Lookin’ to Get Out is a 1982 American comedy film , directed by Hal Ashby and written by Al Schwartz and Jon Voight , who also stars. The film also stars Ann-Margret and Burt Young . Voight's daughter, Angelina Jolie , then seven years old, makes her acting debut.
87-398: Angelina Jolie ( / dʒ oʊ ˈ l iː / joh- LEE ; born Angelina Jolie Voight , / ˈ v ɔɪ t / ; June 4, 1975) is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian. The recipient of numerous accolades , including an Academy Award , a Tony Award and three Golden Globe Awards , she has been named Hollywood's highest-paid actress multiple times. Jolie made her screen debut as
174-528: A Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical nomination for her performance, which prompted speculation that it had been given merely to ensure her high-profile presence at the awards ceremony. After directing the documentary A Place in Time (2007), which was distributed through the National Education Association , Jolie made her feature directorial debut with In
261-537: A Special Envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees . She has undertaken field missions to refugee camps and war zones worldwide. In addition to receiving a Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award among other honors, Jolie was made an honorary Dame Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George . As a public figure, Jolie has been cited as one of the most powerful and influential people in
348-682: A sociopathic patient in a psychiatric hospital , in Girl, Interrupted (1999), an adaptation of Susanna Kaysen 's 1993 memoir . For Variety , Emanuel Levy deemed her "excellent as the flamboyant, irresponsible girl who turns out to be far more instrumental than the doctors in Susanna's rehabilitation." Jolie won the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture , the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by
435-433: A "punk outsider", wearing all-black clothing, going out moshing , and engaging in knife play with her live-in boyfriend. She dropped out of her acting classes and aspired to become a funeral director, taking at-home courses on embalming. At age 16, after the relationship had ended, Jolie graduated from high school and rented her own apartment before returning to theater studies, though in 2004 she referred to this period with
522-535: A Female Actor in a Supporting Role and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the film. In 2000, Jolie appeared in her first summer blockbuster, Gone in 60 Seconds , which became her highest-grossing film to that point, earning $ 237.2 million internationally. She had a minor role as the mechanic ex-girlfriend of a car thief played by Nicolas Cage ; The Washington Post writer Stephen Hunter criticized that "all she does in this movie
609-536: A Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role , and the Academy Award for Best Actress . Jolie also voiced Tigress in the DreamWorks Kung Fu Panda film series. After her mother's death in 2007, Jolie appeared in fewer films, later explaining that her motivation to be an actress had stemmed from her mother's acting ambitions. Her first film in two years
696-629: A brief appearance as Tosh, the daughter of Alex and Patti, near the end of the movie. Among the Las Vegas acts seen performing at the MGM Grand during the film are Siegfried & Roy (credited as magicians Siegfried and Roy Enterprises). The film was Voight's screenwriting debut. After initial delays, the film started principal photography in May 1980. Production was interrupted for five months due to an actors' strike. Director Ashby had notorious bouts with
783-532: A child alongside her father, Jon Voight , in Lookin' to Get Out (1982). Her film career began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget production Cyborg 2 (1993), followed by her first leading role in Hackers (1995). After starring in the television films George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998), Jolie won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 1999 drama Girl, Interrupted . Her portrayal of
870-528: A decade of service as a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, Jolie was promoted to the rank of Special Envoy to High Commissioner António Guterres , the first to take on such a position within the organization. In her expanded role, she was given authority to represent Guterres and UNHCR at the diplomatic level, with a focus on major refugee crises. In the months following her promotion, she made her first visit as Special Envoy—her third over all—to Ecuador, where she met with Colombian refugees, and she accompanied Guterres on
957-486: A drifter who unites four teenage girls against a teacher who has sexually harassed them. Jack Mathews of the Los Angeles Times wrote of her performance, "It took a lot of hogwash to develop this character, but Jolie, Jon Voight's knockout daughter, has the presence to overcome the stereotype. Though the story is narrated by Maddy, Legs is the subject and the catalyst." In 1997, Jolie starred with David Duchovny in
