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About Angelina Jolie (краткие биографические сведения)

Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight) is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian (1). Angelina was born on the 4^th of June, 1975 into the family of the famous American actor John Voight and French Canadian actress Marcelin Bertrand. Angelina has an older brother, James Haven.

Jolie's parents divorced in 1976. Her mother with year-old Angelina and her brother moved to New York City. Her mother had to abandon (2) her dreams of a successful acting career and devote (3) all her time to raising her children. She often took them to the movies, which woke Jolie’s interest in acting.

When Angelina was 11 years old, the family returned to Los Angeles. There, Jolie studied for two years at the Lee Strasberg Film School, as well as Beverly Hills High School.

Angelina was not the only student with acting ambitions in her high school. She always felt like an outsider because of her unusual appearance. Her habit (4) of dressing up in second-hand clothes and her skinniness (5) separated her from her classmates. Her self-confidence (6) suffered (7) even more after all her attempts (8) to become a model failed.

Her film break-through started with the film "Hackers", 1995, which was well received by many major film critics. Despite (9) its financial failure it became a cult film favorite after its video release.

Finally, in 1999, Jolie stared in "Girl, Interrupted" that turned out to be a real triumph for her. Most leading film critics applauded Angelina’s performance, who after that instantly (10) acquired (11) star status in Hollywood.

In 2001, Jolie starred in the TV mini-series "Lara Croft:Tomb Raider" where she received $12 million dollars for the second installment (12) of the series.

In "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" (2005) Jolie played Jane Smith, a professional killer, who in every possible way hides her real occupation with a boring marriage to John Smith, played by Brad Pitt, who is doing the same hit man (13) cover-up (14). During the filming both actors were repeatedly (15) recognized in movie magazines as the most beautiful and sexy people of their gender (16). Soon after the filming they got married.

They have 3 children together and Brad adopted Jolie’s three children for a total of six children. Brad and Jolie established their charitable organization "Jolie-Pitt Foundation" to help people around the world. In 2016 they divorced.

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