Angelina Jolie: biography, career, age, net worth, spouse, children

Short bio: Angelina Jolie is the daughter of actor Jon Voight and actress Marcheline Bertrand. When she was eleven, the family moved to Los Angeles and she began training at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute and performing in her first stage productions. She was married to Billy Bob and then adopted first son Maddox and later daughter Zahara. She has been with Brad Pitt since 2005 and they have biological children Shiloh and twins Knox and Vivienne. Pax was the last adopted child in the family. In 2014, the couple married on the Côte d’Azur. After several years as a blended family, Jolie and Pitt split in September 2016.

  • Full name: Angelina Jolie Voight
  • birthday: 06/04/1975
  • Star sign: Gemini
  • Height: 169cm
  • Place of birth: los Angeles
  • Children: Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, Vivienne Jolie-Pitt, MORE
  • Spouse: Brad Pitt (m. 2014–2019), Billy Bob Thornton (m. 2000–2003), Jonny Lee Miller (m. 1996–1999)
  • Parents: Jon Voight, Marcheline Bertrand

About Angelina Jolie: relationships, marriage, bisexuality

Actress Angelina Jolie is the daughter of actor Jon Voight and actress Marcheline Bertrand. Jolie has German and Slovak ancestry on her father’s side and French Canadian and Iroquoian roots on her mother’s side. After her parents separated, actress Angelina Jolie lived and her brother lived with her mother, who gave up acting and moved to New York with her two children.

When little Angelina Jolie was eleven years old, the family moved to Los Angeles and Jolie began training at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute and appearing in her first stage productions. During her school days in Beverly Hills, Angelina Jolie often felt left out because almost all of her classmates came from wealthy families, while Jolie even had to wear second-hand clothes and was often teased because of her very thin body. As a result, Jolie developed auto-aggressive behavior and stopped acting at the age of 14. At the time, she was considering becoming a funeral director. She somehow pulled herself back together, started acting in school again, and even graduated from high school.

Angelina Jolie has always liked it wild in her relationships. She was married to Billy Bob Thornton, 20 years her senior, and wore his blood on a chain around her neck. Her first marriage was to fellow actor Jonny Lee Miller. The marriage only lasted a year, but Jolie stressed that the two were still friends. She then dated fellow actress Jenny Shimizu. She has been open about her bisexuality and has claimed to have dated several women in the past. As a teenager she had a crush on Michelle Pfeiffer. Since she still lacked the right man for the family happiness at the time, she first adopted son Maddox, who comes from Cambodia, and later daughter Zahara from Ethiopia in 2001. In 2005 Angelina Jolie Brad Pitt,one of Hollywood’s most desirable men, whom she charmed with her own mix of sexy adventuress and caring mother. Brad quickly adopted Angelina’s children, both of whom also have biological children Shiloh and twins Knox and Vivienne. Pax was the last adopted child in the family. In 2012, the dream couple announced their engagement, and then in 2014 they got married in a small circle at a winery on the Côte d’Azur. Angelina then took the surname Jolie Pitt. After twelve years of relationship, the couple separated in September 2016 and filed for divorce.

Angelina Jolie’s professional career

From rebellious teenager to sought-after actress to super woman. This is how you could describe Angelina Jolie’s career. And whether it’s relief work in the third world, a film role as a super machine wonder woman or saving the world – Angelina Jolie is believed to be capable of (almost) everything. The beginning of her career is rather uneven. Young Angelina stands in front of the camera for scantily clad photos and shoots rather insignificant films. But her beauty and incredible charisma were impressive even then.

And then the unbelievable happens: Angelina Jolie receives an Oscar for her “crazy” role for best supporting role. In the film Girl, Interrupted, she stars alongside Whoopie Goldberg and Winona Ryder. A short time later follows the role that finally leads Angelina Jolie to worldwide fame and ensures that there is actually only a movie poster hanging in the lockers and boys’ rooms of this world: As Lara Croft, the wiry and delicate Jolie fights her way in “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider” (2001) with incredible violence and hard grace through the strip. Now she’s a star. More film hits followed and in one of them she met Brad Pitt in 2005. After “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” Pitt will leave his wife Aniston and start a relationship with Angelina Jolie. This is how the great love story of “Brangelina” begins. The beauty is also a director, she made her debut in 2007.

What you probably didn’t know about Angelina Jolie

Aside from acting, Angelina Jolie can be found seemingly all over the world — there’s hardly a place where she doesn’t want to help or donate millions.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt received $14 million for the rights to the first public pictures of their twins.
In 2013, Angelina Jolie published an article in The New York Times reporting on her prophylactic mastectomy to minimize her high risk of breast cancer. As reported in another article, she has now also had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed.