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Angelina Jolie’s 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 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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Also known as

Birth Name : Angelina Jolie Voight

Born

June, 04 1975 in Los Angeles, California, USA

Education

  • New York University, New York, NY: Attended night classes in 1997
  • The Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, New York, NY: Enrolled at age 11

Professions

actor

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