ANGELINA JOLIE
"That Jolie understands the Hollywood game is best illustrated by a tatoo she bears just below her bikini line which reads: Quod me nutrit me distruit"
Jolie has 8 (and still counting) tatoos:
-A cross on her left hip to cover up a dragon (pictured at left)
-A dragon on her left arm
-2 Indian symbols on her back
-A Japanese symbol for death on her right shoulder
-A "window" on her lower back
-The above tatoo which is on her lower stomach (pictured at left)
-"A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages" on her inside forearm
FACT SHEET
MOVIE CREDITS
Height: 5'7"
Birth Date: June 4, 1975
Parents: Academy Award Winner Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand
Nickname: Jellybean
Golden Globes Wins: 3
FUN FACTS
Favorite Saying: "Why sodomize dragonflies?"
Collects knives and blades
Childhood Ambition: To work in a funeral home
Wedding dress: Black leather pants and husband-to-be's name written in blood on a white shirt (they're divorced)
Cyborg 2 (1993)
Hackers (1995)
Mojave Moon (1996)
Foxfire (1996)
Love Is All
There Is (1996)
True Women (TV) (1997)
George Wallace (1997)
Playing God (1997)
Gia (1998)
Pushing Tin (1998)
Playing By Heart (1998)
Bone Collector (1999)
Girl, Interupted (2000)
Gone In
60 Seconds (2000)
Dancing in the dark (2000)
Angelina as the late model in Gia
Angelina in Playing by Heart
Angelina in Hackers
AWARDS, AWARDS, AWARDS
Angelina at the Golden Globes 2000 with her brother
(With her brother holding her hand she walked to the stage to accept her award for Best Supporting Actress):
"I had to bring my brother...I've always wanted him to see...(cheers and laughs from the audience). I just, he had to see the view from up here...(laughs)...it's kind of amazing...Um...This uh, this means so much to me 'cause the film means so much to me and uh, the experiene of it...just being with, uh, just being with people and being together and just exposing ourselves to each other and taking care of each other, and that's really what we should be doing every day...and um, thank you so much for letting me be free and telling me it's okay..."
Angelina at the Golden Globes, 1999 (below): She has won three years in a row for her performances in George Wallace, Gia,
and Girl, Interupted (respectfully).
Angelina at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, 2000 (left):
Her fellow actors gave her even more recognition for her role in Girl, Interrupted by awarding her with the award for Best Supporting Actress
AND THE OSCAR GOES TO...
Jolie accepts the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress
"I'm surprised nobody's ever fainted up here. I'm in shock...Winona, you're amazing and thank you for suppporting all of us through this...And Whoopi, everybody, and my family for loving me... my mom who is the most brave, beautiful woman I've ever known. And my dad. You're a great actor, but you're a better father. And Jaime, you're just...I have nothing without you. You are the strongest, most amazing man I've ever know. And I love you. And thank you so much."
List of Awards:
1997: Golden Globe: Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Made-for-TV Movie, George Wallace
1998: National Board of Review: Breakthrough Performance Award, Playing by Heart
1998: Golden Satellite; Best Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for TV, Gia
1998: Golden Globe; Best Actress in a Miniseries or Motion Picture Made for TV, Gia
1998: Screen Actors Guild; Female Actor in a Television or Miniseries, Gia
1999: Golden Globe; Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture, Girl, Interrupted
2000: ShoWest; Supporting Actress of the Year
2000: Screen Actors Guild; Female Actress in a Supporting Role ( Motion Picture), Girl, Interrupted
1999: Academy Award; Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture, Girl, Interrupted
It's a Family Affair
Angelina and her ex-Husband Jonny Lee Miller. The two met while filming the Sci-Fi cult classic, Hackers
Angelina with her brother, James Haven Voight, at the 1999 Golden Globe Awards
Angelina and her father, Academy Award and Golden Globe winner Jon Voight. Since she became an actress, Angelina has been going by her middle name, Jolie, with the idea of getting famous on her own merrit.
"I decided to drop my last name. Not because I don't love my dad and I'm not proud of him, but [because] I didn't want it to be an issue."
UPCOMING PROJECTS AND FILMS
ANGELINA JOLIE VS LARA CROFT
ANGELINA AS LARA
Angelina will star as Lara Croft in the upcoming Tomb Raider: The Movie. On her role, Angelina said, "I'm extremely excited, and I hope everybody in England will allow me to do it because I know she's one of your girls. So, I'm hoping to do her justice by you." The movie is expected to start production this summer in the Pinewood studios.
DANCING IN THE DARK
Also staring Antonio Banderas, Dancing in the Dark (left) is based on a novel by Cornell Woolrich and is currently being filmed in Tlaxcala, Mexico.
GONE IN SIXTY SECONDS
Also staring Nocolas Cage, James Duval, Vinnie Jones, Giovanni Ribisi, William Lee Scott and Robert Duval.
Due in theatres June 9, 2000.
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