Colegiul National Pedagogic Constantin Bratescu

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ANGELINA JOLIE

-successful on screen and in humanitarian work2

Profesor indrumator: Doina Carlsson

Elev: Alina-Daniela Tudor
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Table of contents

Introduction
Chapter I: Early life and family4
Chapter II: Early work, 1993-1997...5
Chapter III: International success, 2001-present...6
Chapter IV: Humanitarian work....8
Chapter V: Relationships.........10
Chapter VI: Children....12
Conclusion............14
Bibliography .15
Annexes.16

Introduction
Still struggling with herself,and still publicly discussing her pleasures and
pain(as well as her ever incresing charity work-covered in pert in her 2003 book Notes
From My Travels),Jolie is one of Hollywoods most complicated characters.
My certificate is divided into six chapters which describe the entire life of
Angelina Jolie.
The first chapter, Early life and family,introduces some of the major aspects
of Angelina Jolies birth and her childhood. Also ,it is mentioned there the situation of
her parents which influenced her education.
From the next three chapters ( Early work, International success and
Humanitarian work ) we can find out the public life of this famous character. Also,
Jolie first became personally aware of the worldwide humanitarian crisis while
filming Tomb Raider in Cambodia.
In the end,the last two chapters Relationships and Children treat her private
life which is similar to her public life,aspect like family,children and relationships with
the media.

Chapter I: Early life and family

Born in Los Angeles, California, Jolie is the daughter of actors Jon Voight and
Marcheline Bertrand. She 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 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.
After her parents' separation in 1976, Jolie and her brother were raised by their
mother, who abandoned her acting ambitions and moved with them to Palisades, New
York. As a child, Jolie regularly saw movies with her mother and later explained that
this had inspired her interest in acting; she had not been influenced by her father.
At the age of 14, she dropped out of her acting classes and dreamed of
becoming a funeral director. During this period, she wore black, dyed her hair purple
and went out moshing with her live-in boyfriend. Two years

later , after the

relationship had ended, she rented an apartment above a garage a few blocks from her
mothers home.
She returned to theatre 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 bejust a punk kid with tattoos".

Chapter II: Early work, 19931997

Jolie began working as a fashion model when she was 14 years old, modeling
mainly in Los Angeles, New York and London. At that time she 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 16, Jolie returned to
theatre and played her first role as a German dominatrix. She began to learn from her
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".
Jolie appeared in five of her brother's student films, made while he attended the
USC School of Cinematic Arts, but her professional movie career began in 1993, when
she 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, 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 she 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 her sullen posturing, which is all this role
requires, Ms. Jolie has the sweetly cherubic looks of her father, Jon Voight." The
movie failed to make a profit at the box-office, but developed a cult following after its
video release.
She appeared in the comedy Love Is All There Is (1996), in the road movie
Mojave Moon (1996). In 1996, Jolie also portrayed Margret "Legs" Sadovsky, one of
five teenage girls who form an unlikely bond in the film Foxfire after they beat up a
teacher who has sexually harassed them. The Los Angeles Times wrote about her
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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." In 1997, Jolie starred with
David Duchovny in the thriller Playing God, set in the Los Angeles underworld.

