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Brad pitt's Bio
Despite his pretty boy looks and movie star charisma, actor Brad Pitt spent most of his career trying to avoid bloated box office leads, in favor of riskier, lower profile roles. After achieving heartthrob status with revealing performances showing off his “six-pack abs” in “Thelma and Louise” (1991) and “Legends of the Fall” (1994), Pitt actively subverted his hunky blond image by taking on ugly and often crazed characters – most notably in “12 Monkeys” (1995), “Fight Club” (1999) and “Snatch” (2001)....
Full Bio , Awards & Milestones
Filmography
Shantaram - ( Producer / 2008 / Announced / )
A Million Little Pieces - ( Producer / / Announced / )
Act V - ( Producer / / Announced / )
Atlas Shrugged - ( / / Announced / )
Bush Falls - ( Producer / / Announced / )
Chad Schmidt - ( - Cast / / Announced / )
Dirty Tricks - ( Producer / / Announced / )
Eat, Pray, Love - ( Producer / / Announced / )
Hatfields and McCoys - ( Producer / / Announced / )
Hatfields and McCoys - ( / / Announced / )
Inglorious Bastards - ( Aldo Raine / / Announced / )
Lost City of Z - ( Percy Harrison Fawcett / / Announced / )
Lost City of Z - ( Producer / / Announced / )
Lou Zamperini (Universal) - ( Producer / / Announced / )
Marching Powder - ( Producer / / Announced / )
My Losing Season - ( Producer / / Announced / )
On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction - ( Producer / / Announced / )
Peace Like A River - ( Producer / / Announced / )
The Case Study - ( Producer / / Announced / )
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - ( Producer / / Announced / )
The Every Boy - ( Producer / / Announced / )
The Fighter - ( Dick Eklund / / Announced / )
The Loner - ( Producer / / Announced / )
The Senator's Wife - ( Producer / / Announced / )
The Sparrow - ( Producer / / Announced / )
The Sparrow - ( - Cast / / Announced / )
The Zebra Murders: A Season of Killing, Racial Madness and Civil Rights - ( Producer / / Announced / )
They Fought Alone - ( / / Announced / )
Untitled (Paramount Pictures/Plan B Addiction Project) - ( Producer / / Announced / )
Untitled (Warner Bros./Jennifer Aniston/Dickey Chapelle Biopic Project) - ( Producer / / Announced / )
World War Z - ( Producer / / Announced / )
Zora - ( Producer / / Announced / )
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - ( Benjamin Button / 2008 / Lensing/Awaiting Release / )
The Time Traveler's Wife - ( Producer / 2008 / Lensing/Awaiting Release / )
The Half Life of Timofey Berezin - ( Executive Producer / 2007 / Lensing/Awaiting Release / )
Tree of Life - ( - Cast / / Lensing/Awaiting Release / )
Burn After Reading - ( Chad Feldheimer / 2008 / Released / )
A Mighty Heart - ( Producer / 2007 / Released / )
God Grew Tired of Us - ( Executive Producer / 2007 / Released / )
Ocean's 13 - ( Rusty Ryan / 2007 / Released / )
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - ( Producer / 2007 / Released / )
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - ( Jesse James / 2007 / Released / )
Year of the Dog - ( Executive Producer / 2007 / Released / )
Babel - ( Richard / 2006 / Released / )
Running with Scissors - ( Producer / 2006 / Released / )
The Departed - ( Producer / 2006 / Released / )
Mr. & Mrs. Smith - ( John Smith / 2005 / Released / Kinowelt Medien AG )
Ocean's Twelve - ( Rusty Ryan / 2004 / Released / Warner Home Video )
Troy - ( Achilles / 2004 / Released / )
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind - ( Bachelor Brad / 2003 / Released / )
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas - ( Voice of Sinbad / 2003 / Released / )
Full Frontal - ( cameo (uncredited) / 2002 / Released / )
Ocean's Eleven - ( Rusty Ryan / 2001 / Released / )
Snatch - ( Mickey O'Neil / 2001 / Released / )
Spy Game - ( Tom Bishop / 2001 / Released / Toho-Towa Company )
The Mexican - ( Jerry Welbach / 2001 / Released / )
Being John Malkovich - ( Special Thanks / 1999 / Released / )
Fight Club - ( Tyler Durden / 1999 / Released / )
Meet Joe Black - ( Joe Black / 1998 / Released / )
Meet Joe Black - ( Young Man in Coffee Shop / 1998 / Released / )
Seven Years in Tibet - ( Heinrich Harrer / 1997 / Released / Village Roadshow Pictures Worldwide )
The Devil's Own - ( Rory Devaney / 1997 / Released / )
Sleepers - ( Michael / 1996 / Released / BVI )
12 Monkeys - ( Jeffrey / 1995 / Released / Shochiku Films Inc )
Seven - ( David Mills / 1995 / Released / Alliance Releasing )
Interview With the Vampire - ( Louis Pointe du Lac / 1994 / Released / )
Legends of the Fall - ( Tristan / 1994 / Released / )
The Favor - ( Elliott / 1994 / Released / Alliance Releasing )
Kalifornia - ( Early Grayce / 1993 / Released / Cineplex Odeon )
True Romance - ( Floyd - Dick's Roomate / 1993 / Released / Shochiku-Fuji Company Ltd/Kuzui Enterprises )
A River Runs Through It - ( Paul Maclean / 1992 / Released / Village Roadshow Pictures Worldwide )
Cool World - ( Frank Harris / 1992 / Released / )
Johnny Suede - ( Johnny Suede / 1992 / Released / )
Across the Tracks - ( Joe Maloney / 1991 / Released / )
Thelma & Louise - ( J D / 1991 / Released / Globus Group )
Happy Together - ( / 1990 / Released / Channel Productions )
Cutting Class - ( Dwight Ingalls / 1989 / Released / )
TV Credits
Hollywood Habitat for Humanity ( 2008 / Released ): Actor
Idol Gives Back 2 ( 2008 / Released ): Actor
PU-239 ( 2007 / Released ): Executive Producer
Barbara Walters Presents The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2006 ( 2006 / Released ): Actor
Primetime Live: Brad Pitt's Journey to Africa ( 2005 / Released ): Actor
Rx for Survival - A Global Health Challenge ( 2005 / Released ): Narrator
The Heroes ( 2006 )
TV Episode Narrator
Back to the Basics/How Safe Are We? ( 2005 )
TV Episode Narrator
Delivering the Goods/Deadly Messengers ( 2005 )
TV Episode Narrator
Disease Warriors/ Rise of the Superbugs ( 2005 )
TV Episode Narrator
Unscripted ( 2005 / Released ): Actor
MovieReal ( 2004 / Released ): Actor
The 2nd Annual TRL Awards ( 2004 / Released ): Actor
Nickelodeon's 16th Annual Kids' Choice Awards ( 2003 / Released ): Actor
The 60th Annual Golden Globe Awards ( 2003 / Released ): Actor
The Stars' First Time . . . On Entertainment Tonight With Mary Hart ( 2003 / Released ): Actor
Robert Redford ( 2002 / Released ): Actor
Growing Up Grizzly ( 2001 / Released ): Actor / Narrator
The Barbara Walters Special (11/16/01) ( 2001 / Released ): Actor
72nd Annual Academy Awards Presentation ( 2000 / Released ): Actor
The American Film Institute Salute to Harrison Ford ( 2000 / Released ): Actor
Intimate Portrait: Melissa Etheridge ( 1999 / Released ): Actor
King of the Hill ( 1997 / Released ): Voice
The Siskel & Ebert Interviews ( 1996 / Released ): Actor
VH1 Honors ( 1994 / Released ): Actor
Contact ( 1993 / Released ): Actor
King of the Road ( 1992 / Released ): Actor
Two-Fisted Tales ( 1992 / Released ): Actor
Glory Days ( 1990 / Released ): Actor
The Image ( 1990 / Released ): Actor
Too Young to Die? ( 1990 / Released ): Actor
A Stoning in Fulham County ( 1988 / Released ): Actor
Another World ( 1964 / Released ): Actor
Friends ( Released ): Actor
Undaunted Courage ( Announced ): Executive Producer
Full Biography
Despite his pretty boy looks and movie star charisma, actor Brad Pitt spent most of his career trying to avoid bloated box office leads, in favor of riskier, lower profile roles. After achieving heartthrob status with revealing performances showing off his “six-pack abs” in “Thelma and Louise” (1991) and “Legends of the Fall” (1994), Pitt actively subverted his hunky blond image by taking on ugly and often crazed characters – most notably in “12 Monkeys” (1995), “Fight Club” (1999) and “Snatch” (2001). While en route to becoming one of the top box office draws of his generation, Pitt generated a substantial amount of tabloid press – particularly for his headline-grabbing romantic entanglements, which provided ample fodder for supermarket stands across the country. His high profile marriage to Jennifer Aniston – once tagged as being the perfect storybook Hollywood romance between the boy and girl next door – crashed and burned in the flames of his alleged affair with proverbial bad girl, Angelina Jolie. The result, however, was a new image of Pitt as multi-racial father and globetrotting activist – thanks to Jolie’s serial adoption of impoverished orphans from Africa and Southeast Asia – a transformation that was underscored by a strong and mature performance in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s meditative “Babel” (2006), for which the actor earned his second Golden Globe nomination.
Born on Dec. 18, 1963 in Shawnee, OK, Pitt was raised in a devout Baptist home headed by William, a trucking company manager, and Jane, a high school counselor. The family moved to Missouri, where Pitt attended high school in Kickapoo. After graduating, he went to the University of Missouri, where he studied journalism and belonged to the Sigma Chi fraternity. But two weeks prior to earning his degree, Pitt suddenly decided to pile into his Datsun with $300 in his pocket and move to Los Angeles, CA to become an actor. Pitt started out in television guest spots, including a recurring role on the CBS primetime soap "Dallas" in 1987 that tended to capitalize on his wiry good looks. He co-starred in "Glory Days" (Fox, 1990), a short-lived drama about post-high school angst. Pitt entered features via the well-traveled low road, appearing in supporting roles in such standard teen fodder as slasher flicks, sex comedies and family-oriented sports dramas.
In that rarest of film moments, Pitt gained instant stardom as the hitchhiking hunk – part charmer, part thief – who seduces Geena Davis while brandishing a hairdryer and sporting a cowboy hat in the female buddy movie, "Thelma & Louise" (1991). The following year, he achieved leading man status while sporting a formidable pompadour as the fictitious, aspiring teen idol "Johnny Suede;” he maintained the hairstyle as a soft-hearted yet hard-boiled vet-turned-cartoon cop in "Cool World” – Ralph Bakshi's uneven blend of live-action and animation. Pitt gained some critical esteem playing the troubled younger brother who casts a mean fishing line in Robert Redford's "A River Runs Through It" (1992), but fared less well as a bearded psycho killer in "Kalifornia" (1993). He provided a delightful character turn as the stoner roommate of a struggling actor (Michael Rapaport) who connects his Detroit buddy (Christian Slater) with a Hollywood producer (Saul Rubinek) for a coke deal gone bad in the Quentin Tarantino-scripted "True Romance" (1993). Despite his relative minor degree of celebrity at that time, there was already considerable interest in Pitt’s romantic involvements. Around the release of “True Romance,” he called off a reported engagement to three-year girlfriend, actress Juliette Lewis.
Pitt subsequently played his first high profile lead in a Hollywood blockbuster as Louis, the lachrymose narrator of "Interview with the Vampire" (1994). His depressed bloodsucker seemed all the more anemic when paired with a lively Tom Cruise. Pitt's star qualities were better displayed as the wild, middle brother of a colorful Western clan in "Legends of the Fall.” In a change of pace from glamour roles – and to subtly subvert his being dubbed the “Sexiest Man Alive" by People magazine – the actor played a scruffy, arrogant policeman tracking a serial killer with Morgan Freeman in "Seven" (1995), before earning a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination as a twitching mental patient/animal rights activist in Terry Gilliam’s manic futuristic dystopia, "12 Monkeys" (1995).
