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Angelina Jolie (born June 4, 1975) is an American film actress, a former fashion model, and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. She is the winner of three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and an Academy Award. She portrayed Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider alongside her father, Jon Voight. Angelina again took the leading role of Lara Croft in 2003, in The Cradle of Life.Angelina is often cited by the media as one of the world's most beautiful women and her off-screen life is widely reported. She currently lives with actor Brad Pitt, and they have two adopted children, Maddox from Cambodia and Zahara from Ethiopia, as well as one biological child, Shiloh.
While filming Tomb Raider in poverty-stricken Cambodia, Jolie became personally aware of worldwide humanitarian crises. She has traveled to different refugee camps around the world and has donated millions. UNHCR named her a Goodwill Ambassador on August 27, 2001 at UNHCR headquarters in Geneva.
Her more famous movies
The Good Sheperd (2006) as Clover Wilson
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) as Jane Smith
Alexander (2004/2005) as Olympias
Taking Lives (2004) as Illeana
Beyond Borders (2003) as Sarah Jordan
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003) as Lara Croft
Life or Something Like It (2002) as Lanie Kerrigan
Original Sin (2001) as Julia Russell
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) as Lara Croft
Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) as Sara 'Sway' Wayland
Girl, Interrupted (1999) as Lisa Rowe
The Bone Collector (1999) as Amelia Donaghy
Pushing Tin (1999) as Mary Bell
Playing by Heart (1998) as Joan
Gia (1998) as Gia Marie Carangi
Playing God (1997) as Claire
Foxfire (1996) as Margret "Legs" Sadovsky
Hackers (1995) as Kate Libby/'Acid Burn'
External Links
Angelina Jolie at Internet Movie Database
Angelina Jolie at Yahoo! Movies
UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie's Refugee Journals
Journey Through Eastern Congo, narrated by Jolie herself