Angelina Jolie (born June 4, 1975) is an American actress. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. Jolie promotes humanitarian causes, 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 world's most attractive people, as well as the world's "most beautiful" woman, titles for which she has received substantial media attention. 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 best-known and highest-paid actresses in Hollywood. She has had her biggest commercial successes with the action-comedy
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.