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#17328554292801044-414: A former girlfriend of Alex's, is now the mistress of the casino's boss. Their mutual attraction returns, but trouble follows after a $ 500,000 victory at the tables, not only from the casino but from Joey and Harry, who have come to Vegas looking to get their money or get even. In addition, Voight's then seven-year-old daughter, Angelina Jolie (credited as Angelina Jolie Voight), made her acting debut with
1131-651: A fourth-rate Scarlett O'Hara " who relies on "gnashed teeth and overly pouted lips." Jolie also starred in the music video for the Rolling Stones 's " Anybody Seen My Baby? " as a stripper who leaves mid-performance to wander New York City. Jolie's career prospects improved after she won a Golden Globe Award for her performance in TNT 's George Wallace (1997), a film about segregationist Alabama Governor and presidential candidate George Wallace , played by Gary Sinise . Jolie portrayed Wallace's second wife, Cornelia Wallace ,
1218-466: A free-spirited woman who weeps over hibiscus plants that die, wears lots of turquoise rings and gets real lonely when Russell spends entire nights away from home." Jolie then co-starred with Denzel Washington in The Bone Collector (1999), playing a police officer who reluctantly helps Washington's quadriplegic detective track down a serial killer . The film grossed $ 151.5 million worldwide, but
1305-448: A greater understanding of the world. Upon her return home, Jolie contacted the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for information on international trouble spots. To learn more about the conditions in these areas, she began visiting refugee camps around the world. In February 2001, she went on her first field visit, an 18-day mission to Sierra Leone and Tanzania; she later expressed her shock at what she had witnessed. In
1392-420: A hitman to kill her. When she was 24, she experienced a nervous breakdown and was admitted for 72 hours to UCLA Medical Center 's psychiatric ward. Two years later, after adopting her first child, Jolie found stability, later stating, "I knew once I committed to Maddox, I would never be self-destructive again." Jolie has had a lifelong dysfunctional relationship with her father, which started when Voight left
1479-674: A house in his country of birth in 2003. The traditional home sat on 39 hectares in the northwestern province Battambang , adjacent to Samlout national park in the Cardamom Mountains , which had become infiltrated with poachers who threatened endangered species. She purchased the park's 60,000 hectares and turned the area into a wildlife reserve named for her son, the Maddox Jolie Project. In recognition of her conservation efforts, King Norodom Sihamoni awarded her Cambodian citizenship on July 31, 2005. In November 2006, Jolie expanded
1566-447: A near-human robot designed for corporate espionage and assassination. She was so disappointed with the film that she did not audition again for a year. Following a supporting role in the independent film Without Evidence (1995), she starred in her first major studio film, Hackers (1995). The New York Times critic Janet Maslin wrote that Jolie's character "stands out ... because she scowls even more sourly than [her co-stars] and
1653-477: A performance Lee Winfrey of The Philadelphia Inquirer considered a highlight of the film. George Wallace was well received by critics, and Jolie received a nomination for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for her performance. Jolie portrayed supermodel Gia Carangi in HBO 's Gia (1998). The television film chronicles the destruction of Carangi's life and career as
1740-407: A plane to Las Vegas with him and try to win $ 10,000 to pay off the debt. Finding out that a similarly named Jerry Feldman is a regular there, Jerry is comped $ 10,000 by the casino, no questions asked. A room and other perks go along with the comp. A waiter named Smitty, an old acquaintance of Alex's, is an expert card counter, so he is staked to a high-limit blackjack game by the guys. Patti Warner,
1827-407: A rare attempt at playing a conventional women's role, noting that her performance "doesn't get off the ground until a scene where she goes punk and leads a group of striking bus workers in singing ' Satisfaction '". Despite her lack of box office success, Jolie remained in demand as an actress; in 2002, she established herself among Hollywood's highest-paid actresses, earning $ 10–15 million per film for
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#17328554292801914-409: A result of her addiction to heroin, and her decline and death from AIDS in the mid-1980s. Vanessa Vance of Reel.com retrospectively noted, "Jolie gained wide recognition for her role as the titular Gia, and it's easy to see why. Jolie is fierce in her portrayal—filling the part with nerve, charm, and desperation—and her role in this film is quite possibly the most beautiful train wreck ever filmed." For
