Angelina Jolie ( joh- LEE ; born Angelina Jolie Voight , June 4, 1975) is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, and has been named the highest paid actress in Hollywood. Jolie made her screen debut as a child with her father, Jon Voight, in Lookin 'to Get Out (1982). His film career began in earnest a decade later with a low-budget production of Cyborg 2 (1993), followed by his first major role in a major movie, Hacker (1995). He starred in critically acclaimed film wires of George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998), and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in drama > Girl, Interrupted (1999).
Jolie plays Lara Croft's video game hero at Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) establishes her as a top Hollywood actress. He continued his successful career with film star Mr. & amp; Mrs. Smith (2005), Wanted (2008), and Salt (2010), and received critical acclaim for her performance in drama A Mighty Heart (2007) and Changeling (2008), which earned him a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actress. His biggest commercial success came with the fantasy image of Maleficent (2014). In 2010, Jolie expanded her career into director, scriptwriting, and production, with In Blood Land and Honey (2011), Unbroken (2014), By the Sea (2015), and First We Killed My Father (2017).
In addition to his film career, Jolie is renowned for his humanitarian efforts, which he has received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award and honorary degrees from the Order of St. Michael and St. George (DCMG), among other awards. He promotes causes, including conservation, education, and women's rights, and is best known for his defense on behalf of refugees as Special Envoy to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). As a public figure, Jolie has been named as one of the most influential and powerful people in the American entertainment industry. For several years, she was named the most beautiful woman in the world by various media, and her personal life was a vast subject of publicity. Divorced from actor Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton, he split from his third husband, actor Brad Pitt, in September 2016. They have six children together, three of whom are internationally adopted.
Video Angelina Jolie
Early life and family
Born in Los Angeles, California, Jolie is the daughter of actor Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. She is the sister of actor James Haven, and nephew of singer-songwriter Chip Taylor and geologist and volcanologist, Barry Voight. His godfather was the actor Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell. On the side of his father, Jolie is of German and Slovak descent, and on her mother's side, she is mainly of Canadian, Dutch, and German French descent. Like his mother, Jolie has declared that he is part of the Iroquois, although the native ancestors he only knew were the 17th century Huron.
After his parents' separation in 1976, Jolie and her brother lived with their mother, who has abandoned her acting ambitions to focus on raising her children. His mother raised a Catholic, but did not require him to go to church. As a child, she often watches movies with her mother and this is, rather than her successful dad's career, which inspires her interest in acting, even though at the age of five she has a little bit of Voight's
Jolie first attended Beverly Hills High School, where she felt isolated amongst the children of some of the rich families in the area because her mother survived a modest income. He was ridiculed by other students, who made him very skinny and wore glasses and braces. His early attempts at modeling, at the urging of his mother, proved unsuccessful. She was later transferred to Moreno High School, an alternative school, where she became a "punk outsider," dressed in black, went out moshing, and experimented with playing knives with her live girlfriend. He quit his acting class and aspires to be a funeral director, taking home course to learn embalming. At the age of 16, after the relationship ended, Jolie graduated from high school and rented her own apartment, before returning to theater studies, although in 2004 she referred to this period with observations, "I am still at heart - and will always be - just a child punk with tattoos. "
As a teenager, Jolie found it difficult to connect emotionally with others, and as a result she hurt herself, then commented, "For some reason, rituals have hurt themselves and feel pain, may feel alive, feel some sort of liberation, how therapeutic to me. "He also struggled with insomnia and eating disorders, and began experimenting with drugs; at age 20, she has used "almost every possible remedy," especially heroin. Jolie suffers from depression and plans twice to commit suicide - at the age of 19 and 22 again, when she attempts to hire a hit man to kill her. When she was 24, she had a nervous breakdown and was admitted for 72 hours to the UCLA Medical Center psychiatric ward. Two years later, after adopting her first child, Jolie finds stability in her life, then states, "I know once I commit to Maddox, I'll never ruin myself again."
Jolie has a lifelong dysfunctional relationship with her father, which begins when Voight leaves the family when her daughter is less than a year old. He has said that from then on they are together sporadic and usually done in front of the press. They reconciled when they appeared together at Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), but their relationship deteriorated again. Jolie petitioned the court to formally remove her family name "Voight" for her middle name, which she has long used as a stage name; the name change was given on 12 September 2002. Voight then became public with their estrangement during an appearance on Access Hollywood, where he claimed Jolie had "serious mental problems." At that time, his mother and brother also broke with Voight. They did not speak for six and a half years, but began rebuilding their relationship in the wake of Bertrand's death from ovarian cancer on January 27, 2007, before going public with their reconciliation three years later.
Maps Angelina Jolie
Careers
1991-1997: Initial work
Jolie is committed to acting professionally at the age of 16, but at first it is difficult to pass the audition, often told that her attitude is "too dark." He appeared in five of his brother's student films, made while he attended USC School of Cinema-Television, as well as in several music videos, Lenny Kravitz's "Stand by My Woman" (1991), Antonello Venditti "Alta Marea" (1991) The Lemonheads's "It's About Time" (1993), and Meat Loaf's "Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through" (1993). He began to learn from his father, when he saw his method of observing people to be like them. Their relationship has been less tense, with Jolie realizing that they are both "drama queens."
Jolie started her professional film career in 1993, when she played her first lead role in a direct science fiction sequel to video of Cyborg 2, as an approaching human robot designed for espionage and corporate murder. He was very disappointed with the film that he did not audition again for a year. Following the supporting role in the independent film Without Evidence (1995), he starred in his first photo in Hollywood, Hackers (1995). The New York Times critic Janet Maslin wrote, "Kate stands out, that's because she scowls even sourer than [her co-stars] and rare female hackers who sit tightly on her keyboard in a look-up." < i> Hackers failed to make a profit at the box office, but developed the following sect after its video release.
