Line #76 Creator/AngelinaJolie


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6	->''"If I make a fool of myself, who cares? I'm not frightened by anyone's perception of me."''
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8	Angelina Jolie, [[UsefulNotes/KnightFever DCMG]] (born Angelina Jolie Voight; June 4, 1975) is an American actress and director. She is the daughter of actors Creator/JonVoight and Marcheline Bertrand.
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10	Jolie has received numerous accolades for her film work, including an UsefulNotes/AcademyAward, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three UsefulNotes/{{Golden Globe Award}}s. Outside of Hollywood, she has promoted humanitarian causes throughout the world, and is noted for her work as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UsefulNotes/UnitedNations Refugee Agency (UNHCR)[[labelnote:*]]United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees[[/labelnote]]. She has often been cited as one of the world's most beautiful women and her off-screen life is widely reported on. Divorced from actors Creator/JonnyLeeMiller and Creator/BillyBobThornton, she entered a high-profile relationship with Creator/BradPitt in 2005. The couple married in 2014, but Jolie filed for a divorce in 2016. She and Pitt have six children: Maddox, Zahara, Pax, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne (three biological, three adopted). She has multiple tattoos, several of which she has had removed or covered over the years, most notably her "Billy Bob" and dragon tattoos. She has also been very open and honest about her "wild child" past and her bisexuality.
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12	She is known for her varied roles (though she does tend to be cast as strong female characters, usually {{Action Girl}}s) and her critically acclaimed acting, including earning Oscar nominations for her roles in ''Film/GirlInterrupted'' and ''Film/{{Changeling}}''. Unfortunately, her incredible acting skills and charity work tend to be overshadowed by (usually false and malicious) rumours, her personal life, her estrangement from her father (they couldn't be more different politically), and, more recently, her relationship with fellow actor Creator/BradPitt, whom she separated from in 2016. Her career started off very quietly, with a lot of independent movies and low-popularity fare (which featured a ton of nudity and a lot of Wild Child-type parts), before [[StarMakingRole a big break]] in ''Girl, Interrupted'' earned her the Best Supporting Actress Oscar and mainstream credibility. Unlike many female actors, she continued to do nude work well after she hit big.
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14	In 2011, she made her directorial debut with ''In the Land of Blood and Honey'', a low-key drama about the Bosnian War. In 2014, she directed the UsefulNotes/WorldWarII film ''Film/{{Unbroken}}''. Her fourth film, ''Film/FirstTheyKilledMyFather'', was nominated for a UsefulNotes/GoldenGlobeAward for Foreign Language Film in 2018.
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16	She has become highly active in efforts to end sexual violence in conflict, heading up a major summit on the issue held in London.
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18	!!Filmography:
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21	[[folder:Acting roles]]
22	* ''Film/LookinToGetOut'' (1982) as Tosh
23	* ''[[Film/Cyborg1989 Cyborg 2]]'' (1993) as Casella "Cash" Reese
24	* ''Film/{{Hackers}}'' (1995) as Kate "Acid Burn" Libby
25	* ''Film/WithoutEvidence'' (1996) as Jodie Swearingen
26	* ''Film/LoveIsAllThereIs'' (1996) as Gina Malacici
27	* ''Film/MojaveMoon'' (1996) as Ellie
28	* ''Film/{{Foxfire\|1996}}'' (1996) as Margaret "Legs" Sadovsky
29	* ''Film/TrueWomen'' (1997) as Georgia Lawshe Woods
30	* ''Film/GeorgeWallace'' (1997) as Cornelia Wallace
31	* ''Film/PlayingGod'' (1997) as Claire
32	* ''Film/{{Gia}}'' (1998) as Gia Carangi
33	* ''Film/HellsKitchen'' (1998) as Gloria [=McNeary=]
34	* ''Film/PlayingByHeart'' (1998) as Joan
35	* ''Film/PushingTin'' (1998) as Mary Bell
36	* ''Film/TheBoneCollector'' (1999) as Amelia Donaghy
37	* ''Film/GirlInterrupted'' (1999) as Lisa Rowe
38	* ''Film/{{Gone In Sixty Seconds\|2000}}'' (2000) as Sara "Sway" Wayland
39	* ''Film/LaraCroftTombRaider'' (2001) as [[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft]]
40	* ''Film/{{Original Sin\|2001}}'' (2001) as Julia Russell
41	* ''Film/LifeOrSomethingLikeIt'' (2002) as Lanie Kerrigan
42	* ''Film/LaraCroftTombRaiderTheCradleOfLife'' (2003) as [[Franchise/TombRaider Lara Croft]]
43	* ''Film/BeyondBorders'' (2003) as Sarah Jordan
44	* ''Film/TakingLives'' (2004) as Illeana Scott
45	* ''Film/SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow'' (2004) as Francesca "Franky" Cook
46	* ''Film/TheFever'' (cameo) (2004) as Revolutionary
47	* ''Film/{{Alexander}}'' (2004) as Olympias
48	* ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale'' (2004) as Lola (voice)
49	* ''[[Film/MrAndMrsSmith2005 Mr. & Mrs. Smith]]'' (2005) as Jane Smith
50	* ''Film/TheGoodShepherd'' (2006) as Margaret "Clover" Russell Wilson
51	* ''Film/AMightyHeart'' (2007) as Mariane Pearl
52	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Beowulf\|2007}}'' (2007) as Grendel's Mother (motion-capture and voice-over)
