Angelina Jolie - biography; photo wallpapers; Megawallpapers.org: Angelina Jolie (born
June 4,
1975) is an
American film actress, a former fashion
model and a
Goodwill Ambassador for the
UN Refugee Agency. She is often cited by popular media as one of the world's most beautiful women and her off-screen life is widely reported. She has received three
Golden Globe Awards, two
Screen Actors Guild Awards and an
Academy Award. After appearing as a child alongside her father
Jon Voight in the 1982 film
Lookin' to Get Out, Jolie's acting career began in earnest a decade later with the
low budget production
Cyborg 2 (1993) and she played her first leading role in a major film in
Hackers (1995). She appeared in the critically acclaimed
biographical films George Wallace (1997) and
Gia (1998), and won an
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama
Girl, Interrupted (1999). She achieved international fame as a result of her portrayal of
videogame heroine
Lara Croft in
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), and since then has established herself as one of the best known and highest paid actresses in
Hollywood. She had her biggest commercial success with the action-comedy
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). Divorced from actors
Jonny Lee Miller and
Billy Bob Thornton, Jolie currently lives with actor
Brad Pitt, in a relationship that has attracted worldwide media attention.
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Jolie and Pitt have two adopted children, Maddox and Zahara, and a
biological child, Shiloh. Jolie has promoted humanitarian causes
throughout the world, and is noted for her work with
refugees through
UNHCR.