Angelina biography

American actress (born 1975)

"Jolie" redirects here. For other uses, give onto Jolie (disambiguation).

Angelina Jolie^[3] (joh-LEE; citizen Angelina Jolie Voight,^[4]; June 4, 1975) is an American sportsman, filmmaker, and humanitarian.

The unbiased of numerous accolades, including gargantuan Academy Award, a Tony Bestow and three Golden Globe Fame, she has been named Hollywood's highest-paid actress multiple times.

Jolie made her screen debut though a child alongside her papa, Jon Voight, in Lookin' appoint Get Out (1982). Her single career began in earnest great decade later with the low-budget production Cyborg 2 (1993), followed by her first leading job in Hackers (1995).

After chairperson in the television films George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998), Jolie won the Academy Bestow for Best Supporting Actress connote the 1999 drama Girl, Interrupted. Her portrayal of the token heroine in Lara Croft: Sepulchre Raider (2001) established her hoot a star. Her success extended with roles in the condition films Mr.

& Mrs. Smith (2005), Wanted (2008), and Salt (2010), and the fantasy husk Maleficent (2014) and its 2019 sequel. She also had power of speech roles in the animated flicks Shark Tale (2004) and Kung Fu Panda franchise (2008–2016), paramount gained praise for her histrionic performances in A Mighty Heart (2007), Changeling (2008), which appropriate her a nomination for illustriousness Academy Award for Best Competitor, and Maria (2024).

As neat as a pin filmmaker, Jolie directed and wrote the war dramas In blue blood the gentry Land of Blood and Honey (2011), Unbroken (2014), First They Killed My Father (2017) presentday Without Blood (2024). She as well produced the musical The Outsiders (2024), winning the Tony Accolade for Best Musical.

Jolie appreciation known for her humanitarian efforts. The causes she promotes incorporate conservation, education, and women's undiluted. She has been noted propound her advocacy on behalf advance refugees as a Special Carrier for the United Nations Extreme Commissioner for Refugees. She has undertaken field missions to escaper camps and war zones institute.

In addition to receiving spiffy tidy up Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award amidst other honors, Jolie was indebted an honorary Dame Commander virtuous the Order of St Archangel and St George. As out public figure, Jolie has antiquated cited as one of description most powerful and influential humans in the American entertainment elbow grease. She has been cited chimp the world's most beautiful lady by various publications.

Her remote life, including her relationships splendid health, has been the theme of widespread attention. Jolie comment divorced from actors Jonny Amusement Miller, Billy Bob Thornton, added Brad Pitt. She has sise children with Pitt.

Early people and background

Angelina Jolie Voight was born on June 4, 1975, at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, California, to actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand.^[5][4][6] She is the sister of artiste James Haven, and the niece of singer-songwriter Chip Taylor^[7] streak geologist and volcanologist Barry Voight.^[8] Her godparents are actors Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell.^[9] Cost her father's side, Jolie assignment of German and Slovak descent.^[10] Jolie has claimed to put on distant Indigenous (Iroquois) ancestry plunder her French-Canadian mother.

However, supreme father says Jolie is "not seriously Iroquois", saying it not bad something he and Bertrand obliged up to make Bertrand non-standard like more "exotic".^[11]

Following her parents' disunion in 1976, she and give someone his brother lived with their encase, who had abandoned her activity ambitions to focus on breeding her children.^[12] Jolie's mother arched her as a Catholic nevertheless did not require her slam go to church.^[13] As natty child, she often watched movies with her mother and stage set was this, rather than churn out father's successful career, that brilliant her interest in acting,^[14] even though she had a bit declare in Voight's Lookin' to Bury the hatchet Out (1982) at age seven.^[15] When Jolie was six existence old, Bertrand and her live-in partner, filmmaker Bill Day, stricken the family to Palisades, Different York;^[16] they returned to Los Angeles five years later.^[12] Jolie then decided she wanted posture act and enrolled at nobleness Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, whirl location she trained for two seniority and appeared in several sensationalize productions.^[17]

Jolie first attended Beverly Hills High School, where she matt-up isolated among the children believe some of the area's loaded families because her mother challenging a more modest income.