Chapter III: International success, 2001present

Although highly regarded for her acting abilities, Jolie's films to date had often
not appealed to a wide audience, but Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) made her an
international superstar. An adaptation of the popular Tomb Raider videogame, Jolie
was required to learn a British accent and undergo extensive martial arts training to
play the title role of Lara Croft. She was generally praised for her 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 international success
nonetheless, earning $275 million worldwide. and launched her global reputation as a
female action star.
Jolie then starred opposite 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 film was a major critical failure, with The New York Times
noting, "The story plunges more precipitously than Ms. Jolie's neckline." In 2002, she
played Lanie Kerrigan in Life or Something Like It, a film about an ambitious TV
reporter who is told that she will die in a week. The film was poorly received by
critics, though Jolie'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."
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 Jolie starred in Beyond Borders, a film
about aid workers in Africa. Although reflecting Jolie'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-andguts world, completely defeats her."
She also provided the voice of Lola, an angelfish in the animated DreamWorks
movie Shark Tale (2004) and she had a brief appearance in Kerry Conran's Sky
Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004), a science fiction adventure film shot with
actors entirely in front of a bluescreen.
Jolie's only movie in 2005 was the action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith. The film,
directed by Doug Liman, tells the story of a bored married couple who find out that
they are both secret assassins. Jolie starred as Jane Smith opposite Brad Pitt. The film
received mixed reviews, but was generally lauded for the chemistry between the two
leads. The Star Tribune noted, "While the story feels haphazard, the movie gets by on
gregarious charm, galloping energy and the stars' thermonuclear screen chemistry."
The movie earned $478 million worldwide, one of the biggest hits of 2005.
She next appeared in Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd (2006), a film about
the early history of the CIA, as seen through the eyes of Edward Wilson, played by
Matt Damon. Jolie played the supporting role of Margaret Russell, Wilson's neglected
wife. According to the Chicago Tribune, "Jolie ages convincingly throughout, and is
blithely unconcerned with how her brittle character is coming off in terms of audience
sympathy."
In 2007, Jolie made her directorial debut with the documentary A Place in
Time, which captures the life in 27 locations around the globe during a single week.
The film was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival and is intended to be distributed
through the National Education Association, mainly in high schools. 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 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." The film earned her a fourth Golden Globe Award and a third
Screen Actors Guild Award nomination. Jolie also played Grendel's mother in Robert
Zemeckis' animated epic Beowulf (2007) which was created through the motion
capture technique.
Jolie co-starred alongside James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman in the 2008
action movie Wanted, an adaptation of a graphic novel by Mark Millar. The film
received predominately favorable reviews and proved to be an international success,
earning $342 million worldwide. She also provided the voice of Master Tigress in the
DreamWorks animated movie Kung Fu Panda (2008). With revenue of $632 million
internationally, it became her highest grossing film to date. The same year, Jolie played
Christine Collins, the lead in Clint Eastwood's drama Changeling (2008), which had
its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. It is based on the true story of a woman in
1928 Los Angeles who is reunited with her kidnapped sononly to realize he is an
impostor. 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, "Jolie really shines in the calm before the storm,
the scenes [...] when one patronizing male authority figure after another belittles her at
their peril."

Chapter IV: Humanitarian work

Jolie first became personally aware of worldwide humanitarian crises while
filming Tomb Raider in Cambodia. She eventually turned to UNHCR for more
information on international trouble spots. In the following months she visited refugee
camps around the world to learn more about the situation and the conditions in these
areas. In February 2001, Jolie went on her first field visit, an 18-day mission to Sierra
Leone and Tanzania; she later expressed her shock at what she had witnessed. In the
coming months she returned to Cambodia for two weeks and later met with Afghan
refugees in Pakistan where she donated $1 million for Afghan refugees in response to
an international UNHCR emergency appeal. She insisted on covering all costs related
to her missions and shared the same rudimentary working and living conditions as
UNHCR field staff on all of her visits. Jolie was named a UNHCR Goodwill
Ambassador on August 27, 2001 at UNHCR headquarters in Geneva.
Jolie has been on field missions around the world and met with refugees and
internally displaced persons in more than 20 countries. Asked what she hoped to
accomplish, she stated, "Awareness of the plight of these people. I think they should be
commended for what they have survived, not looked down upon." In 2002, Jolie
visited the Tham Hin refugee camp in Thailand and Colombian refugees in Ecuador.
Jolie later went to various UNHCR facilities in Kosovo and paid a visit to Kakuma
refugee camp in Kenya with refugees mainly from Sudan. She also met with Angolan
refugees while filming Beyond Borders in Namibia.
In 2003, Jolie embarked on a six-day mission to Tanzania where she traveled to
western border camps, hosting Congolese refugees and she paid a week-long visit to
Sri Lanka. She later concluded a four-day mission to Russia as she traveled to North
Caucasus. Concurrently with the release of her movie Beyond Borders she published
Notes from My Travels, a collection of journal entries that chronicle her early field
missions (20012002). During a private stay in Jordan in December 2003 she asked to
visit Iraqi refugees in Jordan's eastern desert and later that month she went to Egypt to

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meet Sudanese refugees.