After a turn as a prosecutor in Barry Levinson's "Sleepers" (1996), Pitt adopted a passing Belfast accent as an IRA gunman seeking refuge in the home of a New York City cop (Harrison Ford) in "The Devil's Own" (1997). What had been a long a troubled shoot resulted in a muddled and uneven drama. Pitt caused some controversy with a Newsweek interview, in which he made disparaging remarks about the film’s script. With "Seven Years in Tibet" (1997), he adopted an Austrian accent to play an egotistical man who undergoes a spiritual conversion when he is befriended by the youthful Dalai Lama. That film was also the subject of debate when it was revealed that Heinrich Harrer (Pitt) had been a Nazi Party member – the resulting negative publicity and mixed reviews hurting the film's box office. Pitt followed up by reuniting with his "Legends of the Falls" co-star Anthony Hopkins in the languid "Meet Joe Black" (1998) – a loose remake of "Death Takes a Holiday" (1934) – with the younger actor playing the Grim Reaper in human form.
Further downplaying his attractive facade, Pitt was cast as Tyler Durden, the straight-shooting but charismatic mastermind behind "Fight Club" (1999), an underground society of disaffected young men who engage in brutal fisticuffs as a means of reclaiming their masculinity. He continued in a similar vein with a turn as an Irish gypsy with a flair for bare knuckles boxing in "Snatch" (2000). In both of these films, Pitt's muscular physique was on display, but in "Fight Club,” he favored a scruffy look; while in "Snatch,” he was covered in tattoos. Off-screen, however, Pitt's celebrity status as a hunky Hollywood icon soared into the stratosphere, after his romantic relationship with the equally beautiful and popular “Friends” (NBC, 1994-2004) TV star Jennifer Aniston culminated in 2001 with a storybook wedding – complete with fireworks – in Malibu, CA. The golden couple's every move quickly became must-have fodder for entertainment-oriented media outlets everywhere.
In "The Mexican" (2001), he offered a relaxed, loose turn as a somewhat dim, low-level gangster sent south – over the objections of his long-time girlfriend, played by Julia Roberts – to retrieve the title object, an antique pistol that supposedly carried a curse. He remained busy portraying the protégé of a retiring CIA operative (Robert Redford) in "Spy Game” (2001), before joining George Clooney and an equally beautiful ensemble cast for Steven Soderbergh’s wildly fun remake of "Ocean's Eleven" (2001). That year, Pitt also made two notable TV guest appearances – first, on his wife's sitcom, "Friends," playing a now-thin high school pal of Monica's (Courteney Cox-Arquette) who has long harbored an animosity toward Rachel (Aniston); secondly, in a much discussed slot on MTV's stunt-prank series – and a personal Pitt favorite – "Jackass," where the actor was violently "kidnapped" from L.A.'s Pink's hot dog stand, as several dumbfounded witnesses observed. In 2002, Pitt made brief cameo appearances in Soderbergh's experimental film "Full Frontal" (as himself) and Clooney's directorial debut, "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.” In 2003, he made the jump to animated features, voicing the title character in the quickly forgotten "Sinbad."
After years of downplaying his handsome, heroic looks by appearing in scruffy beards and long hair, Pitt finally took a role that cast him as every bit the Golden Boy, playing legendary Greek hero Achilles in director Wolfgang Petersen's epic, "Troy" (2004) – a role that inspired excitement among his male and female fans alike. The actor also agreed to rejoin Clooney, Soderbergh, et al, for the sequel romp "Ocean's Twelve" (2004), this time playing a Rusty with his own love interest (Catherine Zeta-Jones). Unfortunately, the male camaraderie was wearing thing and the film lacked much of the charm of the first outing.
In early 2005, the film work became secondary, when Pitt found himself at the center of an intense media whirlwind when he announced he was splitting from Aniston. One of the speculated reasons for the divorce of the dream couple centered on rumors of an on-set relationship with Angelina Jolie during his next film, the Doug Liman-helmed action-fest "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" (2005). Long hours spent choreographing fight scenes and special effects could have done the trick, when onscreen, the actors played a bored married couple surprised to learn that they are each secretly assassins and are ultimately hired to kill each other. Though both actors initially refuted rumors of their affair – and after frequently being photographed together in their private lives, took a less coyer stance later on, with Pitt petitioning to adopt Jolie’s two children – the intense media and public interest in their possible relationship propelled the film to huge box office receipts, thanks in large part to their palpable onscreen chemistry. Their "are they or aren't they?" coupling captivated star watchers and was the most written-about celebrity story of 2005 – prompting the coining of the term "Brangelina." As their relationship gradually emerged in the public eye, Pitt accompanied Jolie on her missions of mercy to third world nations to adopt children. The couple ultimately revealed that they were expecting their own biological child together – daughter, Shiloh Nouvel – while articles trumpeting Aniston’s reportedly ongoing anguish over the loss of Pitt continued to propel the spectacle forward. In fact, the public’s intense interest in the split-turned-love affair heard round the world eventually came down to camps – with Team Aniston and Team Jolie T-shirts being sold off the shelves that summer.
After a noted absence from the big screen – but not the tabloid pages, which seemed to concoct a new and ridiculous story about Brangelina every week – Pitt returned with a strong and rather mature performance in “Babel” (2006), a dense and heartbreaking look at confusion, fear and the depths of love. Set on different continents – Asia, Africa and North America – “Babel” told three separate stories brought together by a single random act of violence. Pitt played an American tourist traveling to Morocco, when a stray bullet from a rifle crashes through a bus window and seriously wounds his wife (Cate Blachett), touching off a series of events – including the couple’s Mexican housekeeper (Adriana Barraza) trying to cross the border, a neglected Japanese girl (Rinko Kikuchi) scouring Japan for love in all the wrong places, and two Moroccan boys (Said Tarchani and Boubker Ait El Caid) dealing with their responsibility for the shooting. Meanwhile, Papa Pitt – by now, the father of three adopted children and one biological w/ Jolie – reunited with Soderbergh, Clooney, Damon and the rest one more time for “Oceans 13” (2007), the third installment to the hipster caper series that saw the gang exacting revenge on a ruthless Las Vegas casino owner (Al Pacino) after becoming the victims of a double-cross. Hijinks and hilarity ensue.
Profession(s):
Actor, producer, chauffeur, delivery man
Sometimes Credited As:
William Bradley Pitt
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Family
brother:Doug Pitt (Born c. 1966; owns computer company)
daughter:Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt (Legally adopted in 2006; mother is Angelina Jolie)
daughter:Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt (Born May 27, 2006 in Namibia; mother is Angelina Jolie)
daughter:Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt (Twin of Knox Leon; born July 12, 2008 in Nice, France; mother is Angelina Jolie)
father:William Pitt
mother:Jane Pitt
sister:Julie Pitt (Born c. 1969)
son:Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt (Adopted at three years old from a Vietnamese orphanage in 2007; Angelina Jolie adopted the boy as a single parent because Vietnam's adoption regulations don't allow unmarried couples to co-adopt; name was legally changed to Jolie-Pitt three months after his adoption)
son:Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt (Legally adopted in 2006; mother is Angelina Jolie)
son:Knox Leon Jolie-Pitt (Twin of Vivienne Marcheline; born July 12, 2008 in Nice, France; mother is Angelina Jolie)
wife:Jennifer Aniston (Met in 1998; married July 29, 2000 in Malibu, CA; announced separation on January 6, 2005, after more than fours years of marriage; Aniston filed for divorce March 2005; divorce finalized October 2005)
Companion(s)
Angelina Jolie , Companion , ```..Met while filming "Mr. and Mrs. Smith"; rumored to be romantically involved throughout filming, but this was denied by both parties; began being photographed together as a couple in spring 2005, shortly after his split from Jennifer Aniston
Gwyneth Paltrow , Companion , ```..Met on the set of "Seven" (1994) where they played a married couple; became engaged in November 1996; separated in June 1997
Jill Schoelen , Companion , ```..Met on set of "Cutting Class"; (1989); broke up in 1989
Jitka Pohlodek , Companion , ```..Dated c. 1993
Juliette Lewis , Companion , ```..Met on the set of the 1990 TV-movie "Too Young to Die?" (NBC); together for three years; rumored to have been briefly engaged before they split c. 1993
Katja von Garnier , Companion , ```..German; born c. 1966; dated in 1997
Robin Givens , Companion , ```..Dated briefly in 1988 after working together on episodes of the TV sitcom "Head of the Class" (ABC)
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Education
Kickapoo High School Springfield, MO
University of Missouri Columbia, MO journalism 1982
Awards
San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award Best Picture "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" 2007
Venice Film Festival Award Best Actor "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" 2007
MTV Movie Award Best Fight "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" 2006
Golden Globe Award Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture "Twelve Monkeys" 1996
MTV Movie Award Most Desirable Male "Seven" 1996
MTV Movie Award Best Male Performance "Interview with the Vampire" 1995
MTV Movie Award Most Desirable Male "Interview with the Vampire" 1995
Milestones
2008 Joined an ensemble cast for the Coen's brothers' "Burn After Reading"
2007 Reprised role along with the original cast for "Ocean's 13"
2007 Produced "A Mighty Heart," the film based on the book by Mariane Pearl, wife of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl; film featured his partner Angelina Jolie in the lead role
2007 Portrayed outlaw Jesse James in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" (also produced)
2006 Co-starred with Cate Blanchett as a tragedy-stricken American couple in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's critically acclaimed "Babel"; received a Golden Globe nomination for Supporting Actor
2005 Co-starred with Angelina Jolie, as husband and wife assassins, in Doug Liman's "Mr. & Mrs. Smith"
2004 Portrayed fated warrior Achilles in director Wolfgang Petersen's epic "Troy"
2004 Collaborated with the original cast for "Ocean's Twelve"
2002 Made a guest appearance on the NBC sitcom "Friends," as a man who has a grudge against Aniston's character Rachel Green; received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor
2001 Teamed with Robert Redford in "The Spy Game," playing the protege of a retiring CIA agent
2001 Had featured role in the ensemble of "Ocean's Eleven," which included Julia Roberts, George Clooney and Matt Damon
2000 Portrayed an itinerant Irish gypsy bare knuckles boxer in Guy Ritchie's gangster film "Snatch"
1999 Again collaborated with David Fincher for "Fight Club," playing the character of Tyler Durden, opposite Edward Norton
1998 Re-teamed with Anthony Hopkins for "Meet Joe Black"
1997 Played an Irish revolutionary opposite Harrison Ford in "The Devil's Own"
1997 Played the main role of Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer in the Jean Jacques Annaud film "Seven Years in Tibet"; film was subject of controversy when it was disclosed that the main character had t
1995 Co-starred with Morgan Freeman as detectives tracking a serial killer (Kevin Spacey) in David Fincher's "Seven"
1995 Portrayed mental patient, Jeffrey Goines in Terry Gilliam's "Twelve Monkeys"; received a Supporting Actor Academy Award nomination
1994 First worked with Anthony Hopkins playing one of his sons in "Legends of the Fall"; received a Best Actor Golden Globe nomination
1994 Co-starred with Tom Cruise in the film adaptation of Anne Rice's novel, "Interview With the Vampire"
1993 Took a dramatic turn as a scruffy serial killer alongside Juliette Lewis and David Duchovny in "Kalifornia"
1993 Played featured role in Tony Scott's "True Romance"
1992 Had major film role in the Robert Redford directed "A River Runs Through It"
1991 Achieved instant sex-symbol status as J.D., a charming hitchhiker who seduces Geena Davis in "Thelma & Louise"
1991 First leading role in a feature, alongside Catherine Keener and Nick Cave in the low budget, Tom DiCillo-directed, "Johnny Suede"
