- Jolie is not the surname of a famous actress, but her middle name. Angelina’s real last name is Voight, but she abandoned it because of a conflict with her father, actor John Voight. By the way, the actress’ brother also refused to bear his father’s surname and is known as James Haven.
- According to Angie, she has Iroquois blood in her veins, inherited from her mother, actress Marcheline Bertrand. However, Jolie’s father refutes this information: according to him, this is a fantasy that he invented himself to make his wife PR on an exotic origin.
- Angelina studied at the Beverly Hills school, and the students of the elite institution teased her for her thinness, glasses and braces. The reason for the bullying was also the financial situation of the family. Her mom and dad had divorced by that time, and Marcheline didn’t have as much money as the parents of other schoolchildren. Bertrand dressed her daughter in thrift stores.
- The very beginning of Jolie’s career can hardly be called successful. Young Angie has not yet managed to become famous for a lot of tattoos and outrageous antics. And at the auditions she was often refused, arguing that she was “too gloomy”.
Angelina and her brother James Haven
Angelina is so close to her brother James Haven that she can easily kiss him passionately on the lips in front of everyone. Their famous kiss took place after the Oscar ceremony in 1999, when Angie won the award for best supporting actress in the film “Interrupted Life”. All rumors of a sexual relationship between them were denied by brother and sister in 2000.
Angelina and her father
For several years in a row, Angelina had a dislike for her own father, because he cheated on her mother and left the family. After the death of Marcheline Bertrand, her mother, Angelina decided to mend relations with her father and invited him to play in the film “Lara Croft — Tomb Raider”, but even there several family quarrels took place between them. After them, Jolie officially removed “Voight” from her name, and her father said that her daughter had obvious mental abnormalities. But later they reconciled.
Angelina is left-handed.
Weddings with actor Billy Bob Thornton
During the wedding with actor Billy Bob Thornton, Jolie did not dress up in a white dress, but was dressed in black leather pants and a simple white T-shirt, on which she wrote the name of her beloved in her own blood. Unfortunately, there are no photos from this familiar event in the unusual vision of it by Jolie and Thornton.
Angelina is a model
Angelina started her modeling career at the age of 14. Below is one of the first pictures of her in her new role as a model.
Сhildhood dream
As a child, Angelina dreamed of becoming an organizer of funeral ceremonies, and it all started when 9-year-old Angie was taken to her grandfather’s funeral. The girl was so fascinated by the mourning costumes, flowers on the grave and mournful music that she wanted to devote her life to organizing all this. Fortunately, she changed her mind.
Favorite pets
As a child, the “cute little angel” (this is how the name Angelina Jolie translates) loved to pick up snakes and lizards. Her favorite pets were Vladimir the lizard and Harry Dean Stanton the snake.
Tattoos
- If someone took an exam on the biography of Angelina Jolie, then he could use her tattoos as a clue. We will not talk about everything, because the actress has quite a lot of them, but we will focus on some. Angie once had a dragon on her left shoulder, which was soon joined by the name of her second husband Billy Bob Thornton. It was a hasty marriage — the couple got married just a couple of months after the start of the relationship. After 2 years, the couple broke up, and Jolie got a tattoo. According to her, it took her 5 visits to the clinic to do this, and still the traces of the dragon remained on her shoulder.
- Now there are no traces of the old tattoo. In her place, she filled in the geographical coordinates of the birthplaces of her 6 children and ex-husband Brad Pitt. Although it was a fairly mature marriage, the couple, unfortunately, broke up.
- Jolie also got a tattoo in honor of her other relatives. In memory of Marcheline Bertrand’s mother, she put the letter M on her right palm. And in honor of James Haven’s brother— the letter H on his left wrist.
