Angelina Jolie is an American actress She has received an Academy Award two Screen Actors Guild Awards and three Golden Globe Awards Jolie has promoted humanitarian causes throughout the world and is noted for her work with refugees as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees UNHCR She has been cited as one of the worlds most beautiful women and her offscreen life is widely reported Though she made her screen debut as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in the 1982 film Lookin to Get Out Jolies acting career began in earnest a decade later with the lowbudget production Cyborg 2 1993 Her first leading role in a major film was in Hackers 1995 She starred in the critically acclaimed biographical films George Wallace 1997 and Gia 1998 and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama Girl Interrupted 1999 Jolie achieved wider fame after her portrayal of video game heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft Tomb Raider 2001 and since then has established herself as one of the bestknown and highestpaid actresses in Hollywood She has had her biggest commercial successes with the actioncomedy Mr Mrs Smith 2005 and the animated film Kung Fu Panda 2008 Divorced from actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton Jolie currently lives with actor Brad Pitt in a relationship that has attracted worldwide media attention Jolie and Pitt have three adopted children Maddox Pax and Zahara as well as three biological children Shiloh Knox and Vivienne
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