1990 Co-starred with Juliette Lewis in the fact-based NBC TV-movie, "Too Young to Die?"
1989 Feature acting debut, "Cutting Class"
1988 Made TV-movie debut in "A Stoning in Fulham County" (NBC)
1987 Worked as an extra on the film "Less Than Zero" (also had uncredited role)
1987 First TV appearance on the NBC soap opera "Another World"
1987 Primetime TV debut in a guest role in the ABC sitcom "Growing Pains"
1987 Played the boyfriend of Jenna Wade Ewing's daughter in three episodes of the CBS primetime soap "Dallas"
1986 Moved to Los Angeles claiming to his parents that he was attending the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena
Grew up in Springfield, Missouri
Will star in David Fincher's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (lensed 2006)
Full Bio , Awards & Milestones
Filmography
Shantaram - ( Producer / 2008 / Announced / )
A Million Little Pieces - ( Producer / / Announced / )
Act V - ( Producer / / Announced / )
Atlas Shrugged - ( / / Announced / )
Bush Falls - ( Producer / / Announced / )
Chad Schmidt - ( - Cast / / Announced / )
Dirty Tricks - ( Producer / / Announced / )
Eat, Pray, Love - ( Producer / / Announced / )
Hatfields and McCoys - ( Producer / / Announced / )
Hatfields and McCoys - ( / / Announced / )
Inglorious Bastards - ( Aldo Raine / / Announced / )
Lost City of Z - ( Percy Harrison Fawcett / / Announced / )
Lost City of Z - ( Producer / / Announced / )
Lou Zamperini (Universal) - ( Producer / / Announced / )
Marching Powder - ( Producer / / Announced / )
My Losing Season - ( Producer / / Announced / )
On the Nature of Human Romantic Interaction - ( Producer / / Announced / )
Peace Like A River - ( Producer / / Announced / )
The Case Study - ( Producer / / Announced / )
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - ( Producer / / Announced / )
The Every Boy - ( Producer / / Announced / )
The Fighter - ( Dick Eklund / / Announced / )
The Loner - ( Producer / / Announced / )
The Senator's Wife - ( Producer / / Announced / )
The Sparrow - ( Producer / / Announced / )
The Sparrow - ( - Cast / / Announced / )
The Zebra Murders: A Season of Killing, Racial Madness and Civil Rights - ( Producer / / Announced / )
They Fought Alone - ( / / Announced / )
Untitled (Paramount Pictures/Plan B Addiction Project) - ( Producer / / Announced / )
Untitled (Warner Bros./Jennifer Aniston/Dickey Chapelle Biopic Project) - ( Producer / / Announced / )
World War Z - ( Producer / / Announced / )
Zora - ( Producer / / Announced / )
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - ( Benjamin Button / 2008 / Lensing/Awaiting Release / )
The Time Traveler's Wife - ( Producer / 2008 / Lensing/Awaiting Release / )
The Half Life of Timofey Berezin - ( Executive Producer / 2007 / Lensing/Awaiting Release / )
Tree of Life - ( - Cast / / Lensing/Awaiting Release / )
Burn After Reading - ( Chad Feldheimer / 2008 / Released / )
A Mighty Heart - ( Producer / 2007 / Released / )
God Grew Tired of Us - ( Executive Producer / 2007 / Released / )
Ocean's 13 - ( Rusty Ryan / 2007 / Released / )
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - ( Producer / 2007 / Released / )
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - ( Jesse James / 2007 / Released / )
Year of the Dog - ( Executive Producer / 2007 / Released / )
Babel - ( Richard / 2006 / Released / )
Running with Scissors - ( Producer / 2006 / Released / )
The Departed - ( Producer / 2006 / Released / )
Mr. & Mrs. Smith - ( John Smith / 2005 / Released / Kinowelt Medien AG )
Ocean's Twelve - ( Rusty Ryan / 2004 / Released / Warner Home Video )
Troy - ( Achilles / 2004 / Released / )
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind - ( Bachelor Brad / 2003 / Released / )
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas - ( Voice of Sinbad / 2003 / Released / )
Full Frontal - ( cameo (uncredited) / 2002 / Released / )
Ocean's Eleven - ( Rusty Ryan / 2001 / Released / )
Snatch - ( Mickey O'Neil / 2001 / Released / )
Spy Game - ( Tom Bishop / 2001 / Released / Toho-Towa Company )
The Mexican - ( Jerry Welbach / 2001 / Released / )
Being John Malkovich - ( Special Thanks / 1999 / Released / )
Fight Club - ( Tyler Durden / 1999 / Released / )
Meet Joe Black - ( Joe Black / 1998 / Released / )
Meet Joe Black - ( Young Man in Coffee Shop / 1998 / Released / )
Seven Years in Tibet - ( Heinrich Harrer / 1997 / Released / Village Roadshow Pictures Worldwide )
The Devil's Own - ( Rory Devaney / 1997 / Released / )
Sleepers - ( Michael / 1996 / Released / BVI )
12 Monkeys - ( Jeffrey / 1995 / Released / Shochiku Films Inc )
Seven - ( David Mills / 1995 / Released / Alliance Releasing )
Interview With the Vampire - ( Louis Pointe du Lac / 1994 / Released / )
Legends of the Fall - ( Tristan / 1994 / Released / )
The Favor - ( Elliott / 1994 / Released / Alliance Releasing )
Kalifornia - ( Early Grayce / 1993 / Released / Cineplex Odeon )
True Romance - ( Floyd - Dick's Roomate / 1993 / Released / Shochiku-Fuji Company Ltd/Kuzui Enterprises )
A River Runs Through It - ( Paul Maclean / 1992 / Released / Village Roadshow Pictures Worldwide )
Cool World - ( Frank Harris / 1992 / Released / )
Johnny Suede - ( Johnny Suede / 1992 / Released / )
Across the Tracks - ( Joe Maloney / 1991 / Released / )
Thelma & Louise - ( J D / 1991 / Released / Globus Group )
Happy Together - ( / 1990 / Released / Channel Productions )
Cutting Class - ( Dwight Ingalls / 1989 / Released / )
TV Credits
Hollywood Habitat for Humanity ( 2008 / Released ): Actor
Idol Gives Back 2 ( 2008 / Released ): Actor
PU-239 ( 2007 / Released ): Executive Producer
Barbara Walters Presents The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2006 ( 2006 / Released ): Actor
Primetime Live: Brad Pitt's Journey to Africa ( 2005 / Released ): Actor
Rx for Survival - A Global Health Challenge ( 2005 / Released ): Narrator
The Heroes ( 2006 )
TV Episode Narrator
Back to the Basics/How Safe Are We? ( 2005 )
TV Episode Narrator
Delivering the Goods/Deadly Messengers ( 2005 )
TV Episode Narrator
Disease Warriors/ Rise of the Superbugs ( 2005 )
TV Episode Narrator
Unscripted ( 2005 / Released ): Actor
MovieReal ( 2004 / Released ): Actor
The 2nd Annual TRL Awards ( 2004 / Released ): Actor
Nickelodeon's 16th Annual Kids' Choice Awards ( 2003 / Released ): Actor
The 60th Annual Golden Globe Awards ( 2003 / Released ): Actor
The Stars' First Time . . . On Entertainment Tonight With Mary Hart ( 2003 / Released ): Actor
Robert Redford ( 2002 / Released ): Actor
Growing Up Grizzly ( 2001 / Released ): Actor / Narrator
The Barbara Walters Special (11/16/01) ( 2001 / Released ): Actor
72nd Annual Academy Awards Presentation ( 2000 / Released ): Actor
The American Film Institute Salute to Harrison Ford ( 2000 / Released ): Actor
Intimate Portrait: Melissa Etheridge ( 1999 / Released ): Actor
King of the Hill ( 1997 / Released ): Voice
The Siskel & Ebert Interviews ( 1996 / Released ): Actor
VH1 Honors ( 1994 / Released ): Actor
Contact ( 1993 / Released ): Actor
King of the Road ( 1992 / Released ): Actor
Two-Fisted Tales ( 1992 / Released ): Actor
Glory Days ( 1990 / Released ): Actor
The Image ( 1990 / Released ): Actor
Too Young to Die? ( 1990 / Released ): Actor
A Stoning in Fulham County ( 1988 / Released ): Actor
Another World ( 1964 / Released ): Actor
Friends ( Released ): Actor
Undaunted Courage ( Announced ): Executive Producer
Full Biography
Despite his pretty boy looks and movie star charisma, actor Brad Pitt spent most of his career trying to avoid bloated box office leads, in favor of riskier, lower profile roles. After achieving heartthrob status with revealing performances showing off his “six-pack abs” in “Thelma and Louise” (1991) and “Legends of the Fall” (1994), Pitt actively subverted his hunky blond image by taking on ugly and often crazed characters – most notably in “12 Monkeys” (1995), “Fight Club” (1999) and “Snatch” (2001). While en route to becoming one of the top box office draws of his generation, Pitt generated a substantial amount of tabloid press – particularly for his headline-grabbing romantic entanglements, which provided ample fodder for supermarket stands across the country. His high profile marriage to Jennifer Aniston – once tagged as being the perfect storybook Hollywood romance between the boy and girl next door – crashed and burned in the flames of his alleged affair with proverbial bad girl, Angelina Jolie. The result, however, was a new image of Pitt as multi-racial father and globetrotting activist – thanks to Jolie’s serial adoption of impoverished orphans from Africa and Southeast Asia – a transformation that was underscored by a strong and mature performance in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s meditative “Babel” (2006), for which the actor earned his second Golden Globe nomination.
Born on Dec. 18, 1963 in Shawnee, OK, Pitt was raised in a devout Baptist home headed by William, a trucking company manager, and Jane, a high school counselor. The family moved to Missouri, where Pitt attended high school in Kickapoo. After graduating, he went to the University of Missouri, where he studied journalism and belonged to the Sigma Chi fraternity. But two weeks prior to earning his degree, Pitt suddenly decided to pile into his Datsun with $300 in his pocket and move to Los Angeles, CA to become an actor. Pitt started out in television guest spots, including a recurring role on the CBS primetime soap "Dallas" in 1987 that tended to capitalize on his wiry good looks. He co-starred in "Glory Days" (Fox, 1990), a short-lived drama about post-high school angst. Pitt entered features via the well-traveled low road, appearing in supporting roles in such standard teen fodder as slasher flicks, sex comedies and family-oriented sports dramas.
In that rarest of film moments, Pitt gained instant stardom as the hitchhiking hunk – part charmer, part thief – who seduces Geena Davis while brandishing a hairdryer and sporting a cowboy hat in the female buddy movie, "Thelma & Louise" (1991). The following year, he achieved leading man status while sporting a formidable pompadour as the fictitious, aspiring teen idol "Johnny Suede;” he maintained the hairstyle as a soft-hearted yet hard-boiled vet-turned-cartoon cop in "Cool World” – Ralph Bakshi's uneven blend of live-action and animation. Pitt gained some critical esteem playing the troubled younger brother who casts a mean fishing line in Robert Redford's "A River Runs Through It" (1992), but fared less well as a bearded psycho killer in "Kalifornia" (1993). He provided a delightful character turn as the stoner roommate of a struggling actor (Michael Rapaport) who connects his Detroit buddy (Christian Slater) with a Hollywood producer (Saul Rubinek) for a coke deal gone bad in the Quentin Tarantino-scripted "True Romance" (1993). Despite his relative minor degree of celebrity at that time, there was already considerable interest in Pitt’s romantic involvements. Around the release of “True Romance,” he called off a reported engagement to three-year girlfriend, actress Juliette Lewis.
Pitt subsequently played his first high profile lead in a Hollywood blockbuster as Louis, the lachrymose narrator of "Interview with the Vampire" (1994). His depressed bloodsucker seemed all the more anemic when paired with a lively Tom Cruise. Pitt's star qualities were better displayed as the wild, middle brother of a colorful Western clan in "Legends of the Fall.” In a change of pace from glamour roles – and to subtly subvert his being dubbed the “Sexiest Man Alive" by People magazine – the actor played a scruffy, arrogant policeman tracking a serial killer with Morgan Freeman in "Seven" (1995), before earning a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination as a twitching mental patient/animal rights activist in Terry Gilliam’s manic futuristic dystopia, "12 Monkeys" (1995).
After a turn as a prosecutor in Barry Levinson's "Sleepers" (1996), Pitt adopted a passing Belfast accent as an IRA gunman seeking refuge in the home of a New York City cop (Harrison Ford) in "The Devil's Own" (1997). What had been a long a troubled shoot resulted in a muddled and uneven drama. Pitt caused some controversy with a Newsweek interview, in which he made disparaging remarks about the film’s script. With "Seven Years in Tibet" (1997), he adopted an Austrian accent to play an egotistical man who undergoes a spiritual conversion when he is befriended by the youthful Dalai Lama. That film was also the subject of debate when it was revealed that Heinrich Harrer (Pitt) had been a Nazi Party member – the resulting negative publicity and mixed reviews hurting the film's box office. Pitt followed up by reuniting with his "Legends of the Falls" co-star Anthony Hopkins in the languid "Meet Joe Black" (1998) – a loose remake of "Death Takes a Holiday" (1934) – with the younger actor playing the Grim Reaper in human form.
