Angelina jolie biography

Angelina jolie biography

ANGELINA JOLIE: A BIOGRAPHY

Family, childhood, adolescence ...

Angelina Jolie was born in Los Angeles (California) in a family of actors Jon Voight (Jon Voight) and Marshlin Bertrand (Marcheline Bertrand). She niece Taylor chip (Chip Taylor), sister of James Haven (James Haven) and the godmother's daughter Jacqueline Bisset (Jacqueline Bisset) and Maximilian Schell (Maximilian Schell).

Because of her name, people often assume that the mother of Angelina Jolie - a Frenchwoman, in fact, the grandmother and grandfather of Angelina through the maternal line - Canadians are of French origin. As the father of Jolie's blood of the Czechs and the British, through the mother - French Canadians and Iraqis.

After his parents' divorce in 1976 Jolie and her brother was raised by his mother, who abandoned an acting career and moved with her children in the Palisades (Palisades), New York. As a child Jolie collected snakes and lizards, and was in love with Mr Spock (Mr. Spock - the protagonist of the series Star Trek). She is constantly watching movies with his mother and later explained that this is what ignited her interest in acting, her father had no effect on the choice of his daughter.

When she was 11 years old, the family moved back to Los Angeles and Jolie decided she wanted to become an actress and enrolled in Lee Strasberg Theater Institute (Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute), where she studied for two years and participated in several productions. Later, she remembered his college years at the High School of Beverly Hills (Beverly Hill High School) - later - Graduate School Moreno (Moreno High School), and a sense of isolation from children from other, more affluent, family area. Jolie's mother there was a more modest incomes, and the girls often had to go to second-hand clothes. Other students teased her for her distinctive features, for its excessive thinness, for that wore glasses and braces. Her self-esteem dropped even lower, when the first attempts to model business were unsuccessful. Her frustration grew, and Angelina early cut yourselves; later, during a speech on CNN, she commented that: "I collected knives, and that some of these things have always been close. For some reason, the ritual of cutting themselves and feeling pain, perhaps comparable with a feeling of being alive, it was for me an exemption, provided to me, to some extent, the therapeutic effect.

At age 14, she left acting classes and dreamed of becoming a funeral director. Her self-loathing led to the beginning of a rebellious period in her life, she went all black, dye her hair purple and pankovala with her then-boyfriend. Two years later, after the end of their relationship, she rented an apartment above the garage, a few blocks from the house where his mother lived. Jolie returned to acting classes and graduated from high school, but recently recalled about yourself that period as follows: "In my heart I still punk girl with tattoos.

Angelina Jolie long time talking with his father, accusing him of adultery in the destruction of the family, although attempts have been made for reconciliation, and he appeared with her in the movie "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider".

In July 2002, Jolie filed a petition for a formal change of name to "Angelina Jolie", dropping the name "Enter", it officially adopted the new name on Sept. 12, 2002. In August the same year, Voight in a weekly television show "Access Hollywood "said that his daughter's" serious emotional problems ". In October 2004 issue of Premiere Angelina Jolie made it clear that he no longer wishes to continue the relationship with his father and said, "My father did not talk. I do not keep it evil. I do not believe that families are based on blood ties. Because I have adopted her son and family can buy ". She said she did not want to publicize the reasons for his break with his father, but because of the fact that it has adopted Maddox, she did not consider it necessary to communicate with Voight. Voight did not meet with her grandchildren.

Early career (1993 - 1997)

Jolie began working as a model when she was 14 years old. She signed a contract with the agency Finesse Model Management and worked in the United States and in Europe, mainly - in Los Angeles, New York and London. At the same time she appeared in numerous music videos, among them - the songs and artists of the following groups: Meat Loaf ( "Rock & Roll Dreams Come Through "), Antonello Venditti ( "Alta Marea "), Lenny Kravitz ( "Stand by My Woman "), and The Lemonheads ( "It 's About Time ").

