana Scott in the thriller "Taking Lives" opposite Ethan Hawke and Kiefer Sutherland | |
2004 | Voiced Lola in the animated feature "Shark Tale " | |
2005 | Appeared in the MTV special "The Diary of Angelina Jolie & Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in Africa," which followed their trip to Sauri, a remote group of villages in western Kenya | |
2005 | Starred opposite Brad Pitt, as a bored married couple that is surprised to learn that they are assassins hired to kill each other in "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" | |
2006 | Played a CIA agent's (Matt Damon) long-suffering wife in Robert De Niro's "The Good Shepherd" | |
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" | |
2007 | Starred 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 | |
2008 | Co-starred as an assassin in the comic book adaptation of "Wanted" | |
2008 | Nominated for the 2008 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama ("Changeling") | |
2008 | Nominated for the 2008 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role ("Changeling") | |
2008 | Potrayed Christine Collins, a woman fighting for her missing son, in Clint Eastwood's drama "Changeling" | |
2008 | Voiced Master Tigress in the animated feature "Kung Fu Panda" | |
2009 | Nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role ("Changeling") | |
2010 | Played the title role of a CIA officer accused of being a Russian spy in "Salt" | |
2010 | Teamed with Johnny Depp for the thriller "The Tourist" | |
2011 | Made her feature writing and directorial debut with the war drama "In the Land of Blood and Honey"; Jolie also co-produced the film | |
2011 | Nominated for the 2011 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy | |
2011 | Nominated for the 2011 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy ("The Tourist") | |
2011 | Once again voiced the Master Tigress in "Kung Fu Panda 2" | |
Awards
1997 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television in George Wallace |
1998 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television in Gia |
1998 | National Board of Review Award for Breakthrough Performance - Female in Playing By Heart |
1998 | Outfest: Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival for Outstanding Actress in a Feature Film in Gia |
1998 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie in Gia |
1998 | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress In a Miniseries or Movie in George Wallace |
1999 | Academy Award for Actress In a Supporting Role in Girl, Interrupted |
1999 | Critics' Choice Award for Best Supporting Actress in Girl, Interrupted |
1999 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture in Girl, Interrupted |
1999 | Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries in Gia |
2000 | Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role in Girl, Interrupted |
2002 | MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider |
2002 | MTV Movie Award for Best Fight in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider |
2006 | MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss in Mr. & Mrs. Smith |
2007 | Critics' Choice Award for Best Actress in A Mighty Heart |
2007 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama in A Mighty Heart |
2008 | Academy Award for Actress In a Leading Role in Changeling |
2008 | BAFTA Award for Leading Actress in Changeling |
2008 | Critics' Choice Award for Best Actress in Changeling |
2008 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Drama in Changeling |
2008 | Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead in A Mighty Heart |
2008 | MTV Movie Award for Best Villain in Beowulf |
2008 | Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role in A Mighty Heart |
2009 | MTV Movie Award for Best Female Performance in Wanted |
2009 | MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss in Wanted |
2009 | MTV Movie Award for Best WTF Moment in Wanted |
2009 | Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role in Changeling |
2010 | Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture - Comedy Or Musical in The Tourist |