Alexander film failed domestically, with Stone attributing its poor reception to disapproval of the depiction of Alexander's bise*xuality, but it succeeded internationally, with revenue of $139 million outside the U.S..
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In 2008 Angelina Jolie played Christine Collins, the lead in Clint Eastwood's drama Changeling.
Drama Changeling had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Drama Changeling is based on the true story of a woman in 1928 Los Angeles who is reunited with her kidnapped son—only to realize he is an impostor.
Angelina Jolie received her second Academy Award nomination, and also was nominated for a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and the Screen Actors Guild Award.
The Chicago Tribune noted, "(Angelina) Jolie really shines in the calm before the storm, the scenes [...] when one patronizing male authority figure after another belittles her at their peril."
Angelina Jolie has provided the voice of Master Tigress in the DreamWorks animated movie Kung Fu Panda (2008).
With revenue of $632 million internationally, DreamWorks animated movie Kung Fu Panda became Angelina Jolie's highest grossing film to date.
BTW, Angelina Jolie is the most beautiful woman in the world, isn't she?
Angelina Jolie co-starred alongside James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman in the 2008 action movie Wanted.
This Angelina Jolie movie, Wanted, was an adaptation of a graphic novel by Mark Millar.
Wanted, Angelina Jolie Film, received predominately favorable reviews and proved to be an international success, earning $342 million worldwide.
Angelina Jolie played Grendel's mother.
Angelina Jolie roled Grendel's mother in Robert Zemeckis' animated epic Beowulf (2007).
Animated epic Beowulf was created through the motion capture technique.
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Angelina Jolie made her directorial debut w/ the documentary "A Place in Time", which captures the life in 27 locations around the globe during a single week in 2007.
"A Place in Time" film was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival and is intended to be distributed through the National Education Association, mainly in high schools.
Angelina Jolie starred as Mariane Pearl in Michael Winterbottom's documentary-style drama A Mighty Heart (2007), about the kidnap and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan.
The picture of "A Place in Time" is based on Mariane Pearl's memoirs A Mighty Heart and had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
The Hollywood Reporter described Jolie's performance as "well-measured and moving", played "with respect and a firm grasp on a difficult accent."
"A Place in Time" film earned Angelina Jolie a 4th Golden Globe Award and a 3rd Screen Actors Guild Award nomination.
in 2006 Angelina Jolie appeared in Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd.
Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd is a film about the early history of the CIA, as seen through the eyes of Edward Wilson, played by Matt Damon. Angelina Jolie played the supporting role of Margaret Russell, Wilson's neglected wife.
According to the Chicago Tribune, "(Angelina) Jolie ages convincingly throughout, and is blithely unconcerned with how her brittle character is coming off in terms of audience sympathy."
Angelina Jolie's only movie in 2005 was the action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
Action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith film, directed by Doug Liman, tells the story of a bored married couple who find out that they are both secret assassins. Angelina Jolie starred as Jane Smith alongside Brad Pitt.
Action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith film was well received and was generally lauded for the chemistry between the two leads Angelina Jolie and Brad Pit. The Star Tribune noted, "While the story feels haphazard, the movie gets by on gregarious charm, galloping energy and the stars' thermonuclear screen chemistry."
Action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith movie earned $478 million worldwide, one of the biggest hits of 2005.
After Angelina Jolie' parents' separation in 1976, she and her brother were raised by their mother, who abandoned Jolie acting ambitions and moved with them to Palisades, New York. As a child she regularly saw movies with Jolie' mother and later explained that this had inspired her interest in acting; Angelina had not been influenced by her father.
When Angelina Jolie was eleven years old, the family moved back to LA and she decided Angelina' wanted to act and enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, where Jolie trained for 2 years and appeared in several stage productions. Jolie later recalled her time as a student at Beverly Hills High School (later Moreno High School), and her feeling of isolation among the children of some of the area's more affluent families.
Angelina Jolie's mother survived on a more modest income, and she often wore second-hand clothes. Jolie was teased by other students who also targeted her for her distinctive features, for being extremely thin, and for wearing glasses and braces. Jolie' self-esteem was further diminished when her initial attempts at modeling proved unsuccessful.
Angelina Jolie started to cut herself; later commenting, "I collected knives and always had certain things around. For some reason, the ritual of having cut myself and feeling the pain, maybe feeling alive, feeling some kind of release, it was somehow therapeutic to me."
Alexander film failed domestically, with Stone attributing its poor reception to disapproval of the depiction of Alexander's bise*xuality, but it succeeded internationally, with revenue of $139 million outside the U.S..
