Angelina Jolie

Non-Public Biography Node
Birthday: June 4, 1975
Age: 36
Sign: Gemini
Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Big Break: Gia
Biography
Angelina Jolie was born and raised in sunny Los Angeles in 1975. Her father is Oscar-winning actor Jon Voight and her mother was the late Marcheline Bertrand.

Both Jolie’s parents were in the entertainment industry so it was evident that she would be in the entertainment industry. Jolie made her debut as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in the 1982 film, Lookin' to Get Out.

Angelina Jolie grew up to be one of the most desired women around the world. She is a an Oscar-winning actress, model and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency.

Jolie was a bad girl growing up admitting to drug use at a young age. She was married and divorced twice to Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton before settling down with partner Brad Pitt. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie caused a lot of controversy with their relationship because they were rumored to have hooked up while Brad was still married to Jennifer Aniston.

Since then Pitt has left Jennifer Aniston and has been living with Angelina Jolie. The two have three adopted children, Maddox, Pax, and Zahara. They also have a biological child, Shiloh.

Did you know…

  • Angelina gave her Oscar, Golden Globes, SAG Awards and Critic Choice Award to her mother.
  • Angelina regularly watched movies with her mother and that had inspired her interest in acting. She claims she was not influenced by her father.
  • Angelina studied acting at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute from age 11.
  • In 2004, Angelina was made an honorary citizen of Cambodia by the Prime Minister of Cambodia because of her social work there.
  • Angelina's many tattoos includes a Japanese sign for death, two pointy black American Indian symbols, a dragon, a large black cross, an "H" on the inside of her wrist, the Tennessee Williams quote, "A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages," on her left forearm, the words "Lady Croft" on an arm and the Latin phrase "Quod me nutrit me destruit" across her stomach.
  • Angelina and her brother, to whom she is very close, publicly spoke out to deny false rumors that the two were having an incestuous love affair.
  • In April 2007, Angelina filed court papers to add Brad Pitt's surname to that of her adopted son Pax.
  • "Jolie" means "pretty" in French.
  • Graduated from Beverly Hills High School at age 16.
  • She is of Czech and American descent on her father's side and French and Haudenosaunee (Iroquian Indian) heritage on her mother's side.
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Despite all the rumors circulating over the most popular merger since peanut butter and jelly, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have not set a wedding date yet.

Pitt showed up at the Cannes Film Festival and, during a press conference for his new film Killing Them Softly, he cleared up all the rumors about when the actual wedding will take place: He didn’t know.

"We actually, really and truly, have no date,” Pitt announced at the conference. 
Newly engaged super-couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt took some time for themselves on Thursday afternoon and shared in their love of art.

Dressed down and sporting sunglasses, the actors visited London's National Portrait Gallery where they checked out the Lucian Freud exhibit, which is in its final weeks.
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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, fresh from their recent engagement celebration on Galapagos Island, have made their way to the other side of the globe to Windsor, Berkshire in England for fun with their six kids at Legoland.

Last February, Jolie, 36, took Maddox, Pax and Shiloh to Berlin’s version during the film festival. They must have really talked it up because Brad Pitt, 48, joined them this time.
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Where do you go after receiving a $250,000 engagement ring? To the jungles of Ecuador, naturally! That is, you do if you’re Angelina Jolie and even your leg has over 47,000 followers on Twitter. (@AngiesRightLeg is a spoof account, not connected to Jolie.)

According to The LA Times, the 36 year-old award-winning actress and director was recently promoted
And the claws come out. Chelsea Handler, who is actually best friends with Jennifer Aniston in real life, covers the May issue of More magazine and says that she thinks she wouldn’t trust a woman like Angelina Jolie. I’m paraphrasing here, but this is what she tells the mag:

When asked who in Hollywood she thinks is the opposite of a "girl’s girl," she says, “Probably Angelina Jolie. You just know as a woman when you see another woman if that’s a woman you can trust. She (Jolie) doesn’t strike me as someone I would have a close friendship with.”
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With all the Brangelina wedding hype hitting the press lately, it’s easy to lose track of the ex that Brad left behind.

We didn’t forget you Jennifer. We’ll hype your big day too! (Even if it’s far less interesting and unconfirmed)

Jennifer Aniston just jetted off to Europe with her boyfriend Justin Theroux. The couple has reportedly been scoping out Elouda Beach for a possible spot for their “I do's.”
What’s wrong with this picture? The "Kung Fu Panda" is giving Mr. Smith advice on his sex life…

Chwhaat?

Jack Black advised Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie that their sex life will totally improve once they make it official with a wedding. During an appearance on “Entertainment Tonight"
It didn’t take long for the celebration to start. Now that the whole engaged thing has set in, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are in party mode.

The couple hopped on a jet to the Galápagos Islands where they will be kicking it like royalty. They touched ground in the beach-lined city of Baltra, Ecuador late Tuesday night, along with their kids Maddox, 10, Pax, nine, Zahara, seven, Shiloh, five and three-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne.
Sure, he’s good-looking. Sure, he’s charming. Yeah, he’s a good actor. But… but… That’s right, there are no buts.

Let’s face it, Brad Pitt’s perfect. Not even a computer-generated hologram of the actor could be any more flawless. And Pitt proved it when he brought the ultimate woman, Angelina Jolie, to tears.
Six kids and seven years later, Brad Pitt has finally put a ring on it! In case you’ve been living under a rock, this is the biggest news from the weekend. Hollywood weighs in on Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s impending nuptials.

Hollyscoop chatted with Emma Roberts at the A|X Armani Exchange + T-Mobile Neon Carnival at Coachella and she gushed to us about Angie’s new bling, “The ring is beautiful, lucky girl.”

Ryan Seacrest tweeted his congratulations, “6 kids, 7 years, and a gazillion tabloid covers later...

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