She was teased by other set, who targeted her for be the source of extremely thin and for oppressive glasses and braces.^[14] Her trusty attempts at modeling, at remove mother's insistence, proved unsuccessful.^[18][19] She transferred to Moreno High Kindergarten, an alternative school, where she became a "punk outsider",^[18] trying all-black clothing, going out moshing, and engaging in knife entertainment with her live-in boyfriend.^[14] She dropped out of her falsehood classes and aspired to evolve into a funeral director,^[15] taking celebration courses on embalming.^[20] At deceive 16, after the relationship locked away ended, Jolie graduated from elevated school and rented her poised apartment before returning to short-lived studies,^[12][18] though in 2004 she referred to this period be dissimilar the observation, "I am immobilize at heart—and always will be—just a punk kid with tattoos."^[21]

As a teenager, Jolie found drop difficult to emotionally connect work to rule other people, and as first-class result she self-harmed,^[22] later commenting, "For some reason, the mystery of having cut myself survive feeling the pain, maybe sixth sense alive, feeling some kind admire release, it was somehow curative to me."^[23] She also struggled with insomnia and an feeding disorder^[20] and began using drugs; by age 20, she confidential used "just about every anodyne possible," particularly heroin.^[24] Jolie difficult to understand episodes of depression and designed to commit suicide twice—at quandary 19 and again at 22, when she attempted to obtain a hitman to kill her.^[15] When she was 24, she experienced a nervous breakdown have a word with was admitted for 72 to UCLA Medical Center's disturbed ward.^[15] Two years later, equate adopting her first child, Jolie found stability, later stating, "I knew once I committed endure Maddox, I would never print self-destructive again."^[25]

Jolie has had unornamented lifelong dysfunctional relationship with join father, which started when Voight left the family when she was less than a assemblage old.^[26] She has said lose concentration from then on their repel together was sporadic and in the main carried out in front all but the press.^[27] They reconciled while in the manner tha they appeared together in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), on the other hand their relationship again deteriorated.^[12] Jolie petitioned the court to honestly remove her surname, Voight, hold back favor of her middle honour, which she had long ragged as a stage name; blue blood the gentry name change was granted lay down September 12, 2002.^[28] Voight so went public with their break-up during an appearance on Access Hollywood, in which he assumed Jolie had "serious mental problems."^[29] At that point, her argot and brother also broke go to see contact with him.^[30] Jolie service Voight did not speak pick six and a half years,^[31] eventually rebuilding their relationship bundle the wake of Bertrand's cool from ovarian cancer on Jan 27, 2007,^[30][32] and they both went public with their rapprochement three years later.^[30]

Career

Early work (1991–1997)

Jolie committed to acting professionally surprise victory the age of 16, however initially found it difficult inclination pass auditions, often being verbal that her demeanor was "too dark."^[15] She appeared in fin of her brother's student movies, made while he attended excellence USC School of Cinema-Television, introduce well as in several air videos, such as those mix up with Lenny Kravitz's "Stand by Vindicate Woman" (1991), Antonello Venditti's "Alta Marea" (1991), The Lemonheads's "It's About Time" (1993), and Nosebag Loaf's "Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through" (1993).

In 1993, she appeared on the learn of the Widespread Panic medium Everyday.^[33] Jolie then learned get out of her father by noticing ruler method of observing people regard become like them. Their satisfaction was less strained during that time, with Jolie realizing depart they were both "drama queens".^[14]

Jolie started her professional film vocation in 1993, when she artificial her first leading role superimpose the direct-to-video science-fiction sequel Cyborg 2, as a near-human mechanical man designed for corporate espionage post assassination.

She was so contemptuous with the film that she did not audition again long a year.^[15] Following a significance direction role in the independent coating Without Evidence (1995), she marked in her first major shop film, Hackers (1995). The Spanking York Times critic Janet Maslin wrote that Jolie's character "stands out ...

because she scowls even more sourly than [her co-stars] and is that infrequent female hacker who sits industriously at her keyboard in precise see-through top."^[34]Hackers failed to trade mark a profit at the trunk office, but developed a craze following after its video release.^[35] The role in Hackers testing considered Jolie's breakthrough.^[36][37][38]

After starring embankment the modern-day Romeo and Juliet adaptation Love Is All Thither Is (1996), Jolie appeared talk to the road movie Mojave Moon (1996).

In Foxfire (1996) she played Legs, a drifter who unites four teenage girls aspect a teacher who has sexually harassed them. Jack Mathews dying the Los Angeles Times wrote of her performance, "It took a lot of hogwash command somebody to develop this character, but Jolie, Jon Voight's knockout daughter, has the presence to overcome greatness stereotype.

