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The Angelina Jolie (Voight) was born on Jun, 4 ,1975 in Los Angeles, CA. Like her older brother by two years, director James Haven Jolie seemed destined for a career in the arts. At the age of 11, she began studying at the famed Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in NYC. Even before commencing her screen debut as a tyke in a bit part in the Hal Ashby-directed comedy "Lookin to Get Out" (filmed in 1980; released 1982).while reviewers savaged the movie (Jon), its littlest thespian fortunately imaged unscathed. The experience briefly turned young Angelina off of show business - she even briefly considered going into funeral directing for a time but because it was in her blood, she eventually bounced back

From Hollywood wild-child to Academy Award winner to respected U.N. Goodwill Ambassador, actress Angelina Jolie underwent a series of metamorphic transformations over the course of her career. An exceeding beautiful, strikingly talented performer, Jolie broke onto the scene in the mid-1990s, quickly gaining a reputation for both her on-screen work as well as her outrageous off-camera antics.

Interestingly enough, however, within a decade, Jolie shed her reckless image and successfully managed to re-invent herself - not only as an artist but also as a celebrity humanitarian of the highest order. Only half-chidingly dubbed by Esquire magazine as "the best woman in the world, in terms of her generosity, her dedication and her courage"


More film work readily followed for Jolie, initially in small-scale character-driven indies. In an indifferently received adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates novel "Foxfire" (1996), Jolie played a mysterious outsider named Legs Sadovsky - described in Variety as "sort of a female James Dean" Who helps some other teenaged girls stands up for their rights. While the films remained largely unseen by most moviegoers, Jolie received strong notices for each of these projects.