2001-553: A stage name; the name change was granted on September 12, 2002. Voight then went public with their estrangement during an appearance on Access Hollywood , in which he claimed Jolie had "serious mental problems." At that point, her mother and brother also broke off contact with him. They did not speak for six and a half years, later rebuilding their relationship in the wake of Bertrand's death from ovarian cancer on January 27, 2007, before going public with their reconciliation three years later. Jolie committed to acting professionally at
2088-529: A supporting role as the neglected wife of a CIA officer in Robert De Niro 's The Good Shepherd (2006), Jolie starred as Mariane Pearl in the documentary-style drama A Mighty Heart (2007). Based on Pearl's 2003 memoir , the film chronicles the kidnapping and murder of her husband, The Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl , in Pakistan. Although the multiracial Pearl had personally chosen Jolie for
2175-532: A trip to a Millennium Village in western Kenya. By mid-2007, some 6,000 villagers and 72 employees—some of them former poachers employed as rangers—lived and worked at MJP, in ten villages previously isolated from one another. The compound includes schools, roads, and a soy milk factory, all funded by Jolie. Her home functions as the MJP field headquarters. After filming Beyond Borders (2003) in Namibia , Jolie became patron of
2262-598: A warrior with post-traumatic stress disorder , in the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Eternals . Released in November 2021, the film generated divergent responses from audiences and critics. Reviewing the film for The Washington Post , Ann Hornaday highlighted the "touching naivete" in Jolie's portrayal. Jolie was a producer on the musical The Outsiders after it transferred to Broadway in 2024, and won
2349-524: A week-long tour of Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, and Iraq, to assess the situation of refugees from neighboring Syria. Since then, Jolie has been on over a dozen field missions around the world to meet with refugees and undertake advocacy on their behalf. Jolie resigned from the ambassadorship in December 2022. In her announcement, she pledged to continue to advocate for refugees. In an effort to connect her Cambodian-born adopted son with his heritage, Jolie purchased
2436-415: Is "not seriously Iroquois", saying it is something he and Bertrand made up to make Bertrand seem more "exotic". Following her parents' separation in 1976, she and her brother lived with their mother, who had abandoned her acting ambitions to focus on raising her children. Jolie's mother raised her as a Catholic but did not require her to go to church. As a child, she often watched films with her mother and it
2523-675: Is a sensation as the desperate club crawler learning truths about what she's willing to gamble." She won the Breakthrough Performance Award from the National Board of Review . In 1999, Jolie starred in the comedy-drama Pushing Tin , alongside John Cusack , Billy Bob Thornton , and Cate Blanchett . The film met with mixed reception from critics, and Jolie's character—Thornton's seductive wife—was particularly criticized; writing for The Washington Post , Desson Howe dismissed her as "a completely ludicrous writer's creation of
2610-406: Is an American actress and filmmaker. Over her career she has won an Academy Award , three Golden Globe Awards , two Screen Actors Guild Awards , and a Tony Award as well as nominations for two BAFTA Awards and two Primetime Emmy Awards . Jolie won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing a diagnosed sociopath in the psychological thriller Girl, Interrupted (1999). She
2697-506: Is stand around, cooling down, modeling those fleshy, pulsating muscle-tubes that nest so provocatively around her teeth." Jolie later explained that the film had been a welcome relief after her emotionally demanding role in Girl, Interrupted . Although widely praised for her acting and performances, Jolie had rarely found films that appealed to a wide audience, but 2001's Lara Croft: Tomb Raider made her an international superstar. An adaptation of
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2784-497: Is that rare female hacker who sits intently at her keyboard in a see-through top." Hackers failed to make a profit at the box office, but developed a cult following after its video release. The role in Hackers is considered Jolie's breakthrough . After starring in the modern-day Romeo and Juliet adaptation Love Is All There Is (1996), Jolie appeared in the road movie Mojave Moon (1996). In Foxfire (1996) she played Legs,
2871-400: Is the sister of actor James Haven , and the niece of singer-songwriter Chip Taylor and geologist and volcanologist Barry Voight . Her godparents are actors Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell . On her father's side, Jolie is of German and Slovak descent. Jolie has claimed to have distant Indigenous ( Iroquois ) ancestry through her French-Canadian mother. However, her father says Jolie
2958-511: The Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film and was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for her portrayal of Cornelia Wallace in the TNT television film George Wallace (1997). She also won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film and