Further downplaying his attractive facade, Pitt was cast as Tyler Durden, the straight-shooting but charismatic mastermind behind "Fight Club" (1999), an underground society of disaffected young men who engage in brutal fisticuffs as a means of reclaiming their masculinity. He continued in a similar vein with a turn as an Irish gypsy with a flair for bare knuckles boxing in "Snatch" (2000). In both of these films, Pitt's muscular physique was on display, but in "Fight Club,” he favored a scruffy look; while in "Snatch,” he was covered in tattoos. Off-screen, however, Pitt's celebrity status as a hunky Hollywood icon soared into the stratosphere, after his romantic relationship with the equally beautiful and popular “Friends” (NBC, 1994-2004) TV star Jennifer Aniston culminated in 2001 with a storybook wedding – complete with fireworks – in Malibu, CA. The golden couple's every move quickly became must-have fodder for entertainment-oriented media outlets everywhere.
In "The Mexican" (2001), he offered a relaxed, loose turn as a somewhat dim, low-level gangster sent south – over the objections of his long-time girlfriend, played by Julia Roberts – to retrieve the title object, an antique pistol that supposedly carried a curse. He remained busy portraying the protégé of a retiring CIA operative (Robert Redford) in "Spy Game” (2001), before joining George Clooney and an equally beautiful ensemble cast for Steven Soderbergh’s wildly fun remake of "Ocean's Eleven" (2001). That year, Pitt also made two notable TV guest appearances – first, on his wife's sitcom, "Friends," playing a now-thin high school pal of Monica's (Courteney Cox-Arquette) who has long harbored an animosity toward Rachel (Aniston); secondly, in a much discussed slot on MTV's stunt-prank series – and a personal Pitt favorite – "Jackass," where the actor was violently "kidnapped" from L.A.'s Pink's hot dog stand, as several dumbfounded witnesses observed. In 2002, Pitt made brief cameo appearances in Soderbergh's experimental film "Full Frontal" (as himself) and Clooney's directorial debut, "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.” In 2003, he made the jump to animated features, voicing the title character in the quickly forgotten "Sinbad."
After years of downplaying his handsome, heroic looks by appearing in scruffy beards and long hair, Pitt finally took a role that cast him as every bit the Golden Boy, playing legendary Greek hero Achilles in director Wolfgang Petersen's epic, "Troy" (2004) – a role that inspired excitement among his male and female fans alike. The actor also agreed to rejoin Clooney, Soderbergh, et al, for the sequel romp "Ocean's Twelve" (2004), this time playing a Rusty with his own love interest (Catherine Zeta-Jones). Unfortunately, the male camaraderie was wearing thing and the film lacked much of the charm of the first outing.
In early 2005, the film work became secondary, when Pitt found himself at the center of an intense media whirlwind when he announced he was splitting from Aniston. One of the speculated reasons for the divorce of the dream couple centered on rumors of an on-set relationship with Angelina Jolie during his next film, the Doug Liman-helmed action-fest "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" (2005). Long hours spent choreographing fight scenes and special effects could have done the trick, when onscreen, the actors played a bored married couple surprised to learn that they are each secretly assassins and are ultimately hired to kill each other. Though both actors initially refuted rumors of their affair – and after frequently being photographed together in their private lives, took a less coyer stance later on, with Pitt petitioning to adopt Jolie’s two children – the intense media and public interest in their possible relationship propelled the film to huge box office receipts, thanks in large part to their palpable onscreen chemistry. Their "are they or aren't they?" coupling captivated star watchers and was the most written-about celebrity story of 2005 – prompting the coining of the term "Brangelina." As their relationship gradually emerged in the public eye, Pitt accompanied Jolie on her missions of mercy to third world nations to adopt children. The couple ultimately revealed that they were expecting their own biological child together – daughter, Shiloh Nouvel – while articles trumpeting Aniston’s reportedly ongoing anguish over the loss of Pitt continued to propel the spectacle forward. In fact, the public’s intense interest in the split-turned-love affair heard round the world eventually came down to camps – with Team Aniston and Team Jolie T-shirts being sold off the shelves that summer.
After a noted absence from the big screen – but not the tabloid pages, which seemed to concoct a new and ridiculous story about Brangelina every week – Pitt returned with a strong and rather mature performance in “Babel” (2006), a dense and heartbreaking look at confusion, fear and the depths of love. Set on different continents – Asia, Africa and North America – “Babel” told three separate stories brought together by a single random act of violence. Pitt played an American tourist traveling to Morocco, when a stray bullet from a rifle crashes through a bus window and seriously wounds his wife (Cate Blachett), touching off a series of events – including the couple’s Mexican housekeeper (Adriana Barraza) trying to cross the border, a neglected Japanese girl (Rinko Kikuchi) scouring Japan for love in all the wrong places, and two Moroccan boys (Said Tarchani and Boubker Ait El Caid) dealing with their responsibility for the shooting. Meanwhile, Papa Pitt – by now, the father of three adopted children and one biological w/ Jolie – reunited with Soderbergh, Clooney, Damon and the rest one more time for “Oceans 13” (2007), the third installment to the hipster caper series that saw the gang exacting revenge on a ruthless Las Vegas casino owner (Al Pacino) after becoming the victims of a double-cross. Hijinks and hilarity ensue.
Profession(s):
Actor, producer, chauffeur, delivery man
Sometimes Credited As:
William Bradley Pitt
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Family
brother:Doug Pitt (Born c. 1966; owns computer company)
daughter:Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt (Legally adopted in 2006; mother is Angelina Jolie)
daughter:Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt (Born May 27, 2006 in Namibia; mother is Angelina Jolie)
daughter:Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt (Twin of Knox Leon; born July 12, 2008 in Nice, France; mother is Angelina Jolie)
father:William Pitt
mother:Jane Pitt
sister:Julie Pitt (Born c. 1969)
son:Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt (Adopted at three years old from a Vietnamese orphanage in 2007; Angelina Jolie adopted the boy as a single parent because Vietnam's adoption regulations don't allow unmarried couples to co-adopt; name was legally changed to Jolie-Pitt three months after his adoption)
son:Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt (Legally adopted in 2006; mother is Angelina Jolie)
son:Knox Leon Jolie-Pitt (Twin of Vivienne Marcheline; born July 12, 2008 in Nice, France; mother is Angelina Jolie)
wife:Jennifer Aniston (Met in 1998; married July 29, 2000 in Malibu, CA; announced separation on January 6, 2005, after more than fours years of marriage; Aniston filed for divorce March 2005; divorce finalized October 2005)
Companion(s)
Angelina Jolie , Companion , ```..Met while filming "Mr. and Mrs. Smith"; rumored to be romantically involved throughout filming, but this was denied by both parties; began being photographed together as a couple in spring 2005, shortly after his split from Jennifer Aniston
Gwyneth Paltrow , Companion , ```..Met on the set of "Seven" (1994) where they played a married couple; became engaged in November 1996; separated in June 1997
Jill Schoelen , Companion , ```..Met on set of "Cutting Class"; (1989); broke up in 1989
Jitka Pohlodek , Companion , ```..Dated c. 1993
Juliette Lewis , Companion , ```..Met on the set of the 1990 TV-movie "Too Young to Die?" (NBC); together for three years; rumored to have been briefly engaged before they split c. 1993
Katja von Garnier , Companion , ```..German; born c. 1966; dated in 1997
Robin Givens , Companion , ```..Dated briefly in 1988 after working together on episodes of the TV sitcom "Head of the Class" (ABC)
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Education
Kickapoo High School Springfield, MO
University of Missouri Columbia, MO journalism 1982
Awards
San Francisco Film Critics Circle Award Best Picture "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" 2007
Venice Film Festival Award Best Actor "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" 2007
MTV Movie Award Best Fight "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" 2006
Golden Globe Award Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture "Twelve Monkeys" 1996
MTV Movie Award Most Desirable Male "Seven" 1996
MTV Movie Award Best Male Performance "Interview with the Vampire" 1995
MTV Movie Award Most Desirable Male "Interview with the Vampire" 1995
Milestones
2008 Joined an ensemble cast for the Coen's brothers' "Burn After Reading"
2007 Reprised role along with the original cast for "Ocean's 13"
2007 Produced "A Mighty Heart," the film based on the book by Mariane Pearl, wife of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl; film featured his partner Angelina Jolie in the lead role
2007 Portrayed outlaw Jesse James in "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" (also produced)
2006 Co-starred with Cate Blanchett as a tragedy-stricken American couple in Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's critically acclaimed "Babel"; received a Golden Globe nomination for Supporting Actor
2005 Co-starred with Angelina Jolie, as husband and wife assassins, in Doug Liman's "Mr. & Mrs. Smith"
2004 Portrayed fated warrior Achilles in director Wolfgang Petersen's epic "Troy"
2004 Collaborated with the original cast for "Ocean's Twelve"
2002 Made a guest appearance on the NBC sitcom "Friends," as a man who has a grudge against Aniston's character Rachel Green; received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor
2001 Teamed with Robert Redford in "The Spy Game," playing the protege of a retiring CIA agent
2001 Had featured role in the ensemble of "Ocean's Eleven," which included Julia Roberts, George Clooney and Matt Damon
2000 Portrayed an itinerant Irish gypsy bare knuckles boxer in Guy Ritchie's gangster film "Snatch"
1999 Again collaborated with David Fincher for "Fight Club," playing the character of Tyler Durden, opposite Edward Norton
1998 Re-teamed with Anthony Hopkins for "Meet Joe Black"
1997 Played an Irish revolutionary opposite Harrison Ford in "The Devil's Own"
1997 Played the main role of Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer in the Jean Jacques Annaud film "Seven Years in Tibet"; film was subject of controversy when it was disclosed that the main character had t
1995 Co-starred with Morgan Freeman as detectives tracking a serial killer (Kevin Spacey) in David Fincher's "Seven"
1995 Portrayed mental patient, Jeffrey Goines in Terry Gilliam's "Twelve Monkeys"; received a Supporting Actor Academy Award nomination
1994 First worked with Anthony Hopkins playing one of his sons in "Legends of the Fall"; received a Best Actor Golden Globe nomination
1994 Co-starred with Tom Cruise in the film adaptation of Anne Rice's novel, "Interview With the Vampire"
1993 Took a dramatic turn as a scruffy serial killer alongside Juliette Lewis and David Duchovny in "Kalifornia"
1993 Played featured role in Tony Scott's "True Romance"
1992 Had major film role in the Robert Redford directed "A River Runs Through It"
1991 Achieved instant sex-symbol status as J.D., a charming hitchhiker who seduces Geena Davis in "Thelma & Louise"
1991 First leading role in a feature, alongside Catherine Keener and Nick Cave in the low budget, Tom DiCillo-directed, "Johnny Suede"
1990 Co-starred with Juliette Lewis in the fact-based NBC TV-movie, "Too Young to Die?"
1989 Feature acting debut, "Cutting Class"
1988 Made TV-movie debut in "A Stoning in Fulham County" (NBC)
1987 Worked as an extra on the film "Less Than Zero" (also had uncredited role)
1987 First TV appearance on the NBC soap opera "Another World"
1987 Primetime TV debut in a guest role in the ABC sitcom "Growing Pains"
1987 Played the boyfriend of Jenna Wade Ewing's daughter in three episodes of the CBS primetime soap "Dallas"
1986 Moved to Los Angeles claiming to his parents that he was attending the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena
Grew up in Springfield, Missouri
Will star in David Fincher's "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (lensed 2006)
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Angelina Jolie's Bio
From Hollywood wild-child to Academy Award winner to respected U.N. Goodwill Ambassador, actress Angelina Jolie underwent a series of metamorphic transformations over the course of her career. An exceedingly beautiful, strikingly talented performer, Jolie broke on to the scene in the mid-1990s, quickly gaining a reputation for both her on-screen work as well as her outrageous off-camera antics. Interestingly enough, however, within a decade, Jolie shed her reckless image and successfully managed to re-invent herself – not only as an artist, but also as a celebrity humanitarian of the highest order....