After starring in Romeo and Juliet Modern adaptation Love Is All There Is (1996), Jolie appeared in the movie of Mojave Moon (1996), among them The Hollywood Reporter says, "Jolie, an actress who is truly adored by the camera, reveals a striking comic flair and kind of sexuality that makes it entirely trustworthy that Danny Aiello's character will drop everything just for a chance with her. "In Foxfire (1996) he plays a drifter that brings together four teenage girls against a teacher who has sexually harassed them. Jack Mathews of Los Angeles Times wrote about his performance, "It took a lot of bullshit to develop this character, but Jolie, the fallen Jon Voight's daughter, had a presence to overcome the stereotype.Although the story is narrated by Maddy, Kaki is subject and catalyst. "
In 1997, Jolie starred with David Duchovny in the Playing God thriller , from a Los Angeles background. The film is not well received by critics; Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert notes that Jolie "finds a certain warmth in a normally tough and aggressive role, he seems too good to be a mafia girlfriend, and maybe he is." The next job, as frontierswoman in the CBS miniseries True Women (1997), even less successful; writing for The Philadelphia Inquirer, Robert Strauss dismissed him as "horrible, fourth degree Scarlett O'Hara" who depended on "snapping teeth and overly sulky lips." Jolie also starred in the music video for Rolling Stones "Anybody Seen My Baby?" as a stripper who left the show midway to explore New York City.
1998-2000: Breakthrough
Jolie's career prospects began to improve after she won the Golden Globe Award for her performance in TNT George Wallace (1997), about Alabama Governor's segregation life and presidential candidate George Wallace, played by Gary Sinise. Jolie describes Wallace's second wife, Cornelia, Lee Winfrey's show of The Philadelphia Inquirer which is considered the highlight of the film. George Wallace was well received by critics and won, among other awards, the Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries or Film Television. Jolie also received a nomination for an Emmy Award for her performance.
Jolie's first breakthrough came when she described the supermodel Gia Carangi in HBO's Gia (1998). The film tells the story of the destruction of Carangi's life and career as a result of heroin addiction, and his decline and death from AIDS in the mid-1980s. Vanessa Vance of Reel.com retrospectively noted, "Jolie gained wide acknowledgment for her role as a titular Gia, and it's easy to see why.Jolie is very grumpy in her portrayal - filling parts with nerves, charm, and despair - and her role in the film is very likely the most beautiful train wreck ever filmed. "For the second year in a row, Jolie won the Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Emmy Award. He also won his first Screen Actors Guild Award.
In accordance with Lee Strasberg's acting method, Jolie preferred to remain characterized among the scenes during many of his original films, and as a result has earned a reputation for being difficult to handle. During the filming of Gia, she told her husband, Jonny Lee Miller, that she would not be able to call her: "I'll tell her: 'I'm alone, I'm dying, I am'" I'm gay, I will not see you for weeks. '"After Gia wrapped up, she briefly stopped acting, because she felt that she" had nothing left to give. "She split with Miller and moved to New York, where she took a class night at New York University to learn to direct and write the script.Encouraged by the Golden Globe Award win for George Wallace and positive critical reception Gia , Jolie continued her career.
Following the previously filmed gangster film Hell's Kitchen (1998), Jolie returned to the screen at Playing by Heart (1998), part of the ensemble player including Sean Connery, Gillian Anderson, and Ryan Phillippe. The film received very positive reviews, and Jolie was especially praised; The San Francisco Chronicle critic Peter Stack wrote, "Jolie, working through the overwritten section, is a sensation when a desperate club learns the truth about what she wants to bet." He won the Breakthrough Performance Award from the National Board of Review.
In 1999, Jolie starred in the drama Comedy Movie , along with John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, and Cate Blanchett. The film meets with various receipts from critics, and Jolie's character - Thornton's lucrative wife - is particularly criticized; writing for The Washington Post, Desson Howe dismissed him as "a completely ridiculous writer of a free-spirited woman who cries on dead hibiscus plants, wears a lot of turquoise rings and becomes very lonely when Russell spending the whole night away from home. "Jolie later starred in Denzel Washington at The Bone Collector (1999), playing a police officer who reluctantly helped trace the Washington paraplegic detective down a serial killer. The film grossed $ 151.5 million worldwide, but was critically unsuccessful. Terry Lawson of Detroit Free Press concluded, "Jolie, while always nice to look at, is a pity."
Jolie subsequently took on the supporting role of a sociopathic mental patient in Girl, Interrupted (1999), an adaptation of Susanna Kaysen's essay of the same name. While Winona Ryder plays the main character in what is expected to be a comeback for her, the film actually marks Jolie's last breakthrough in Hollywood. She won her third Golden Globe Award, second Screen Actors Guild Award, and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. To Variety , Emanuel Levy notes, "Jolie is very good as a flamboyant, irresponsible girl who turns out to be far more instrumental than the doctor in Susanna rehab."
In 2000, Jolie appeared in her first summer blockbuster, Gone in 60 Seconds , which became the best-selling movie up to that time, earning $ 237.2 million internationally. He has a small role as an ex-boyfriend of car thieving mechanics played by Nicolas Cage; The Washington Post writer Stephen Hunter criticized that "everything he does in this movie is standing, cooling, modeling the throbbing and pulsating muscles that are nesting so provocatively around his teeth." Jolie then explains that the movie has been a relief after her emotional role in Girls, Interrupted .
