Angelina Jolie Biography

Full Name: Angelina Jolie Voight
Nicknames: Angie, Jellybean, and Bunny
Occupation: Actress
Date of Birth: June 4, 1975
Place of Birth: Los Angeles, Calif.
Sign: Sun in Gemini, Moon in Aries
Height: 5”7?
Father: Jon Voight (actor)
Mother: Marcheline Bertrand (former actress)
Relationships: Exchanged vows in a Buddhist ceremony with actor Brad Pitt
Ex-husband: Billy Bob Thornton (actor, director, writer) married on May 5, 2000 and divorced on May 27, 2003
Ex-husband: Jonny Lee Miller (actor) married on March 28, 1996 and divorced on February 3, 1999
Education: Attended Lee Strasberg Theater Institute and New York University (majored in film)
Film Debut: “Lookin’ to Get Out” at the age of seven
Scars/Tattoos: She has a scar on her hand, and a faint one below her jaw line. She has several tattoos, a box design on her hip, a Chinese dragon on her left arm, a rune-shaped design on her left wrist, two tribal designs on her backside, the Japanese symbol for “death” on her shoulder, and the Latin words “Quod me nutrit me destruit” on her stomach meaning “What nourishes me also destroys me.”

While most Hollywood stars do everything they can to seem chilly, professional and squeaky-clean, diligently concealing all their unpleasant less secrets, Angelina Jolie appears totally untroubled by argument. Ever-keen to speak about her breakdowns, her disorders, her fantasies and her world-famous predilection for S&M, many would tell she’s built a career on titillating national confession. But she’s too a progressively elegant and award-winning performer, her Oscar for Girl, Interrupted being simply the best in a chain of influential honours. Onscreen, as in sheet, she is a risk-taker, and possibly deserves to be seen as the religious baby of such greats as Streep, Pfeiffer and Lange. Beyond this, her global efforts on behalf of children and refugees have made her the almost public-minded star since Audrey Hepburn.

She was born Angelina Jolie Voight in Los Angeles, on June 4th, 1975 - her figure meaning Pretty Little Angel. Her father, Jon, was already an established star, having topped the measure in such classics as Midnight Cowboy and Deliverance. When Angelina was 2, he’d scoop the Best Actor Oscar for Coming Home. By so though, he’d already divide from her mother, the part-Iroquois actress and example Marcheline Bertrand (now Angelina’smanager), who’d moved with Angelina and her buddy James to the East Coast - to the Palisades, New York, to be more exact.

Living here, Jolie was a glad kid. She collected snakes and lizards - her preferred lizard being named Vladimir, and her preferred serpent Harry Dean Stanton - and, oddly, like many females of her age, she had a leading crunch on Mr Spock. She would don glittery clothing, including sparkly underwear, and flounce around, already performing, discriminating to have folk laughter, to have them like her. She was a member of the Kissy Girls, who hunted boys downward and kiss them till they screamed - until the school was forced to ask the parents and the mob broke upward. Marcheline would go the kids to the movies frequently, and Jolie claims this is where she got the belief to be an actress - not from her uncle, Chip Taylor (a player and composer), not from her godmother Jacqueline Bisset, and unquestionably NOT from her father, though at age 7 she did seem in Lookin’ To Get Out, a film about habitual gamblers, co-written by and starring Jon Voight.

When Jolie was 11, her mother moved the household backwards to Los Angeles. They had already moved frequently, making the inexperienced daughter feeling perpetually uprooted “I ever dreamed”, she says “of having an attic of things that I could get backwards upward and seem at. Now Angelina decided she wanted to behave and, as always jumping in at the profound conclusion, enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, where she skilled for two years, appearing in several phase productions. As a student at Beverly Hills High School, she was not only in her cinematic ambitions. But she surely FELT only in the midst of all those handsome, pampered children, children who teased her unmercifully for wearing brace and glasses and being then painfully skinny. Unlike the new parents, Marcheline was not wealthy - then Angelina too had to try her apparel at thrift stores like Aardvark. Her trust received a farther battering when her attempts at modelling proved futile. She never got picked - overly brief, overly slim, overly plump, overly scarred.