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Angelina Jolie biography
Angelina Jolie was born in Los Angeles in 1975. Her father, the brilliant actor Jon Voight, seperated from Jolie's mother when Angelina was two years old. Angelina, her brother and mother, moved to New York where they regularly moved from one apartment to the other. She was trained in acting from an early age, which was pushed by both of her parents. In fact, both Angelina and her brother were given middle names that could function as last names in case they wanted to drop Voight from the prospective stage names. When she was 11, she moved back to Los Angeles, and got a slight taste for the Hollywood life by attending award shows with her father. She has done a number of smaller projects including HACKERS (where she met her ex-husband Johnny Lee Miller whom she wed at age 20), FOXFIRE, and CYBORG II. However, it was the made for TV movie GEORGE WALLACE (in which she won a Golden Golbe for Best Supporting Actress) that began to snag people's attention. She followed up the award with another Golden Globe award, this time for Best Actress in the made for television film GIA. She has since held her own impressively in PUSHING TIN alongside Cate Blanchett, Billy Bob Thornton and John Cusack. Jolie has carved a niche for herself in Hollywood. Given the abundance of tattoos she wears and her affinity for playing with knives, she has a reputation for being dark. This is often one of her detractions. Jolie is sometimes dismissed as a one dimensional actress. However, this couldn't be more wrong as she is receiving roles that would never have made it to the screen before, due to their complexity. Jolie combines grace, strength and a sense of inner fragility along with her physical beauty to offer an acting package that few people in Hollywood can match. It is because of this diversity that virtually assures that we are now witnessing just the beginning of an incredible career.
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