3045-726: The Harnas Wildlife Foundation , a wildlife orphanage and medical center in the Kalahari Desert . She first visited the Harnas farm during production of the film, which features vultures rescued by the foundation. In December 2010, Jolie and her partner, Brad Pitt, established the Shiloh Jolie-Pitt Foundation to support conservation work by the Naankuse Wildlife Sanctuary , a nature reserve also located in
3132-640: The Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute , where she trained for two years and appeared in several stage productions. Jolie first attended Beverly Hills High School , where she felt isolated among the children of some of the area's affluent families because her mother had a more modest income. She was teased by other students, who targeted her for being extremely thin and for wearing glasses and braces. Her early attempts at modeling, at her mother's insistence, proved unsuccessful. She transferred to Moreno High School, an alternative school , where she became
3219-477: The Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Actress in a Miniseries or Television Movie as well as a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for playing Gia Carangi in the HBO film Gia (1998). She won a Tony Award for Best Musical as a producer of the Broadway production The Outsiders (2024). For her humanitarian work she received
3306-536: The Tony Award for Best Musical . She starred in Pablo Larraín 's biographical film about opera singer Maria Callas , titled Maria , which premiered at the 81st Venice International Film Festival . Jolie also wrote, produced and directed the 2024 war drama Without Blood , based on the novel by Alessandro Baricco , starring Salma Hayek and Demián Bichir . We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore
3393-737: The United Nations Association of the United States of America 's Global Humanitarian Action Award in 2005, the International Rescue Committee 's Freedom Award in 2007, and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 2013. Lookin%27 to Get Out Alex Kovac, playing poker in New York City, drops $ 10,000 to gamblers Joey and Harry that he can not pay back. Alex persuades pal Jerry Feldman to hop on
3480-490: The titular heroine in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) established her as a star. Her fame continued with roles in the action films Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Wanted (2008), and Salt (2010). She also received acclaim for her performances in the dramas A Mighty Heart (2007) and Changeling (2008), the latter earning her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress . Jolie directed and wrote
3567-597: The "heart and soul" of the film, adding that she "doesn't chew the estimable scenery in Maleficent —she infuses it, wielding a magnetic and effortless power." In its opening weekend, Maleficent earned nearly $ 70 million at the North American box office and over $ 100 million in other markets, marking Jolie's appeal to audiences of all demographics in both action and fantasy films, genres usually dominated by male actors. The film went on to gross $ 757.8 million worldwide, becoming
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3654-533: The Afghan capital Kabul during the war in Afghanistan , where three aid workers were murdered in the midst of her first visit. To aid her travels, she started to take flying lessons in 2004 with the aim of ferrying aid workers and food supplies around the world. Jolie acquired a pilot license in 2004; as of May 2014, she owns a Cirrus SR22 aircraft and a Cessna 208 Caravan aircraft. On April 17, 2012, after more than
3741-607: The American entertainment industry. She has been cited as the world's most beautiful woman by various publications. Her personal life, including her relationships and health, has been the subject of widespread attention. Jolie is divorced from actors Jonny Lee Miller , Billy Bob Thornton , and Brad Pitt . She has six children with Pitt. Angelina Jolie Voight was born on June 4, 1975, at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles , California, to actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand . She
3828-618: The Ashby Director's Cut on DVD on June 30, 2009. The filming took place in Las Vegas , including the MGM Grand Las Vegas and Variety noted in their review the "shameless plugging for the MGM leisure palace and its entertainment shows (particularly Siegfried & Roy 's magic acts)." The film was initially due to be released by United Artists but Lorimar 's deal with UA expired before
3915-598: The Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film and BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language . Jolie reprised the role of Maleficent in the Disney fantasy sequel Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019), which received mixed reviews from critics but performed moderately well commercially, with a global gross of $ 490 million. The following year, she appeared alongside David Oyelowo as grieving parents to