Angelina Jolie - in 2004 "Shark Tale" and "Kerry Conran's Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow"
0 commentsAngelina Jolie provided the voice of Lola, an angelfish in the animated DreamWorks movie Shark Tale in 2004.
Angelina Jolie Also had a brief appearance in Kerry Conran's Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, a science fiction adventure film shot with actors entirely in front of a bluescreen.
Angelina Jolie was Born in Los Angeles, California, Jolie is the daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand.
Jolie is the niece of Chip Taylor, sister of James Haven and the god-daughter of Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell. On her father's side, Jolie is of Slovak and German descent, and on her mother's side she is French Canadian and is said to be part Iroquois. However, Voight has claimed Bertrand was "not seriously Iroquois," and they merely said it to enhance his ex-wife's exotic background.
Angelina Jolie starred alongside Ethan Hawke in the thriller Taking Lives in 2004. Jolie portrayed Illeana Scott, an FBI profiler summoned to help Montreal law enforcement hunt down a serial killer.
Angelina Jolie - Taking Lives movie received mixed reviews and The Hollywood Reporter concluded, "Angelina Jolie plays a role that definitely feels like something she has already done, but she does add an unmistakable dash of excitement and glamour."
Jolie reprised her role as Lara Croft in "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life" in 2003. The sequel, while not as lucrative as the original, earned $156 million at the international box-office.
Later that year Angelina Jolie starred in "Beyond Borders", a film about aid workers in Africa. Although reflecting Angelina's real-life interest in promoting humanitarian relief, the film was critically and financially unsuccessful. The Los Angeles Times wrote, "Jolie, as she did in her Oscar-winning role in Girl, Interrupted, can bring electricity and believability to roles that have a reality she can understand. She can also, witness the Lara Croft films, do acknowledged cartoons. But the limbo of a hybrid character, a badly written cardboard person in a fly-infested, blood-and-guts world, completely defeats her."
Angelina Jolie then starred alongside Antonio Banderas as the mail-order bride Julia Russell in Original Sin (2001), a thriller based on the novel Waltz into Darkness by Cornell Woolrich. The "Original Sin" film was a major critical failure, w/ The New York Times noting, "The story plunges more precipitously than Ms. Jolie's neckline."
In 2002, Angelina Jolie played Lanie Kerrigan in "Life or Something Like It", a film about an ambitious Television reporter who is told that she will die in a week. The film was poorly received by critics, though Angelina's performance received positive reviews. CNN's Paul Clinton wrote, "Jolie is excellent in her role. Despite some of the ludicrous plot points in the middle of the film, this Academy Award-winning actress is exceedingly believable in her journey towards self-discovery and the true meaning of fulfilling life."
Angelina Jolie then starred alongside Antonio Banderas as the mail-order bride Julia Russell in Original Sin (2001), a thriller based on the novel Waltz into Darkness by Cornell Woolrich. The "Original Sin" film was a major critical failure, w/ The New York Times noting, "The story plunges more precipitously than Ms. Jolie's neckline."
In 2002, Angelina Jolie played Lanie Kerrigan in "Life or Something Like It", a film about an ambitious Television reporter who is told that she will die in a week. The film was poorly received by critics, though Angelina's performance received positive reviews. CNN's Paul Clinton wrote, "Jolie is excellent in her role. Despite some of the ludicrous plot points in the middle of the film, this Academy Award-winning actress is exceedingly believable in her journey towards self-discovery and the true meaning of fulfilling life."
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were heartbroken after the actress visited refugees from Burma
0 commentsAngelina Jolie and Brad Pitt were heartbroken after Angelina visited refugees from Burma during a trip to Thailand, London's Daily Mail reports.
Therefore, they want to adopt another baby, this time from Burma.
Now Both of them are planning to adopt a baby boy fr the stricken country, bringing their brood to seven (which includes Maddox from Cambodia, Pax from Vietnam and Zahara from Ethiopia).
Jolie and her hubby Brad, missed out on the best actress and best actor awards at last night's Baftas.
But a source told the Mail that Jolie has her mind on higher things. Jolie has held meetings with officials in Chang Mai about the logistics involved in adopting a baby.
'She can't stand to see the suffering of these people, especially the children. She spent most of last week at a refugee centre, Ban Mai Nai Soi, along the Thai-Burmese border and met with one woman who has spent more than 20 years in the refugee camp.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt also have 3 biological children, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne.
Angelina Jolie... although highly regarded for Jolie' acting abilities, her films to date had often not appealed to a wide audience, but Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) made Angelina Jolie an international superstar. An adaptation of the popular Tomb Raider videogame, she was required to master a British accent and undergo extensive martial arts training to play the title role of Lara Croft.