- Angelina loves aphorisms. There are 3 of them on her body. A line from a poem by a Persian poet is tattooed on her right forearm: “There is a field beyond the concepts of right and wrong actions. I’ll meet you there.” On the upper part of the back there are words from the song of Jolie’s favorite band The Clash: “Know your rights.” Just below the waist, she wrote in Latin the phrase “Quod me nutrit me destroy” (“Everything that nourishes me destroys me”).
- Another tattoo can be called the encrypted motto of Angelina Jolie. We are talking about the Roman numerals XIII and V MCMXL on the left forearm, which were stuffed separately. Jolie applied the number XIII to show her disbelief in superstition. And the rest of the figures, eventually formed together with the first on the date of May 13, 1940, were tattooed in 2009. Thus, Angelina hints at the day when Winston Churchill made the famous speech: “I have nothing to offer but blood, labor, tears and sweat.”
Angelina’s first role
- Officially, Angelina’s first role is considered to be the role of a humanoid robot named Casella Cash Reese in the low-budget sci-fi thriller “Cyborg-2: Glass Shadow”. She was only 17. According to the actress, when she first saw this movie, she literally threw up. After that, she didn’t audition for another year.
- One of the most successful works of the novice Jolie was the main role in the film “Gia”. Filming so mentally exhausted the girl that she was going to quit acting, believing that she had nothing more to give to the audience. But critics greeted the picture very warmly, and Angelina resumed her career. And for her soulful work, she received a Golden Globe. Celebrating the award at the party, the actress jumped into the pool, dressed in a dress by Randolph Duke, hand-embroidered with beads.
- Angelina Jolie is currently the only actress who has managed to win three Golden Globes in a row, and in completely different nominations: for her role in the film “George Wallace”, as “Best Actress in a television movie or mini-series”, for her role in the film “Gia”, as “Best Actress in a feature film” and for her role in the film “Interrupted Life”. All three projects were based on real events.
Oscar and cinema
- In 1999, the film “Interrupted Life” was released, which was supposed to be a film return of Winona Ryder. However, the role of the rebel Lisa Rowe went to Jolie and became her triumph. For her, the actress received her third Golden Globe and an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.
- Jolie flew to the ceremony of awarding the most prestigious American film award from Mexico, where the filming of the film “Temptation” took place. The actress, having received the statuette, immediately flew back, and on arrival went to bed. Suddenly, she was woken up by a Mariachi band hired by her film partner Antonio Banderas and director Michael Christopher. Each member of the crew handed her a rose.
- Jolie was invited to star in Charlie’s Angels, but she declined, preferring to play Lara Croft. As a result, Lucy Liu became the “angel” instead of Angelina.
- Angelina is almost the only top Hollywood actress who does not have her own press secretary. She independently builds relations with the media, and, I must say, very successfully. Thanks to her personal efforts, her image of a scandal girl was replaced by the image of a mother with many children and a philanthropist.
In 2004, Jolie received a pilot’s license because her eldest son Maddox was fond of airplanes. Now the young man is already 18, and he himself has learned to sit at the helm. - On her wedding day with Brad Pitt, Angelina wore a lush white dress decorated with drawings of their children. And her husband forgot to put on a tie and borrowed this toilet detail from one of his sons.
- In the movie “Maleficent”, little Princess Aurora was played by Jolie’s youngest daughter Vivien. Other children who wanted to take on this role began to cry at the sight of the actress in costume and makeup. By the way, critics met the film with restraint, but Angelina’s game was called “magnetic”.
- Angelina likes to do stunts in films herself, despite the numerous minor injuries she received. She personally jumped on the chandelier in “Lara Croft – Tomb Raider” and skinned her skin so badly that she left a scar on it. By the way, left-handed pistols were purchased specifically for this film, which Angelina could quickly and easily reload.
- Jolie became the third actress (after Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz) who “joined” the club of actresses who receive more than $ 20 million for one film. It happened after signing a contract to shoot in the movie “Mr. and Mrs. Smith”, thanks to which she met her future husband and father of her children Brad Pitt.