2001-2004: Mainstream introduction
Although highly valued for his acting skills, Jolie rarely finds movies that appeal to a wide audience, but Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) makes him an international superstar. An adaptation of the popular videogame Tomb Raider, the film requires him to study English accents and undergo extensive martial arts training to play archaeologist-adventurer Lara Croft. Although most films generated negative reviews, Jolie is generally praised for her physical appearance; Newsday ' s John Anderson commented, "Jolie made the title character a virtual icon of women's competence and coolness." The film became an international hit, earning $ 274.7 million worldwide, and launched its global reputation as a female action star.
Jolie next starred in Antonio Banderas as her bride order at Sin Asli (2001), the first of a series of films that were less accepted by critics and spectators. The New York Times critic Elvis Mitchell questioned Jolie's decision to follow her Oscar-winning performance with "soft-core nonsense." The romantic comedy Life or Something Like It (2002), though equally unsuccessful, marks an unusual choice for Jolie. Allen Barra's salon considers his ambitious broadcaster character as a rare attempt to play the role of a conventional woman, noting that her appearance "did not get out of the ground until the scene where she went punk and lead a group bus workers stand out in singing 'Satisfaction' ". Despite the lack of box office success, Jolie remains in demand as an actress; in 2002, he established himself among the highest paid actresses of Hollywood, earning $ 10- $ 15 million per film over the next five years.
Jolie modeled on her role as Lara Croft at Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (2003), which is unprofitable as the original, earning $ 156.5 million at the international box office. She also starred in a music video for Korn's "Did My Time", which was used to promote the sequel. The next film is Beyond Borders (2003), where he describes a socialite who joined the aid workers played by Clive Owen. Though unsuccessful with the audience, the film stands as the first of several passion projects that Jolie has made to bring attention to humanitarian issues. Beyond Borders is a critical failure; Kenneth Turan from Los Angeles Times acknowledged Jolie's ability to "bring electricity and confidence to the role," but wrote that "limbo hybrid characters, poorly written cardboard people in blood filled with flies, -and-guts the world, really defeated him. "
In 2004 saw the release of four films featuring Jolie. She first starred in the Taking Lives thriller as an FBI profiler called to help Montreal law enforcement hunt down a serial killer. The film received mixed reviews; Hollywood Reporter critic Kirk Honeycutt concludes, "Jolie plays a role that really feels like something she has done, but she really adds excitement and charm." Jolie made a brief appearance as a fighter pilot at Captain Sky and World of Tomorrow, a science fiction adventure shot entirely with an actor in front of a blue screen, and voiced his first family movie, DreamWorks animation Shark Tale . His supporters role as Olympus Queen in Oliver Stone Alexander , about the life of Alexander the Great, was greeted with mixed acceptance, especially regarding his Slavic accent. Commercially, the film failed in North America, which Stone accused of disapproving Alexander's bisexuality portrayal, but succeeded internationally, with total revenues of $ 167.3 million.
2005-2010: Commercial success
In 2005, Jolie returned to box office success with the action-comedy . & amp; Mrs Smith , where she starred in Brad Pitt as a bored married couple who knew that they were both secret killers. The film received mixed reviews, but was generally praised for the chemistry between the two leads; Star Tribune critic Colin Covert noted, "Despite the haphazardity of the story, the film gets the charm of life, the energy rushing through, and the thermonuclear chemistry screen of the stars." With box office expenditures of $ 478.2 million worldwide, & amp; Mrs Smith is the seventh highest grossing picture of the year and remains Jolie's best-selling live action film for the next decade.
After supporting roles as a neglected wife of a CIA officer at Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd (2006), Jolie starred as Mariane Pearl in the A-Mighty Heart drama documentary (A Mighty Heart) 2007). Based on Pearl memoirs of the same name, the film tells of the kidnapping and murder of her husband, The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, in Pakistan. Although the biracial Pearl has personally selected Jolie for the role, the casting draws racial criticism and blackface accusations. The resulting performance is widely praised; Ray Bennett of The Hollywood Reporter described it as "measurable and moving," played "with respect and a strong understanding of a difficult accent." She received nominations for the Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award. Jolie also plays a change-change teaser, Grendel's mother, in Beowulf epic (2007), created through motion capture. The film was received critically and commercially, with revenues of $ 196.4 million worldwide.
In 2008, Jolie was considered the highest paid actress in Hollywood, earning $ 15- $ 20 million per film. While other actresses are forced to take pay cuts in recent years, Jolie sees the box office appeal allowing her to rule as much as $ 20 million plus percentage. She starred alongside James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman in the action film Wanted (2008), which proved successful internationally, generating $ 341.4 million worldwide. The film received very favorable reviews; writing for The New York Times, Manohla Dargis notes that Jolie "perfectly acts as a super-scary killer, seemingly amoral," adding that "she cuts the kind of disciplinary character who can take the boys off all ages to knees or at least to their theater seats. "
Jolie subsequently took the lead role in the Clint Eastwood drama Changeling (2008). Partially based on the Killing of Wineville's Chicken Coop, the film centers at Christine Collins, who reunited with her kidnapped son in 1928 Los Angeles, only to realize that the boy was a master of deceit. Chicago Tribune critic Michael Phillips noted, "Jolie really shines in calm before a storm, a scene when one of the male authority figures demeans after another one belittles her at their peril." She received nominations for the Golden Globe Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, BAFTA Awards, and Academy Award for Best Actress. Jolie also voiced animated DreamWorks Kung Fu Panda (2008), the first work in the big family franchise, then repeated her voice role in the sequel Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011) and Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016).
