Angelina Jolie

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Biography

American actress, notoriously off-beat, the buff heroine of a videogame character, Lara Croft, in the film "Tomb Raider." The film, based on a video game, raced to the top of box-office winners when it opened in mid-June 2001, copping the most money ever made on a movie opening. Doing most of her stunts herself, Jolie is comfortable with guns, martial arts and guy-flics.

When she won the Oscar as Best Supporting Actress for "Girl, Interrupted" in 2000, she planted a startling lip-lock on her brother then gushed to the Academy, "I'm so in love with my brother." Though she may coolly discuss her teenage foray into self-mutilation, a past interest in drugs and former incestuous longings, she objected to implications of brotherly love when interviewed by Jay Leno. She says that her interest in death is due to the intensity of her passion for life, but adds that “I also think I'm very drawn to some things that are tradition, that are roots, and I think that may be why I focused on funerals."

The daughter of actor Jon Voight and former actress Marcheline Bertrand, Jolie was only a toddler when they divorced, age two with an older brother, James Haven Voight. Angelina remains very close to her mother and brother but feels some abandonment issues with her dad; they gradually became close over their work in common and his teaching her golf.

After moves that included New York and London, the family returned to Los Angeles when Angelina was eleven. "When we moved back from New York, I had gotten really into leather," she said, adding, "I eat nothing but red meat."

At 14, she had her first boyfriend move in with her at her mother's house. She began body-cutting in order to "feel something emotionally" but felt that she had herself together by the time she was 16. It was then that she seriously committed herself to her career, getting her own apartment and beginning to study acting in earnest. Jolie appeared in several music videos and won her first film lead in "Hackers," a 1995 cyberthriller. Even then, some six years before her first Golden Globe, she was no stranger to awards shows. Jane magazine recently devoted a full page to a picture of Angelina at eleven or twelve, all mouth and eyes and Eighties hair, decked out in pearls and white lace, accompanying her father to the Oscars. "I'm surprised I went to another one of those things after that," she says, looking at the picture.

Jolie collects knives and has talked freely about using them in sex play. In 1996, she married actor Jonny Lee Miller, age 24, (best known for his role as Sick Boy in Trainspotting) wearing a silk blouse decorated with his name written in her blood and tattooed on her arm. Both young and involved in different projects, they soon separated amiably. Her junkets with heroin were apparently during the 1998 HBO flic, "Gia," about a doomed, drug-addicted bisexual supermodel. In 1999 she continued roles with psychotic overtones, "The Bone Collector," "Pushing Tin" and "Sixty Seconds."

In June 2000, she married Billy Bob Thornton, four times divorced and 19 years older, a union that was still sizzling a year later.

(Thornton,8/04/1955, Hot Springs AR) "I'm obsessed with Billy. I always want more. I can't have enough of him." She also continued her obsession with blood and tattoos, wearing an amulet with Billy Bob's blood around her neck and his name tatooed on her arm.

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