- Name
- Angelina Jolie
- Date of Birth
- June 04, 1975
- Birth Place
- Los Angeles, Calif.
- Relationships
- Brad Pitt, partner (2005 to present) Billy Bob Thornton, ex-husband (2000 to 2003) Jonny Lee Miller, ex-husband (1995 to 1997)
- Children
- Maddox Chivan, adopted son (8/5/01) Pax Thien, adopted son (11/29/03) Zahara Marley, adopted daughter (1/8/05) Shiloh Nouvel, daughter (5/27/06) Knox Leon, son (7/12/08) Vivienne Marcheline, daughter (7/12/08)
- 1982
On Camera with Dad
A 6-year-old Jolie appears with her father, actor Jon Voight, in Lookin' to Get Out. It's one of the few moments she spends with her father. Jolie would later say that their time together was always and only in front of a camera.- early 1990s
Turbulent Teens
Marcheline Bertrand allows her 14-year-old daughter's older boyfriend to move in to their Los Angeles home, with Jolie and older brother James Haven. In her teens, Jolie suffers bouts of depression and begins cutting herself. "I had that problem early on when I couldn't feel a bond with another human being," she tells Allure in 2004. "Mostly it was all about trying to connect." Jolie and her boyfriend break up in 1991.- 1995
Big-Screen Beginning
Jolie, 20, stars in Hackers opposite British actor Jonny Lee Miller. Seven months later, Jolie weds Miller wearing black leather pants and a white top with his name scrawled on the back in Jolie's own blood. Only her mother and his best friend attend the ceremony. Though the marriage would prove to be short-lived – they split in 1997 and divorce in 1999 – the pair would remain good friends.- 1998
Same-Sex Surprise
Jolie begins a relationship with Foxfire costar Jenny Shimizu, a mechanic turned model and actress. In an interview with Barbara Walters in July 2003, Jolie admits to same-sex longings. "I was surprised when I suddenly found myself having those feelings I'd always had for men for a woman," Jolie said, adding she would now consider dating someone of either gender.Her First Gold
Jolie earns her first Golden Globe for her role as Cornelia Wallace, the second wife of Alabama's pro-segregation governor George Wallace, in the TV movie George Wallace. Of the rising star, the movie's director, John Frankenheimer (The Manchurian Canidate), tells PEOPLE, "The world is full of beautiful girls," he says, "But they're not Angelina Jolie. She's fun, honest, intelligent, gorgeous and divinely talented." Her performance also earns her an Emmy nomination that she loses to costar Mare Winningham.- 1999
A Golden Globe and a Dip in the Pool
After winning her second Golden Globe for her title role in Gia, Jolie jumps into the pool at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in her Randolph Duke gown. "What's funny to me is that everyone wasn't jumping into the pool," Jolie tells Playboy. "It's one of those events, and the people in the room are supposed to be free and wild, but everyone is so tame and careful."- 2000
Girl, Interrupted
Jolie stars in the coming-of-age mental hospital drama Girl, Interrupted. Although costar Winona Ryder is the film's lead, it is Jolie who shines as the sociopath Lisa. The New York Times says, "Ms. Jolie's ferocious, white-hot performance captures the scary allure of this daredevil and brutal truth teller, the movie's answer to R. P. McMurphy of Cuckoo's Nest."Brotherly Love
After winning a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her role in Girl, Interrupted, Jolie shocks fans by kissing her brother James Haven on the lips and saying in her acceptance speech she is "so in love" with him. When the media begins to wonder about their relationship, Jolie tells Jay Leno that the incest jokes were "pathetic."Nuptials and a Tattoo with Billy Bob
Jolie checks herself into the UCLA Medical Center's Neuropsychiatric Institute for three days following a nervous breakdown. Shortly after her release, on May 5, the 24-year-old actress marries her Pushing Tin costar Billy Bob Thornton, 44, in a $189 Las Vegas ceremony. While Thornton's girlfriend at the time, Laura Dern, is stunned, Jolie shows her commitment by having his name tattooed on her left shoulder.- 2001
Dad Joins Lara Croft
Jolie briefly reconciles with her father, and the two star in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. They forge a stronger bond during filming, and Voight shows fatherly concern when Jolie performs 80 percent of her own stunts. "I'd be on the sidelines with the stunt coordinator saying, 'You're pushing her too hard,' or pulling her aside and telling her she was taking too many risks," he tells the New Zealand Herald. "But she wouldn't listen. She's too independent, too headstrong."
- 2001
Blood is Beautiful
In an interview with the Boston Globe, Jolie explains why she and Thornton wear vials of each other's blood around their necks. "Some people think a big diamond is really pretty," she says. "My husband's blood is the most beautiful thing in the world to me." The couple also sign their wills in blood the same year, and for a first-anniversary present, Jolie buys Thornton his-and-hers cemetery plots in his native Louisiana.Goodwill Hunting
While researching her role as a socialite turned philanthropist in Beyond Borders, Jolie embarks on two goodwill trips for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. After meeting war victims in Sierra Leone, Jolie tells PEOPLE, "My impressions are hard to cope with, so I write them down." In 2003 her journals are published as Notes From My Travels. In August, she is appointed goodwill ambassador for the UNHCR.- 2002
Baby Makes Two?