4002-697: The Kalahari. In name of their Namibian-born daughter, they have funded large-animal conservation projects as well as a free health clinic, housing, and a school for the San Bushmen community at Naankuse. Jolie and Pitt support other causes through the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, established in September 2006. List of awards and nominations received by Angelina Jolie The following is a List of awards and nominations received by Angelina Jolie . Angelina Jolie
4089-541: The Land of Blood and Honey (2011), a love story between a Serb soldier and a Bosniak prisoner, set during the 1992–95 Bosnian War . She conceived the film to rekindle attention for the survivors, after twice visiting Bosnia and Herzegovina in her role as a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador . To ensure authenticity, she cast only actors from the former Yugoslavia —including stars Goran Kostić and Zana Marjanović —and incorporated their wartime experiences into her screenplay. Upon release,
4176-707: The World of Tomorrow , a science fiction adventure shot entirely with actors in front of a bluescreen , and voiced her first family film, the DreamWorks animation Shark Tale . Her supporting role as Queen Olympias in Oliver Stone 's Alexander , about Alexander the Great , was met with mixed reception, particularly concerning her Slavic accent. Commercially, the film failed in North America, which Stone attributed to disapproval of
4263-488: The action business." Jolie starred opposite Johnny Depp in the thriller The Tourist (2010). The film was a critical failure. Roger Ebert defended Jolie's performance, stating that she "does her darndest" and "plays her femme fatale with flat-out, drop-dead sexuality." Despite commercially underperforming in the US, the film succeeded at the international box office, cementing Jolie's appeal to international audiences. She received
4350-564: The age of 16, but initially found it difficult to pass auditions, often being told that her demeanor was "too dark." She appeared in five of her brother's student films, made while he attended the USC School of Cinema-Television , as well as in several music videos, such as those for Lenny Kravitz 's " Stand by My Woman " (1991), Antonello Venditti 's "Alta Marea" (1991), The Lemonheads 's "It's About Time" (1993), and Meat Loaf 's " Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through " (1993). In 1993, she appeared on
4437-482: The cover of the Widespread Panic album Everyday . Jolie then learned from her father by noticing his method of observing people to become like them. Their relationship was less strained during this time, with Jolie realizing that they were both "drama queens". Jolie started her professional film career in 1993, when she played her first leading role in the direct-to-video science-fiction sequel Cyborg 2 , as
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#17328554292804524-407: The depiction of Alexander's bisexuality , but it succeeded internationally, grossing $ 167.3 million. In 2005, Jolie returned to major box office success with the action-comedy Mr. & Mrs. Smith , in which she starred opposite Brad Pitt as a bored married couple who find out that they are both secret assassins. The film received mixed reviews, but was generally lauded for the chemistry between
4611-545: The fact that millions of people are out there suffering. I honestly want to help. I don't believe I feel differently from other people. I think we all want justice and equality, a chance for a life with meaning. All of us would like to believe that if we were in a bad situation someone would help us. —Jolie on her motives for joining UNHCR in 2001 Jolie first witnessed the effects of a humanitarian crisis while filming Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) in war-torn Cambodia, an experience she later credited with having brought her
4698-404: The family when she was less than a year old. She has said that from then on their time together was sporadic and usually carried out in front of the press. They reconciled when they appeared together in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), but their relationship again deteriorated. Jolie petitioned the court to legally remove her surname, Voight, in favor of her middle name, which she had long used as
4785-400: The film received mixed reviews; Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "Jolie deserves significant credit for creating such a powerfully oppressive atmosphere and staging the ghastly events so credibly, even if it is these very strengths that will make people not want to watch what's onscreen." The film was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film , and Jolie
4872-407: The film received only a limited release. As Jolie preferred to dedicate herself to her humanitarian work, her cinematic output remained infrequent. First They Killed My Father (2017), a drama set during Cambodia's Khmer Rouge era, again enabled her to combine both interests. In addition to directing the film, she co-wrote the screenplay with her longtime friend Loung Ung , whose memoirs about
