Angelina Jolie

**Angelina Jolie** (pronounced as Djole; née **Voight**, formerly **Jolie Pitt**, born June 4, 1975) is an American actress, movie producer, screenwriter, and author. She began acting at about 12 years old, and since then has starred in many movies.

She is the daughter of Jon Voight, who is also an actor and former actress/model Marcheline Bertrand. Her full name is Angelina Jolie Voight, but she decided to go by Angelina Jolie. She grew up in Los Angeles and attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.

## Early life

She was born in Los Angeles, California. She is the daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. She is the sister of actor James Haven, niece of singer-songwriter Chip Taylor, and goddaughter of actors Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell. On her father's side, Jolie is of German and Slovak descent, and on her mother's side, she is of primarily French-Canadian, Dutch, and German ancestry. Like her mother, Jolie has stated that she is part Iroquois, although her only known Native American ancestor was a Huron woman born in 1649.

## Career

Jolie played her first leading role in the 1993 movie _Cyborg 2_. In 1999 Jolie played Lisa Rowe in _Girl, Interrupted_.

She was awarded an honorary damehood by the British government in 2014 in recognition of her work in preventing sexual violence. She was presented with the award by Queen Elizabeth II. As an American citizen, she cannot be called "Dame Angelina", but she can use the letters "DCMG" after her name.

## Awards

She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in _Girl, Interrupted_.

## Marriage and family

Jolie self-identifies as bisexual. She has been married to Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton.

She has three adopted children. She lives with actor Brad Pitt. Pitt and Angelina are called 'Brangelina' by the media. They have three biological children. On May 27, 2006, Jolie gave birth to a girl, Shiloh. In 2008, she also gave birth to twins, Vivienne Marcheline and Knox Leon. On August 28, 2014, Jolie married Pitt in France. In September 2016, they separated and she filed for divorce. Jolie is currently battling for full custody of her six children.

## Health

She said in May 2013 that she had undergone a preventive double mastectomy after learning she had an 87% risk of getting breast cancer. Jolie has a defective BRCA1 gene resulting in a very high risk of breast cancer and ovarian cancer. Jolie said she might have her ovaries removed to prevent cancer.

## Movies

|scope="col"|Title|scope="col"|Year|Actress|Producer|Director|Writer|scope="col"|Role|scope="col" class="unsortable"|Notes|
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|1982|||||Tosh|Credited as Angelina Jolie Voight||||||
|1993||||||||||||
|1993||||||Short film||||||
|1993||||||Short film||||||
|1995||||||||||||
|1996||||||||||||
|1996||||||||||||
|1996|||||Ellie|||||||
|1996|||||Legs Sadovsky|||||||
|1997|||||Claire|||||||
|1998||||||||||||
|1998|||||Joan|||||||
|1999||||||||||||
|1999||||||||||||
|1999|||||Lisa Rowe|||||||
|2000||||||||||||
|2001||||||||||||
|2001||||||||||||
|2002||||||||||||
|2003||||||||||||
|2003||||||||||||
|2004||||||||||||
|2004|||||Lola (voice)|||||||
|2004||||||||||||
|2004|||||Revolutionary|Cameo||||||
|2004|||||Olympias|||||||
|2005|||||style="text-align:center;"|—||||||
|2005|||||style="text-align:center;"|—|Cameo|||||
|2005||||||||||||
|2006|||||Margaret "Clover" Russell Wilson|||||||
|2007|||||style="text-align:center;"|—||||||
|2007||||||||||||
|2007|||||Grendel's mother|||||||
|2008|||||Master Tigress (voice)|||||||
|2008|||||Fox|||||||
|2008||||||||||||
|2010||||||||||||
|2010||||||||||||
|2011|||||Master Tigress (voice)|||||||
|2011|||||Master Tigress (voice)|||||||
|2011|||||style="text-align:center;"|—||||||
|2014|||||style="text-align:center;"|—||||||
|2014|||||Maleficent|||||||
|2014|||||style="text-align:center;"|—||||||
|2015|||||Vanessa|Credited as Angelina Jolie Pitt||||||
|2016|||||Master Tigress (voice)|||||||
|2017|||||style="text-align:center;"|—||||||
|2017|||||style="text-align:center;"|—||||||
|2019|||||style="text-align:center;"|—||||||
|2019|||||Maleficent|||||||
|2020|||||Stella (voice)|Post-production||||||
|2020|||||Thena|Filming||||||
|2020|||||Hannah Faber|Post-production||||||
|TBA|||||Rose|Post-production||||||

## Infobox (officeholder)

- **embed**: yes
- **office**: Special Envoy to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees
- **term start**: April 17, 2012
- **1blankname**: High Commissioner
- **1namedata**: António Guterres
Filippo Grandi
- **predecessor**: _Office established_


## Infobox (person)

- **name**: Angelina Jolie
- **honorific suffix**: Order of St Michael and St George, DCMG
- **image**: Foreign_Secretary_with_Angelina_Jolie_(7296732398)_(cropped).jpg
- **alt**: Photograph of Angelina Jolie
- **caption**: Jolie in 2012
- **birth name**: Angelina Jolie Voight
- **other names**: Angelina Jolie Pitt
- **birth place**: Los Angeles, California, USA
- **years active**: 1982–present
- **children**: 6