Full Bio , Awards & Milestones
Filmography
Sin City 2 - ( Ava Lord / 2005 / Announced / )
Atlas Shrugged - ( Dagney Taggart / / Announced / )
Bitten - ( / / Announced / )
Byron - ( / / Announced / )
Deconstruction Red - ( / / Announced / )
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: III - ( Lara Croft / / Announced / )
North of Cheyenne - ( / / Announced / )
The Mercenary - ( Catherine the Great / / Announced / )
The Ruth Etting Story - ( / / Announced / )
Untitled (Columbia Pictures/Angelina Jolie Spy Thriller) - ( - Cast / / Announced / )
Untitled (Paramount Pictures/Angelina Jolie Action Thriller) - ( - Cast / / Announced / )
The Changeling - ( Christine Collins / 2008 / Lensing/Awaiting Release / )
A Place in Time - ( Director / 2007 / Lensing/Awaiting Release / )
The Half Life of Timofey Berezin - ( Executive Producer / 2007 / Lensing/Awaiting Release / )
Confessions of an Action Star - ( - Cast / 2005 / Lensing/Awaiting Release / )
Kung Fu Panda - ( Tigress / 2008 / Released / )
Wanted - ( Fox / 2008 / Released / )
A Mighty Heart - ( Mariane Pearl / 2007 / Released / )
Beowulf - ( Song Performer / 2007 / Released / )
Beowulf - ( Grendel's Mother / 2007 / Released / )
The Good Shepherd - ( Clover Wilson/Margaret Russell / 2006 / Released / )
Mr. & Mrs. Smith - ( Jane Smith / 2005 / Released / Kinowelt Medien AG )
Alexander - ( Olympias / 2004 / Released / )
Shark Tale - ( Voice of Lola / 2004 / Released / DreamWorks Home Entertainment )
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow - ( Franky / 2004 / Released / Paramount Home Entertainment )
Taking Lives - ( Illeana Scott / 2004 / Released / )
Trudell - ( Executive Producer / 2004 / Released / )
Beyond Borders - ( Sarah Jordan / 2003 / Released / )
Beyond Borders - ( Music Performer / 2003 / Released / )
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life - ( Lara Croft / 2003 / Released / )
Life or Something Like It - ( Lanie Kerrigan / 2002 / Released / )
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - ( Lara Croft / 2001 / Released / )
Original Sin - ( Bonny Castle / 2001 / Released / )
Original Sin - ( Julia Russell / 2001 / Released / )
Gone in 60 Seconds - ( Sarah 'Sway' Wayland / 2000 / Released / )
Girl, Interrupted - ( Lisa / 1999 / Released / )
Hell's Kitchen - ( Gloria McNeary / 1999 / Released / )
Playing By Heart - ( Joan / 1999 / Released / )
Pushing Tin - ( Mary Bell / 1999 / Released / )
The Bone Collector - ( Amelia Donaghy / 1999 / Released / )
Mojave Moon - ( Ellie / 1997 / Released / Gaga Entertainment )
Playing God - ( Claire / 1997 / Released / Gaga Entertainment )
Foxfire - ( Legs Sadovsky / 1996 / Released / )
Love Is All There Is - ( Gina / 1996 / Released / )
Without Evidence - ( Jodie Swearingen / 1996 / Released / )
Hackers - ( Kate Libby / 1995 / Released / )
Cyborg II: Glass Shadows - ( Casella "Cash" Reese / 1993 / Released / )
Lookin' to Get Out - ( Tosh--Patti's Daughter / 1982 / Released / )
TV Credits
PU-239 ( 2007 / Released ): Executive Producer
The Fever ( 2007 / Released ): Actor
Barbara Walters Presents The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2006 ( 2006 / Released ): Actor
Think: MTV Diary: Angelina Jolie and Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in Africa ( 2005 / Released ): Actor
Ultimate Super Heroes, Ultimate Super Villains, Ultimate Super Vixens ( 2005 / Released ): Actor
Unscripted ( 2005 / Released ): Actor
The 76th Annual Academy Awards ( 2004 / Released ): Actor
What's Going On? ( 2003 / Released ): Actor
Hollywood Salutes Nicolas Cage: An American Cinematheque Tribute ( 2002 / Released ): Actor
The 58th Annual Golden Globe Awards ( 2001 / Released ): Actor
The 73rd Annual Academy Awards ( 2001 / Released ): Actor
Billy Bob Thornton ( 2000 / Released ): Actor
The 5th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards ( 1999 / Released ): Actor
The AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars ( 1999 / Released ): Actor
Gia ( 1998 / Released ): Actor
George Wallace ( 1997 / Released ): Actor
The 19th Annual CableACE Awards ( 1997 / Released ): Actor
True Women ( 1997 / Released ): Actor
Full Biography (Back to top)
From Hollywood wild-child to Academy Award winner to respected U.N. Goodwill Ambassador, actress Angelina Jolie underwent a series of metamorphic transformations over the course of her career. An exceedingly beautiful, strikingly talented performer, Jolie broke on to the scene in the mid-1990s, quickly gaining a reputation for both her on-screen work as well as her outrageous off-camera antics. Interestingly enough, however, within a decade, Jolie shed her reckless image and successfully managed to re-invent herself – not only as an artist, but also as a celebrity humanitarian of the highest order. Only half-chidingly dubbed by Esquire magazine as “the best woman in the world, in terms of her generosity, her dedication, and her courage,” Jolie seemed intent on remaking her image on her own terms, even as the tabloids struggled to scandalize it. In the mid-2000s, Jolie’s public profile exploded into another stratosphere when she became romantically linked with the sexiest man alive, Brad Pitt – before and after he and his then wife, Jennifer Aniston called it quits. After the scandalous divorce, Pitt and Jolie slowly came out as a couple to the delight of the world’s paparazzi. Now one half of the “most gorgeous couple on earth,” Jolie used her high profile and celebrity to bring attention to a number of worthwhile causes – winning the grudging respect of even the most cynical of her critics.
The daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand, Angelina Jolie (Voight) was born on Jun. 4, 1975 in Los Angeles, CA. Like her older brother by two years, director James Haven (Voight,) Jolie seemed destined for a career in the arts. At the age of 11, she began studying at the famed Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in NYC. Even before commencing her formal training, Jolie made her screen debut as a tyke in a bit part in the Hal Ashby-directed comedy "Lookin' to Get Out" (filmed in 1980; released 1982). While reviewers savaged the movie (which was co-scripted and co-produced by her father, Jon), its littlest thespian fortunately emerged unscathed. The experience briefly turned young Angelina off of show business – she even briefly considered going into funeral directing for a time – but because it was in her blood, she eventually bounced back.
With two extremely photogenic parents, it came as no surprise that Jolie inherited gorgeous good looks – most striking of all were lush lips which made her a standout from all other young girls. Her comeliness allowed her to segue back into show business, first as a professional model, and later, as an actress in music videos. In addition to appearing in five student films directed by her older brother, Jolie became a member of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Theatre Company, where she honed her craft alongside such veteran players as Holly Hunter, Ed Harris and Amy Madigan. Jolie made her return to the screen playing a heroic human-machine hybrid in the above-average direct-to-video sci-fi actioner, "Cyborg II: Glass Shadows" (1993), but the entry went virtually unnoticed by critics. Luckily, her flashy role as Kate (a.k.a. 'Acid Burn') in the cyber-thriller "Hackers" (1995) garnered her more attention and better notices. Paired with rising young British actor Jonny Lee Miller, Jolie played a teen computer whiz battling an evil genius. “Hackers” fizzled at the box office, but the romantic leads sizzled – both on-screen and off. Jolie and Miller’s chemistry eventually culminated in their wedding in 1996. Though the two would divorce just three years later, Jolie and Miller would remain close friends even after their break-up.
More film work readily followed for Jolie, initially in small-scale character-driven indies. In an indifferently received adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' novel "Foxfire" (1996), Jolie played a mysterious outsider named Legs Sadovsky –described in Variety as "sort of a female James Dean" – who helps some other teenaged girls stand up for their rights. In Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna's romantic comedy-drama "Love Is All There Is" (1996), Jolie displayed a humorous and innocent light as half of a pair of star-crossed lovers divided by their families' feud. That same year, the actress appeared in the high-minded suspense drama "Without Evidence,” playing a drug-addicted teen, and "Mojave Moon,” opposite Danny Aiello. Next came "Playing God" (1997), in which Jolie capably essayed a woman torn between her gangster boyfriend (Timothy Hutton) and a discredited doctor (David Duchovny) in his employ. While the films remained largely unseen by most moviegoers, Jolie received strong notices for each of these projects.
Unlike many feature stars, Jolie showed no compunction about working on the small screen. Case in point: during the late 1990s, the actress appeared in a handful of exceptional made-for-TV productions that effectively allowed her to strut her stuff on her own terms. In 1997, Jolie received top notices for her co-starring turn alongside Annabeth Gish and Dana Delaney as Texas pioneers in the 1997 CBS historical miniseries, "True Women." Jolie then brought a fiery passion to her portrayal of Cornelia Wallace, the politician's first wife, in the biographical miniseries "George Wallace" (TNT, 1997). But it was her dazzling turn as another real-life figure – the late supermodel Gia Carangi – that catapulted Jolie into the public consciousness. Jolie’s brave, sensitive performance as the drug-addicted, AIDS-stricken title character in HBO's excellent biopic "Gia" (1998) brought the beauty widespread critical acclaim. For her efforts, Jolie was twice Emmy-nominated in the supporting category for "George Wallace" (which she lost to co-star Mare Winningham) and in the leading category for "Gia" (which she ended up losing to Ellen Barkin). Fortunately, Jolie received more-than-adequate consolation for her Emmy losses by picking up two back-to-back Golden Globe Awards for both performances.
After this spate of acclaimed television appearances, Jolie found her way back into in films, landing roles that similarly showcased her acting strengths. In 1998, Jolie received special notice for her work in the comedy-drama "Playing By Heart" (1998), as Joan, an outgoing club kid smitten with the sullen Keenan (Ryan Phillippe). Vivid and engaging, Jolie easily held her own among an ensemble cast featuring such luminaries as Gena Rowlands and Sean Connery. The following year, the actress joined John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton in Mike Newell's Big Apple-set comedy about air traffic controllers, "Pushing Tin" (1999). Jolie later got her feet wet in the increasingly crowded crime-drama pond playing a tough rookie cop assisting a quadriplegic detective (Denzel Washington) in "The Bone Collector” (1999), a flawed, but well-acted serial-killer thriller directed by Philip Noyce. Jolie finally rounded out the year by landing the much sought-after co-starring role of the disturbed Lisa Rowe in "Girl, Interrupted.” Based on author Susanna Kaysen's best-selling memoir of her own two-year stay in a psychiatric hospital, Jolie’s showy turn as the sociopathic inmate netted Jolie a Best Supporting Actress Oscar.
But public respect would come neither immediately nor easily for Jolie, even after winning Hollywood’s highest honor. Far more interested in her girl-gone-wild ways, the tabloids tended to dismiss her talents in favor of her more unorthodox personal life. Among the gossip fodder were her exotic tattoos, extensive collection of knives and her past “cutting” experiences, her provocative revelations and her intimations of a profoundly edgy sex life. The tabloids also made much hay out of Jolie’s close relationship with her look-alike brother, James Haven – a bond which raised many eyebrows after Jolie planted a passionate kiss on his lips in plain view of drooling paparazzi. It did not help matters when she declared she was “in love with her brother” upon accepting the Oscar. Media saturation would reach a boiling point, however, in mid 2000, when Jolie became the fifth wife of her “Pushing Tin” co-star – the equally eccentric and significantly older actor Billy Bob Thornton. A match made in tabloid heaven, the couple's constant declarations of love and erotic devotion to each other was capped by the wacky revelation that the two wore vials of one another's blood around each other’s necks and had sex in the car on the way to the “Pushing Tin” premiere.
