Angelina Jolie

Because she is left-handed, Angelina Jolie had to have specially made guns for Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) so she could reload them easily.

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Jolie performed her own stunts on Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), which resulted in cuts to the chandelier scene. While bungee jumping at home she also set her silk pajamas on fire on the chandelier. She was taken to hospital with minor burns but filming continued the next day.

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After giving birth to her daughter Shiloh in 2006, she sold the first photographs of her newborn baby for $4,100,000 and later donated the proceeds to charities.

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On 14 May 2013, Jolie wrote an Op/Ed piece titled "My Medical Choice" published in The New York Times, in which she revealed that she had undergone a double mastectomy and breast reconstruction because she carries the "faulty" BRCA1 gene. Her doctors told her that this gene and her family history of breast cancer (including her mother's death at 56) made her chances of developing breast cancer much higher (the medical estimate was an 87% risk of developing breast cancer), so she chose to have the surgery as a preventive measure.

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By signing on to Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) for that amount, she became the third actress to join the coveted $20 Million Club, after Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz.

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She was made an official Cambodian citizen by the King in recognition of her ongoing efforts to help the environment there.

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She collects knives and is interested in mortuary science.

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She gave her Academy Award, Golden Globe Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards and Critics' Choice Award to her mother. She felt she did not need to hold on to awards.

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She began modelling at the age of 14 and dreamed of becoming a funeral director as a child.

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She has coordinate tattoos representing the country where each of her children was born, covering up the Billy Bob Thornton tattoo (she even has the France coordinates tattooed twice on her arm, one for Knox and one for Viv).

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She was appointed an Honorary Dame Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 2014 Queen's Birthday Honours for her services to UK foreign policy and to the campaign to end sexual violence in conflict zones.

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In their multilingual home her children speak French, and according to Angelina they each have their own languages. Shiloh is learning Khmer, Pax is learning Vietnamese, Maddox is learning German and Russian, Zahara is focusing on French, Vivienne is learning Arabic and Knox is learning American Sign Language.

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When she finished filming The Good Shepherd (2006) she was six months pregnant with her daughter Shiloh, and when she finished filming Changeling (2008) she was two months pregnant with the twins Knox and Vivienne.

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She was named after costume designer Angela Alexander, who designed the costumes for The All-American Boy (1973), in which her father Jon Voight starred. Jon and Angela became good friends on set, and he was fascinated when she told him that her original Greek name was "Angeliki", which means "Angelic Messenger of God" in Greek. During filming, Jon Voight came up to Angela on set and told her that if he and his wife (then actress Marcheline Bertrand) ever had a daughter, he would name her "Angelica". At the time they had only a son; Jolie was born two years later. Although he initially named her Angelica, he began calling her "Angelina" a year after divorcing Marcheline.

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Her godfather Maximilian Schell always gave her a doll as a birthday present from her first birthday until her sixteenth. Sometimes it was a modern doll made of plastic, and sometimes an old and valuable doll made of wood or porcelain.

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She is the mother of six children with her former husband Brad Pitt. Their three eldest children were adopted: sons Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt (b. 5 August 2001, adopted by Jolie on 10 March 2002 and by Pitt in early 2006) and Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt (b. 29 November 2003, adopted by Jolie on 15 March 2007 and by Pitt on 21 February 2008), and daughter Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt (b. 8 January 2005, adopted by Jolie on 6 July 2005 and by Pitt in early 2006). Their three youngest children are biological: daughter Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt (b. 27 May 2006) and the twins, son Knox Léon Jolie-Pitt and daughter Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt (b. 12 July 2008).

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In an interview about Changeling (2008), Angie explained that although her mother's name was Marcheline, everyone called her "Marshmallow" because she was such a gentle person.

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She has owned many pet reptiles, including two snakes, so she had no trouble at all when filming the snake scene in Alexander (2004).

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She holds a Private Pilot Certificate with aeroplane, single-engine and land ratings. This means she is licensed to fly any single-engine land-based aircraft (that is, not a seaplane) under visual flight rules only, since she does not yet have an instrument rating and therefore cannot fly in conditions requiring instruments.

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Angelina Jolie earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 1993.

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Angelina Jolie returned to work four months after giving birth to her daughter Shiloh to begin filming A Mighty Heart (2007), and then returned to work eight months after the birth of her twins Knox and Vivienne to begin filming Salt (2010).

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Angelina Jolie is a natural blonde and dyes her hair dark.

