BA: The life of Angelina Jolie |
Hi guys! I know that soon is Valentine's Day but I wanted to take a "break" from all those things and talk you about a wonderful women! But don't worry! I have something prepared for Valentine's Day too, so stay tuned! I'm a big fan of Angelina's work and life. All the things that she lived in her teenager years and after, are fascinates me. And all her roles convinced me what a talented actress she is! She's a wonderful women, an incredible actress, a convinced humanitarian and the most important, the mother of six beautiful childrens! Angelina Jolie Voight was born in Los Angeles, California. Her father, JonVoight, was an established Hollywood actor and an Oscar winner. Her mother was the part-Iroquois, part-French actress and model Marcheline Bertrand, who, incidentally, worked as Angelina's manager. Angelina's parents split up before she was two-years-old. When Angelina was 11, the family moved back to Los Angeles. Angelina decided to get serious about her dream of becoming an actress and enrolled for acting lessons at the prestigious drama academy, the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. She didn't enjoy her years at Beverly Hills High School, where she was constantly teased for wearing glasses and braces and for being so skinny. The teasing and rejection she experienced during her early teenage years had a disastrous effect on her sense of self-esteem, and at the age of 14, shedropped out of high school. She dyed her hair purple, moved in with her punk rocker boyfriend, adopted a Gothic dress code of black, black and more black - but more seriously, began to self-harm and cut herself. At the age of 16, Angelina split up with her boyfriend, and decided to revive her childhood dreams of becoming an actress. She moved into an apartment opposite her mother and secured her first on-stage role as a German S&M dominatrix! For the first time ever, she also began to make the peace with her father.She realised that when it came to acting he had a great deal to teach her. With her braces and glasses gone, she succeeded in landing work as a model and even appeared in the video for Meat Loaf’s 'Rock’n’Roll Dreams Come Through'. She also appeared in promo videos for Lenny Kravitz and the Rolling Stones. She made her movie debut proper in 1993 in the role of Casella 'Cash' Reese alongside Jack Palance in 'Cyborg 2'. Angelina's role capitalised on her screen charisma and brash, upfront sex appeal, and before long she was offered another plum role in 'Hackers', a sci-fi computer thriller. Angelina acted also in "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", "By the Sea", "Maleficent", "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider", "The Tourist" and much more. Angelina is also a producer. Her latest movie is "They First Killed My Father", which was announced on July 23, 2015. She also produced "By the Sea", " Unbroken" and "In the Land of Blood and Honey". Angelina Jolie won over 40 awards, including 2 Oscars! While on set shooting Hackers, she met British actor Johnny Lee Miller, of Trainspotting' fame, who played a computer wizard on the run from the police. Jolie and Miller worked closely together (she played a member of his team) and, before long, the couple were announcing their engagement in the press. The Hollywood gossip columnists ventured the opinion that Jolie's marriage was all part of her quest to find some stability in her life, since she’d lacked a father figure whilst she was growing up. But she and Miller were an outlandish and unconventional couple, and Jolie wasted no time in telling the press all about their exploits - in bed and out of it! Between 2000 and 2003, Angelina was married with Billy Bob Thornton. They had met on the set of Pushing Tin, but did not pursue a relationship at that time as Thornton was engaged to actress Laura Dern, while Jolie was reportedly dating actor Timothy Hutton, her co-star in Playing God . As a result of their frequent public declarations of passion and gestures of love—most famously wearing one another's blood in vials around their necks—their marriage became a favorite topic of the entertainment media. Jolie and Thornton announced the adoption of a child from Cambodia in March 2002, but abruptly separated three months later. Their divorce was finalized on May 27, 2003. While she was shooting for "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", she met Brad Pitt. Right in that time, Pitt was divorcing of Jennifer Aniston. Jennifer claimed that Angelina was the marriage-wrecker. Angelina denied her claims and told the reporters that she was just a shoulder to cry on. On 14 April 2012, it was announced that Jolie and Pitt had become engaged after seven years together. They had 6 kids together: 3 adopted, Maddox, Pax and Zahara, and 3 biological Shiloh and the twins, Know and Vivienne. After 11 years together, they divorced in September 2016. Jolie first witnessed the effects of a humanitarian crisis while filming "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" in war-torn Cambodia, an experience she later credited with having brought her a greater understanding of the world. Upon her return home, she contacted the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for information on international trouble spots .To learn more about the conditions in these areas, she began visiting refugee camps around the world. In February 2001, she went on her first field visit, an 18-day mission to Sierra Leone and Tanzania; she later expressed her shock at what she had witnessed.In the following months, Jolie returned to Cambodia for two weeks and met with Afghan refugees in Pakistan, where she donated $1 million in response to an international UNHCR emergency appeal, the largest donation UNHCR had ever received from a private individual. Jolie has pushed for legislation to aid child immigrants and other vulnerable children in both the U.S. and developing nations, including the "Unaccompanied Alien Child Protection Act of 2005." She began lobbying humanitarian interests in the U.S. capital from 2003 onwards, explaining, "As much as I would love to never have to visit Washington, that's the way to move the ball." Since October 2008, she has co-chaired Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), a network of leading U.S. law firms that provide free legal aid to unaccompanied minors in immigration proceedings across the U.S. After Jolie joined the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in June 2007, she hosted a symposium on international law and justice at CFR headquarters and funded several CFR special reports, including "Intervention to Stop Genocide and Mass Atrocities." In January 2011, she established the Jolie Legal Fellowship, a network of lawyers and attorneys who are sponsored to advocate the development of human rights in their countries. Its member attorneys, called Jolie Legal Fellows, have facilitated child protection efforts in Haiti in the wake of the 2010 earthquake and promoted the development of an inclusive democratic process in Libya following the 2011 revolution. Jolie has fronted a campaign against sexual violence in military conflict zones by the UK government, which made the issue a priority of its 2013 G8 presidency. In May 2012, she launched the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative (PSVI) with Foreign Secretary William Hague. Until next time, what is your opinion about Angelina Jolie, after you read this article? See you next time ERA |