Angelina Jolie

Profession: Actress
Place/Date of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States, 04 June 2020
Associated with: Brad Pitt

Brad, 42, has also thanked citizens in the southern African country for their hospitality. He said: "They’ve been so gracious and made our stay here very special, and because of that we’ve had an incredible time with our family exploring the country, and had a truly peaceful birth of our daughter." Angelina added: "It’s been an amazing adventure. We just love this part of the world."

Brad and Angelina are not getting married - June 8, 2020
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie have no plans to get married. The couple - who held a press conference in Namibia yesterday (07.06.06) - insist their priority is their family and not tying the knot.

The ’Tomb Raider’ actress said: "There is nothing in the air. The focus is the kids, and we are obviously extremely committed to the children and as parents together. "So that kind of says it for us, and to have a ceremony on top of it is nothing."

Both Brad and Angelina have been married before. He divorced ’Friends’ star Jennifer Aniston last year (05), while she has had two husbands - British actor Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton. The couple - who have joint guardianship of adopted children, four-year-old Maddox and 16-month-old Zahara - welcomed their first biological child, Shiloh Nouvel, into the world last month.

The couple also revealed they were amazed people were surprised they wanted to have their baby in Namibia. She revealed: "We both had travelled to Africa and loved this part of the world. "People were shocked that we chose to come here, and they thought we were putting our child’s life in danger, but we did our homework about Namibia. We want to tell the world how magnificent this country and the people are." Brad added: "We had top-notch medical care. We could not have received better medical care even in America."

First picture of Angelina and Brad’s baby on the internet - June 7, 2020
The first picture of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt’s baby has been leaked onto the internet. The picture - which appears to be an upcoming cover of Britain’s Hello! Magazine - shows the ’Tomb Raider’ actress with her hair swept back, lying on her side with her head propped on her hand, looking down at the baby. Partner Brad is also shown, smiling and looking over their first born.

The headline reads: "The biggest exclusive of the year. Angelina and Brad with their new Baby Shiloh Nouvel." The scramble for the first official picture of the youngster - who was born on March 27 sparked a bidding war between some of the world’s biggest media outlets.

Deals to secure the rights to the image have reportedly been sold for upwards of $4 million. Lawyers for the agency which secured rights to publish the photo are now trying to find out how it came to be leaked onto the internet. Brad and Angelina announced on Monday (05.06.06) that they would be donating the proceeds from the sale of the photos to charity. The humanitarian actress is also a goodwill ambassador for the U.N. and has adopted two children - Cambodian-born son Maddox, 4, and 16-month-old Zahara, from Ethiopia - of whom Pitt now has shared legal guardianship.

Brad and Angelina giving money to charity - June 6, 2020
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are giving the money they make from their baby pictures to charity. The images of Shiloh Nouvel - the Hollywood couple’s first biological child - are believed to have fetched between $5 million to $7 million.

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Biography

Angelina Jolie Voight was born on June 4 1975 the daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. Raised by her mother after her parents divorced when she was just a year old, Angelinagre up in New York where she kept snakes and lizards as pets and became entranced by the movies.

Her family moved to LA when Angelina was eleven and she soon began working on her acting career, enrolling in the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute where ahe appeared in several productions. Despite her abilities Angelina was teased during her time at Beverley Hills High School - far from being beautiful and popular she was skinny, with glasses and braces and wore second hand clothes. At 14 she dropped out of theatre classes, harbouring dreams of becoming a funeral director, and began cutting herself. Angelina began a rebellious period of her life, moving out of home and in with her boyfriend.

At around the same time she was taken on by Finesse Model Management and took jobs in the US and Europe, she also appeared in several music videos for the likes of Meat Loaf and Lenny Kravitz. Then, at 16, she returned to acting and rekindled her relationship with her father. She appeared in several of her brother’s student films before, in 1993 she was offered a role in sci-fi flick Cyborg 2. Several equally poor productions followed before Angelina landed a role in Hackers, which was a cult hit and threw the actress in the direction of Jonny Lee Miller, whom she would soon marry.

Little known films such as Foxfire and Mojave Moon followed but it was the Golden Globe winning George Wallace that got Angelina noticed and Pushing Tin, which co-starred Billy Bob Thornton and The Bone Collector helped her on her way to global stardom. However it was her part as messed up teenager Lisa Rowe in Girl, Interrupted which won her her place on the Hollywood walk of fame. The role won her an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress as well as several other accolades.

Action movies Gone In 60 Seconds and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider followed and made sure Angelina was admired the world over by men and women alike. Meanwhile her personal life became just as fascinating than her on screen performances. Having divorced Jonny Lee Miller she married Pushing Tin costar Billy Bob Thornton, famously they wore vials of blood around their neck, however in 2003 they also divorced despite having adopted a Cambodian orphan, Maddox. At the same time she admitted she had had a relationship with a female costar on the set of Foxfire. Meanwhile she continued with her now much publicised humanitarian work, as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN and her film career, appearing in Alexander and Taking Lies among others.

In 2005 Angelina took a leading role in Mr & Mrs Smith, opposite Brad Pitt. Although the movie itself was widely panned the burgeoning relationship between Angelina and Brad, who was at the time in the process of splitting from Jennifer Aniston, made sure it was a hit. The relationship was also a success, in January 2006 Angelina announced that she was pregnant, just months after adopting second child, Ethiopian Zahara, she gave birth to Shiloh Jolie-Pitt.

Angelina has confirmed that she is working on a screen adaptation of Beowulf, A Mighty Heart and Atlas Shrugged.
updated January 2007
December 2007