Angelina Jolie
- Profession: Actress
- Place/Date of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States, 04 June 2020
- Assiociated with: Brad Pitt
Last week she declared: "You know, I want to be a great mom like my mom was and I want to also do the things that I love."
Angie to take a year off - May 24 2007
It’s been a busy year for Brangelina. So much so, that Angie has announced that she’s decided to take a year off work.
The actress told reporters at the Cannes Film Festival: "I’m working this summer. I’m in Prague for a few months, then I take two months off, then I work for two months. And then I take a year off.
"We’re getting work out of the way at the moment," added the 31-year-old, fuelling speculation that Brad may also be taking a break from the big screen once he’s fulfilled commitments to the five film projects he’s working on.
Although Angie has received rave reviews for her latest movie, A Mighty Heart, which premiered a Cannes, she says the past 12 months have been tough.
"This has been a very heavy year, in losing my mom and having a fourth child," she revealed in an interview on the Today show in the US.
Justifying her decision to take a break, she said: "I’m hanging on to my family really tight at this moment, and, because of that, trying to be as good a woman as I can be in my life."
Becoming tearful, the usually super poised star admitted: "Dammit, you got me crying."
Angelina - I have nothing to hide - May 23 2007
Angelina Jolie has refuted tabloid speculation that there’s trouble in paradise between her and Brad by insisting that she has nothing to hide.
"There’s nothing I have to hide or defend," the 31-year-old actress said in an interview with the Today show and Dateline NBC, due to air in the US on Wednesday.
"I’m going to live my life. There are going to be times when people want to try to attack me and I don’t know why, but they will. And that’s okay," she added, addressing tabloid rumours alleging that she’s suffering from stress and facing a split with Brad.
"There are other things I’m more concerned about. My kids are healthy. I have a lot I want to do in this world. I want to do a lot of things as a woman, as a mom, and that’s my focus," said the actress, who has immersed herself in humanitarian work alongside her acting career since adopting Maddox, 5, Pax, 3, Zahara, 2, and giving birth to one-year-old daughter, Shiloh.
After appearing in Cannes alongside Brad to showcase their new film, A Mighty Heart, Angie said, "I have always been honest about who I am, and I’ve always been very outspoken to press. I think people have heard a lot from me over the years. [If] people want to believe negative things, they will. ... I can’t help that.
"I’m going to be dead one day. And what people say about me is going to be what I accomplished and what I did in my life."
Angelina arrives in Cannes - May 22 2007
Angelina Jolie waved to the crowd as she arrived in Cannes - showing a rather veiny arm.
It’s not clear whether the slim star had been working out or maybe was feeling the pressure of being in the spotlight - but one things for sure she certainly set pulses racing.
The mum of four was accompanied by Mariane Pearl, the widow of Daniel Pearl who the Hollywood actress plays in her new movie.
A Mighty Heart was inspired by the life of the US journalist, who died five years ago, and stars 31-year-old Angelina as his wife.
Ang’s boyfriend Brad Pitt is also making an appearance in Cannes for his new movie - the somewhat more light-hearted Ocean’s Thirteen.
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Her family moved to LA when Angelina was eleven and she soon began working on her acting career, enrolling in the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute where ahe appeared in several productions. Despite her abilities Angelina was teased during her time at Beverley Hills High School - far from being beautiful and popular she was skinny, with glasses and braces and wore second hand clothes. At 14 she dropped out of theatre classes, harbouring dreams of becoming a funeral director, and began cutting herself. Angelina began a rebellious period of her life, moving out of home and in with her boyfriend.
At around the same time she was taken on by Finesse Model Management and took jobs in the US and Europe, she also appeared in several music videos for the likes of Meat Loaf and Lenny Kravitz. Then, at 16, she returned to acting and rekindled her relationship with her father. She appeared in several of her brother’s student films before, in 1993 she was offered a role in sci-fi flick Cyborg 2. Several equally poor productions followed before Angelina landed a role in Hackers, which was a cult hit and threw the actress in the direction of Jonny Lee Miller, whom she would soon marry.
Little known films such as Foxfire and Mojave Moon followed but it was the Golden Globe winning George Wallace that got Angelina noticed and Pushing Tin, which co-starred Billy Bob Thornton and The Bone Collector helped her on her way to global stardom. However it was her part as messed up teenager Lisa Rowe in Girl, Interrupted which won her her place on the Hollywood walk of fame. The role won her an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress as well as several other accolades.
Action movies Gone In 60 Seconds and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider followed and made sure Angelina was admired the world over by men and women alike. Meanwhile her personal life became just as fascinating than her on screen performances. Having divorced Jonny Lee Miller she married Pushing Tin costar Billy Bob Thornton, famously they wore vials of blood around their neck, however in 2003 they also divorced despite having adopted a Cambodian orphan, Maddox. At the same time she admitted she had had a relationship with a female costar on the set of Foxfire. Meanwhile she continued with her now much publicised humanitarian work, as a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN and her film career, appearing in Alexander and Taking Lies among others.
In 2005 Angelina took a leading role in Mr & Mrs Smith, opposite Brad Pitt. Although the movie itself was widely panned the burgeoning relationship between Angelina and Brad, who was at the time in the process of splitting from Jennifer Aniston, made sure it was a hit. The relationship was also a success, in January 2006 Angelina announced that she was pregnant, just months after adopting second child, Ethiopian Zahara, she gave birth to Shiloh Jolie-Pitt.
Angelina has confirmed that she is working on a screen adaptation of Beowulf, A Mighty Heart and Atlas Shrugged.
updated January 2007
October 2007