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.