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[*][b][font:4233='Times New Roman']Born:[/font][/b][font:4233='Times New Roman'] 4 June 1975 [/font]
[*][b][font:4233='Times New Roman']Birthplace:[/font][/b][font:4233='Times New Roman'] Los Angeles, California [/font]
[*][b][font:4233='Times New Roman']Best Known As:[/font][/b][font:4233='Times New Roman'] Star of the [i]Tomb Raider[/i] movies and partner of Brad Pitt [/font]
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[font:4233='Times New Roman']Name at birth: Angelina Jolie Voight[/font]
[font:4233='Times New Roman']Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie is known as much for her offscreen romances, adoptions and political activism as for her movie roles. Jolie first made a small splash in 1998, playing doomed model Gia Marie Carangi in the HBO movie [i]Gia[/i].
She was a hit as the love interest in the offbeat air-traffic-controller drama [i]Pushing Tin[/i] (1999, with [/font][url=http://www.answers.com/main/ntq-dsid-1648-dekey-johncusack][color:4233=blue][font:4233='Times New Roman']John Cusack[/font][/color][/url][font:4233='Times New Roman']), but winning an Oscar for her supporting role as a troubled mental patient in the 1999 [/font][url=http://www.answers.com/main/ntq-dsid-1648-dekey-winonaryder][color:4233=blue][font:4233='Times New Roman']Winona Ryder[/font][/color][/url][font:4233='Times New Roman'] film [i]Girl, Interrupted[/i] made her a big-time movie star. She sealed her international fame by playing the video game heroine [/font][url=http://www.answers.com/main/ntq-dsid-1648-dekey-laracroft][color:4233=blue][font:4233='Times New Roman']Lara Croft[/font][/color][/url][font:4233='Times New Roman'] in [i]Tomb Raider[/i] (2001)
and [i]Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life[/i] (2003). Jolie's plush-lipped, brooding Gothic presence (and ample tattoos) made her a hit with the younger generation, and her wild-life offscreen antics made her a hit with the tabloids, especially while she was married to her [i]Pushing Tin[/i] co-star, [/font][url=http://www.answers.com/main/ntq-dsid-1648-dekey-billybobthornton][color:4233=blue][font:4233='Times New Roman']Billy Bob Thornton[/font][/color][/url][font:4233='Times New Roman'] (2000-2003). Jolie has since become famous for her charitable impulses: she was named a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees in 2001. She adopted a Cambodian boy, Maddox (in 2002), a daughter born in Ethiopia, Zahara (in 2005), and a boy from Vietnam, Pax Thien (in 2007).
She and [/font][url=http://www.answers.com/main/ntq-dsid-1648-dekey-bradpitt][color:4233=blue][font:4233='Times New Roman']Brad Pitt[/font][/color][/url][font:4233='Times New Roman'] starred in the action film [i]Mr. & Mrs. Smith[/i] in 2005, but whatever excitement the movie generated was overshadowed by the real-life drama of Pitt leaving [/font][url=http://www.answers.com/main/ntq-dsid-1648-dekey-jenniferaniston][color:4233=blue][font:4233='Times New Roman']Jennifer Aniston[/font][/color][/url][font:4233='Times New Roman'] to move in with Jolie. Jolie's first biological child with Pitt, a daughter named [/font][url=http://www.answers.com/main/ntq-dsid-1648-dekey-shilohjoliepitt][color:4233=blue][font:4233='Times New Roman']Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt[/font][/color][/url][font:4233='Times New Roman'], was born in 2006 at a resort in Namibia. They also have a son and daughter, [/font][url=http://www.answers.com/main/ntq-dsid-1648-dekey-knoxjoliepitt][color:4233=blue][font:4233='Times New Roman']Knox[/font][/color][/url][font:4233='Times New Roman'] and [/font][url=http://www.answers.com/main/ntq-dsid-1648-dekey-viviennejoliepitt][color:4233=blue][font:4233='Times New Roman']Vivienne[/font][/color][/url][font:4233='Times New Roman'], born on 12 July 2008 in Nice, France. [/font]
[font:4233='Times New Roman']Jolie is the daughter of Jon Voight, who won a best
actor Oscar for the 1978 movie [i]Coming Home[/i] (the same movie for which [/font][url=http://www.answers.com/main/ntq-dsid-1648-dekey-janefonda][color:4233=blue][font:4233='Times New Roman']Jane Fonda[/font][/color][/url][font:4233='Times New Roman'] won best actress). Her mother Marcheline Bertrand, who was divorced from Voigt and died in 2007, was also an actress... Jolie played Cornelia Wallace, wife to Alabama governor [/font][url=http://www.answers.com/main/ntq-dsid-1648-dekey-georgewallace][color:4233=blue][font:4233='Times New Roman']George Wallace[/font][/color][/url][font:4233='Times New Roman'], in the 1997 TV movie [i]George Wallace[/i]... The birth order of Jolie's children is: Maddox (b. 2001), Pax (b. 2003), Zahara (b. 2005), Shiloh (b. 2006), and the twins Knox and Vivienne (b. 2008).[/font]
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