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Angelina Jolie (born June 4, 1975) is an American film actress, a former fashion
model, 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.
After appearing 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) and she played her first leading role in a major
film in Hackers (1995). She appeared 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).
She 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).
Divorced from actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton, Jolie is currently
married to actor Brad Pitt, in a relationship that has attracted worldwide
media attention. Jolie and Pitt have three adopted children, Maddox, Pax and
Zahara, and a biological child, Shiloh.
Jolie has promoted humanitarian causes throughout the world, and is noted for
her work with refugees through UNHCR.
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