After the death of his mother in 2007, Jolie began appearing in fewer films, later explaining that her motivation for being an actress comes from her mother's acting ambitions. His first film in two years was the thriller Salt (2010), where he starred as a CIA agent who kept running after he was accused of being a KGB sleeping agent. Originally written as a male character with Tom Cruise attached to the star, Salt agents experienced a gender change after Columbia Pictures executives suggested Jolie for the role. With an income of $ 293.5 million, Salt became an international success. The film received generally positive reviews, with Jolie's particular appearance in getting compliments; Empire critic William Thomas commented, "When it comes to selling the incredible antics, crazy, defying death, Jolie has few friends in the action business."
Jolie starred in Johnny Depp in the thriller The Tourist (2010). The film was a critical failure, though Roger Ebert defended Jolie's performance, stating that he "performed the worst" and "played his role as a woman with dashed sexuality." Despite the poor critical reception and slow start at the North American box office, the film continues to be the honorable $ 278.3 million worldwide, uniting Jolie's appeal to an international audience. She received a Golden Globe Award nomination for her performance, which sparked speculation that it has been awarded just to ensure her presence at the awards show.
2011-present: Professional expansion
After directing the documentary A Place in Time (2007), distributed through the National Education Association, Jolie made a feature directing debut with In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011), the love story between Serbian soldiers and a Bosniak inmate, established during the 1992-95 Bosnian War. He composed the film to revive the attention of the survivors, after visiting Bosnia and Herzegovina twice in his role as UNHCR Honorary Ambassador. To ensure its authenticity, he only includes actors from the former Yugoslavia - including star Goran Kosti? and Zana Marjanovi? - and incorporating their wartime experiences into scenarios. Once released, the film received mixed reviews; Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "Jolie deserves a significant credit for creating such a stressful atmosphere and staging that dreadful event with great conviction, even if it is a force that will make people not want to watch what which is on screen. "The film was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and Jolie was crowned Sarajevo honorary citizen to raise awareness of the war.
After a three-and-a-half year absence from the screen, Jolie starred in Maleficent (2014), a re-imagination of Disney's animated 1959 animated sleeping beauty . Critical reception is mixed, but Jolie's performance in a titular role is chosen for praise; Hollywood Reporter critic Sherri Linden found her to be the "heart and soul" of the film, adding that she "did not chew the predicted sights on Maleficent - she fired it, using magnetic and easy powers. "On the opening weekend, Maleficent earned nearly $ 70 million at the North American box office and over $ 100 million in other markets, marking Jolie's appeal to viewers of all demographics in action films and fantasy, the genre is usually dominated by male actors. The film grossed $ 757.8 million worldwide, becoming the fourth best-selling film of the year and the best-selling Jolie movie ever.
Jolie next completed her second directing venture, Unbroken (2014), about World War II hero Louis Zamperini (1917-2014), a former Olympic trajectory who survived a plane crash over the sea and spent two years in there. Japanese prisoner of war camps. He also works as a producer under the banner of Jolie Pas. Unbroken is based on a biography of Laura Hillenbrand of the same name, the film was written by the Coen brothers and starring Jack O'Connell. After a positive initial acceptance, Unbroken was regarded as Best Picture and Best Director, but eventually received mixed reviews and little appreciation, despite being named one of the best films of the year by the National Board of Review and American Film Institute. In a generic review, Justin Chang recorded "the perfect workmanship and flawless security" of the film, but regarded it as "a remarkable story told in full terms responsibility and unreasonable. " Financially, Unbroken far exceeded industry expectations in its opening weekend, eventually generating over $ 163 million worldwide.
Jolie's next director's endeavors are marriage drama By By Sea (2015), where she starred in her husband, Brad Pitt, marking their first collaboration since 2005. & amp; Mrs. Smith . Based on the scenario, the film is a very personal project for Jolie, who gets inspired from her own mother's life. Critics, however, consider it a "project of arrogance," as part of a poor overall acceptance. Writing for The Washington Post, Stephanie Merry noted her scarcity of sincere emotion, stating, " By the Sea is fascinating, like the stars, but peeling layer after layer again. beautiful hatred revealed nothing but nothingness, sprinkled with rigid sentiments. "Despite starring two leading Hollywood actors, the film received only limited release.
Since Jolie prefers to dedicate herself to her humanitarian work, her cinematic output remains rare. First They Killed My Father (2017), a drama set during the Cambodian Khmer Rouge era, once again allowing it to combine the two interests. In addition to directing the film, he co-wrote the script with his old friend Loung Ung, who memoirs about the regime's child labor camp that serves as the source. Intended primarily for Cambodian audiences, the film is produced directly for Netflix, which allows the use of cast and Khmer exclusive scripts. Jolie was subsequently contracted to repeat the role of Maleficent in the Disney sequel, Maleficent II.
Humanitarian work
UNHCR ambassadorship
Jolie first witnessed the effects of the humanitarian crisis while filming Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) in war-torn Cambodia, an experience he later believed to have given him a greater understanding of the world. Upon returning home, Jolie contacted the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) to obtain information on points of international problems. To learn more about the conditions in these areas, he began visiting refugee camps around the world. In February 2001, he made his first field visit, an 18-day mission to Sierra Leone and Tanzania; he then expressed his astonishment at what he had witnessed.
In the months that followed, Jolie returned to Cambodia for two weeks and met with Afghan refugees in Pakistan, where she donated $ 1 million in response to an international UNHCR emergency request, the largest donation ever received by UNHCR from a private individual. He bore all costs associated with his mission and shared the imperfect working and living conditions of UNHCR field staff on all his visits. Jolie was named the UNHCR Honorary Ambassador at the UNHCR headquarters in Geneva on August 27, 2001.
