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Angelina Jolie
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Angelina Jolie (born on June 4, 1975) is an American film actor and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. She is often cited by popular media as one of the world's most beautiful women and her off-screen life is widely reported. She has received three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and an Academy Award. Though she made her screen debut as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in the 1982 film
Lookin' to Get Out, Jolie's acting career began in earnest a decade later with the low budget production
Cyborg 2 (1993). Her first leading role in a major film was in
Hackers (1995). She starred in the critically acclaimed biographical films
George Wallace (1997) and
Gia (1998), and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama
Girl, Interrupted (1999). Jolie achieved international fame as a result of her portrayal of videogame heroine Lara Croft in
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), and since then has established herself as one of the best-known and highest-paid actresses in Hollywood. She had her biggest commercial success with the action-comedy
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). |