At age 16, Jolie returned to work in theater and played his first role of the German "Frau". Learn it began with his father, noticing his method of observing people, in order to imitate them and become like them. Their relationship at that time were less intense, as Jolie knew - they were both "drama queens" ( 'drama queens').

Jolie appeared in five student films her brother, made during his visit to the School of Motion Picture Arts (USC School of Cinematic Arts), but her professional career in film began in 1993 when she played her first leading role in low budget film Cyborg 2. " Her heroine Casella "Cash" Reese (Casella "Cash" Reese), a humanoid, designed to penetrate through the seduction to the headquarters of a competing manufacturer, and then samovzorvatsya. After a minor role in the independent film "No evidence" Jolie played Kate "acid ulcer" Libby - the main heroine of the movie "Hackers", which became the first in the life of the actress Hollywood pictures. This is where Angelina met her first husband - Johnny Lee Miller. In The New York Times wrote "Kate (Angelina Jolie) stands out. Because she scowls even more unpleasant than [her colleagues] and because it is a rare female hacker who sits, leaning over the keyboard, in a transparent topics. Despite her sullen vypendrezh, the only thing that is required for this role, Ms. Jolie has a sweet angelic look of her father, Jon Voight "(" Kate (Angelina Jolie) stands out. That's because she scowls even more sourly than [her co-stars] and is that rare female hacker who sits intently at her keyboard in a see-through top. Despite her sullen posturing, which is all this role requires, Ms. Jolie has the sweetly cherubic looks of her father, Jon Voight "). The film flopped at the box office, not collecting any money, but after its release on video developed a cult.

She played the role of Malachitsi Gina (Gina Malacici) in the 1996 comedy "Italian Lovers» ( "Love Is All There Is "), which is a free modern adaptation of the play" Romeo and Juliet "(the actions developed in the area of New York, the Bronx, between two rival families owners of restaurants). In the Road "ribbon" Desert Moon »(« Mojave Moon ») 1996 Angelina Jolie played a young girl named Eleanor Rigby (Eleanor Rigby), fell in love with Danny Aiello (Danny Aiello), while he feeds the romantic feelings for her mother, Anne Archer (Anne Archer). Also in 1996 she also was cast in false fire »(« Foxfire ») in the role of Margaret" Legs "Sadovsky (Margret« Legs »Sadovsky), one of five teenage girls, between which creates an unconventional relationship after they beat up a teacher sexually harasses them. «Los Angeles Times» wrote on Jolie "It took a lot of absurd to develop this character, but Jolie, Jon Voight snogsshibayuschey daughter, has everything to to overcome stereotypes. Although History told Maddy (Maddy), it is "Legs" - and home heroine and catalyst "(" It took a lot of hogwash to develop this character, but Jolie, Jon Voight's knockout daughter, has the presence to overcome the stereotype. Though the story is narrated by Maddy, Legs is the subject and the catalyst ").

In 1997, Jolie has played a major role in the movie "Playing God» ( «Playing God») paired with David Duchovny. In this thriller, it is a surgeon, deprived of medical licenses, which lured into the underworld, where he meets the heroine Jolie - Claire (Claire). The picture has not been approved by critics and Roger Ebert (Roger Ebert - American film critic and screenwriter), noted that "Angelina Jolie finds a certain warmth in a solid and aggressive roles, she seems too nice to be a girlfriend [the offender], and perhaps it this is "(Angelina Jolie finds a certain warmth in a kind of role that is usually hard and aggressive; she seems too nice to be [a criminal 's] girlfriend, and maybe she is "). In addition, at the same time, Jolie appeared in the TV movie "Real Women» ( «True Women») - a historical romantic drama, based on the book by Janice Woods Uindl (Janice Woods Windle), events which take place in the American west. In the same year, Angelina co-starred in the video for the song «Anybody Seen My Baby?» Groups Rolling Stones.