4959-490: The film stands as the first of several passion projects Jolie has made to bring attention to humanitarian causes. Beyond Borders was a critical failure; Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times acknowledged Jolie's ability to "bring electricity and believability to roles," but wrote that "the limbo of a hybrid character, a badly written cardboard person in a fly-infested, blood-and-guts world, completely defeats her." In 2004, Jolie appeared in four films. She first starred in
5046-561: The film was a deeply personal project for Jolie, who drew inspiration from her own mother's life. Critics, however, dismissed it as a "vanity project", as part of an overall poor reception. Writing for The Washington Post , Stephanie Merry noted its dearth of genuine emotion, stating, " By the Sea is dazzlingly gorgeous, as are its stars. But peeling back layer upon layer of exquisite ennui reveals nothing but emptiness, sprinkled with stilted sentiments." Despite starring two of Hollywood's leading actors,
5133-431: The film was released and Paramount Pictures acquired the film as part of a package to distribute Lorimar product. The film received poor reviews. Variety called it "an ill-conceived vehicle for actor (and cowriter) Jon Voight to showcase his character comedy talents in a loose, semi-improvised environment." They noted that "Voight and Young are an entertaining team, but presented in an untenable vehicle". The film
5220-641: The film was scripted by the Coen brothers and starred Jack O'Connell . After a positive early reception, Unbroken was considered a likely Best Picture and Best Director contender, but it ultimately received mixed reviews and little award recognition, though it was named one of the best films of the year by the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute . Variety magazine ' s Justin Chang noted
5307-432: The film's "impeccable craftsmanship and sober restraint", but deemed it "an extraordinary story told in dutiful, unexceptional terms." Financially, Unbroken was successful at the box office worldwide. Jolie's next directorial effort was the marital drama By the Sea (2015), in which she starred opposite her husband, Brad Pitt, marking their first collaboration since 2005's Mr. & Mrs. Smith . Based on her screenplay,
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#17328554292805394-420: The following months, Jolie returned to Cambodia for two weeks and met with Afghan refugees in Pakistan , where she donated $ 1 million in response to an international UNHCR emergency appeal, the largest donation UNHCR had ever received from a private individual. She covered all costs related to her missions and shared the same rudimentary working and living conditions as UNHCR field staff on all of her visits. Jolie
5481-508: The fourth-highest-grossing film of the year and Jolie's highest-grossing film ever. Jolie next completed her second directorial venture, Unbroken (2014), a film about Louis Zamperini (1917–2014), a former Olympic track star and World War II soldier who survived a plane crash and spent two years in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp. She also served as producer under her Jolie Pas banner. Based on Laura Hillenbrand 's book Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption ,
5568-488: The next five years. Jolie reprised her role as Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life (2003), which was not as lucrative as the original, earning $ 156.5 million at the international box office. She also starred in the music video for Korn 's " Did My Time ", which was used to promote the sequel. Her next film was Beyond Borders (2003), in which she portrayed a socialite who joins an aid worker played by Clive Owen . Though unsuccessful with audiences,
5655-669: The observation, "I am still at heart—and always will be—just a punk kid with tattoos." As a teenager, Jolie found it difficult to emotionally connect with other people, and as a result she self-harmed , later commenting, "For some reason, the ritual of having cut myself and feeling the pain, maybe feeling alive, feeling some kind of release, it was somehow therapeutic to me." She also struggled with insomnia and an eating disorder and began using drugs; by age 20, she had used "just about every drug possible," particularly heroin . Jolie had episodes of depression and planned to commit suicide twice—at age 19 and again at 22, when she attempted to hire
5742-431: The popular Tomb Raider video games, the film required her to learn an English accent and undergo extensive martial arts training to play the archaeologist-adventurer Lara Croft . Although the film generated mostly negative reviews, Jolie was generally praised for her physical performance; Newsday ' s John Anderson commented, "Jolie makes the title character a virtual icon of female competence and coolth." The film
