![]() ![]() Nonetheless her exotic looks and acting talent still make her one of Hollywood's most in-demand actresses. She did provide the voice of Lola in the successful animated film, Shark Tale. Several of her movies, such as Alexander, Sky Captain, and the second Lara Croft film were major box office disappointments although Jolie usually received good notices. It does not appear that Maddox was among them, although the investigation is continuing.īesides her acting and humanitarian endeavors, Jolie also worked as a professional model in London, New York and Los Angeles and appeared in numerous music videos including those of Meat Loaf, Lenny Kravitz, and the Rolling Stones.įor several years prior to 2005, Jolie endured a professional dry spell in which she did not have a hit film. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and several of the children she placed had not been abandoned at all but were enticed away or bought from their birth families. She had been falsifying records of children to be adopted in visa applications to the U.S. ![]() In the fall of 2004, it was reported that Jolie has started proceedings to adopt another child, this time from Russia.Īround the same time, Lauryn Galindo, the Hawaii-based adoption facilitator whose services Jolie had used to adopt Maddox, was sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to visa fraud and money laundering charges. ![]() Jolie was also one of the first celebrities to accept an invitation to be one of the bearers of the Olympic Torch during the 2004 Olympic Games, though she was ultimately unable to participate due to filming commitments. In a January 2005 interview ( ) with Reuters, Jolie criticized fellow actors for not being committed enough in helping others, and stated that she gives one-third of her income to charitable organizations. In 2003, she published Notes from My Travels, a collection of journal entries chronicling her early work with the U.N. Jolie has been a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees since 2001, and frequently travels to far-flung countries to draw attention to the plight of people in Third World nations. Soon after he exploited a claim that she has "serious emotional problems" on Access Hollywood, she legally dropped Voight as her last name. In the October 2004 issue of Premiere Magazine, Jolie indicated that she was no longer interested in pursuing a relationship with her father. Jolie has been long estranged from her father, actor Jon Voight, though a reconciliation was attempted by his appearing with her in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. Though she enrolled at the film school at New York University after finishing Gia, she did not complete her studies. She attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute from the age of 11, later attending Beverly Hills High School. As a child she dreamed of becoming a funeral director. She is of mainly of French descent with Czech, French-Canadian, and Iroquois descents. Jolie, the daughter of actor Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand, was born in Los Angeles, California. ![]()
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