Angelina Jolie was generally praised for Angelina' physical performance, but the movie generated mostly negative reviews. Slant Magazine commented, "Angelina Jolie was born to play Lara Croft but [director] Simon West makes her journey into a game of Frogger." The movie was a huge international success nonetheless, earning $275 million worldwide, and launched her global reputation as a female action star.
Angelina Jolie appeared in her 1st summer blockbuster, Gone In 60 Seconds In 2000, in which Jolie played Sarah "Sway" Wayland, ex-girlfriend of car-thief Nicolas Cage.
The role was small, and the Washington Post criticized that "all she does in this movie is stand around, cooling down, modeling those fleshy, pulsating muscle-tubes that nest so provocatively around her teeth."
Angelina Jolie later explained that the film was a welcome relief after the heavy role of Lisa Rowe, and it became her highest grossing movie up until then, earning $237 million internationally.
In 1999, Angelina Jolie starred in Mike Newell's comedy-drama Pushing Tin, co-starring John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, & Cate Blanchett. She played Thornton's seductive wife. The film received a lukewarm reception from critics and Angelina Jolie's character was particularly criticized. The Washington Post wrote, "Mary (Angelina Jolie), a completely ludicrous writer's creation of a free-spirited woman who weeps over hibiscus plants that die, wears lots of turquoise rings and gets real lonely when Russell spends entire nights away from home."
Angelina Jolie then worked with Denzel Washington in The Bone Collector (1999), an adapted crime novel written by Jeffery Deaver. She played Amelia Donaghy, a police officer haunted by Amelia' cop father's suicide, whoshe reluctantly helps Washington track down a serial killer. The movie grossed $151 million worldwide, but was a critical failure. The Detroit Free Press concluded, "Jolie, while always delicious to look at, is simply and woefully miscast."
Angelina Jolie returned to film as Gloria McNeary in the 1998 gangster movie Hell's Kitchen, and later that year appeared in Playing by Heart, part of an ensemble cast that included Sean Connery, Gillian Anderson, Ryan Phillippe and Jon Stewart.
The film received predominantly positive reviews and Angelina Jolie was praised in particular. The San Francisco Chronicle wrote, "Jolie, working through an overwritten part, is a sensation as the desperate club crawler learning truths about what she's willing to gamble." She won the Breakthrough Performance Award by the National Board of Review.
Following Gia, Angelina Jolie moved to New York and stopped acting for a short period of time, because she felt that she had "nothing else to give".
Angelina Jolie enrolled at New York University to study filmmaking and attended writing classes.
Jolie described it as "just good for me to collect myself" on Inside the Actors Studio.
In 1998, Angelina Jolie starred in HBO's Gia, portraying supermodel Gia Carangi. The film depicted a world of s_x, dr_gs and emotional drama, and chronicled the destruction of Carangi's life and career as a result of her drug addiction, and her decline and death from AIDS.
Vanessa Vance from Reel.com noted, "Angelina Jolie gained wide recognition for Angelina Jolie role as the titular Gia, and it's easy to see why. She is fierce in her portrayal—filling the part with nerve, charm, and desperation—and her role in this film is quite possibly the most beautiful train wreck ever filmed."
For the 2nd consecutive year, Angelina won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Emmy. Angelina also won her 1st Screen Actors Guild Award. In accordance with Lee Strasberg's method acting Jolie reportedly preferred to stay in character in between scenes during many of her early films, and as a result had gained a reputation for being difficult to deal with.
While shooting Gia, Jolie told her then-husband Jonny Lee Miller that she would not be able to phone him: "I'd tell him: 'I'm alone; I'm dying; I'm gay; I'm not going to see you for weeks.'"
in 2006 Angelina Jolie appeared in Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd.
Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd is a film about the early history of the CIA, as seen through the eyes of Edward Wilson, played by Matt Damon. Angelina Jolie played the supporting role of Margaret Russell, Wilson's neglected wife.
According to the Chicago Tribune, "(Angelina) Jolie ages convincingly throughout, and is blithely unconcerned with how her brittle character is coming off in terms of audience sympathy."
Angelina Jolie's career prospects began to improve after Jolie' performance as Cornelia Wallace in the 1997 biographical film George Wallace for which she won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Emmy. The film was praised by critics and, among other awards, received the Golden Globe for Best Miniseries/Motion Picture made for TV.
Angelina Jolie played the 2nd wife of the segregationist Governor of Alabama who was shot and paralyzed while running for President. The film starred Gary Sinise and was directed by John Frankenheimer.
Angelina Jolie has provided the voice of Master Tigress in the DreamWorks animated movie Kung Fu Panda (2008).
