| Born | Angelina Jolie Voight June 4, 1975 Los Angeles, California, U.S. | ||||||
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| Nationality | American | ||||||
| Occupation | Actress, director, humanitarian | ||||||
| Years active | 1982; 1993–present | ||||||
| Spouse | Jonny Lee Miller (1996–1999) Billy Bob Thornton (2000–2003) | ||||||
| Partner | Brad Pitt (2005–present; 6 children) | ||||||
| Parents | Jon Voight Marcheline Bertrand (deceased) |
Humanitarian work
Jolie first became personally aware of worldwide humanitarian crises while filming Tomb Raider in Cambodia. She eventually turned to UNHCR for more information on international trouble spots and was named a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador on August 27, 2001.Over time, Jolie became more involved in promoting humanitarian causes on a political level. She has regularly attended World Refugee Day in Washington, D.C., and she was an invited speaker at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2005 and 2006.In 2007, Jolie became a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and received the Freedom Award by the International Rescue Committee
Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni awarded Jolie Cambodian citizenship for her conservation work in the country on August 12, 2005; she has pledged $5 million to set up a wildlife sanctuary in the north-western province of Battambang and owns property there.
Donation:
-$5 million to set up a wildlife sanctuary in the north-western province of Battambang.
-$1 million for Afghan refugees in response to an international UNHCR emergency appeal.
-$1 million to three relief organizations in Chad and Darfur.
-$1 million donation to relief efforts combating the ravages of the 2010 Haiti earthquake
-$100,000 to the United Nations for the Pakistan flood relief operations
-$500,000 for a National Press Club luncheon, where she announced the founding of the National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children for its first two years
-Jolie-Pitt Foundation made initial donations to Global Action for Children and Doctors Without Borders of $1 million each.
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Personal Life
On March 28, 1996, Jolie married British actor Jonny Lee Miller, her co-star in the film Hackers (1995). She attended her wedding in black rubber pants and a white shirt, upon which she had written the groom's name in her blood. Jolie and Miller separated the following year and divorced on February 3, 1999.Jolie married her Pushing Tin (1999) co-star Billy Bob Thornton on May 5, 2000. As a result of their frequent public declarations of passion and gestures of love—most famously wearing one another's blood in vials around their necks. separated in June 2002—3 months after their adoption of a Cambodian baby—and divorced on May 27, 2003.On January 11, 2006, Jolie confirmed to People that she was pregnant with Pitt's child and thereby acknowledged their relationship for the first time in public.
Children On March 10, 2002, Jolie adopted her first child, seven-month-old Maddox Chivan.[19] He was born on August 5, 2001 as Rath Vibol in Cambodia, and he initially lived in a local orphanage in Battambang.Jolie gave birth to a daughter, Shiloh Nouvel, in Swakopmund, Namibia, by a scheduled caesarean section, on May 27, 2006. Pitt confirmed that their newly born daughter would have a Namibian passport, and Jolie decided to sell the first pictures of Shiloh through the distributor Getty Images herself, rather than allowing paparazzi to make these valuable photographs. People paid more than $4.1 million for the North American rights, while British magazine Hello! obtained the international rights for roughly $3.5 million.All profits were donated to an undisclosed charity by Jolie and Pitt. On March 15, 2007, Jolie adopted a three-year-old boy from Vietnam, Pax Thien,who was born on November 29, 2003 and abandoned at birth at a local hospital, where he was initially named Pham Quang Sang. Jolie adopted the boy from the Tam Binh orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City. She gave birth to a boy, Knox Léon, and a girl, Vivienne Marcheline, by caesarean section at the Lenval hospital in Nice, France, on July 12, 2008. The rights for the first images of Knox and Vivienne were jointly sold to People and Hello! For $14 million—the most expensive celebrity pictures ever taken. The money went to the Jolie-Pitt Foundation.
