Angelina Jolie

Name Angelina Jolie

Birth name Angelina Jolie Voight (changed to Angelina Jolie, 2002)

Date of birth 4 June 1975

Star sign Gemini

Birthplace Los Angeles, California, USA

Height 5ft 8in

Eye colour Blue

Marriages Jonny Lee Miller, 28 March 1996 (divorced 3 February 1999); Billy Bob Thornton, 5 May 2000 (divorced 27 May 2003)

Children Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt, born 5 August 2001 (adopted 10 March 2002); Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt, born 8 January 2005 (adopted 6 July 2005); Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt, born 29 November 2003 (adopted 15 March 2007); Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, born 27 May 2006; twins Knox Leon Jolie-Pitt and Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt, born 12 July 2008

Biography

A regular on the ‘world’s most beautiful women’ lists, A-list actress Angelina Jolie often attracts as much attention for her off-camera antics as for her on-screen work.

Best-known for her role as computer game heroine Lara Croft in the 2001 film Tomb Raider, the American has received three Golden Globes, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and an Academy Award – and still finds time to act as a UN Goodwill Ambassador.

Daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand, Angelina grew up in LA surrounded by Hollywood glitz and made her screen debut aged six.

She hit the big time in 1995 when she starred opposite Brit actor Jonny Lee Miller in Hackers and married her co-star just seven months later, although the nuptials lasted just three years. After a brief same-sex relationship with model Jenny Shimizu, Angelina won a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for Girl, Interrupted – only to shock the world again by sharing a passionate kiss at the ceremony with her brother, James.

A second marriage, to Billy Bob Thornton in 2000, brought more controversy when she announced that the couple wore vials of each other’s blood around their necks. They split in 2003, shortly after Angelina adopted her first child, Maddox, from a Cambodian orphanage.

New romance – this time with Mr & Mrs Smith co-star Brad Pitt – blossomed in 2005 and ‘Brangelina’ was born when the pair tied the knot. Angelina adopted two more children, Zahara and Pax, either side of the arrival of the couple’s first biological child, Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, in May 2006. Then in July 2008 the couple celebrated the arrival of twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline.

Quotes
‘I wouldn’t be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.’ (Msnbc, 8 June 2005)

‘You’re young, you’re drunk, you’re in bed, you have knives; shit happens.’ (Internet Movie Database)

‘I am odd-looking. I sometimes think I look like a funny Muppet.’ (Now Online, 8 November 2007)

(On Madonna’s adoption of a child from Malawi)
‘Personally, I prefer to stay on the right side of the law. I would never take a child away from a place where adoption is illegal.’ (Gala magazine, January 2007)

‘I give more of myself when I’m extremely open emotionally than when I just have my shirt off.’ (blackfilm.com, March 2004)