With revenue of $632 million internationally, DreamWorks animated movie Kung Fu Panda became Angelina Jolie's highest grossing film to date.
BTW, Angelina Jolie is the most beautiful woman in the world, isn't she?
Angelina Jolie co-starred alongside James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman in the 2008 action movie Wanted.
This Angelina Jolie movie, Wanted, was an adaptation of a graphic novel by Mark Millar.
Wanted, Angelina Jolie Film, received predominately favorable reviews and proved to be an international success, earning $342 million worldwide.
Angelina Jolie played Grendel's mother.
Angelina Jolie roled Grendel's mother in Robert Zemeckis' animated epic Beowulf (2007).
Animated epic Beowulf was created through the motion capture technique.
Angelina Jolie made her directorial debut w/ the documentary "A Place in Time", which captures the life in 27 locations around the globe during a single week in 2007.
"A Place in Time" film was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival and is intended to be distributed through the National Education Association, mainly in high schools.
Angelina Jolie starred as Mariane Pearl in Michael Winterbottom's documentary-style drama A Mighty Heart (2007), about the kidnap and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan.
The picture of "A Place in Time" is based on Mariane Pearl's memoirs A Mighty Heart and had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.
The Hollywood Reporter described Jolie's performance as "well-measured and moving", played "with respect and a firm grasp on a difficult accent."
"A Place in Time" film earned Angelina Jolie a 4th Golden Globe Award and a 3rd Screen Actors Guild Award nomination.
Angelina Jolie's only movie in 2005 was the action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
Action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith film, directed by Doug Liman, tells the story of a bored married couple who find out that they are both secret assassins. Angelina Jolie starred as Jane Smith alongside Brad Pitt.
Action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith film was well received and was generally lauded for the chemistry between the two leads Angelina Jolie and Brad Pit. The Star Tribune noted, "While the story feels haphazard, the movie gets by on gregarious charm, galloping energy and the stars' thermonuclear screen chemistry."
Action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith movie earned $478 million worldwide, one of the biggest hits of 2005.
Angelina Jolie took the supporting role of the sociopathic Lisa Rowe in Girl, Interrupted (1999), a film that tells the story of mental patient Susanna Kaysen, and which was adapted from Kaysen's original memoir Girl, Interrupted.
While Winona Ryder played the main character in what was hoped to be a comeback for Jolie, the film instead marked her final breakthrough in Hollywood. Angelina Jolie won her 3rd Golden Globe, her 2nd Screen Actors Guild Award and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Variety noted, "Jolie is excellent as the flamboyant, irresponsible girl who turns out to be far more instrumental than the doctors in Susanna's rehabilitation".
In 1997, Angelina Jolie starred with David Duchovny in the thriller Playing God, a film portraying a surgeon who is stripped of his medical license and is lured deep into the criminal world where he meets Jolie's character, Claire.
Playing God movie was not received well by critics and Roger Ebert noted that "Angelina Jolie finds a certain warmth in a kind of role that is usually hard and aggressive; Jolie seems too nice to be [a criminal's] girlfriend, and maybe she is."
Jolie then appeared in the TV movie True Women, a historical romantic drama set in the American West, and based on the book by Janice Woods Windle. That year she also appeared in the music video for "Anybody Seen My Baby?" by the Rolling Stones.
Angelina Jolie appeared as Gina Malacici in the 1996 comedy Love Is All There Is, a modern-day loose adaptation of Romeo and Juliet set among two rival Italian family restaurant owners in the Bronx, NY.
In the road movie Mojave Moon (1996) Angelina Jolie was a youngster, named Eleanor Rigby, who falls for Danny Aiello, while he takes a shine to her mother, Anne Archer. In 1996, Jolie also played Margret "Legs" Sadovsky, one of 5 teenage girls who form an unlikely bond in the film Foxfire after they beat up a teacher who has s_xually harassed them.
The LA Times wrote about Her performance, "It took a lot of hogwash to develop this character, but Jolie, Jon Voight's knockout daughter, has the presence to overcome the stereotype. Though the story is narrated by Maddy, Legs is the subject and the catalyst."
Angelina Jolie appeared in five of Jolie' brother's student films, made while he attended the USC School of Cinematic Arts, but Jolie' professional movie career began in 1993, when Jolie played her first leading role in the low-budget film Cyborg 2, as Casella "Cash" Reese, a near-human robot, designed to seduce her way into a rival manufacturer's headquarters and then self-detonate.
Following a supporting role in the independent film Without Evidence, Angelina Jolie starred as Kate "Acid Burn" Libby in her first Hollywood picture, Hackers (1995), where she met her first husband Jonny Lee Miller. The New York Times wrote, "Kate (Angelina Jolie) stands out. That's because Jolie scowls even more sourly than [her co-stars] and is that rare female hacker who sits intently at her keyboard in a see-through top.
