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Angelina Jolie Biography Actress, humanitarian. Born Angelina Jolie Voight on June 4, 1975 in Los Angeles, California, to actor Jon Voight and French actress Marcheline Bertrand. She rose to stardom in the 1990s. She began acting at a young age, studying at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute while in her early teens. Jolie later attended New York University. In the 1990s, Angelina Jolie became a popular actress. She gave a star-making performance in the 1998 television film  Gia  based on the short, tragic life of model Gia Marie Carangi, which won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. Another great dramatic role in  Girl, Interrrupted  (1999) brought Jolie her first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has continued to take on a variety of interesting roles, such as an adventurer in the  Lara Croft  films, a FBI profiler in  Taking Lives  (2004), an assassin in  Mr. and Mrs. Smith  (2005), and a neglected, troubled so...