Who is Angelina Jolie ?

Suddenly very much in demand, Jolie landed roles in higher-profile big-screen projects such as Playing By Heart (1998), Pushing Tin (1999) and The Bone Collector (1999).

At the tender age of sixteen, she was signed with Finesse Model Management. She usually wore dark clothes in her modeling shoots

She later studied drama at New York University. In addition to acting in theatre productions, she modeled and appeared in music videos.

Angelina was named the sexiest person in history in 2007, beating her partner Brad Pitt.

Jolie’s first major movie role was in Hackers (1995), during the filming of which she met her first husband, British actor Jonny Lee Miller (married 1996; divorced 1999). The film failed to find an audience, as did a series of subsequent movies.

Jolie gave birth to twins, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, on July 12, 2008, in a seaside hospital in southern France.

Jolie later attended New York University.

It was Jolie’s mesmerizing turn as the charismatic sociopath Lisa in Girl, Interrupted, however, that catapulted her to A-list Hollywood stardom.

In 1997, however, Jolie garnered much attention portraying the wife of Alabama’s segregationist governor in the television movie George Wallace, and she later won a Golden Globe Award for her portrayal.

The couple sold the rights for the first images of their twins to People and Hello! magazines for $14 million—making them the most expensive celebrity pictures ever taken. The money went to the Jolie-Pitt Foundation.

The following year she played a supermodel struggling with drug addiction in the HBO movie Gia, a performance that earned her multiple honours, including a Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

Her natural hair color is dark blonde. Her mother dyed it dark brown when she was four or five and she’s kept it dark ever since.

She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the role, and characteristically raised eyebrows by locking lips with her older brother, James Haven, at the 2000 Oscar ceremony.

She lost her mother, Marcheline Bertrand in 2007 after she died of ovarian cancer at the age of 56 after fighting the disease for many years.

In 1999 she appeared in the comedy Pushing Tin with John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton, and the following year she married Thornton (divorced 2003).

She had an obsessive crush is “Dr. Spock”. Doctor Spock is a fictional character from the TV program Star Treck that became famous during the 1970’s, the era when Angelina was on her youth.

Brad proposed to Angelina in 2012. He gave her a tablet-shaped diamond engagement ring -- estimated at 16 carats and worth $500,000 - which he helped design with jeweler Robert Procop.

That May, Jolie again generated a flurry of headlines when she wed Billy Bob Thornton, her much older, four-times-married co-star in Pushing Tin (1999), in a quickie ceremony in Las Vegas.

Her godparents are Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell. Bisset has starred in movies such as Casino Royale, The Deep, Class and actor Schell won the Oscar for the movie Judgment at Nuremberg.

After her Oscar-winning turn in Girl, Interrupted, Jolie starred in a series of action movies.

She played the girlfriend of a carjacker (Nicolas Cage) in Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) and later adopted a British accent and mastered street fighting and kickboxing for the title roles in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and Lara Croft Tomb Raider:

Probably one of her first tattoos, Jolie’s tattoo on her left arm was done in her mother’s presence. The tattooed words are “A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages” ad was inspired by the words of Tennessee Williams.

. Don’t expect a wedding anytime soon, they say they will only get married once gay marriage is legal in all of the United States.

The Cradle of Life (2003). In 2004 she portrayed the mother of Alexander the Great in Oliver Stone’s Alexander and also starred opposite Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, a sci-fi thriller set in 1930s New York City.

Angelina has a tattoo between her shoulder blades that says “Know Your Rights”. This phrase tattooed is a title of a song from her favorite band, The Clash.