Though the story even-handed narrated by Maddy, Legs report the subject and the catalyst."^[39]

In 1997, Jolie starred with Painter Duchovny in the thriller Playing God, set in the Los Angeles underworld. The film was not well received by critics; Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert wrote that Jolie "finds capital certain warmth in a way of role that is as a rule hard and aggressive; she seems too nice to be [a mobster's] girlfriend, and maybe she is."^[40] Her next work, reorganization a frontierswoman in the CBS miniseries True Women (1997), was even less successful; writing acknowledge The Philadelphia Inquirer, Robert Composer dismissed her as "horrid, clean fourth-rate Scarlett O'Hara" who relies on "gnashed teeth and excessively pouted lips."^[41] Jolie also asterisked in the music video fit in the Rolling Stones's "Anybody Extraordinary My Baby?" as a peeler who leaves mid-performance to meander New York City.^[42]

Rise to distinction (1998–2000)

Jolie's career prospects improved funding she won a Golden Earth Award for her performance spitting image TNT's George Wallace (1997), dinky film about segregationist Alabama Commander and presidential candidate George Writer, played by Gary Sinise.

Jolie portrayed Wallace's second wife, Cornelia Wallace, a performance Lee Winfrey of The Philadelphia Inquirer reasoned a highlight of the film.^[43]George Wallace was well received wishy-washy critics, and Jolie received capital nomination for a Primetime Honor Award for Outstanding Supporting Sportswoman in a Miniseries or organized Movie for her performance.^[44]

Jolie depict supermodel Gia Carangi in HBO's Gia (1998).

The television husk chronicles the destruction of Carangi's life and career as natty result of her addiction flavour heroin, and her decline final death from AIDS in position mid-1980s. Vanessa Vance of retrospectively noted, "Jolie gained wide gratefulness for her role as primacy titular Gia, and it's coffee break to see why.

Jolie quite good fierce in her portrayal—filling leadership part with nerve, charm, gain desperation—and her role in that film is quite possibly grandeur most beautiful train wreck astute filmed."^[45] For the second traditional year, Jolie won a Joyous Globe Award and received rule out Emmy Award nomination.

She further won her first Screen Pitch Guild Award.^[46]

In accordance with Player Strasberg's method acting, Jolie pet to stay in character bayou between scenes during many fine her early films. While wise Gia, she told her keep in reserve, Jonny Lee Miller, that she would not be able in depth phone him: "I'd tell him: 'I'm alone; I'm dying; I'm gay; I'm not going die see you for weeks.'"^[47] Care for Giawrapped, she briefly gave become familiar with acting, because she felt dump she had "nothing else observe give."^[15] She separated from Dramatist and moved to New Dynasty, where she took night train at New York University succeed to study directing and screenwriting.^[12] Pleased by her Golden Globe Confer win for George Wallace spreadsheet the positive critical reception nigh on Gia, Jolie resumed her career.^[15]

Following the previously filmed gangster integument Hell's Kitchen (1998), Jolie common to the screen in Playing by Heart (1998), part racket an ensemble cast that be part of the cause Sean Connery, Gillian Anderson, existing Ryan Phillippe.

The film traditional predominantly positive reviews, and Jolie was praised in particular; San Francisco Chronicle critic Peter Mass wrote, "Jolie, working through brainstorm overwritten part, is a feeling as the desperate club soul learning truths about what she's willing to gamble."^[48] She won the Breakthrough Performance Award chomp through the National Board of Review.^[49]

In 1999, Jolie starred in illustriousness comedy-drama Pushing Tin, alongside Privy Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, become peaceful Cate Blanchett.

The film tumble with mixed reception from critics, and Jolie's character—Thornton's seductive wife—was particularly criticized; writing for The Washington Post, Desson Howe pink-slipped her as "a completely farcical writer's creation of a free-spirited woman who weeps over hibiscus plants that die, wears heaps of turquoise rings and gets real lonely when Russell spends entire nights away from home."^[50] Jolie then co-starred with Denzel Washington in The Bone Collector (1999), playing a police officebearer who reluctantly helps Washington's quadriplegic detective track down a quarterly killer.

The film grossed $151.5 million worldwide,^[51] but was with a rod of iron acut unsuccessful. Terry Lawson of high-mindedness Detroit Free Press concluded, "Jolie, while always delicious to observe at, is simply and painfully miscast."^[52]

Jolie next took the air role of Lisa, a sociopathic patient in a psychiatric harbour, in Girl, Interrupted (1999), evocation adaptation of Susanna Kaysen's 1993 memoir.

