Tuesday, April 21, 2009

ANGELINA JOLIE BIOGRAPHY



Born: 4 June 1975Where: Los Angeles, California, USAAwards: Won 1 Oscar and 3 Golden Globes, nominated for 1 BAFTAHeight: 5' 7"
FWhile most Hollywood stars do everything they can to appear cool, professional and squeaky-clean, diligently concealing all their nasty little secrets,
Angelina Jolie appears wholly unconcerned by controversy. Ever-keen to talk about her breakdowns, her disorders, her fantasies and her world-famous penchant for S&M, many would say she's built a career on titillating public confession. But she's also an increasingly fine and award-winning performer, her Oscar for Girl, Interrupted being only the first in a string of prestigious honours. Onscreen, as in bed, she is a risk-taker, and perhaps deserves to be seen as the spiritual sister of such greats as Streep, Pfeiffer and Lange. Beyond this, her international efforts on behalf of children and refugees have made her the most public-minded superstar since Audrey Hepburn.ilmography: The CompleteShe was born Angelina Jolie Voight in Los Angeles, on June 4th, 1975 - her name meaning Pretty Little Angel. Her father, Jon, was already an established superstar, having topped the bill in such classics as Midnight Cowboy and Deliverance. When Angelina was 2, he'd scoop the Best Actor Oscar for Coming Home. By then though, he'd already split from her mother, the part-Iroquois actress and model Marcheline Bertrand (now Angelina'smanager), who'd moved and her brother Jamwith Angelina es to the East Coast - to the Palisades, New York, to be more precise LiLiving here, Jolie was a happy child. She collected snakes and lizards - her favourite lizard being named Vladimir, and her favourite snake Harry Dean Stanton - and, oddly, like many females of her age, she had a major crush on Mr Spock. She would wear glittery clothing, including sparkly underwear, and flounce around, already performing, keen to make people laugh, to make them like her. She was a member of the Kissy Girls, who hunted

Jolie 'Wanted' for Universal film



Universal Pictures has set Angelina Jolie to staralongside James McAvoy andMorgan Freeman in "Wanted," an action filmbased on a graphic novel that TimurBekmambetov will direct. Pic will be Jolie's next, with shooting to begin in Eastern Europe in May. McAvoy will play a young man who discovers his father is an assassin, only to learn shortly thereafter that his dad has been murdered. The youth is drafted to follow in his father's footsteps. Jolie will play an assassin who teaches the ropes Script wasoriginated by Michael Brandt and Derek Haas, and Jolie tothe role after a rewrite by Dean Georgaris ("Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life") to tailor the character for her.
Marc Platt, Jim Lemley, Jason Netter and Iain Smith will produce. Deal marks the second recent U ommitment for Jolie, who'll star this fall for director Clint Eastwood in drama "The Changeling," to be produced by Imagine Entertainment partners Brian Grazer and Ron Howard and Malpaso's Rob Lorenz. She will next be seen starring as Mariane Pearl in "A Mighty Heart," produced by Brad Pitt's Plan B and opening June22 via Paramount Vantage. She then stars in the Robert Zemeckis-directed "Beowulf," which opens in the fall. Jolie is also booked to star in "Atlas Shrugged," a Randall Wallace-scripted adaptation of the Ayn Rand novel for Lionsgateto the wannabe killer.