Her off-screen quirks notwithstanding, the actress continued portraying tough young women on the big screen. In the flashy but unfulfilling car heist thriller "Gone in 60 Seconds" (2000), Jolie crackled in scenes even opposite notorious scene-stealing star, Nicolas Cage. Jolie’s next project was as the flesh-and-blood embodiment of the titular adventuress in "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" (2001). Based on the wildly popular “Tomb Raider” video game franchise, Lara Croft launched an Indiana Jones-style adventure series which failed to impress critics, but racked up a healthy box office take. The film also marked Jolie’s first adult collaboration with her father, Jon Voight, who played her character's father in the film. Shortly after their on-screen pairing, however, Voight made a series of disparaging comments regarding his daughter’s mental emotional stability (or lack thereof) to the American entertainment newsmagazine “Access Hollywood” (Synd., 1996-). Outraged by the insult, Jolie immediately responded by painting Voight as a philandering, self-righteous hypocrite who cheated on her mother. The resulting rift between father-and-daughter would last for several years and several on-camera pleas by Voight to give him another chance.
Meanwhile, back on the career front, Jolie – possibly distracted by her tumultuous personal crises – seemed a bit unfocused in her next two features. Starring opposite Antonio Banderas in the dismal noir-wannabe “Original Sin" (2001), Jolie came off less than committed, despite some steamy – and heavily hyped – erotic sequences. Her follow-up, the dramatic vehicle "Life or Something Like It" (2002) – in which she played a superficial, platinum blonde newscaster forced to examine her existence more closely – also died quickly. Jolie subsequently took a significant hiatus from film, but continued to make headlines in her personal life, divorcing Thornton in 2003 amid rumors of his infidelity (which he denied). It was also rumored that Jolie’s recent adoption of a baby boy from a Cambodian orphanage whom she named Maddox, did not help matters. The couple was allegedly at different points in their life and thus, split.
The actress returned to familiar territory for her comeback screen vehicle, the sequel "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life" (2003), a lackluster follow-up to a lackluster first outing. Reflecting their off-screen internecine tensions, Voight, did not reprise his role in this second follow-up. “Cradle of Life” was followed by a turn in the too-righteous political/romantic drama "Beyond Borders" (2003). After this came a dangerous foray into Ashley Judd territory with a starring role in the routine thriller "Taking Lives" (2004), in which Jolie played an FBI profiler caught up in dangerous and erotic intrigue. Signing up for another purely commercial vehicle, the actress adopted another rich accent as she winkingly played the eyepatch-sporting Captain Frankie Cook, the leader of an all-female amphibious attack squadron, in the retro action-adventure "Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow" (2004). Cast opposite Jude Law and fellow Oscar-winner, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jolie joined the CGI-laden action-adventure battling giant robots in an Art Deco, 1930s-era environment. Jolie then lent her voice to the finny femme fatale, Lola, in DreamWorks' CGI-animated underwater underworld opus "A Shark’s Tale" (2004). Finally, Jolie closed out the year with a bizarrely seductive turn as Alexander's mother, Olympias, who raises her son to believe in his impressive destiny, in Oliver Stone's epic historical bomb, "Alexander the Great.”
Jolie's profile as both a movie star and public figure rose to even more epic proportions when she co-starred with the equally lovely actor Brad Pitt in the Doug Liman-helmed actionfest "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" (2005). In it, the actors played a bored married couple who are actually rival assassins, each hired to kill the other. Almost from the get-go, spurious rumors abounded of an on-set romance between Jolie and Pitt – innuendo that contributed to Pitt's subsequent split from his high-profile marriage to actress Jennifer Aniston. Though both Pitt and Jolie initially refuted the rumors – the two later took a coyer stance after being photographed together numerous times post-Aniston separation. The intense media and public interest in their possible romance propelled “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” to huge box office receipts, thanks in large part to their palpable on-screen chemistry. Needless to say, the "are they or aren't they?" nature of the Jolie-Pitt coupling captivated star watchers and quickly became the most written-about celebrity story of 2005 – even prompting the coining of the term "Brangelina."
Taking a page from the playbook of the late Audrey Hepburn, Jolie began using her celebrity status to bring attention to such humanitarian causes as the plight of violence-torn nations. As their relationship gradually emerged in the public eye, Pitt began to accompany Jolie on her missions of mercy to third world nations and grow ever more attached to her son, Maddox. Away from the screen, Jolie expressed a dedication and commitment to increasing awareness and aid to counties devastated by internal and external conflicts, disease and third world conditions. In 2001, after the actress made several trips to the war-torn nations of Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Pakistan, Jolie had been appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. It was during one of these trips that in 2005, she adopted an infant daughter from an Ethiopian orphanage whom she named Zahara. Later that year, surprising the world at large, Pitt petitioned to adopt the two children as his own. A year later, on May 27, 2006, Jolie and Pitt welcomed their biological firstborn child into the world – a daughter named Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt. Clearly serious about starting a family, in March 2007 – Jolie and Pitt made headlines once again by adopting a fourth child – a three-year-old boy from Vietnam whom they named Pax.
Returning to the big screen later that summer, Jolie next starred as Marianne Pearl, the wife of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl, in the gripping drama “A Mighty Heart” (2007). Though Jolie’s casting initially sparked a furor of controversy among minority groups, as Marianne Pearl was of Afro-Cuban/Dutch ancestry, much of the complaints dissipated upon the film’s release. Hailed by many as quite possibly the boldest performance of her career, Jolie’s portrayal of Marianne Pearl was rooted in dignity and reflected a tragic truthfulness free of exploitative sentimentality. Unfortunately, the serious film was released during the summer box office season, rendering it lost amidst all the big-budget special effect movies.
Profession(s):
Actor, model
Sometimes Credited As:
Angelina Jolie
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Family
brother:James Haven (Born c. 1973; studied filmmaking at USC; directed sister in five student films)
daughter:Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt (Born Jan. 8, 2005; adopted July 2005, from an Ethiopian orphanage at six months; mother died of AIDS and father is unknown; legally adopted by Brad Pitt in 2006)
daughter:Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt (Born May 27, 2006 in Namibia; father is Brad Pitt; first pictures of baby Shiloh were sold to People Magazine for a reported sum of $4.1 million)
daughter:Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt (Twin of Knox Leon; born July 12, 2008 in Nice, France; father, Brad Pitt)
father:Jon Voight (Separated from Jolie's mother when Angelina was one-year-old; estranged from father)
husband:Jonny Lee Miller (British; met during filming of "Hackers"; married in March 1996; separated in 1997; divorced in February 1999; rumored to have dated again in 2002 and in 2004)
husband:Billy Bob Thornton (Acted together in "Pushing Tin" (1999); eloped to Las Vegas on May 5, 2000; Jolie has a tattoo on her arm that reads "Billy Bob"; split in June 2002; Jolie filed for divorce on July 17, 2002; divorce finalized in May 2003)
mother:Marcheline Bertrand (Born c. 1950; part-Iroquois; separated from Jolie's father when Angelina was one-year-old; died of cancer in 2007)
son:Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt (Adopted at three years old from a Vietnamese orphanage in 2007; Jolie adopted the boy as a single parent because Vietnam's adoption regulations don't allow unmarried couples to co-adopt; name was legally changed to Jolie-Pitt three months after his adoption)
son:Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt (Adopted at seven months from a Cambodian orphanage in 2002; legally adopted by Brad Pitt in 2006)
son:Knox Leon Jolie-Pitt (Twin of Vivienne Marcheline; born July 12, 2008 in Nice, France; father, Brad Pitt)
Companion(s)
Brad Pitt , Companion , ```..Met while filming "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" (2005); rumored to be romantically involved throughout filming, but this was denied by both parties; began being photographed together as a couple in spring 2005
Colin Farrell , Companion , ```..Rumored to have dated for a brief period during the filming of "Alexander" (2004)
Timothy Hutton , Companion , ```..Dated c. 1998; co-starred together in "Playing God" (1997); Jolie was reportedly tattooed with an "H"; no longer together
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Education
The Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute New York, NY
New York University New York, NY film
Awards (Back to top)
MTV Movie Award Best Fight "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" 2006
People's Choice Award Favorite Female Action Movie Star 2005
Citizen of the World Award 2003
ShoWest Award Supporting Actress 2000
Academy Award Best Supporting Actress "Girl, Interrupted" 1999
Broadcast Film Critics Association Award Best Supporting Actress "Girl, Interrupted" 1999
Golden Globe Award Best Supporting Actress "Girl, Interrupted" 1999
Screen Actors Guild Award Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Theatrical Motion Picture "Girl, Interrupted" 1999
Golden Globe Award Best Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television "Gia" 1998
Golden Satellite Award Best Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television "Gia" 1998
National Board of Review Award Breakthrough Performance "Playing By Heart" 1998
Screen Actors Guild Award Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries "Gia" 1998
Golden Globe Award Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Mini-Series or Made-for-Television Movie "George Wallace" 1997
Milestones (Back to top)
2008 Voiced a Master Tigress in the animated feature, "Kung Fu Panda"
2008 Co-starred as an assassin in the comic book adaptation of "Wanted"
2007 Made directorial debut with the documentary "A Place in Time"
2007 Starred in "A Mighty Heart," as Marianne Pearl, the wife of Wall Street Journal reporter, Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and killed in 2002 while reporting in Pakistan; produced by her partner Brad P
2007 Portrayed Grendel's mother in Robert Zemeckis' big-budget film version of the epic poem "Beowulf"
2006 Played a CIA agent's (Matt Damon) long-suffering wife in Robert De Niro's "The Good Shepherd"
2005 Starred opposite Brad Pitt, as a bored married couple that is surprised to learn that they are assassins hired to kill each other in "Mr. and Mrs. Smith"
2005 Appeared in the MTV special "The Diary of Angelina Jolie & Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in Africa," which will follow their trip to Sauri, a remote group of villages in western Kenya
2004 Starred as Special Agent Illeana Scott in the thriller "Taking Lives" also starred Ethan Hawke and Kiefer Sutherland
2004 Portrayed Captain Franky Cook in the Sci-fi thriller "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" opposite Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow
2004 Voiced Lola in the animated feature "Shark Tale "
2004 Co-starred with Colin Farrell in Oliver Stone's "Alexander" playing Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great
2003 Reprised her role as Lara Croft for "Lara Croft and the Cradle of Life: Tomb Raider 2"
2003 Starred opposite Clive Owen in "Beyond Borders"
2002 Portrayed a TV reporter forced to question her choices in "Life or Something Like It"
2002 Appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
2001 Achieved international fame playing the videogame heroine Lara Croft in "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider"
2001 Starred opposite Antonio Banderas in "Original Sin"
2000 Acted opposite Nicolas Cage in "Gone in 60 Seconds"
1999 Portrayed the wife of an air traffic controller (Billy Bob Thornton) in Mike Newell's "Pushing Tin"
1999 Cast as a tough detective assisting a quadriplegic colleague (Denzel Washington) in tracking a serial killer in "The Bone Collector"
1999 Won an Academy Award for her supporting role in "Girl, Interrupted" a drama based on the memoirs of a woman's two-year stay in a psychiatric hospital
1998 Earned raves reviews for her performance as Gia Carangi, a drug addicted, bisexual model who died of complications from AIDS, in the HBO film "Gia"; received an Emmy nomination for Best Actress
1998 Had supporting role as a club kid in the ensemble comedy-drama "Playing By Heart"