Over the next decade, he continued over 40 field missions, meeting with refugees and internally displaced people in more than 30 countries. In 2002, when asked what he wanted to achieve, he declared, "Awareness of the suffering of these people, I think they should be praised for what they have been through, not underestimated." For that, the 2001-02 field visit was recorded in his book Note from My Travels , published in October 2003 along with the launch of his humanity drama Beyond Borders.
Jolie aims to visit what she calls "a forgotten emergency", a crisis that media attention has shifted from. He became famous for traveling to war zones, like the Darfur region of Sudan during the Darfur conflict, the Syrian-Iraqi border during the Second Gulf War, where he met privately with US forces and other multi-national forces, and the Afghan capital Kabul during the war in Afghanistan, where three aid workers were killed in the middle of his first visit. To help with his journey, he began taking flying lessons in 2004 with the aim of transporting aid workers and food supplies around the world; he now holds a private pilot license with an instrument rating and has a Cirrus SR22 and Cessna 208 Caravan single-engine aircraft.
On 17 April 2012, after more than a decade of service as UNHCR Honorary Ambassador, Jolie was promoted to the rank of Special Envoy for High Commissioner António Guterres, who first took such a position within the organization. In his expanded role, he was given the authority to represent Guterres and UNHCR on a diplomatic level, focusing on major refugee crises. A few months after his promotion, he made his first visit as Special Envoy - the third overall - to Ecuador, where he met with Colombian refugees, and he accompanied Guterres on a weeklong tour of Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey and Iraq to assess the situation refugees from neighboring Syria. Since then, Jolie has done more than a dozen field missions around the world to meet with the refugees and advocate on their behalf.
Community conservation and development
In an effort to connect his Cambodian-born son with his ancestral heritage, Jolie bought a house in his native country in 2003. The traditional house is located on 39 acres in the northwestern province of Battambang, adjacent to Samlout national park in Cardamom mountains, which has become infiltrated with hunters threatening endangered species. He bought 60,000 hectares of parks and turned the area into a wildlife reserve named after his son, Project Maddox Jolie. In recognition of its conservation efforts, King Norodom Sihamoni granted Cambodian citizenship on July 31, 2005.
In November 2006, Jolie expanded the scope of the project - renamed Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation (MJP) - to create the first Millennium Village in Asia, in line with UN development objectives. He was inspired by a meeting with the founders of the Millennium Promise, says economist Jeffrey Sachs, at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he was an invited speaker in 2005 and 2006. Together they filmed a special MTV 2005, The Diary of Angelina Jolie & amp; Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in Africa , who followed them on their way to Millennium Village in western Kenya. By mid-2007, some 6,000 villagers and 72 employees - some of them former hunters employed as forest rangers - lived and worked in MJP, in ten villages previously isolated from each other. The compound includes schools, roads, and soy milk factories, all funded by Jolie. His home serves as the MJP field headquarters.
After filming Beyond Borders (2003) in Namibia, Jolie became a patron of the Harnas Wildlife Foundation, an orphanage and wildlife health center in the Kalahari desert. He first visited Harnas farm during the film production, which featured vultures rescued by the foundation. In December 2010, Jolie and her partner, Brad Pitt, founded the Shiloh Jolie-Pitt Foundation to support conservation work by the Naankuse Wildlife Reserve, a nature reserve located in Kalahari. In the name of their Namibian-born daughter, they have funded large animal conservation projects as well as free, residential, and school health clinics for the San Bushmen community in Naankuse. Jolie and Pitt support other causes through the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, which was established in September 2006.
Child immigration and education
Jolie has encouraged legislation to help immigrant children and other vulnerable children in the US and developing countries, including the "Foreign House Protection Law of 2005." He began lobbying humanitarian interests in the US capital from 2003 onwards, explaining, "As much as I like to never visit Washington, that's the way to move the ball." Since October 2008, he has co-chaired Children with Defense Requirements (KIND), a leading network of US law firms that provide free legal assistance to minors in the immigration process across the United States. Established in collaboration between Jolie and Microsoft Company, in 2013, KIND has become the premier provider of pro bono lawyers for immigrant children. Jolie previously, from 2005 to 2007, funded the launch of similar initiatives, the National Committee of Refugees and the National Center for Refugees and Immigrants of US Children.
Jolie also advocated for the education of children. Since it was established at the annual Clinton Global Initiative meeting in September 2007, it has co-led the Education Partnership for Children of the Conflict, which provides policies and funding for education programs for children in conflict-affected areas. In its first year, the partnership supports educational projects for Iraqi refugee children, youths affected by the Darfur conflict, and girls in rural Afghanistan, among other affected groups. The partnership has worked closely with the Council on Foreign Relations of the Universal Education Center - established by the vice chairman of the partnership, renowned economist Gene Sperling - to establish educational policies, resulting in recommendations made to UN agencies, G8 development agencies, and World Bank. Since April 2013, all proceeds from Jolie's high-end jewelry collection, Style of Jolie, have benefited partnership work. Jolie also launched Malala Fund, a grant system established by education activist Pakistan Malala Yousafzai, in 2013 Women in the World Summit; He personally contributed over $ 200,000 for the cause.
Jolie has funded girls 'school and dormitory facilities at the Kakuma refugee camp in northwestern Kenya, opened in 2005, and two girls' primary schools in Tangi and Qalai Gudar resettlement in eastern Afghanistan, opened in March 2010 and November 2012 respectively.. In addition to the facilities at the Millennium Village he founded in Cambodia, Jolie has built at least ten other schools in the country by 2005. In February 2006, he opened Maddox Chivan Children's Center, a medical and educational facility for children affected by HIV. , in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh. In Sebeta, Ethiopia, the birthplace of her eldest daughter, she funded a sister facility, the Zahara Children's Center, which is expected to open in 2015 and will care for and educate children with HIV or tuberculosis. Both centers are run by the Global Health Committee.
