Angelina Jolie is an American film actor and a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations for Refugees. She was cited as one of the most beautiful women in the world and her life offscreen is widely reported. Jolie has received three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and an Oscar. Jolie was born Angelina Jolie Voight on 4 June 1975.
Although the screen, she made her debut as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in the 1982 film Lookin ‘to Get Out, Jolie career began in earnest a decade later with the low budget production Cyborg 2 (1993). His first role in a major film in Hackers (1995). She played in films by the critically acclaimed biographical George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998), and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama Girl, Interrupted (1999). Jolie achieved international fame because of its representation of the video game heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and has since established itself as one of the best known and best paid actresses in Hollywood. She had her biggest commercial success with the action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) and the animated film Kung Fu Panda (2008).
Divorced from actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton, Jolie currently lives with actor Brad Pitt, in a relationship that has attracted media attention around the world. Jolie and Pitt have three adopted children, Maddox, Pax and Zahara, as well as three biological children, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne. Jolie has promoted humanitarian causes throughout the world and is noted for her work with refugees through UNHCR.