1997 Portrayed the politician's first wife Cornelia Wallace in the TNT miniseries "George Wallace"; received an Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actress
1996 Starred in the feature "Foxfire"
1995 First lead in a theatrical release, "Hackers"; co-starred with future husband, British actor Jonny Lee Miller
1993 Co-starred in the direct-to-video sci-fi film "Cyborg II: Glass Shadows"
1986 At age 11, began studying acting at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in NYC
1980 Feature debut in Hal Ashby's "Lookin' to Get Out"; co-produced and co-written by her father; credited as Angelina Jolie Voight (released in 1982)
1976 Moved to Palisades, New York with mother and brother
Made stage debut playing a German dominatrix in "Room Service"
Reportedly planned to become a funeral director
Worked briefly as a professional model
Appeared in music videos by Meat Loaf, The Lemonheads, Rolling Stones and others
Acted in five student films directed by her brother, James Haven Voight
As part of the Met Theater group in Los Angeles, worked with such veteran actors as Holly Hunter, Ed Harris and Amy Madigan
Full Bio , Awards & Milestones
Filmography
Sin City 2 - ( Ava Lord / 2005 / Announced / )
Atlas Shrugged - ( Dagney Taggart / / Announced / )
Bitten - ( / / Announced / )
Byron - ( / / Announced / )
Deconstruction Red - ( / / Announced / )
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: III - ( Lara Croft / / Announced / )
North of Cheyenne - ( / / Announced / )
The Mercenary - ( Catherine the Great / / Announced / )
The Ruth Etting Story - ( / / Announced / )
Untitled (Columbia Pictures/Angelina Jolie Spy Thriller) - ( - Cast / / Announced / )
Untitled (Paramount Pictures/Angelina Jolie Action Thriller) - ( - Cast / / Announced / )
The Changeling - ( Christine Collins / 2008 / Lensing/Awaiting Release / )
A Place in Time - ( Director / 2007 / Lensing/Awaiting Release / )
The Half Life of Timofey Berezin - ( Executive Producer / 2007 / Lensing/Awaiting Release / )
Confessions of an Action Star - ( - Cast / 2005 / Lensing/Awaiting Release / )
Kung Fu Panda - ( Tigress / 2008 / Released / )
Wanted - ( Fox / 2008 / Released / )
A Mighty Heart - ( Mariane Pearl / 2007 / Released / )
Beowulf - ( Song Performer / 2007 / Released / )
Beowulf - ( Grendel's Mother / 2007 / Released / )
The Good Shepherd - ( Clover Wilson/Margaret Russell / 2006 / Released / )
Mr. & Mrs. Smith - ( Jane Smith / 2005 / Released / Kinowelt Medien AG )
Alexander - ( Olympias / 2004 / Released / )
Shark Tale - ( Voice of Lola / 2004 / Released / DreamWorks Home Entertainment )
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow - ( Franky / 2004 / Released / Paramount Home Entertainment )
Taking Lives - ( Illeana Scott / 2004 / Released / )
Trudell - ( Executive Producer / 2004 / Released / )
Beyond Borders - ( Sarah Jordan / 2003 / Released / )
Beyond Borders - ( Music Performer / 2003 / Released / )
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life - ( Lara Croft / 2003 / Released / )
Life or Something Like It - ( Lanie Kerrigan / 2002 / Released / )
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - ( Lara Croft / 2001 / Released / )
Original Sin - ( Bonny Castle / 2001 / Released / )
Original Sin - ( Julia Russell / 2001 / Released / )
Gone in 60 Seconds - ( Sarah 'Sway' Wayland / 2000 / Released / )
Girl, Interrupted - ( Lisa / 1999 / Released / )
Hell's Kitchen - ( Gloria McNeary / 1999 / Released / )
Playing By Heart - ( Joan / 1999 / Released / )
Pushing Tin - ( Mary Bell / 1999 / Released / )
The Bone Collector - ( Amelia Donaghy / 1999 / Released / )
Mojave Moon - ( Ellie / 1997 / Released / Gaga Entertainment )
Playing God - ( Claire / 1997 / Released / Gaga Entertainment )
Foxfire - ( Legs Sadovsky / 1996 / Released / )
Love Is All There Is - ( Gina / 1996 / Released / )
Without Evidence - ( Jodie Swearingen / 1996 / Released / )
Hackers - ( Kate Libby / 1995 / Released / )
Cyborg II: Glass Shadows - ( Casella "Cash" Reese / 1993 / Released / )
Lookin' to Get Out - ( Tosh--Patti's Daughter / 1982 / Released / )
TV Credits
PU-239 ( 2007 / Released ): Executive Producer
The Fever ( 2007 / Released ): Actor
Barbara Walters Presents The 10 Most Fascinating People of 2006 ( 2006 / Released ): Actor
Think: MTV Diary: Angelina Jolie and Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in Africa ( 2005 / Released ): Actor
Ultimate Super Heroes, Ultimate Super Villains, Ultimate Super Vixens ( 2005 / Released ): Actor
Unscripted ( 2005 / Released ): Actor
The 76th Annual Academy Awards ( 2004 / Released ): Actor
What's Going On? ( 2003 / Released ): Actor
Hollywood Salutes Nicolas Cage: An American Cinematheque Tribute ( 2002 / Released ): Actor
The 58th Annual Golden Globe Awards ( 2001 / Released ): Actor
The 73rd Annual Academy Awards ( 2001 / Released ): Actor
Billy Bob Thornton ( 2000 / Released ): Actor
The 5th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards ( 1999 / Released ): Actor
The AFI's 100 Years... 100 Stars ( 1999 / Released ): Actor
Gia ( 1998 / Released ): Actor
George Wallace ( 1997 / Released ): Actor
The 19th Annual CableACE Awards ( 1997 / Released ): Actor
True Women ( 1997 / Released ): Actor
Full Biography (Back to top)
From Hollywood wild-child to Academy Award winner to respected U.N. Goodwill Ambassador, actress Angelina Jolie underwent a series of metamorphic transformations over the course of her career. An exceedingly beautiful, strikingly talented performer, Jolie broke on to the scene in the mid-1990s, quickly gaining a reputation for both her on-screen work as well as her outrageous off-camera antics. Interestingly enough, however, within a decade, Jolie shed her reckless image and successfully managed to re-invent herself – not only as an artist, but also as a celebrity humanitarian of the highest order. Only half-chidingly dubbed by Esquire magazine as “the best woman in the world, in terms of her generosity, her dedication, and her courage,” Jolie seemed intent on remaking her image on her own terms, even as the tabloids struggled to scandalize it. In the mid-2000s, Jolie’s public profile exploded into another stratosphere when she became romantically linked with the sexiest man alive, Brad Pitt – before and after he and his then wife, Jennifer Aniston called it quits. After the scandalous divorce, Pitt and Jolie slowly came out as a couple to the delight of the world’s paparazzi. Now one half of the “most gorgeous couple on earth,” Jolie used her high profile and celebrity to bring attention to a number of worthwhile causes – winning the grudging respect of even the most cynical of her critics.
The daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand, Angelina Jolie (Voight) was born on Jun. 4, 1975 in Los Angeles, CA. Like her older brother by two years, director James Haven (Voight,) Jolie seemed destined for a career in the arts. At the age of 11, she began studying at the famed Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in NYC. Even before commencing her formal training, Jolie made her screen debut as a tyke in a bit part in the Hal Ashby-directed comedy "Lookin' to Get Out" (filmed in 1980; released 1982). While reviewers savaged the movie (which was co-scripted and co-produced by her father, Jon), its littlest thespian fortunately emerged unscathed. The experience briefly turned young Angelina off of show business – she even briefly considered going into funeral directing for a time – but because it was in her blood, she eventually bounced back.
With two extremely photogenic parents, it came as no surprise that Jolie inherited gorgeous good looks – most striking of all were lush lips which made her a standout from all other young girls. Her comeliness allowed her to segue back into show business, first as a professional model, and later, as an actress in music videos. In addition to appearing in five student films directed by her older brother, Jolie became a member of the Los Angeles Metropolitan Theatre Company, where she honed her craft alongside such veteran players as Holly Hunter, Ed Harris and Amy Madigan. Jolie made her return to the screen playing a heroic human-machine hybrid in the above-average direct-to-video sci-fi actioner, "Cyborg II: Glass Shadows" (1993), but the entry went virtually unnoticed by critics. Luckily, her flashy role as Kate (a.k.a. 'Acid Burn') in the cyber-thriller "Hackers" (1995) garnered her more attention and better notices. Paired with rising young British actor Jonny Lee Miller, Jolie played a teen computer whiz battling an evil genius. “Hackers” fizzled at the box office, but the romantic leads sizzled – both on-screen and off. Jolie and Miller’s chemistry eventually culminated in their wedding in 1996. Though the two would divorce just three years later, Jolie and Miller would remain close friends even after their break-up.
More film work readily followed for Jolie, initially in small-scale character-driven indies. In an indifferently received adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates' novel "Foxfire" (1996), Jolie played a mysterious outsider named Legs Sadovsky –described in Variety as "sort of a female James Dean" – who helps some other teenaged girls stand up for their rights. In Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna's romantic comedy-drama "Love Is All There Is" (1996), Jolie displayed a humorous and innocent light as half of a pair of star-crossed lovers divided by their families' feud. That same year, the actress appeared in the high-minded suspense drama "Without Evidence,” playing a drug-addicted teen, and "Mojave Moon,” opposite Danny Aiello. Next came "Playing God" (1997), in which Jolie capably essayed a woman torn between her gangster boyfriend (Timothy Hutton) and a discredited doctor (David Duchovny) in his employ. While the films remained largely unseen by most moviegoers, Jolie received strong notices for each of these projects.
Unlike many feature stars, Jolie showed no compunction about working on the small screen. Case in point: during the late 1990s, the actress appeared in a handful of exceptional made-for-TV productions that effectively allowed her to strut her stuff on her own terms. In 1997, Jolie received top notices for her co-starring turn alongside Annabeth Gish and Dana Delaney as Texas pioneers in the 1997 CBS historical miniseries, "True Women." Jolie then brought a fiery passion to her portrayal of Cornelia Wallace, the politician's first wife, in the biographical miniseries "George Wallace" (TNT, 1997). But it was her dazzling turn as another real-life figure – the late supermodel Gia Carangi – that catapulted Jolie into the public consciousness. Jolie’s brave, sensitive performance as the drug-addicted, AIDS-stricken title character in HBO's excellent biopic "Gia" (1998) brought the beauty widespread critical acclaim. For her efforts, Jolie was twice Emmy-nominated in the supporting category for "George Wallace" (which she lost to co-star Mare Winningham) and in the leading category for "Gia" (which she ended up losing to Ellen Barkin). Fortunately, Jolie received more-than-adequate consolation for her Emmy losses by picking up two back-to-back Golden Globe Awards for both performances.
After this spate of acclaimed television appearances, Jolie found her way back into in films, landing roles that similarly showcased her acting strengths. In 1998, Jolie received special notice for her work in the comedy-drama "Playing By Heart" (1998), as Joan, an outgoing club kid smitten with the sullen Keenan (Ryan Phillippe). Vivid and engaging, Jolie easily held her own among an ensemble cast featuring such luminaries as Gena Rowlands and Sean Connery. The following year, the actress joined John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton in Mike Newell's Big Apple-set comedy about air traffic controllers, "Pushing Tin" (1999). Jolie later got her feet wet in the increasingly crowded crime-drama pond playing a tough rookie cop assisting a quadriplegic detective (Denzel Washington) in "The Bone Collector” (1999), a flawed, but well-acted serial-killer thriller directed by Philip Noyce. Jolie finally rounded out the year by landing the much sought-after co-starring role of the disturbed Lisa Rowe in "Girl, Interrupted.” Based on author Susanna Kaysen's best-selling memoir of her own two-year stay in a psychiatric hospital, Jolie’s showy turn as the sociopathic inmate netted Jolie a Best Supporting Actress Oscar.
But public respect would come neither immediately nor easily for Jolie, even after winning Hollywood’s highest honor. Far more interested in her girl-gone-wild ways, the tabloids tended to dismiss her talents in favor of her more unorthodox personal life. Among the gossip fodder were her exotic tattoos, extensive collection of knives and her past “cutting” experiences, her provocative revelations and her intimations of a profoundly edgy sex life. The tabloids also made much hay out of Jolie’s close relationship with her look-alike brother, James Haven – a bond which raised many eyebrows after Jolie planted a passionate kiss on his lips in plain view of drooling paparazzi. It did not help matters when she declared she was “in love with her brother” upon accepting the Oscar. Media saturation would reach a boiling point, however, in mid 2000, when Jolie became the fifth wife of her “Pushing Tin” co-star – the equally eccentric and significantly older actor Billy Bob Thornton. A match made in tabloid heaven, the couple's constant declarations of love and erotic devotion to each other was capped by the wacky revelation that the two wore vials of one another's blood around each other’s necks and had sex in the car on the way to the “Pushing Tin” premiere.