It comes as a surprise when the once-reckless Jolie adopts a baby boy from Cambodia, the country she fell in love with while filming Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. She names him Maddox, and only puts her name on the adoption papers, a move that implies a rift in her marriage with Thornton. The pair divorce in May 2003.A Father's Plea
Through tears and sobs, her father pleads with Jolie on Access Hollywood to get help for her "serious mental problems." It is the start of a years-long estrangement. Her mother comes to her defense, telling PEOPLE, "There's nothing wrong with Angelina's mental health. Mentally and physically, she is magnificently healthy." Jolie says, "It's horrible."- 2003
A Special Tattoo
Jolie travels to Thailand to have a Buddhist prayer of protection for her son Maddox tattooed onto her left shoulder blade. The Thai artist uses the traditional method of a hammer and "a foot-and-a-half-long needle," Jolie says to PEOPLE.- 2004
Brangelina Begins
Jolie begins filming Mr. & Mrs. Smith with future flame Brad Pitt, and the tabloid rumors that the two are sharing an on-set romance begin. Both Pitt and Jolie deny anything happened. Jolie tells PEOPLE, "If I'm sleeping with somebody, I'm not shy about it."I Can Fly
Partly to impress her son Maddox, Jolie earns her pilot's license. "Every time Mad sees a plane, he's amazed," Jolie says to PEOPLE. "If I could actually fly a plane by the time he's 4, I'll be like Superman to him."- 2005
Cover Story
Jolie and Pitt pose as a 1950s family for W magazine with a gaggle of blond boys – a concept of Pitt's. It hits newsstands after Pitt's separation from Jennifer Aniston and amid reports that Jolie was intimately close with Pitt on set. A month later, photos surface of Jolie, Pitt and her son Maddox taking a beach stroll in Kenya. "The man that enters my home with me and my son – I take that very, very seriously," Jolie tells W.Step Away From the Movie Star
While promoting their film, Pitt and Jolie try very hard to stand several feet away from each other on red carpets in order to avoid having their photo taken together. The two keep mum about whether they're a couple.Welcome, Zahara
Pitt accompanies Jolie and Maddox on tours of orphanages in Addis Ababa and Ethiopia, where Jolie finds her second child, daughter Zahara Marley. Jolie is the only parent named on the paperwork, which is finalized July 6. Later that year she tells PEOPLE why adoption means so much to her. "There's something about making a choice," she says, "waking up and traveling somewhere and finding your family."
- 2005
Dire Statistics in Pakistan
Jolie and Pitt tour Pakistan, where 73,000 people were killed and more than 3 million left homeless after a massive earthquake.Brad Becomes Dad
Pitt petitions to adopt Jolie's son and daughter, exactly two months after his divorce from Aniston is finalized. The following month, Jolie and Pitt visit the Dominican Republic, and as soon as the plane touches down they announce that Jolie is pregnant.- 2006
Shiloh Joins the Group
Shiloh Nouvel is born in Namibia. PEOPLE is the first magazine in the U.S. to print photos of the mother, father and baby. Just before the baby was born, PEOPLE names the Jolie-Pitt clan the World's Most Beautiful Family.All in the Family
Jolie opens up about family life with Pitt in a PEOPLE exclusive. She calls herself "the disciplinarian" of the family and Zahara the "biggest personality in the house." While she denies marriage rumors, Jolie says she and Pitt are "always open to adoption."- 2007
Jolie Mourns Mother
Jolie's mother, 56-year-old Marcheline Bertrand, dies after battling cancer for more than seven-and-a-half years, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in L.A. Bertrand was surrounded by Jolie, son James Haven and Pitt.Angelina Adopts New Son
Jolie adopts 3-year-old Pax Thien from an orphanage outside Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Pitt is unable to accompany Jolie due to his filming schedule, but she brings 5-year-old Maddox and 2-year-old Zahara to welcome their new brother. Jolie filed for adoption solo because Vietnamese law makes it difficult for unmarried couples to adopt, but in April, she asks a California court to change her newly adopted son's last name to Jolie-Pitt.Beauty Inside & Out
Jolie makes her fifth appearance on PEOPLE's Most Beautiful list, but this time around, it isn't all about her stunning physical attributes. The mother of four headlines the issue's "Beauty Inside & Out" feature with Pitt, highlighting her humanitarian work with refugees, AIDS orphans, and the Darfur genocide.- 2008
Coming Soon: The Jolie-Pitt Twins
On the blue carpet at the Film Independent's Spirit Awards, Jolie wears a belly-hugging black dress that reveals her pronounced baby bump. A source close to the couple tells PEOPLE that they are "thrilled to be adding to their brood," which consists of Maddox, 6; Pax, 4; Zahara, 3; and Shiloh, 1. In May, Jolie's Kung Fu Panda costar Jack Black accidentally breaks the news that the actress is carrying twins during a joint-interview with Jolie.One Hot Mama!
With twins on the way, Jolie–who nabs a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her role in Clint Eastwood's Changeling – appears on the July cover of Vanity Fair. That summer, her action flick Wanted pulls in an impressive $51 million in its opening weekend, and she tops the Hollywood Reporter's list of the highest-paid actresses.The Jolie-Pitts Welcome Twins
Jolie and Pitt welcome twins, a boy, Knox Léon, and a girl, Vivienne Marcheline, at the Fondation Lenval hospital in Nice, France. Just hours after cutting the umbilical cords of his newborn twins, Pitt tells the mayor of Nice, "I'm the happiest father ever." In August, the proud parents debut their twins on the cover of PEOPLE, where Jolie says, "It is chaos, but we are managing it and having a wonderful time."
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