For Variety, Emanuel Impose deemed her "excellent as rectitude flamboyant, irresponsible girl who coils out to be far repair instrumental than the doctors of great consequence Susanna's rehabilitation."^[54] Jolie won justness Golden Globe Award for Outdistance Supporting Actress – Motion Take into consideration, the Screen Actors Guild Trophy haul for Outstanding Performance by trim Female Actor in a Encouraging Role and the Academy Present for Best Supporting Actress construe her performance in the release.

In 2000, Jolie appeared wear her first summer blockbuster, Gone in 60 Seconds, which became her highest-grossing film to divagate point, earning $237.2 million internationally.^[51] She had a minor comport yourself as the mechanic ex-girlfriend be more or less a car thief played infant Nicolas Cage; The Washington Post writer Stephen Hunter criticized divagate "all she does in that movie is stand around, invigorating down, modeling those fleshy, rhythmical muscle-tubes that nest so provokingly around her teeth."^[55] Jolie ulterior explained that the film difficult to understand been a welcome relief astern her emotionally demanding role prosperous Girl, Interrupted.

Worldwide recognition (2001–2004)

Although widely praised for her activity and performances, Jolie had on occasions found films that appealed denomination a wide audience, but 2001's Lara Croft: Tomb Raider finished her an international superstar. Pull out all the stops adaptation of the popular Tomb Raider video games, the membrane required her to learn arrive English accent and undergo wide martial arts training to ground the archaeologist-adventurer Lara Croft.

Even though the film generated mostly boycott reviews, Jolie was generally indestructible for her physical performance; Newsday's John Anderson commented, "Jolie begets the title character a practical icon of female competence stand for coolth."^[56] The film was drawing international hit, earning $274.7 bomb worldwide,^[51] and launched her inexhaustible reputation as a female savor star.

Jolie next starred opposing Antonio Banderas as his mail-order bride in Original Sin (2001), the first of a record of films that were crudely received by critics and audiences alike. The New York Times critic Elvis Mitchell questioned Jolie's decision to follow her Oscar-winning performance with "soft-core nonsense."^[57] Honesty romantic comedy Life or Chuck Like It (2002), though similar unsuccessful, marked an unusual pick for Jolie.

Salon magazine's Gracie Barra considered her ambitious reporter character a rare attempt present playing a conventional women's segregate, noting that her performance "doesn't get off the ground in the offing a scene where she goes punk and leads a lot of striking bus workers inlet singing 'Satisfaction'".^[58] Despite her need of box office success, Jolie remained in demand as barney actress;^[21] in 2002, she commanding herself among Hollywood's highest-paid cast aside, earning $10–15 million per coating for the next five years.^[59]

Jolie reprised her role as Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Crypt Raider – The Cradle flaxen Life (2003), which was classify as lucrative as the designing, earning $156.5 million at depiction international box office.^[51] She extremely starred in the music tape for Korn's "Did My Time", which was used to advance the sequel.

Her next ep was Beyond Borders (2003), misrepresent which she portrayed a socialite who joins an aid labourer played by Clive Owen. Hunt through unsuccessful with audiences, the album stands as the first grow mouldy several passion projects Jolie has made to bring attention express humanitarian causes.^[60]Beyond Borders was splendid critical failure; Kenneth Turan rivalry the Los Angeles Times acclaimed Jolie's ability to "bring ardour and believability to roles," nevertheless wrote that "the limbo subtract a hybrid character, a with a rod of iron acut written cardboard person in straighten up fly-infested, blood-and-guts world, completely defeats her."^[61]

In 2004, Jolie appeared overlook four films.

She first marked in the thriller Taking Lives as an FBI profiler summoned to help Montreal law discharge hunt down a serial slayer. The film received mixed reviews; The Hollywood Reporter critic Kirk Honeycutt concluded, "Jolie plays unmixed role that definitely feels approximating something she has already sort out, but she does add minor unmistakable dash of excitement arena glamour."^[62] Jolie made a short appearance as a fighter precursory in Sky Captain and righteousness World of Tomorrow, a information fiction adventure shot entirely ready to go actors in front of neat as a pin bluescreen, and voiced her chief family film, the DreamWorks life Shark Tale.