5829-534: The positive critical reception of Gia , Jolie resumed her career. Following the previously filmed gangster film Hell's Kitchen (1998), Jolie returned to the screen in Playing by Heart (1998), part of an ensemble cast that included Sean Connery , Gillian Anderson , and Ryan Phillippe . The film received predominantly positive reviews, and Jolie was praised in particular; San Francisco Chronicle critic Peter Stack wrote, "Jolie, working through an overwritten part,
5916-470: The regime's child labor camps served as its source material. Intended primarily for a Cambodian audience, the film was produced directly for Netflix , which allowed for the use of an exclusively Khmer cast and script. Labeling Jolie as a "skilled and sensitive filmmaker", Rafer Guzmán of Newsday commended her for "convincingly depict[ing] the illogical hell of the Khmer Rouge era". It received nominations for
6003-470: The role, the casting drew racial criticism and accusations of blackface . The resulting performance was widely praised; Ray Bennett of The Hollywood Reporter described it as "well-measured and moving," played "with respect and a firm grasp on a difficult accent." She received nominations for the Golden Globe Award and the Screen Actors Guild Award . Jolie also played Grendel's mother in the epic Beowulf (2007), created through motion capture . The film
6090-715: The scope of the project—renamed the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation (MJP)—to create Asia's first Millennium Village , in accordance with UN development goals . She was inspired by a meeting with the founder of Millennium Promise , noted economist Jeffrey Sachs , at the World Economic Forum in Davos , where she was an invited speaker in 2005 and 2006. Together they filmed a 2005 MTV special, The Diary of Angelina Jolie & Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in Africa , which followed them on
6177-797: The second consecutive year, Jolie won a Golden Globe Award and received an Emmy Award nomination. She also won her first Screen Actors Guild Award . In accordance with Lee Strasberg 's method acting , Jolie preferred to stay in character in between scenes during many of her early films. While shooting Gia , she told her husband, Jonny Lee Miller , that she would not be able to phone him: "I'd tell him: 'I'm alone; I'm dying; I'm gay; I'm not going to see you for weeks.'" After Gia wrapped , she briefly gave up acting, because she felt that she had "nothing else to give." She separated from Miller and moved to New York, where she took night classes at New York University to study directing and screenwriting. Encouraged by her Golden Globe Award win for George Wallace and
6264-475: The studio and recut the film for himself before it was taken from his hands and recut by the studio. Years later, while speaking at the University of Southern California, Jon Voight discovered that the version of the film which had been shown to the students was not the theatrical version but instead Ashby's original cut (which was considered lost). This was brought to the attention of Warner Home Video who released
6351-607: 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 a certain warmth in a kind of role that is usually hard and aggressive; she seems too nice to be [a mobster's] girlfriend, and maybe she is." Her next work, as a frontierswoman in the CBS miniseries True Women (1997), was even less successful; writing for The Philadelphia Inquirer , Robert Strauss dismissed her as "horrid,
6438-477: The thriller Taking Lives as an FBI profiler summoned to help Montreal law enforcement hunt down a serial killer. The film received mixed reviews; The Hollywood Reporter critic Kirk Honeycutt concluded, "Jolie plays a role that definitely feels like something she has already done, but she does add an unmistakable dash of excitement and glamour." Jolie made a brief appearance as a fighter pilot in Sky Captain and
6525-537: The title characters of Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan in the fantasy film Come Away . Jolie starred as a smokejumper in Taylor Sheridan 's action thriller Those Who Wish Me Dead . The film was released in May 2021, garnering moderate reviews. The Independent ' s Clarisse Loughrey wrote Jolie's "bare-knuckled performance ... easily outclasses the film that contains it". Jolie next played Thena ,
6612-462: The two leads; Star Tribune critic Colin Covert noted, "While the story feels haphazard, the movie gets by on gregarious charm, galloping energy and the stars' thermonuclear screen chemistry." With box office takings of $ 478.2 million worldwide, Mr. & Mrs. Smith was the seventh-highest grossing picture of the year and remained Jolie's highest-grossing live-action film for the next decade. Following
6699-428: The war dramas In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011), Unbroken (2014), First They Killed My Father (2017) and Without Blood (2024), and produced the musical The Outsiders (2024), winning the Tony Award for Best Musical . Jolie is known for her humanitarian efforts. The causes she promotes include conservation , education, and women's rights. She has been noted for her advocacy on behalf of refugees as