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Angelina Jolie is of German and Slovak descent on her father's side. Her mother was roughly half French-Canadian, one quarter Dutch and one quarter Polish. Jolie also has a distant Huron ancestor; her mother's eight-times-great-grandmother Catherine Anenontha was born around 1649 in Ancienne-Lorette, Quebec. Jolie's paternal grandparents were Barbara Agnes Kamp and Elmer Samuel Vojtka, later Elmer Voight, both from New York, and her maternal grandparents were Rolland Francis Bertrand and Lois June Gouwens, both from Illinois.

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Angelina Jolie is the goddaughter of actress Jacqueline Bisset.

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After visits to Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Pakistan, Angelina Jolie was appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva, Switzerland.

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Angelina Jolie and her older brother, to whom she is very close, spoke publicly to deny unfounded rumors that the two had an incestuous relationship.

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As a Goodwill Ambassador, Angelina Jolie visited the Tham Hin refugee camp in Thailand to check on the conditions of 9,000 refugees who had come from the Myanmar border.

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Angelina Jolie has visited more than 20 countries since becoming a Goodwill Ambassador in 2001.

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When Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton first married, the couple moved into a house in Beverly Hills that had previously belonged to former Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash.

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Angelina Jolie was married to Jonny Lee Miller, and wore black leather pants and a white blouse. On the back of the white blouse she wrote her husband's name in her own blood.

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Angelina Jolie had her ovaries removed to prevent the ovarian cancer seen in her family.

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Angelina Jolie is friends with Salma Hayek, Gwen Stefani, Ellen Pompeo and Priyanka Chopra Jonas.

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Angelina Jolie gave birth to all of her biological children by planned cesarean section.

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In 2003, Angelina Jolie became the first person to receive the World Citizen Award, given by the United Nations Correspondents Association, for her work as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNHCR.

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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt married in California on August 14, 2014, and in southern France on August 23, 2014. On September 19, 2016, she filed for divorce from Brad Pitt, citing irreconcilable differences.

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Angelina Jolie is the daughter of Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. She is the niece of Chip Taylor.

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Angelina Jolie moved to New Orleans with Brad Pitt and their four children.

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While preparing for her role in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004), Jolie held meetings and conducted interviews with dozens of British World War II veterans and aviators to adapt her character's appropriate mannerisms. She also altered the script by adding a small amount of slang used in that era.

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She underwent a preventive double mastectomy, and two years later had reconstructive surgery that included breast implants.

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One of her favorite television series is King of the Hill (1997). She also enjoys the Game Show Network and Animal Planet.

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Her father starred alongside her godmother Jacqueline Bisset in the film End of the Game (1975), which was directed by her godfather Maximilian Schell.

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She gave her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, the nickname "Great Lady."

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For her role in Taking Lives (2004), she consulted real-life FBI profiler Robert K. Ressler.

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Her aunt Debbie Bertrand Martin died of breast cancer on May 26, 2013, at the age of 61.

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She ranked 33rd on Entertainment Weekly's list of the 50 Smartest People in Hollywood.

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The "Introducing Angelina Jolie" credit in the opening title sequence of Love Is All There Is (1996) points to a delayed release, since Jolie had already had at least two significant on-screen roles by 1996.

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On the inside of her left wrist she has a tattoo of the letter "H," a reference to two people she was close to whose names contain that letter: her brother James Haven and Timothy Hutton. She got the tattoo while dating Timothy, but since they broke up she says it is only for James.

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She was first attached to play Dagny Taggart in Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011); Charlize Theron replaced her, and Taylor Schilling replaced Theron in turn.

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She was voted first in a poll by Britain's Channel 4 to find the 100 Greatest Sex Symbols. Elvis Presley came second.

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She is a big fan of the writer Ayn Rand.

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As part of the Toy Mountain Campaign, she donated many items to Rocky Stone to be given to less fortunate children.

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In 2007, Forbes magazine estimated her earnings for the year at 20 million dollars.

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In late 2002, she announced that she was in talks to play the late porn star Linda Lovelace.

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She graduated from Beverly Hills High School at the age of 16, the same school Lenny Kravitz graduated from. She also attended the school alongside Michael Klesic and Bahar Soomekh.

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She developed Bell's palsy and hypertension. She treated it with acupuncture.

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Between 2002 and 2005, she was nominated for the Razzie Award for Worst Actress for four years in a row, but was beaten each time by fellow nominees.

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Both she and her arch-rival Jennifer Aniston played Ann-Margret's daughter in two separate films: Jolie in Lookin' to Get Out (1982) and Aniston in The Break-Up (2006).