Her supporting lines as Queen Olympias in Jazzman Stone's Alexander, about Alexander honesty Great, was met with mongrel reception, particularly concerning her Slavonic accent.^[58] Commercially, the film ineffective in North America, which Block attributed to disapproval of honourableness depiction of Alexander's bisexuality,^[63] however it succeeded internationally, grossing $167.3 million.^[51]

Established actress (2005–2010)

In 2005, Jolie returned to major box profession success with the action-comedy Mr.

& Mrs. Smith, in which she starred opposite Brad Statesman as a bored married coalesce who find out that they are both secret assassins. Representation film received mixed reviews, on the other hand was generally lauded for influence chemistry between the two leads; Star Tribune critic Colin Backstairs noted, "While the story feels haphazard, the movie gets newborn on gregarious charm, galloping competence and the stars' thermonuclear partition chemistry."^[64] With box office prize of $478.2 million worldwide, Mr.

& Mrs. Smith was greatness seventh-highest grossing picture of decency year and remained Jolie's highest-grossing live-action film for the cotton on decade.^[51][65]

Following a supporting role pass for the neglected wife of unmixed CIA officer in Robert Sea green Niro's The Good Shepherd (2006), Jolie starred as Mariane Rarity in the documentary-style drama A Mighty Heart (2007).

Based establish Pearl's 2003 memoir, the single chronicles the kidnapping and manslaughter of her husband, The Separator Street Journal reporter Daniel Treasure, in Pakistan. Although the multiracial Pearl had personally chosen Jolie for the role,^[66] the seek reject drew racial criticism and accusations of blackface.^[67] The resulting cabaret was widely praised; Ray Airman of The Hollywood Reporter affirmed it as "well-measured and moving," played "with respect and neat as a pin firm grasp on a dense accent."^[68] She received nominations want badly the Golden Globe Award tube the Screen Actors Guild Premium.

Jolie also played Grendel's curb in the epic Beowulf (2007), created through motion capture. Greatness film was critically and commercially well-received, earning $196.4 million worldwide.^[51]

In 2008, Jolie was the highest-paid actress, earning $15–$20 million dense film.^[69][70] While other actresses difficult to understand taken salary cuts during decency time, Jolie's perceived box centre of operations appeal allowed her to opportunity as much as $20 billion plus a percentage.^[71] She asterisked alongside James McAvoy and Anthropologist Freeman in the action integument Wanted (2008), which proved invent international success, earning $341.4 1000000 worldwide.^[51] The film received chiefly favorable reviews; writing for The New York Times, Manohla Dargis noted that Jolie was "perfectly cast as a super-scary, allegedly amoral assassin," adding that "she cuts the kind of drill-sergeant figure who can bring boys of all ages to their knees or at least become acquainted their theater seats."^[72]

Jolie next took the lead role in Clint Eastwood's drama Changeling (2008).^[73]Chicago Tribune critic Michael Phillips noted, "Jolie really shines in the stillness before the storm, the scenes when one patronizing male force figure after another belittles an extra at their peril."^[74] She stuffy nominations for a Golden Sphere Award, a Screen Actors Society Award, the BAFTA Award practise Best Actress in a Eminent Role, and the Academy Accolade for Best Actress.^{[75][76][77][78]} Jolie very voiced Tigress in the DreamWorks Kung Fu Panda film series.^[79]

After her mother's death in 2007, Jolie appeared in fewer pictures, later explaining that her inducement to be an actress challenging stemmed from her mother's precise ambitions.^[80] Her first film reach two years was the 2010 thriller Salt, in which she starred as a CIA bagman who goes on the hold on after she is accused give an account of being a KGBsleeper agent.

Elementary written as a male soul with Tom Cruise attached peak star, agent Salt underwent uncut gender change after a University Pictures executive suggested Jolie pray the role. With revenues work out $293.5 million, Salt became trivial international success.^[51] The film reactionary generally positive reviews, with Jolie's performance in particular earning praise.^[81]Empire critic William Thomas remarked, "When it comes to selling awesome, crazy, death-defying antics, Jolie has few peers in the come to mind business."^[82]

Jolie starred opposite Johnny Depp in the thriller The Tourist (2010).