On her first U.N. trip within the United States, Jolie went to Arizona in 2004,
visiting detained asylum seekers at three facilities and the Southwest Key Program, a
facility for unaccompanied children in Phoenix. She flew to Chad in June 2004, paying
a visit to border sites and camps for refugees who had fled fighting in western Sudan's
Darfur region. Four months later she returned to the region, this time going directly
into West Darfur. Also in 2004, Jolie met with Afghan refugees in Thailand and on a
private stay to Lebanon during the Christmas holidays, she visited UNHCR's regional
office in Beirut, as well as some young refugees and cancer patients in the Lebanese
capital.
In 2005, Jolie took part at a National Press Club luncheon, where she
announced the founding of the National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children,
an organization that provides free legal-aid to asylum-seeking children with no legal
representation which Jolie personally funded with a donation of $500,000 for its first
two years. Jolie also pushed for several bills to aid refugees and vulnerable children in
the Third World. In addition to her political involvement, Jolie began using her public
profile to promote humanitarian causes through the mass media. She filmed an MTV
special, The Diary Of Angelina Jolie & Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in Africa, portraying her and
noted economist Dr. Jeffrey Sachs on a trip to a remote group of villages in Western
Kenya. In 2006, Jolie announced the founding of the Jolie/Pitt Foundation which made
initial donations to Global Action for Children and Doctors Without Borders of $1
million each. Jolie also co-chairs the Education Partnership for Children of Conflict,
founded at the Clinton Global Initiative in 2006, which helps fund education programs
for children affected by conflict.
Jolie has received wide recognition for her humanitarian work. In 2003, she
was the first recipient of the newly created Citizen of the World Award by the United
Nations Correspondents Association, and in 2005, she was awarded the Global
Humanitarian Award by the UNA-USA. Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni
awarded Jolie Cambodian citizenship for her conservation work in the country on
August 12, 2005; she has pledged $5 million to set up a wildlife sanctuary in the northwestern province of Battambang and owns property there. In 2007, Jolie became a
member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and she received the Freedom Award by

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the International Rescue Committee.

Chapter V: Relationships
On March 28, 1996, Jolie married British actor Jonny Lee Miller, her co-star in
the film Hackers (1995). She attended her wedding in black rubber pants and a white
shirt, upon which she had written the groom's name in her blood. Jolie and Miller
separated the following year and subsequently divorced on February 3, 1999. They
remained on good terms and Jolie later explained, "It comes down to timing. I think
he's the greatest husband a girl could ask for. I'll always love him, we were simply too
young."
She then married American actor Billy Bob Thornton, whom she had met on
the set of Pushing Tin (1999), on May 5, 2000. As a result of their frequent public
declarations of passion and gestures of lovemost famously wearing one another's
blood in vials around their neckstheir relationship became a favorite topic of the
entertainment media. Jolie and Thornton divorced on May 27, 2003. Asked about the
sudden dissolution of their marriage, Jolie stated, "It took me by surprise, too, because
overnight, we totally changed. I think one day we had just nothing in common. And it's
scary but... I think it can happen when you get involved and you don't know yourself
yet."
Jolie has said in interviews that she is bisexual and has long acknowledged that
she had a sexual relationship with her Foxfire (1996) co-star Jenny Shimizu, "I would
probably have married Jenny if I hadn't married my husband. I fell in love with her the
first second I saw her." In 2003, asked if she was bisexual, Jolie responded, "Of
course. If I fell in love with a woman tomorrow, would I feel that it's okay to want to
kiss and touch her? If I fell in love with her? Absolutely! Yes!"
In early 2005, Jolie was involved in a well-publicized Hollywood scandal
when she was accused of being the reason for the divorce of actors Brad Pitt and
Jennifer Aniston. The allegation was that she and Pitt had started an affair during
filming of Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). She denied this on several occasions, but admitted

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that they "fell in love" on the set. In an interview in 2005, she explained, "To be
intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not
something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I
wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife."
While Jolie and Pitt never publicly commented on the nature of their
relationship, speculations continued throughout 2005. The first intimate paparazzi
photos emerged in April, one month after Aniston had filed for divorce; they showed
Pitt, Jolie and her son Maddox at a beach in Kenya. During the summer Jolie and Pitt
were seen together with increasing frequency and most of the entertainment media
considered them a couple, dubbing them "Brangelina". On January 11, 2006, Jolie
confirmed to People that she was pregnant with Pitt's child and thereby confirmed
their relationship for the first time in public.

