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BIOGRAPHY
Angelina Jolie was the second of two children born to Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. Jolie is her middle name. Her father is an Academy Award winning actor, and her mother is an actress and model. Her parents separated when she was a year old, and she was raised by her mother in Palisades, New York. She began to study acting when she was eleven at the Lee Strasburg Theater Institute. She joined the Met Theatre Group in Los Angeles and appeared in five student films directed by her brother, James Haven Voight. Her first feature film debut was a part in LOOKIN' TO GET OUT, a film co-written and co-produced by her father. She won Golden Globe awards for her performance in the television movies GEORGE WALLACE and GIA. In 1999 she won both a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in GIRL, INTERRUPTED.
Jolie has a dark reputation which is aided by her extensive collection of daggers and knives. When she married Jonny Lee Miller in 1996, she wore black to the wedding and had written his name in blood on her shirt. The two are now divorced, and she has also married and divorced Oscar winner, Billy Bob Thornton.
CHRONOLOGY
1975 She was born in Los Angeles, California. (June 4)
1976 Her parents separated.
1986 She enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute.
1992 LOOKIN' TO GET OUT - film
1993 CYBORG 2: GLASS SHADOW - film
1995 WITHOUT EVIDENCE, HACKERS - films
1996 MOJAVE MOON, FOXFIRE, LOVE IS ALL THERE IS - films; She married Jonny Lee Miller. (March)
1997 TRUE WOMEN, PLAYING GOD - films; GEORGE WALLACE - tv movie; She won a Golden Globe for her performance in the television movie, GEORGE WALLACE.
1998 PLAYING BY HEART, HELL'S KITCHEN - films; GIA - tv movie; She won a Golden Globe for her performance in the television movie, GIA.
1999 PUSHING TIN, THE BONE COLLECTOR, GIRL, INTERRUPTED - films; She won a Golden Globe and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in GIRL, INTERRUPTED.; She and Jonny Lee Miller divorced.
2000 DANCING IN THE DARK, GONE IN SIXTY SECONDS - films; She married Billy Bob Thornton.
2002 DIVORCED Billy Bob Thornton
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