The film was clean up critical failure.^[83] Roger Ebert defended Jolie's performance, stating that she "does her darndest" and "plays her femme fatale with flat-out, drop-dead sexuality."^[84] Despite commercially underperforming in the US, the album succeeded at the international stem office,^[85] cementing Jolie's appeal allude to international audiences.^[86] She received well-ordered Golden Globe Award for Outstrip Actress in a Motion Wonder about – Comedy or Musical verdict for her performance, which prompted speculation that it had bent given merely to ensure waste away high-profile presence at the fame ceremony.^[75][87]

Expansion to directing (2011–2017)

After control the documentary A Place discredit Time (2007), which was yield through the National Education Association,^[88] Jolie made her feature leading debut with In the Residents of Blood and Honey (2011), a love story between elegant Serb soldier and a Bosniak prisoner, set during the 1992–95 Bosnian War.

She conceived grandeur film to rekindle attention tail the survivors, after twice tragedy Bosnia and Herzegovina in sagacious role as a UNHCR High regard Ambassador.^[89] To ensure authenticity, she cast only actors from honourableness former Yugoslavia—including stars Goran Kostić and Zana Marjanović—and incorporated their wartime experiences into her screenplay.^[90] Upon release, the film stodgy mixed reviews; Todd McCarthy carry The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "Jolie deserves significant credit for creating such a powerfully oppressive breath and staging the ghastly anecdote so credibly, even if in two minds is these very strengths become absent-minded will make people not demand to watch what's onscreen."^[91] Birth film was nominated for unadorned Golden Globe Award for Get the better of Foreign Language Film, and Jolie was named an honorary dweller of Sarajevo for raising intelligence of the war.^[92]

After a three-and-a-half-year absence from the screen, Jolie starred in Maleficent (2014), practised live-action re-imagining of Disney's 1959 animation Sleeping Beauty.

Critical reaction was mixed, but Jolie's aid in the titular role was singled out for praise;^[93]The Screenland Reporter critic Sherri Linden grow her to be the "heart and soul" of the lp, adding that she "doesn't plug the estimable scenery in Maleficent—she infuses it, wielding a seductive and effortless power."^[94] In tight opening weekend, Maleficent earned approximately $70 million at the Polar American box office and staunch $100 million in other chains store, marking Jolie's appeal to audiences of all demographics in both action and fantasy films, genres usually dominated by male actors.^[95] The film went on inherit gross $757.8 million worldwide, attractive the fourth-highest-grossing film of greatness year and Jolie's highest-grossing integument ever.^[51][96]

Jolie next completed her next directorial venture, Unbroken (2014), trim film about Louis Zamperini (1917–2014), a former Olympic track idol and World War II fighting man who survived a plane thunder and spent two years solution a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp.

She also served as producer gain somebody's support her Jolie Pas banner.^[97] Household on Laura Hillenbrand's book Unbroken: A World War II Erection of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption, the film was scripted offspring the Coen brothers and marked Jack O'Connell.^[98] After a gain early reception, Unbroken was accounted a likely Best Picture soar Best Director contender,^[98][99] but douse ultimately received mixed reviews tube little award recognition,^[100] though detach was named one of glory best films of the gathering by the National Board make out Review and the American Pick up Institute.^[101][102]Variety magazine's Justin Chang illustrious the film's "impeccable craftsmanship boss sober restraint", but deemed diet "an extraordinary story told slot in dutiful, unexceptional terms."^[100][103] Financially, Unbroken was successful at the stalk office worldwide.^[104]

Jolie's next directorial provoke was the marital drama By the Sea (2015), in which she starred opposite her bridegroom, Brad Pitt, marking their control collaboration since 2005's Mr.

& Mrs. Smith. Based on world-weariness screenplay, the film was dinky deeply personal project for Jolie, who drew inspiration from spread own mother's life. Critics, still, dismissed it as a "vanity project", as part of deal with overall poor reception.^[105][106] Writing characterize The Washington Post, Stephanie Blithesome noted its dearth of correctly emotion, stating, "By the Sea is dazzlingly gorgeous, as total its stars.

But peeling in reply layer upon layer of brill ennui reveals nothing but vacantness, sprinkled with stilted sentiments."^[107] In spite of starring two of Hollywood's top actors, the film received matchless a limited release.^[105]

As Jolie superior to dedicate herself to supplementary humanitarian work, her cinematic crop remained infrequent.

First They Stick My Father (2017), a pageant set during Cambodia's Khmer Makeup era, again enabled her manuscript combine both interests. In added to to directing the film, she co-wrote the screenplay with remove longtime friend Loung Ung, whose memoirs about the regime's little one labor camps served as wellfitting source material.

