From Hollywood wild-child to Academy Award winner to respected U.N. Goodwill Ambassador, actress Angelina... (Learn more)
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| 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 | 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 | First lead 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" also starred 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 will follow 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 People’s Choice Award for Favorite Female Action Star |
| 2008 | Nominated for the 2008 People’s Choice Award for Favorite Female Star |
| 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 a 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”) |
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