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She was the cover girl of the eagerly awaited issue of Forbes magazine featuring the Celebrity 100 list. In 2008 she ranked 3rd.

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She attended elementary school at William O. Schaefer School in Tappan, New York. She graduated from El Rodeo elementary school (1989).

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She had an on-and-off relationship with Jenny Shimizu that spanned nine years.

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In a poll conducted for Sky Movies, she was voted the number one star most men would want to kiss under the mistletoe.

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For her wedding to Brad Pitt, Angelina wore a dress designed by Donatella Versace.

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She attended Beverly Hills High School alongside her brother James Haven, writer/actor Quincy Rose (son of Mickey Rose), Antonia Bennett (daughter of Tony Bennett) and Ashley Hamilton (son of George Hamilton and Alana Stewart).

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She became the 116th actor to win an Oscar; on 26 March 2000, at the 72nd Annual Academy Awards (2000), she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Girl, Interrupted (1999).

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Her children used to attend a Lycée (French school), but they now have their own private tutors.

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Victoria Bonya named her daughter after her.

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She was included in the Time 100 list, Time magazine's ranking of the world's 100 most influential people.

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She appeared with Brad, Maddox and Zahara (as a baby) in Mario Testino's photography book "Let Me In".

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She was voted the 3rd Sexiest Female Movie Star by Australian Empire magazine.

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She was voted the sexiest woman in the world by the Swedish magazine Café.

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According to a poll by the film rental chain Blockbuster Inc., she is the woman most American men would want to go out with on New Year's Eve. The poll results showed her in first place, with 35 percent of respondents saying she would be their number one choice for a hypothetical candlelit New Year's Eve dinner. Rival star Catherine Zeta-Jones came second in Blockbuster's online poll conducted in November 2003. The poll received 31,969 responses.

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She is mentioned by name in Travie McCoy's 2010 song "Billionaire" (featuring Bruno Mars).

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Shortly before filming began, she replaced Charlize Theron in the role of Elise Clifton-Ward in The Tourist (2010).

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She breastfed her children Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, Knox Jolie-Pitt and Vivienne Jolie-Pitt until they were all 10 weeks old.

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She was considered the last true movie star before technology made success achievable and allowed people to become famous far more easily.

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She ranked 2nd on Mr. Blackwell's (aka Richard Selzer) Worst Dressed List.

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Angelina Jolie was voted Hollywood's Sexiest Single Mother in a poll conducted on the Date.com website.

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Angelina Jolie was ranked 2nd on VH1's "100 Hottest Hotties."

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As of 2023, Angelina Jolie is one of 16 Oscar-winning actresses born in the state of California. The others are Fay Bainter, Gloria Grahame, Jo Van Fleet, Liza Minnelli, Tatum O'Neal, Diane Keaton, Sally Field, Anjelica Huston, Cher, Jodie Foster, Helen Hunt, Gwyneth Paltrow, Marcia Gay Harden, Brie Larson and Jessica Chastain.

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Angelina Jolie was named one of People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People (2000). The magazine named her its Most Beautiful Woman (2005), and she was chosen as one of the World's 100 Most Beautiful People (2006).

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Angelina Jolie placed 10th on Men's Health's list of the 100 Hottest Women of All Time, ahead of Sharon Stone, Scarlett Johansson, Catherine Deneuve and Megan Fox.

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Angelina Jolie is a huge admirer of Johnny Depp. She worked with him on The Tourist (2010).

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Angelina Jolie ranked 87th on Premiere magazine's 2002 annual "Power 100" list.

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Angelina Jolie is the granddaughter of Barbara Voight.

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Angelina Jolie ranked 1st on E!'s 2006 list of the 101 Sexiest Celebrity Bodies on Television.

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Angelina Jolie was included in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women" list in 2000 (#68), 2001 (#61), 2002 (#32), 2003 (#32), 2004 (#9), 2005 (#3), 2006 (#4), 2007 (#8), 2009 (#14) and 2010 (#70); she was 6th on Stuff magazine's 2002 "102 Sexiest Women"; she appeared on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 Women in 2003 (#43), 2004 (#17), 2005 (#7), 2006 (#4), 2007 (#12), 2009 (#26), 2010 (#38), 2015 (#37) and 2025 (#6); she was 3rd on AskMen's Top 99 Women of 2006; and in 2004 she was named Esquire magazine's "Sexiest Woman Alive."

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Angelina Jolie's former real estate agent was the late Elaine Young.

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