Angelina Jolie

 Angelina Jolie is a well-known award-winning actress, humanitarian and UN Goodwill Ambassador. Here is her biography :

Early Life:

Angelina Jolie was born on June 4, 1975, in Los Angeles, California, to actor Jon Voight and actress Marcheline Bertrand. She started acting at a young age, attending the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in her early teens. Jolie later enrolled at New York University.

Career:

Angelina Jolie rose to fame as an actress in the 1990s. She made a name for herself in the 1998 television film "Gia", based on the tragic life of model Gia Marie Carangi, for which she received a Golden Globe for best actress. Her meteoric rise continued in "Girl, Interrupted" (1999), in which she played a rebellious member of a group of institutionalized kids, earning her an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress. She rose to prominence as a leading lady in films such as "Wanted", "Mr. and Mrs. Smith", "Salt", and "Changeling". She went on to have a tremendous international hit with Disney’s "Maleficent", which generated a sequel. In addition, Jolie directed the films "In the Land of Blood and Honey", "Unbroken", and "By the Sea", in which she co-starred with her then-husband Brad Pitt.

Humanitarian Efforts:

Angelina Jolie, a dedicated humanitarian, was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Refugee Agency in 2001. She has made headlines for her efforts to secure relief for refugees in Cambodia, Sudan, and Jordan, to name a few countries. Jolie won the Global Humanitarian Action Award from the United Nations Association of the United States in 2005 for her advocacy on behalf of refugee rights. She has maintained her focus on global issues.

Personal Life:

Jolie has three marriages and is well-known for her off-screen romances. In 1995, she married "Hackers" co-star Jonny Lee Miller. In 1999, the couple divorced. Jolie married Academy Award winner Billy Bob Thornton the next year. That marriage lasted until 2003. Jolie met Pitt while filming "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" in 2004. Pitt was married to "Friends" actress Jennifer Aniston at the time, and his romance with Jolie caused their divorce, resulting in a Hollywood scandal that dominated tabloids for years. As “Brangelina,” Jolie and Pitt became one of Hollywood’s most desired couples. Jolie adopted a child from Cambodia in 2002 and called him Maddox. Zahara, her daughter, was adopted three years later. Pitt applied to adopt both of Jolie’s children in 2005. Shiloh, the couple’s first biological daughter, was born in Namibia in 2006. Jolie, Pitt, and their children had gone to escape the media maelstrom that seemed to follow them wherever they went. Jolie welcomed a new member to her family in March 2007. She adopted Pax Thien, a 3-year-old child from a Vietnamese orphanage. On July 12, 2008, Jolie gave birth to twins, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, in a beach hospital in southern France. The rights to the twins’ initial shots were sold to "People" and "Hello!" magazines for $14 million, making them the most expensive celebrity photographs ever taken. Pitt and Jolie married in 2012. On August 23, 2014, they quietly married in a private ceremony surrounded by their family and friends, slipping beneath the paparazzi radar. Jolie filed for divorce from Brad Pitt in September 2016, requesting sole physical custody of their six children, triggering yet another tabloid frenzy. Their bitter custody fight was publicized, with reports that Pitt became “verbally violent” and “physical” with Maddox after drinking on their private plane. The FBI and the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services initiated an inquiry but found no evidence of abuse; the couple then issued a joint statement saying they were working together to resolve their divorce.