Human rights and women's rights
After Jolie joined the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in June 2007, he hosted a symposium on international law and justice at the CFR headquarters and funded several CFR special reports, including "Intervention to Stop Genocide and Mass Cruelty." In January 2011, he founded Jolie Legal Fellowship, a network of lawyers and lawyers sponsored to advocate for the development of human rights in their country. The lawyers of its members, called Jolie Legal Fellows, have facilitated child protection efforts in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake and promoted the development of an inclusive democratic process in Libya after the 2011 revolution.
Jolie has led a campaign against sexual violence in the military conflict zones by the British government, which makes this issue a priority of its 2013 G8 president. In May 2012, he launched the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative (PSVI) with Secretary of State William Hague, who was inspired to campaign for this issue by his Bosnian war drama In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011). PSVI was established to complement the UK government's wider work by raising awareness and promoting international cooperation. Jolie spoke on this issue at the G8 foreign ministers meeting, where the countries that were present adopted the historic declaration, and before the UN security council, which responded by adopting the broadest resolution on the issue to date. In June 2014, he chaired the four-day Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict, the largest ever ever encounter on the issue, resulting in a protocol backed by 151 countries.
Through his work in PSVI, Jolie meets with foreign policy experts Chloe Dalton and Arminka Helic, who serve as special advisers to The Hague. Their collaboration resulted in the founding of Jolie Pitt Dalton Helic in 2015, a partnership dedicated to women's rights and international justice, among other causes. In May 2016, Jolie was appointed a visiting professor at the London School of Economics to contribute to the graduate program at the University's Center for Women, Peace and Security, which he launched with The Hague the year before.
Recognition and honor
Jolie has received wide acclaim for her humanitarian work. In August 2002, he received the Initial Humanitarian Award from the World Church Immigration and Refugee Program, and in October 2003, he was the first recipient of the Citizen of the World Award by the United Nations Association of Correspondents. He was awarded the UN Humanitarian Award by UNA-USA in October 2005, and he received the Freedom Award from the International Rescue Committee in November 2007. In October 2011, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees AntÃÆ'³nio Guterres presented Jolie with a gold pin provided for the longest serving staff , in recognition of its dasawarsanya as UNHCR Honorary Ambassador.
In November 2013, Jolie received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, Honorary Academy Award, from the Board of Governors of the Academy of Art and Motion Picture Science. In June 2014, he was appointed Honorary Honorary Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George (DCMG) for his services to British foreign policy and campaigning to end sexual violence in war zones. Queen Elizabeth II presented Jolie with her honorary damehood badge during a private ceremony in October next.
Personal life
Relationships and marriages
Jolie has a serious boyfriend for two years since the age of 14. His mother allowed them to stay together at his house, where Jolie later said, "I would be reckless in the streets with my boyfriend or he would be with me in my room with my mother in the next room.He made a choice, and therefore, I kept going to school every morning and exploring my first relationship in a safe way. "She has compared the relationship to marriage in her emotional intensity, and says that the separation forces her to dedicate herself to her acting career at the age of 16.
During the filming of Hackers (1995), Jolie has a romance with British actor Jonny Lee Miller, her first lover since her early adolescence relationship. They were out of touch for months after production ended, but eventually reconnected and married soon afterwards in March 1996. He attended his marriage with black rubber pants and a white shirt, on which he wrote the name of the groom in his blood. Although the relationship ended well for the following year, Jolie keeps in good touch with Miller, whom she calls "solid man and solid friend". Their divorce, initiated by Jolie in February 1999, was completed shortly before she remarried the following year.
Before marrying Miller, Jolie started a relationship with model-actress Jenny Shimizu on set of Foxfire (1996). He then said, "I might marry Jenny if I did not marry my husband I fell in love with her the first second I saw her." According Shimizu, their relationship lasted several years and continued even when Jolie involved romance with others. In 2003, when asked if he was bisexual, Jolie replied, "Of course, if I fall in love with a woman tomorrow, will I feel that it's okay to kiss and touch her If I fall in love with her? nih! "
After two months of courtship, Jolie married actor Billy Bob Thornton on May 5, 2000, in Las Vegas. They met on the set of Pushing Tin (1999), but did not pursue the relationship at the time when Thornton was engaged to actress Laura Dern, while Jolie was reportedly dating actor Timothy Hutton, his star in Playing God (1997). As a result of their public statements about the passions and movements of love - most famously wearing each other's blood in a bottle around their neck - their marriage becomes a favorite topic of entertainment media. Jolie and Thornton announced the adoption of a child from Cambodia in March 2002, but were suddenly separated three months later. Their divorce was completed on May 27, 2003. When asked about their sudden marriage dissolution, Jolie stated, "I'm also surprised, because last night, we really changed, I think one day we have nothing in common.... I think it can happen when you get involved and you do not know yourself yet. "
Jolie was involved in a well-publicized Hollywood scandal when she was accused of causing 2005 divorce actor Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston. He had fallen in love with Pitt during the filming of Master. & amp; Mrs. Smith (2005), but rejects allegations of infidelity, saying, "To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheats on my mother, is not something I can forgive.I can not see myself in the morning day if I do that.I would not be interested in a man who would betray his wife. "Jolie and Pitt did not publicly comment on the nature of their relationship until January 2006, when she confirmed that she was pregnant with her child.