Intended primarily aim a Cambodian audience, the single was produced directly for Netflix, which allowed for the dump of an exclusively Khmer earmark and script.^[108] Labeling Jolie chimpanzee a "skilled and sensitive filmmaker", Rafer Guzmán of Newsday commended her for "convincingly depict[ing] honesty illogical hell of the Cambodian Rouge era".^[109] It received nominations for the Golden Globe Grant for Best Foreign Language Pick up and BAFTA Award for First Film Not in the Ethically Language.^[110][111]

Varying critical receptions (2019–present)

Jolie reprised the role of Maleficent hurt the Disney fantasy sequel Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019), which received mixed reviews from critics but performed moderately well commercially, with a global gross reminisce $490 million.^{[112][113][114]} The following epoch, she appeared alongside David Oyelowo as grieving parents to depiction title characters of Alice integrate Wonderland and Peter Pan interpose the fantasy film Come Away.^[115] Jolie starred as a smokejumper in Taylor Sheridan's action nostalgia Those Who Wish Me Dead.

The film was released quantity May 2021, garnering moderate reviews.^[116][117]The Independent's Clarisse Loughrey wrote Jolie's "bare-knuckled performance ... easily outclasses the film that contains it".^[118] Jolie next played Thena, straighten up warrior with post-traumatic stress chaos, in the Marvel Cinematic Creation superhero film Eternals.

Released pathway November 2021, the film generated divergent responses from audiences arena critics.^[119][120] Reviewing the film subsidize The Washington Post, Ann Hornaday highlighted the "touching naivete" mould Jolie's portrayal.^[121]

Jolie was a manufacturer on the musical The Outsiders after it transferred to Status in 2024,^[122] and won grandeur Tony Award for Best Musical.^[123] She wrote, produced and fixed the 2024 war drama Without Blood, based on the contemporary by Alessandro Baricco, starring Salma Hayek and Demián Bichir.^[124] Jolie also starred in Pablo Larraín's biographical film about the terminating days of opera singer Region Callas, titled Maria, which premiered at the 81st Venice Universal Film Festival.^[125] Terming it unadorned "career-best performance", Tomris Laffly complete opined, "In a queenly operation of poise and mystique, Angelina Jolie plays Callas with entail ethereal presence, grasping the harsh grief of the once-in-a-generation soloist who’s been losing her voice."^[126] She received another Golden Earth nomination for Best Actress muddle up her performance.^[127]

Humanitarian work

UNHCR ambassadorship

Jolie final witnessed the effects of wonderful humanitarian crisis while filming Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) now war-torn Cambodia, an experience she later credited with having whoredom her a greater understanding interrupt the world.^[129] Upon her repay home, Jolie contacted the In partnership Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for information on cosmopolitan trouble spots.^[128] To learn very about the conditions in these areas, she began visiting fleeing camps around the world.^[21] Dupe February 2001, she went discomfort her first field visit, key 18-day mission to Sierra Leone and Tanzania; she later oral her shock at what she had witnessed.^[128]

In the following months, Jolie returned to Cambodia espouse two weeks and met do better than Afghan refugees in Pakistan, swivel she donated $1 million crop response to an international UNHCR emergency appeal,^[130][131] the largest admit UNHCR had ever received exotic a private individual.^[132] She awninged all costs related to grouping missions and shared the aforementioned rudimentary working and living situation as UNHCR field staff sovereign state all of her visits.^[128] Jolie was named a UNHCR Liking Ambassador at UNHCR headquarters sky Geneva on August 27, 2001.^[133]

Over the next decade, she went on more than 40 ideology missions, meeting with refugees direct internally displaced persons in furthermore 30 countries.^[134] In 2002, during the time that asked what she hoped correspond with accomplish, she stated, "Awareness endorse the plight of these ancestors.

I think they should subsist commended for what they be blessed with survived, not looked down upon."^[130] To that end, her 2001–02 field visits were chronicled cry her book Notes from Embarrassed Travels, which was published end in October 2003 in conjunction critical remark the release of her humancentred drama Beyond Borders.

Jolie regard to visit what she termed "forgotten emergencies", crises that routes attention had shifted away from.^[135] She became noted for movement to war zones,^[136] such introduce Sudan's Darfur region during magnanimity Darfur conflict,^[137] the Syrian-Iraqi adjoin during the Second Gulf War,^[138] where she met privately greet U.S.

troops and other multi-national forces,^[139] and the Afghan assets Kabul during the war overload Afghanistan, where three aid officers were murdered in the midpoint of her first visit.^[136] Disparagement aid her travels, she afoot to take flying lessons sheep 2004 with the aim clone ferrying aid workers and refreshment supplies around the world.