Despite Angelina sullen posturing, which is all this role requires, Ms. Jolie has the sweetly cherubic looks of Jolie' father, Jon Voight." The movie failed to make a profit at the box-office, but developed a cult following after its video release.
After Angelina Jolie' parents' separation in 1976, she and her brother were raised by their mother, who abandoned Jolie acting ambitions and moved with them to Palisades, New York. As a child she regularly saw movies with Jolie' mother and later explained that this had inspired her interest in acting; Angelina had not been influenced by her father.
When Angelina Jolie was eleven years old, the family moved back to LA and she decided Angelina' wanted to act and enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, where Jolie trained for 2 years and appeared in several stage productions. Jolie later recalled her time as a student at Beverly Hills High School (later Moreno High School), and her feeling of isolation among the children of some of the area's more affluent families.
Angelina Jolie's mother survived on a more modest income, and she often wore second-hand clothes. Jolie was teased by other students who also targeted her for her distinctive features, for being extremely thin, and for wearing glasses and braces. Jolie' self-esteem was further diminished when her initial attempts at modeling proved unsuccessful.
Angelina Jolie started to cut herself; later commenting, "I collected knives and always had certain things around. For some reason, the ritual of having cut myself and feeling the pain, maybe feeling alive, feeling some kind of release, it was somehow therapeutic to me."
Angelina Jolie began working as a fashion model when Jolie was fourteen years old. Jolie was signed w/ Finesse Model Management and modeled in both the US and Europe, working mainly in LA, NY and London.
At that time Angelina Jolie also appeared in numerous music videos, including those of Meat Loaf ("Rock & Roll Dreams Come Through"), Antonello Venditti ("Alta Marea"), Lenny Kravitz ("Stand by My Woman"), and The Lemonheads ("It's About Time").
At the age of sixteen, Angelina returned to theater & played Jolie' first role as a German dominatrix. Angelina began to learn from Jolie' father, as she noticed his method of observing people to become like them. Their relationship during this time was less strained, with Jolie realizing that they were both "drama queens".
Angelina Jolie has been long estranged fr Jolie' father, though a reconciliation was attempted, and he appeared with her in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001). In July 2002, She filed a request to legally change her name to "Angelina Jolie", dropping Voight as Jolie' surname; the name change was made official on September 12, 2002.
In August of the same year, Jolie' father Voight claimed that his daughter had "serious emotional problems" on Access Hollywood. Angelina later indicated that she no longer wished to pursue a relationship w/ Jolie' father, and said, "My father and I don't speak. I don't hold any anger toward him. I don't believe that somebody's family becomes their blood. Because my son's adopted, and families are earned." Angelina Jolie stated that Jolie did not want to publicize her reasons for her estrangement from her father, but because she had adopted her son, she did not think it was healthy for Jolie' to associate with Voight
Angelina Jolie dropped out of her acting classes and dreamed of becoming a funeral director. During this period, Jolie wore black, dyed her hair purple and went out moshing with her live-in boyfriend.
2 years later, Angelina Jolie, after the relationship had ended, Jolie rented an apartment above a garage a few blocks from her mother's home. Angelina returned to theater studies and graduated from high school, though in recent times she has referred to this period with the observation, "I am still at heart—and always will be—just a punk kid w/ tattoos".
Angelina Jolie was Born in Los Angeles, California, Jolie is the daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand.
Jolie is the niece of Chip Taylor, sister of James Haven and the god-daughter of Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell. On her father's side, Jolie is of Slovak and German descent, and on her mother's side she is French Canadian and is said to be part Iroquois. However, Voight has claimed Bertrand was "not seriously Iroquois," and they merely said it to enhance his ex-wife's exotic background.
Though Angelina Jolie made her screen debut as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in the 1982 film Lookin' to Get Out, Angelina's acting career began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget production Cyborg 2 (1993). Jolie' first leading role in a major film was in Hackers (1995). Angelina 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). She achieved international fame as a result of 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. Angelina has had her biggest commercial successes with the action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) and the animated film Kung Fu Panda (2008).
Angelina Jolie currently lives with actor Brad Pitt, after Divorced from actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton, in a relationship that has attracted worldwide media attention. Angelina and Brad have three adopted children, Maddox, Pax, and Zahara, as well as three biological children, Shiloh, Knox, and Vivienne. Angelina Jolie has promoted humanitarian causes throughout the world, and is noted for her work with refugees through UNHCR.








