Angelina Jolie

Eldest daughter of the illustrious actor John Voigh, and his second wife, the French actress Marcheline Bertrand, Angelina Jolie Voigh was born in Los Angeles on June 4, 1975, when her father was going through his heyday, between Midnight Cowboy and The Return . They gave her the second name Jolie, so that she could use it if she was dedicated to the cinema, because her father did not want her to bear the label of being the daughter of a famous person. A year after Angelina was born, the family broke up, and although she went to live with her mother, she has always been very close to her mother, and she grew up very close to the cinema environment. She already at the age of six she played a role in Lookin’to Get Out , comedy starring John Voigh.

Although her mother urged her to enroll in the prestigious Lee Strasberg Acting School , she was so spoiled that Angelina lived a wild youth. From there comes the bad reputation with which she has had to carry the actress throughout her career. In fact, she went through a punk stage, became independent and worked as a model in London, where she had the occasional dalliance with drugs. Apparently, it was her brother, the also actor and second unit director James Haven, the one who saw to it that he didn’t throw his life away completely. The two brothers have always been very close, they protect each other and he always accompanies the star at award ceremonies. Lately, Angelina has been a bit more thoughtful. “I also have another delicate face. I adore my family and I want to be a mother, so I hope they don’t crucify me for my past,” the actress recently explained.

From a very young age, Angelina began to appear in video clips of well-known musical performers, which led to a film contract for her, in high school productions of medium hair, such as Cyborg 2 , and Hackers: computer pirates . In the latter she fell in love with the protagonist, Jonny Lee Miller , one of the co-stars of Trainspotting , who became her first husband, although the marriage only lasted a year. In another shoot, that of Playing with Death , she fell in love with Timothy Hutton , who was her partner until she met Billy Bob Thornton , when they both met in Out of Control. Uncontrolled by love, the couple married quickly in one of those tacky “ceremonies” in Las Vegas, in the year 2000.

Meeting Thornton, whose habits were just as outlandish as hers, brought her great luck, as her career began to take off just then. In The Bone Collector she played a police officer who helped a prestigious quadriplegic detective to catch a psychopath, played by a first-rate actor, Denzel Washington . Although she was unfairly overlooked, she had also shot Playing by Heart , a little gem made up of intersecting stories, which paired her with Sean Connery , Gena Rowlands and Dennis Quaid . But the real takeoff for her came with Girl, Interrupted , by James Mangold. Her role as a young misfit of hers, very similar to her own image, confined to a mental institution, drew more attention than that of the leading lady, Winona Ryder ; so much so that Angelina that year won the Golden Globe and the Oscar for best secondary. Become a star since then, Angelina has exploited this condition in large productions, such as 60 seconds or Original Sin . Where she made the most noise was in Tomb Raider, since she was the absolute protagonist, and also played Lara Croft, a very popular video game character whose many fans were delighted with the choice of actress. And although the film had practically no plot, it was made up for by spectacular action sequences, in which Angelina demonstrated her good physical condition. “I like to play strong women, but that doesn’t stop them from being feminine,” Angelina explained of the character. After the failed romantic comedy Seven Days and a Life came the sequel to Tomb Raider. The cradle of life , and To love dangerously, his riskiest film, in which he gave life to a young woman who left the comfort of her London life to become a volunteer in Africa. At the moment, the actress has finished shooting two new films. Other People’s Lives is a thriller with Ethan Hawke , while Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a science fiction film with a first-rate cast, as Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow are next to it . Right now, Angelina is shooting the biography of Alexander the Great with Oliver Stone , a role played by Colin Farrell . From there, she will go on to play another great one, Catalina, in the blockbuster about the character that she is preparing.Randall Wallace .