Chapter VI: Children

On March 10, 2002, Jolie adopted her first child, seven-month-old Maddox
Chivan. He was born on August 5, 2001 as Rath Vibol in Cambodia, and he initially
lived in a local orphanage in Battambang. Jolie decided to apply for adoption after she
had visited Cambodia twice, while filming Tomb Raider and on a UNHCR field trip in
2001. After her divorce from her second husband, Billy Bob Thornton, Jolie received
sole custody of Maddox. Like Jolie's other children, Maddox has gained considerable
celebrity and appears regularly in the tabloid media.
Jolie adopted a six-month-old girl from Ethiopia, Zahara Marley, on July 6,
2005. Zahara was born on January 8, 2005. She was originally named Yemsrach by her
mother, and was later given the legal name Tena Adam at an orphanage. Jolie adopted
her from Wide Horizons For Children orphanage in Addis Ababa. Shortly after they
returned to the United States, Zahara was hospitalized for dehydration and

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malnutrition. In 2007, media outlets reported Zahara's biological mother, Mentewabe

Dawit, was still alive and wanted her daughter back, but she later denied these reports,
saying she thought Zahara was "very fortunate" to be adopted by Jolie. Brad Pitt was
reportedly present when Jolie signed the adoption papers and collected her daughter;
later Jolie indicated that she and Pitt made the decision to adopt Zahara together.
Jolie gave birth to a daughter, Shiloh Nouvel, in Swakopmund, Namibia, by a
scheduled caesarean section, on May 27, 2006. Pitt confirmed that their newly-born
daughter would have a Namibian passport, and Jolie decided to sell the first pictures of
Shiloh through the distributor Getty Images herself, rather than allowing paparazzi to
make these valuable photographs. People paid more than $4.1 million for the North
American rights, while British magazine Hello! obtained the international rights for
roughly $3.5 million. All profits were donated to an undisclosed charity by Jolie and
Pitt. Madame Tussauds in New York unveiled a wax figure of two-month-old Shiloh; it
was the first infant re-created in wax by Madame Tussauds.
On March 15, 2007, Jolie adopted a three-year-old boy from Vietnam, Pax
Thien, who was born on November 29, 2003 and abandoned at birth at a local hospital,
where he was initially named Pham Quang Sang. Jolie adopted the boy from the Tam
Binh orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City. She revealed that his first name, Pax, was
suggested by her mother before her death.
Following months of tabloid speculation, Jolie confirmed she was expecting
twins at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. She gave birth to a boy, Knox Lon, and a girl,
Vivienne Marcheline, by caesarean section at the Lenval hospital in Nice, France, on
July 12, 2008. The rights for the first images of Knox and Vivienne were jointly sold
to People and Hello! for $14 millionthe most expensive celebrity pictures ever
taken. The money went to the Jolie/Pitt Foundation.

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Conclusion
While most Hollywood stars do everything they can to appear cool, professional and
squeaky-clean, diligently concealing all their nasty little secrets, Angelina Jolie
appears wholly unconcerned by controversy. Ever-keen to talk about her breakdowns,
her disorders, her fantasies and her world-famous penchant for S&M, many would say
she has built a career on titillating public confession. But she is also an increasingly
fine and award-winning performer, her Oscar for Girl, Interrupted being only the first
in a string of prestigious honours. Onscreen she is a risk-taker, and perhaps deserves to
be seen as the spiritual sister of such greats as Streep, Pfeiffer and Lange. Beyond this,
her international efforts on behalf of children and refugees have made her the most
public-minded superstar since Audrey Hepburn.

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Awards
Year

Award

Golden Globe
Award

Screen Actors
Guild Award

Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made

Won

Outstanding Performance by a
Female Actor in a TV Movie or

Won

Miniseries

Award

Picture

Screen Actors

Outstanding Performance by a

Guild Award

Female Actor in a Supporting Role

Award

Result

for TV

Best Supporting Actress Motion

People's Choice

Film

Best Performance by an Actress in a

Golden Globe

Academy Award

2004

Category

Won

Won

Performance by an Actress in a

Won

Supporting Role

Favourite Female Action Star

Golden Globe

Best Performance by an Actress in a

Award

Motion Picture Drama

Screen Actors

Outstanding Performance by a

Guild Award

Female Actor in a Leading Role

Golden Globe

Best Performance by an Actress in a

Award

Motion Picture Drama

Screen Actors

Outstanding Performance by a

Guild Award

Female Actor in a Leading Role

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Sky Captain And The

World Of Tomorrow

Won

Nominated

Nominated

Nominated

Nominated

BAFTA Award Best Actress in a Leading Role

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Angelina Jolie with one of her adopted child

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Angelina Jolie and her husband, Brad Pitt.

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Angelina Jolie in Tomb Raider (2001)

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