Her off-screen quirks notwithstanding, the actress continued portraying tough young women on the big screen. In the flashy but unfulfilling car heist thriller "Gone in 60 Seconds" (2000), Jolie crackled in scenes even opposite notorious scene-stealing star, Nicolas Cage. Jolie’s next project was as the flesh-and-blood embodiment of the titular adventuress in "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" (2001). Based on the wildly popular “Tomb Raider” video game franchise, Lara Croft launched an Indiana Jones-style adventure series which failed to impress critics, but racked up a healthy box office take. The film also marked Jolie’s first adult collaboration with her father, Jon Voight, who played her character's father in the film. Shortly after their on-screen pairing, however, Voight made a series of disparaging comments regarding his daughter’s mental emotional stability (or lack thereof) to the American entertainment newsmagazine “Access Hollywood” (Synd., 1996-). Outraged by the insult, Jolie immediately responded by painting Voight as a philandering, self-righteous hypocrite who cheated on her mother. The resulting rift between father-and-daughter would last for several years and several on-camera pleas by Voight to give him another chance.
Meanwhile, back on the career front, Jolie – possibly distracted by her tumultuous personal crises – seemed a bit unfocused in her next two features. Starring opposite Antonio Banderas in the dismal noir-wannabe “Original Sin" (2001), Jolie came off less than committed, despite some steamy – and heavily hyped – erotic sequences. Her follow-up, the dramatic vehicle "Life or Something Like It" (2002) – in which she played a superficial, platinum blonde newscaster forced to examine her existence more closely – also died quickly. Jolie subsequently took a significant hiatus from film, but continued to make headlines in her personal life, divorcing Thornton in 2003 amid rumors of his infidelity (which he denied). It was also rumored that Jolie’s recent adoption of a baby boy from a Cambodian orphanage whom she named Maddox, did not help matters. The couple was allegedly at different points in their life and thus, split.
The actress returned to familiar territory for her comeback screen vehicle, the sequel "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life" (2003), a lackluster follow-up to a lackluster first outing. Reflecting their off-screen internecine tensions, Voight, did not reprise his role in this second follow-up. “Cradle of Life” was followed by a turn in the too-righteous political/romantic drama "Beyond Borders" (2003). After this came a dangerous foray into Ashley Judd territory with a starring role in the routine thriller "Taking Lives" (2004), in which Jolie played an FBI profiler caught up in dangerous and erotic intrigue. Signing up for another purely commercial vehicle, the actress adopted another rich accent as she winkingly played the eyepatch-sporting Captain Frankie Cook, the leader of an all-female amphibious attack squadron, in the retro action-adventure "Sky Captain & the World of Tomorrow" (2004). Cast opposite Jude Law and fellow Oscar-winner, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jolie joined the CGI-laden action-adventure battling giant robots in an Art Deco, 1930s-era environment. Jolie then lent her voice to the finny femme fatale, Lola, in DreamWorks' CGI-animated underwater underworld opus "A Shark’s Tale" (2004). Finally, Jolie closed out the year with a bizarrely seductive turn as Alexander's mother, Olympias, who raises her son to believe in his impressive destiny, in Oliver Stone's epic historical bomb, "Alexander the Great.”
Jolie's profile as both a movie star and public figure rose to even more epic proportions when she co-starred with the equally lovely actor Brad Pitt in the Doug Liman-helmed actionfest "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" (2005). In it, the actors played a bored married couple who are actually rival assassins, each hired to kill the other. Almost from the get-go, spurious rumors abounded of an on-set romance between Jolie and Pitt – innuendo that contributed to Pitt's subsequent split from his high-profile marriage to actress Jennifer Aniston. Though both Pitt and Jolie initially refuted the rumors – the two later took a coyer stance after being photographed together numerous times post-Aniston separation. The intense media and public interest in their possible romance propelled “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” to huge box office receipts, thanks in large part to their palpable on-screen chemistry. Needless to say, the "are they or aren't they?" nature of the Jolie-Pitt coupling captivated star watchers and quickly became the most written-about celebrity story of 2005 – even prompting the coining of the term "Brangelina."
Taking a page from the playbook of the late Audrey Hepburn, Jolie began using her celebrity status to bring attention to such humanitarian causes as the plight of violence-torn nations. As their relationship gradually emerged in the public eye, Pitt began to accompany Jolie on her missions of mercy to third world nations and grow ever more attached to her son, Maddox. Away from the screen, Jolie expressed a dedication and commitment to increasing awareness and aid to counties devastated by internal and external conflicts, disease and third world conditions. In 2001, after the actress made several trips to the war-torn nations of Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Pakistan, Jolie had been appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. It was during one of these trips that in 2005, she adopted an infant daughter from an Ethiopian orphanage whom she named Zahara. Later that year, surprising the world at large, Pitt petitioned to adopt the two children as his own. A year later, on May 27, 2006, Jolie and Pitt welcomed their biological firstborn child into the world – a daughter named Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt. Clearly serious about starting a family, in March 2007 – Jolie and Pitt made headlines once again by adopting a fourth child – a three-year-old boy from Vietnam whom they named Pax.
Returning to the big screen later that summer, Jolie next starred as Marianne Pearl, the wife of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl, in the gripping drama “A Mighty Heart” (2007). Though Jolie’s casting initially sparked a furor of controversy among minority groups, as Marianne Pearl was of Afro-Cuban/Dutch ancestry, much of the complaints dissipated upon the film’s release. Hailed by many as quite possibly the boldest performance of her career, Jolie’s portrayal of Marianne Pearl was rooted in dignity and reflected a tragic truthfulness free of exploitative sentimentality. Unfortunately, the serious film was released during the summer box office season, rendering it lost amidst all the big-budget special effect movies.
Profession(s):
Actor, model
Sometimes Credited As:
Angelina Jolie
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Family
brother:James Haven (Born c. 1973; studied filmmaking at USC; directed sister in five student films)
daughter:Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt (Born Jan. 8, 2005; adopted July 2005, from an Ethiopian orphanage at six months; mother died of AIDS and father is unknown; legally adopted by Brad Pitt in 2006)
daughter:Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt (Born May 27, 2006 in Namibia; father is Brad Pitt; first pictures of baby Shiloh were sold to People Magazine for a reported sum of $4.1 million)
daughter:Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt (Twin of Knox Leon; born July 12, 2008 in Nice, France; father, Brad Pitt)
father:Jon Voight (Separated from Jolie's mother when Angelina was one-year-old; estranged from father)
husband:Jonny Lee Miller (British; met during filming of "Hackers"; married in March 1996; separated in 1997; divorced in February 1999; rumored to have dated again in 2002 and in 2004)
husband:Billy Bob Thornton (Acted together in "Pushing Tin" (1999); eloped to Las Vegas on May 5, 2000; Jolie has a tattoo on her arm that reads "Billy Bob"; split in June 2002; Jolie filed for divorce on July 17, 2002; divorce finalized in May 2003)
mother:Marcheline Bertrand (Born c. 1950; part-Iroquois; separated from Jolie's father when Angelina was one-year-old; died of cancer in 2007)
son:Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt (Adopted at three years old from a Vietnamese orphanage in 2007; Jolie adopted the boy as a single parent because Vietnam's adoption regulations don't allow unmarried couples to co-adopt; name was legally changed to Jolie-Pitt three months after his adoption)
son:Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt (Adopted at seven months from a Cambodian orphanage in 2002; legally adopted by Brad Pitt in 2006)
son:Knox Leon Jolie-Pitt (Twin of Vivienne Marcheline; born July 12, 2008 in Nice, France; father, Brad Pitt)
Companion(s)
Brad Pitt , Companion , ```..Met while filming "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" (2005); rumored to be romantically involved throughout filming, but this was denied by both parties; began being photographed together as a couple in spring 2005
Colin Farrell , Companion , ```..Rumored to have dated for a brief period during the filming of "Alexander" (2004)
Timothy Hutton , Companion , ```..Dated c. 1998; co-starred together in "Playing God" (1997); Jolie was reportedly tattooed with an "H"; no longer together
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Education
The Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute New York, NY
New York University New York, NY film
Awards (Back to top)
MTV Movie Award Best Fight "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" 2006
People's Choice Award Favorite Female Action Movie Star 2005
Citizen of the World Award 2003
ShoWest Award Supporting Actress 2000
Academy Award Best Supporting Actress "Girl, Interrupted" 1999
Broadcast Film Critics Association Award Best Supporting Actress "Girl, Interrupted" 1999
Golden Globe Award Best Supporting Actress "Girl, Interrupted" 1999
Screen Actors Guild Award Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Theatrical Motion Picture "Girl, Interrupted" 1999
Golden Globe Award Best Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television "Gia" 1998
Golden Satellite Award Best Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television "Gia" 1998
National Board of Review Award Breakthrough Performance "Playing By Heart" 1998
Screen Actors Guild Award Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries "Gia" 1998
Golden Globe Award Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Mini-Series or Made-for-Television Movie "George Wallace" 1997
Milestones (Back to top)
2008 Voiced a Master Tigress in the animated feature, "Kung Fu Panda"
2008 Co-starred as an assassin in the comic book adaptation of "Wanted"
2007 Made directorial debut with the documentary "A Place in Time"
2007 Starred in "A Mighty Heart," as Marianne Pearl, the wife of Wall Street Journal reporter, Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and killed in 2002 while reporting in Pakistan; produced by her partner Brad P
2007 Portrayed Grendel's mother in Robert Zemeckis' big-budget film version of the epic poem "Beowulf"
2006 Played a CIA agent's (Matt Damon) long-suffering wife in Robert De Niro's "The Good Shepherd"
2005 Starred opposite Brad Pitt, as a bored married couple that is surprised to learn that they are assassins hired to kill each other in "Mr. and Mrs. Smith"
2005 Appeared in the MTV special "The Diary of Angelina Jolie & Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in Africa," which will follow their trip to Sauri, a remote group of villages in western Kenya
2004 Starred as Special Agent Illeana Scott in the thriller "Taking Lives" also starred Ethan Hawke and Kiefer Sutherland
2004 Portrayed Captain Franky Cook in the Sci-fi thriller "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" opposite Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow
2004 Voiced Lola in the animated feature "Shark Tale "
2004 Co-starred with Colin Farrell in Oliver Stone's "Alexander" playing Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great
2003 Reprised her role as Lara Croft for "Lara Croft and the Cradle of Life: Tomb Raider 2"
2003 Starred opposite Clive Owen in "Beyond Borders"
2002 Portrayed a TV reporter forced to question her choices in "Life or Something Like It"
2002 Appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
2001 Achieved international fame playing the videogame heroine Lara Croft in "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider"
2001 Starred opposite Antonio Banderas in "Original Sin"
2000 Acted opposite Nicolas Cage in "Gone in 60 Seconds"
1999 Portrayed the wife of an air traffic controller (Billy Bob Thornton) in Mike Newell's "Pushing Tin"
1999 Cast as a tough detective assisting a quadriplegic colleague (Denzel Washington) in tracking a serial killer in "The Bone Collector"
1999 Won an Academy Award for her supporting role in "Girl, Interrupted" a drama based on the memoirs of a woman's two-year stay in a psychiatric hospital
1998 Earned raves reviews for her performance as Gia Carangi, a drug addicted, bisexual model who died of complications from AIDS, in the HBO film "Gia"; received an Emmy nomination for Best Actress
1998 Had supporting role as a club kid in the ensemble comedy-drama "Playing By Heart"
1997 Portrayed the politician's first wife Cornelia Wallace in the TNT miniseries "George Wallace"; received an Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actress
1996 Starred in the feature "Foxfire"
1995 First lead in a theatrical release, "Hackers"; co-starred with future husband, British actor Jonny Lee Miller
1993 Co-starred in the direct-to-video sci-fi film "Cyborg II: Glass Shadows"
1986 At age 11, began studying acting at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in NYC
1980 Feature debut in Hal Ashby's "Lookin' to Get Out"; co-produced and co-written by her father; credited as Angelina Jolie Voight (released in 1982)
1976 Moved to Palisades, New York with mother and brother
Made stage debut playing a German dominatrix in "Room Service"
Reportedly planned to become a funeral director
Worked briefly as a professional model
Appeared in music videos by Meat Loaf, The Lemonheads, Rolling Stones and others
Acted in five student films directed by her brother, James Haven Voight
As part of the Met Theater group in Los Angeles, worked with such veteran actors as Holly Hunter, Ed Harris and Amy Madigan
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