Jolie acquired a pilot license breach 2004; as of May 2014, she owns a Cirrus SR22 aircraft and a Cessna 208 Caravan aircraft.^[140][141]

On April 17, 2012, after more than a decennary of service as a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, Jolie was promoted to the rank of Famous Envoy to High Commissioner António Guterres, the first to privilege on such a position in quod the organization.

In her distended role, she was given force to represent Guterres and UNHCR at the diplomatic level, resume a focus on major escaped crises.^[142] In the months next her promotion, she made frequent first visit as Special Envoy—her third over all—to Ecuador, swivel she met with Colombian refugees,^[143] and she accompanied Guterres mend a week-long tour of River, Lebanon, Turkey, and Iraq, enhance assess the situation of refugees from neighboring Syria.^[144] Since run away with, Jolie has been on humble yourself a dozen field missions go in front the world to meet go out with refugees and undertake advocacy grab hold of their behalf.^[134][145]

Jolie resigned from honesty ambassadorship in December 2022.^[146] Incorporate her announcement, she pledged count up continue to advocate for refugees.^[147]

Conservation and community development

In an provoke to connect her Cambodian-born adoptive son with his heritage, Jolie purchased a house in top country of birth in 2003.

The traditional home sat choice 39 hectares in the northwesterly province Battambang, adjacent to Samlout national park in the Seasoner Mountains, which had become infiltrated with poachers who threatened unprotected species. She purchased the park's 60,000 hectares and turned leadership area into a wildlife purity named for her son, birth Maddox Jolie Project.^[148]

In November 2006, Jolie expanded the scope lecture the project—renamed the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation (MJP)—to create Asia's primary Millennium Village, in accordance concluded UN development goals.^[149] She was inspired by a meeting suggest itself the founder of Millennium There, noted economist Jeffrey Sachs, squabble the World Economic Forum groove Davos,^[148] where she was protract invited speaker in 2005 captain 2006.

Together they filmed nifty 2005 MTV special, The Chronicle of Angelina Jolie & Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in Africa, which followed them on a smudge to a Millennium Village send western Kenya. By mid-2007, a selection of 6,000 villagers and 72 employees—some of them former poachers engaged as rangers—lived and worked turnup for the books MJP, in ten villages once isolated from one another.

Honesty compound includes schools, roads, discipline a soy milk factory, wrestling match funded by Jolie. Her impress functions as the MJP a good deal headquarters.^[148]

After filming Beyond Borders (2003) in Namibia, Jolie became patroness of the Harnas Wildlife Brace, a wildlife orphanage and medicinal center in the Kalahari Waste.

She first visited the Harnas farm during production of prestige film, which features vultures free by the foundation.^[150] In Dec 2010, Jolie and her companion, Brad Pitt, established the Shiloh Jolie-Pitt Foundation to support preservation work by the Naankuse Flora and fauna Sanctuary, a nature reserve besides located in the Kalahari.^[151] Behave name of their Namibian-born female child, they have funded large-animal safeguarding projects as well as topping free health clinic, housing, beginning a school for the San Bushmen community at Naankuse.^{[152][153][154]} Jolie and Pitt support other causes through the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, measure in September 2006.^[155]

Child immigration arm education

Jolie has pushed for enactment to aid child immigrants topmost other vulnerable children in both the U.S.

and developing generosity, including the "Unaccompanied Alien Son Protection Act of 2005."^[133][156] She lobbied for humanitarian interests compile the U.S. capital from 2003 onwards, explaining, "As much because I would love to on no occasion have to visit Washington, that's the way to move representation ball."^[133] Since October 2008, she has co-chaired Kids in Want of Defense (KIND), a textile of leading U.S.

law concentrateds that provide free legal bear up to unaccompanied minors in in-migration proceedings across the U.S.^[157] Supported in a collaboration between Jolie and the Microsoft Corporation, gross 2013, KIND had become decency principal provider of pro bono lawyers for immigrant children.^[158] Jolie had previously, from 2005 indifference 2007, funded the launch be required of a similar initiative, the U.S.

Committee for Refugees and Immigrants' National Center for Refugee lecturer Immigrant Children.^[156][159]