During their twelve-year relationship, "Brangelina" - a portmanteau created by entertainment media - is the subject of media coverage worldwide. After the initial scandal subsided, they became one of Hollywood's most glamorous couples. Their families grew up with six children, three of whom were adopted, before they announced their engagement in April 2012. Jolie and Pitt were married on August 23, 2014, at ChÃÆ'Â Ã ¢ teau Miraval in Correns, France. He then took the name "Jolie Pitt". After two years of marriage, the couple split up in September 2016. In the filing of her divorce, Jolie asks for physical custody of their children. On June 12, 2018, a new bargaining agreement was established between Jolie and Pitt after a court order against Jolie.
Children
On March 10, 2002, Jolie adopted her first child, Maddox Chivan, seven months old, from an orphanage in Battambang, Cambodia. He was born as Rath Vibol on August 5, 2001, in a local village. After two visits to Cambodia, while filming Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and on UNHCR field missions, Jolie returned in November 2001 with her husband, Billy Bob Thornton, where they met Maddox and then applied to his adoption. The adoption process was suspended the following month when the US government banned the adoption of Cambodia amid child trafficking allegations. Although Jolie's adoption facilitator was later convicted of visa fraud and money laundering, his Maddox adoption was considered valid. After the process is complete, he takes up custody in Namibia, where he is filming Beyond Borders (2003). Jolie and Thornton announced joint adoption, but he adopted Maddox himself, and raised him as a single parent after their separation three months later.
Jolie adopted a six-month-old daughter, Zahara Marley, from an orphanage in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on July 6, 2005. Zahara was born as Yemsrach on January 8, 2005, in Awasa. Jolie originally believed Zahara to be an AIDS orphan, based on her grandmother's official testimony, but her biological mother later appeared in the media. He explained that he had left his family when Zahara got sick, and said he thought Zahara "very lucky" had been adopted by Jolie. Jolie is accompanied by her partner, Brad Pitt, when she travels to Ethiopia to take custody of Zahara. He later pointed out that they had jointly made the decision to adopt from Ethiopia, having first visited the country earlier that year. After Pitt announced his intention to adopt his children, he petitioned to change their surnames legally from Jolie to Jolie-Pitt, given on January 19, 2006. Pitt adopted Maddox and Zahara shortly thereafter.
In an effort to avoid the unprecedented media hustle and bustle around their relationship, Jolie and Pitt go to Namibia for the birth of their first biological child. On May 27, 2006, she gave birth to a daughter, Shiloh Nouvel, in Swakopmund. They sell the first photos of Shiloh through Getty Images distributors with the aim of giving charitable benefits, rather than letting paparazzi make these precious photos. People and Hello! bought North American and British rights for $ 4.1 and $ 3.5 million respectively, a record in celebrity photojournalism at the time, with all proceeds donated to UNICEF.
On March 15, 2007, Jolie adopted a son, Pax Thien, three years, from an orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. He was born Pham Quang Sang on November 29, 2003, at HCMC, where he was abandoned by his real mother soon after birth. After visiting the orphanage with Pitt in November 2006, Jolie applied for adoption as a single parent, as Vietnam's adoption rules did not allow unmarried couples to participate in the adoption. After they returned to the United States, he petitioned the court to change his son's last name from Jolie to Jolie-Pitt, which was approved on 31 May. Pitt then adopted Pax on February 21, 2008.
At the Cannes Film Festival in May 2008, Jolie confirmed that she was expecting twins. For two weeks he spent time in a seaside hospital in Nice, France, reporters and photographers camped outside on the balcony. She gave birth to a son, Knox LÃÆ' Â © on, and a daughter, Vivienne Marcheline, on July 12, 2008. The first photos of Knox and Vivienne are sold together to People and Hello! for the reported $ 14 million - photos of the most expensive celebrities ever taken. All proceeds are donated to the Jolie-Pitt Foundation.
Cancer prevention treatment
On February 16, 2013, at the age of 37, Jolie underwent a double preventive mastectomy after learning that she had an 87% risk of developing breast cancer because of the damaged BRCA1 gene. Her maternal family history guarantees a genetic test for a BRCA mutation: her mother, actress Marcheline Bertrand, suffers from breast cancer and dies of ovarian cancer, while her grandmother dies of ovarian cancer. Her aunt, who had the same BRCA1 defect, died of breast cancer three months after Jolie's surgery. After a mastectomy, which lowers its chances of developing breast cancer to below 5 percent, Jolie underwent reconstructive surgery involving implants and allografts. Two years later, in March 2015, after annual test results showed signs of a possible early ovarian cancer, he underwent preventive oophorectomy, as he had a 50% risk of ovarian cancer due to the same genetic anomaly. Despite hormone replacement therapy, surgery causes premature menopause.
After completing each operation, Jolie discusses the mastectomy and oophorectomy in op-ed published by The New York Times, in order to help other women make informed health choices. He detailed his diagnosis, surgery, and personal experience, and described his decision to undergo preventive surgery as a proactive action for the six children. Jolie further writes, "On a personal note, I do not feel less than a woman, I feel empowered that I make a strong choice that does not diminish my femininity."
Jolie's announcement of mastectomy attracted widespread publicity and discussions about BRCA mutations and genetic testing. Her decision was met with praise from various public figures, while health campaigners welcomed her to raise awareness of the options available to women at risk. Nicknamed "The Angelina Effect" by a cover story Time , Jolie's influence led to a "global and long-lasting" increase in BRCA gene testing: the number of triple referrals in Australia and two-fold in the UK, part of Canada , and India, and significantly increased in other European countries and US researchers in Canada and the United Kingdom found that despite large increases, the percentage of mutation carriers remained the same, which meant Jolie messages had reached those most at risk.. In its first op-ed, Jolie has advocated wider access to BRCA gene testing and recognizes the high cost, which is greatly reduced after the US Supreme Court, in the June 2013 BRCA patent genes that are not enforced by Myriad Genetics.