53	* ''Film/{{Wanted}}'' (2008) as Fox
54	* ''Film/{{Changeling}}'' (2008) as Christine Collins
55	* ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda1'' (2008) as Master Tigress (voice)
56	** ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda2'' (2011)
57	** ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3'' (2016)
58	* ''Film/{{Salt}}'' (2010) as Evelyn Salt
59	* ''Film/TheTourist'' (2010) as Elise Clifton-Ward
60	* ''Film/{{Maleficent}}'' (2014) as Maleficent
61	* ''Film/{{By The Sea\|2015}}'' (2015) as Vanessa
62	* ''Film/MaleficentMistressOfEvil'' (2019) as Maleficent
63	* ''Film/ComeAway'' (2020) as Rose Littleton
64	* ''Film/ThoseWhoWishMeDead'' (2021) as Hannah Faber
65	* ''Film/{{Eternals}}'' (2021) as Thena
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68	[[folder:As director]]
69	[[index]]
70	* ''Film/APlaceInTime'' (2007)
71	* ''Film/InTheLandOfBloodAndHoney'' (2011)
72	* ''Film/{{Unbroken}}'' (2014)
73	* ''Film/{{By The Sea\|2015}}'' (2015) (as "Angelina Jolie-Pitt")
74	* ''Film/FirstTheyKilledMyFather: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers'' (2017)
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78	!!Tropes common to Angelina Jolie's roles:
79	* ActionGirl: Is well-known for playing them, although it certainly isn't the only type of role she can play. Examples include [[Film/LaraCroftTombRaider Lara Croft]], [[Film/MrAndMrsSmith2005 Jane Smith]], [[Film/{{Salt}} Evelyn Salt]], [[Film/{{Wanted}} Fox]], Film/{{Maleficent}}, and [[Franchise/KungFuPanda Master Tigress]]. She's probably '''the''' most bankable ActionGirl in Hollywood history; according to Box Office Mojo, three of the top twelve highest-grossing films under its Action Heroine category are Jolie films, and the list doesn't factor in ''Wanted'', in which Jolie had a prominent ActionGirl supporting role, or ''Film/{{Maleficent}}'', a fantasy smash hit credited to her star power; both would place in the top-six if included and her films have only dropped down the list due to the recent success of ''Film/TheHungerGames'' and ''Film/{{Divergent}}''.
80	* {{Biopic}}: She portrayed Gia Marie Carangi in ''Film/{{Gia}}''.
81	* TheCastShowoff: In ''Film/LaraCroftTombRaiderTheCradleOfLife'', there's a scene where Lara plays with a switchblade. Jolie collects knives and is evidently good at handling them.
82	* ComicBookFantasyCasting: The comic book ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'' redesigned the Scarlet Witch after Jolie's likeness.
83	* FascinatingEyebrow: She's a master of this when the role requires it. ''Film/LaraCroftTombRaider'' is a good example.
84	* FakeNationality: Angelina has played several non-American characters:
85	** British in ''Film/TheTourist'', the ''Film/LaraCroftTombRaider'' films, and ''Film/SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow''.
86	** Epirote in ''Film/{{Alexander}}''.
87	** French, as Mariane Pearl in ''Film/AMightyHeart''.
88	** Russian in ''Film/{{Salt}}'' (but it fits as Salt is supposed to be a DeepCoverAgent... and she is one among many {{Fake Russian}}s there).
89	* FriendToAllChildren: Guaranteed. Brangelina have adopted three children. Her conviction runs so deep, has also spoken in an official capacity to the UN on the plight of refugee children.
90	* HollywoodHypeMachine: A major success story. It got behind her around ''Film/GirlInterrupted'' and hasn't stopped since, and shows few signs of faltering.
91	* HowlOfSorrow: She is very, ''very'' good at this when the role calls for it, especially in ''Film/AMightyHeart''. Film/{{Maleficent}} also deserves a mention.
92	* InkSuitActor: Despite being a fish, Lola from ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale'' looks an awful lot like Jolie.
93	* MsFanservice:
94	** She is one of the most prolific female actors in Hollywood history for showing her naked body in film - easily one of the most nude "mainstream" stars. ''Film/LaraCroftTombRaider'' and ''Film/{{Wanted}}'' are two examples (although there it's [[ToplessnessFromTheBack only from the back]]). Her early works add up to the point where she has more movies where she got naked than ones where she didn't. It's also pretty fitting that "Jolie" translates as "beautiful" in French.
95	** A notable example of her being completely naked is in ''Film/{{Gia}}''. After leaving the bedroom to find her absent partner, she finds her in front of an elevator. Although her naked body is mentioned by said partner, she is unfazed. Due to being unfazed, she continues to stand directly in front of the elevator only for two anonymous males to find her standing in front of them.
96	** Even when she's an animated character, her sexiness is played up when in ''WesternAnimation/SharkTale'', she plays an animated provocative fish that seduces all of the male fish.
97	* NoStuntDouble: In ''Film/LaraCroftTombRaider'' Jolie did most of her own stunts, the production crew even said that the stunt woman trying to do the pendulum swing got motion sickness while Jolie did it herself.
98	* StarMakingRole: Gia from ''Film/{{Gia}}''.
99	* StatuesqueStunner: She plays a lot of these roles, appearing visibly taller than her costars. Scenes need to be shot and edited to portray her as this as Jolie is 5'7 in real life.

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