6786-577: Was "perfectly cast as a super-scary, seemingly amoral assassin," adding that "she cuts the kind of disciplinarian figure who can bring boys of all ages to their knees or at least into their theater seats." Jolie next took the lead role in Clint Eastwood 's drama Changeling (2008). Chicago Tribune critic Michael Phillips noted, "Jolie really shines in the calm before the storm, the scenes when one patronizing male authority figure after another belittles her at their peril." She received nominations for
6873-716: Was an international hit, earning $ 274.7 million worldwide, and launched her global reputation as a female action star. Jolie next starred opposite Antonio Banderas as his mail-order bride in Original Sin (2001), the first of a string of films that were poorly 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." The romantic comedy Life or Something Like It (2002), though equally unsuccessful, marked an unusual choice for Jolie. Salon magazine ' s Allen Barra considered her ambitious newscaster character
6960-611: Was critically and commercially well-received, earning $ 196.4 million worldwide. In 2008, Jolie was the highest-paid actress, earning $ 15–$ 20 million per film. While other actresses had taken salary cuts during the time, Jolie's perceived box office appeal allowed her to command as much as $ 20 million plus a percentage. She starred alongside James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman in the action film Wanted (2008), which proved an international success, earning $ 341.4 million worldwide. The film received predominantly favorable reviews; writing for The New York Times , Manohla Dargis noted that Jolie
7047-484: Was critically unsuccessful. Terry Lawson of the Detroit Free Press concluded, "Jolie, while always delicious to look at, is simply and woefully miscast." Jolie is emerging as one of the great wild spirits of current movies, a loose cannon who somehow has deadly aim. — Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert on Jolie's performance in Girl, Interrupted (1999) Jolie next took the supporting role of Lisa,
7134-571: Was named a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador at UNHCR headquarters in Geneva on August 27, 2001. Over the next decade, she went on more than 40 field missions, meeting with refugees and internally displaced persons in over 30 countries. In 2002, when asked what she hoped to accomplish, she stated, "Awareness of the plight of these people. I think they should be commended for what they have survived, not looked down upon." To that end, her 2001–02 field visits were chronicled in her book Notes from My Travels , which
7221-468: Was named an honorary citizen of Sarajevo for raising awareness of the war. After a three-and-a-half-year absence from the screen, Jolie starred in Maleficent (2014), a live-action re-imagining of Disney 's 1959 animation Sleeping Beauty . Critical reception was mixed, but Jolie's performance in the titular role was singled out for praise; The Hollywood Reporter critic Sherri Linden found her to be
7308-631: Was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress for her portrayal of Christine Collins in the mystery crime drama Changeling (2008). She received Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations for her role Mariane Pearl in A Mighty Heart (2007). For her roles in the action films Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Wanted (2008), and The Tourist (2010), Jolie received awards based on popular votes, including an MTV Movie Award , two People's Choice Awards , and four Teen Choice Awards . For her performances in television, she won
7395-669: Was published in October 2003 in conjunction with the release of her humanitarian drama Beyond Borders . Jolie aimed to visit what she termed "forgotten emergencies", crises that media attention had shifted away from. She became noted for traveling to war zones, such as Sudan's Darfur region during the Darfur conflict , the Syrian-Iraqi border during the Second Gulf War , where she met privately with U.S. troops and other multi-national forces, and
7482-631: Was the 2010 thriller Salt , in which she starred as a CIA agent who goes on the run after she is accused of being a KGB sleeper agent . Originally written as a male character with Tom Cruise attached to star, agent Salt underwent a gender change after a Columbia Pictures executive suggested Jolie for the role. With revenues of $ 293.5 million, Salt became an international success. The film received generally positive reviews, with Jolie's performance in particular earning praise. Empire critic William Thomas remarked, "When it comes to selling incredible, crazy, death-defying antics, Jolie has few peers in
7569-451: Was this, rather than her father's successful career, that inspired her interest in acting, though she had a bit part in Voight's Lookin' to Get Out (1982) at age seven. When Jolie was six years old, Bertrand and her live-in partner, filmmaker Bill Day , moved the family to Palisades, New York ; they returned to Los Angeles five years later. Jolie then decided she wanted to act and enrolled at
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