Angelina Jolie, real name Angelina Jolie Voight, is a famous actress, producer, and director from Los Angeles. Her parents, Jon Voight (dad) and Marcheline Bertrand (mom) are both actors, so acting is in her blood. She began acting when she was eight but chose to go into it full-time ten years later because she loved movies.
She has won numerous awards, including an Academy Award and three Golden Globes, and has been named Hollywood’s highest-paid actress several times.
James Haven is her older brother. He is a writer, producer, director, and actor.
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Early Life
Angelina Jolie Voight was born in Los Angeles, California on June 4, 1975. Her parents are actor John Voight and actress Marcheline Bertrand. Jolie and her brother James Haven moved in with their mother after their parents divorced in 1976, and she gave up her acting career to raise her children. Angelina Jolie was inspired to become an actress by her father’s successful acting career. She appeared in her father’s film Lookin’ to Get Out when she was five years old (1982). Her mother and her live-in boyfriend moved to Palisades, New York when she was six years old. Five years later, they returned to Los Angeles. She decided she wanted to act at this point and enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. She trained there for two years.
Jolie attended Beverly Hills High School, where she felt isolated from her affluent classmates due to her family’s reliance on her mother’s modest income. Other teenagers teased her because she was very thin and wore glasses and braces. Her mother tried to get her to model, but her first attempts were unsuccessful. She transferred to Moreno High School. She started wearing all-black clothing at this point. She did live with her boyfriend and started experimenting with knife play.
Personal Life
Jonny Lee Miller and Angelina Jolie met on the set of Hackers in 1995 and married in March 1996. Instead of a traditional bridal gown, Jolie wore black rubber pants and a white t-shirt with her groom’s name written in her blood. The couple separated the following year and divorced in 1999.
Jolie’s divorce was finalised just days before she married actor Billy Bob Thornton in Las Vegas on May 5, 2000, after two months of dating. They met on the set of Pushing Tin in 1999. The couple was known for public displays of affection, such as wearing vials of one another’s blood around their necks. Jolie and Thornton adopted a son, Maddox, from Cambodia in March 2002. Three months later, they abruptly divorced. They finalised their divorce on 27th May 2003.
Angelina Jolie and Spouse Brad Pitt
Jolie was accused of causing Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston’s divorce in October 2005. She claimed she fell in love with Pitt while they were filming Mr. & Mrs Smith in 2005. They made their relationship public in January 2006, when she revealed she was pregnant with his child. Jolie and Pitt had been married for 12 years. Six children were born into their families, three of whom were adopted. On August 23, 2014, Jolie and Pitt married. They divorced in September 2016. Their divorce and custody battle dragged on for a long time. On April 12, 2019, their divorce was finalised.
Children (+Biological Kids)
Angelina Jolie is the mother of six kids. She is the mother of three biological children (Shiloh, Vivienne, and Knox) as well as three adopted children (Maddox, Pax and Zahara). Her ex-husband Brad Pitt is the father of all six of her children.
Angelina Jolie has six children: Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh and twins Knox and Vivienne.
Biological Children: Shiloh and twins Knox and Vivienne
Adopted children: Maddox, Pax, Zahara
Angelina Jolie Career
Jolie made her film debut in the 1993 straight-to-video sci-fi thriller Cyborg 2, which was followed by the cult hit Hackers in 1995. Her breakthrough role came two years later, in 1997, with the biopic George Wallace, for which she received her first Golden Globe Award, followed by another for her portrayal of supermodel Gia Carangi in HBO’s Gia. Jolie won a third Golden Globe, a second Screen Actors Guild Award, and her first Academy Award for her performance in Girl, Interrupted.
Jolie made her film debut in the 1993 straight-to-video sci-fi thriller Cyborg 2, which was followed by the cult hit Hackers in 1995. Her breakthrough role came two years later, in 1997, with the biopic George Wallace, for which she received her first Golden Globe Award, followed by another for her portrayal of supermodel Gia Carangi in HBO’s Gia. Jolie won a third Golden Globe, a second Screen Actors Guild Award, and her first Academy Award for her performance in Girl, Interrupted.
In 2011, Jolie directed, wrote, and produced the film In the Land of Blood and Honey. After a three-and-a-half-year hiatus, Jolie returned to the big screen in Maleficent (2014), a live-action remake of Disney’s 1959 animated film Sleeping Beauty. Unbroken was written and directed by her the same year. Jolie’s next directorial effort was the marital drama By the Sea (2015), in which she co-starred with her then-husband, Brad Pitt, for the first time since Mr. & Mrs Smith in 2005. Jolie also wrote, produced, and directed First They Killed My Father in 2017 and starred in and executive produced The Breadwinner. In 2019, Jolie reprised her role as Maleficent in the Disney fantasy sequel Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, which received mixed reviews from critics but did moderately well at the box office, grossing $490 million worldwide. She has had a successful Career little wonder she is Kim’s favourite when it comes to movies.
Net Worth
Angelina Jolie has been one of the world’s highest-paid actresses at times, commanding a salary of $20 million for a single role. As of this writing, Angelina Jolie’s net worth is $120 million. Angelina Jolie earns $20-30 million per year from movie salaries and endorsements in a typical recent year. Angelina earned $35 million between June 2019 and June 2020.
Salary
Angelina Jolie earned over $120 million in movie earnings between 2001 and 2011. She made $7 million in the first Lara Croft film and $12 million in the second. She made $10 million for her roles in Mr. & Mrs Smith, The Good Shepherd, and A Mighty Heart. Her pay increased to $15 million for Wanted, $20 million for Salt, and $19 million for The Tourist.
Philanthropy
She was involved in several humanitarian activities long before she became famous, and this was her culture. Her compassion for the poor and underprivileged knows no bounds. I’m not sure why she adores them so much.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees appointed her Goodwill Ambassador in 2001. She has done a lot to assist refugees in various parts of Asia and Africa.
The UN Association for the United States honoured her with the Global Humanitarian Action Award in 2005 for her contributions to the world.
She even collaborated with her ex-husband Brad Pitt to establish the Jolie-Pitt Foundation. The couple has donated to several organisations through this foundation solely to alleviate suffering in developing countries.