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Angelina Jolie, born Angelina Jolie Voight on June 4, 1975, is an American actress. As a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Jolie encourages humanitarian causes and is famous for her effort with refugees. She has been said to be one of the world's most beautiful people in addition to the world's "sexiest" woman.

Even though her screen debut was made as a child with her father Jon Voight in the 1982 film Lookin' to Get Out, Jolie's acting began a decade later with the making of the movie Cyborg 2. Her earliest leading part in a major flick was in Hackers in 1995, a cyber thriller. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the performance she gave in Girl, Interrupted in 1999. Jolie received greater fame from her portrayal of Lara Croft in Tomb Raider (2001. Angelina’s greatest commercial successes have been with Mr. & Mrs. Smith in 2005, a comedy action movie featuring herself and co-star Brad Pitt.

Jolie is now divorced from Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton. She is married to actor Brad Pitt, a link that has engrossed international media attention. Angelina was born in Los Angeles, California. Her parents are actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. Jolie is of German and Slovak descent on her father's side and she is French Canadian, Dutch, and German on her mother's side.

Her acting career started in 1993. In her first Hollywood picture, Hackers (1995), Angelina starred as Kate "Acid Burn" Libby. Later in 1999, she starred in Pushing Tin alongside John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, and Cate Blanchett. The motion picture received mixed reviews from critics. With Denzel Washington, Jolie co-starred in The Bone Collector (1999), a variation of a crime story by Jeffery Deaver.

Jolie got the role of the sociopath in Girl, Interrupted (1999) next to Brittany Murphy, while supporting Winona Ryder in what was hoped to be a return to fame for Wynona, the movie instead brought Angelina to main stage Hollywood. She appeared in her opening summer smash hit, Gone In 60 Seconds (2000), where she played Sarah Wayland, the ex-girlfriend of a car-thief played by Nicolas Cage. In 2001, Jolie worked with Antonio Banderas in Original Sin, a thriller based on the literary work of Cornell Woolrich.

In 2005, Angelina co-starred in the action-comedy flick Mr. & Mrs. Smith. The big screen tells the story of a jaded married couple, John and Jane Smith, who each discover themselves as covert assassins. Jolie starred with Brad Pitt. In 2006, she next appeared in The Good Shepherd, directed by Robert De Niro, a motion picture about the beginning of the CIA, through the perspective of Edward Wilson, starred by Matt Damon. Angelina supported Damon’s role as Margaret Russell: his deserted wife. Jolie has become politically involved in encouraging humanitarian causes. In the U.S. capital, where she spoke with members of Congress, Jolie began lobbying such interests. Angelina told Forbes "As much as I would love to never have to visit Washington, that's the way to move the ball."

Later in 2005, Jolie was mixed up in a supersized Hollywood gossip, where she was said to be the cause for the divorce of actor Brad Pitt and actress Jennifer Aniston. She and Pitt were suspected to have begun an affair in 2004 during the making of the movie Mr. & Mrs. Smith. She denied this being so but said that she and Brad "fell in love" on the film’s set. Jolie and Pitt were seen together, in the summer months, with growing occurrence so the media nicknamed their relationship "Brangelina" and thought of them as a Hollywood couple.

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