In media
Public image
As the daughter of actor Jon Voight, Jolie appeared in the media from an early age. After starting his own career, he earned a reputation as a "wild child", contributing to his early successes in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Celebrity profiles routinely cover their appeal with blood and knives, experience with drugs, and their sex life, especially bisexuality and interest in sadomasochism. In 2000, when asked about his honesty, he stated, "I say things that other people may be passing through.That's what the artist should do - throw everything out there and not be perfect and have no answer for anything and see if people understand. "Another factor contributing to his controversial image was the tabloid rumor about the incest that began when Jolie, after winning an Oscar, kissed her brother on the lips and said," I love my brother very much now. " He dismissed the rumor, saying, "It is disappointing that something so beautiful and pure can be transformed into a circus," and explained that, as divorce children, he and James rely on each other for emotional support.
Jolie's reputation began to change positively after he, at the age of 26, became Ambassador to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, later commented, "In my early 20s I fought with myself, now I bring the punk to Washington, and I'm struggling for something important. "Due to its widespread activism, Q Score - the industry's favorite gauge of celebrityism - nearly doubled to 25 between 2000 and 2006. The belief grows accordingly; in 2006, he was familiar with 81% of Americans, compared with 31% in 2000. He became famous for his ability to positively influence his public image through the media, without the use of a publicist or agent. His Q score remained above average even when, in 2005, he was accused of ending Brad Pitt's marriage with Jennifer Aniston, in which his public persona became an unlikely combination of alleged homewrecker, mother, sex symbol, and humanity. A decade later, Jolie was found to be the most admired woman in the world in a global survey conducted by YouGov in 2015 and 2016.
Jolie's general influence and wealth is widely documented. In a 2006 global industry survey by ACNielsen in 42 international markets, Jolie, along with Pitt, was found to be a favorite celebrity supporter for brands and products worldwide. Jolie is the face of St. John and Shiseido from 2006 to 2008, and a decade later became a spokesman for Guerlain. The 2011 support agreement with Louis Vuitton, reportedly worth $ 10 million, is a record for a single ad campaign. Jolie is one of the Time 100, the list of the most influential people in the world as published by Time , in 2006 and 2008. She was named the world's strongest celebrity Forbes ' s Celebrity 100 issues in 2009, and, despite the overall lower rank, is listed as the strongest actress from 2006 to 2008 and 2011 to 2013. Appearance
Jolie's public image is closely related to the beauty and sex appeal she feels. Many media, including Vogue , People , and Vanity Fair , have referred to her as the most beautiful woman in the world, while others like >> Esquire , FHM , and Empire has named her the sexiest living woman; both titles are often based on public polls in which Jolie puts away in front of other celebrity women. His best known physical features are many tattoos, eyes, and especially his full lips, which are considered to be features such as Kirk Douglas's chin or Bette Davis's eye. Among the 20 tattoos he got was a Latin proverb quod me nutrit me destruit ("what keeps me crushing me"), Tennessee Williams quote "Prayer for the savage at heart, kept in a cage", four Sanskrit Buddhist sanctuary prayer, twelve-inch tiger, and geographical coordinates showing the birthplace of her husband and children. Over time, he has covered or tattooed several tattoos, including "Billy Bob", the name of her second husband.
Professionally, Jolie's status as a sex symbol is considered an asset and a hindrance. Some of his most commercially successful films, including Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and Beowulf (2007), openly rely on at least partly on his sex appeal, with < Empire states that his "pneumatic figure," cat's eye ", and" bee-sting lips "contribute greatly to his appeal to movie goers. By contrast, Allen Barra's Salon agrees with critics who suggest that "dark and intense sexuality" Jolie has limited herself to the kind of role she can cast, making her unsure in many conventional female roles while Clint Eastwood, who directed his Oscar-nominated performance at Changeling (2008), argues that having "the most beautiful face on the planet" sometimes jeopardizes his dramatic credibility with the audience.
Beyond his career, Jolie's appearance has been credited with influencing popular culture widely. In 2002, AfterEllen founder Sarah Warn observed that many women of all sexual orientations have publicly expressed their interest in Jolie, whom she considers a new development in American culture, adding that "there are many beautiful women in Hollywood, and some produce the same kind the same tremendous cross-gender and sexual orientation that he did. " Jolie's physical attributes are becoming highly sought after among western women seeking cosmetic surgery; in 2007, he was considered the "gold standard of beauty", with his full lips still becoming the most imitated celebrity feature until the 2010s. Following the 2011 birthday survey by Allure found that Jolie best represents the ideals of American beauty, compared to Christie Brinkley's model in 1991, author Elizabeth Angell praised the community by having "branched out beyond the ideal of Barbie-dolls and embraced something very different ". In 2013, Jeffrey Kluger of Time agreed that Jolie has for many years represented feminine ideals, and argued that her honest discussion of her double mastectomy redefined beauty.
Movieography
Awards and nominations
- Dame Commander of Dame (DCMG), Order of St. Michael and St. George (2014)
See also
- Aptostichus angelinajolieae
- List of winners and the oldest and youngest Academy Award nominees
- White Marc Bouwer's dress from Angelina Jolie
References
External links
- Angelina Jolie on IMDb
- Angelina Jolie in Box Office Mojo
- Angelina Jolie at AllMovie
- Angelina Jolie on NETFLIX
- Special Envoy for the Refugee Problem, Jolie's official website at UNHCR.org
- Notes from My Trips: A Visit with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador, a book written by Jolie
- Genocide Rush: Journey Through the Eastern Congo, a multimedia journal narrated by Jolie
Source of the article : Wikipedia
0 Comments