ANGELINA JOLIE (Jane Smith) is an Academy Award winner and three-time Golden Globe winner.
In 2004, she starred in the thriller Taking Lives with Ethan Hawke; in the action-adventure Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, starring Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow; and in Oliver Stone’s Alexander, starring Colin Farrell Also in 2004 she voiced a role in the animated feature Shark Tale.
In 2003, she starred in the title role in the action/ adventure Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life, the sequel to the 2001 box-office smash; and as a devoted relief worker in the provocative drama Beyond Borders.
In 2001 Jolie starred in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider for director Simon West, and she also starred in Original Sin opposite Antonio Banderas for writer-director Michael Cristofer. The previous year, Angelina co-starred with Nicolas Cage and Robert Duvall in producer Jerry Bruckheimer’s smash hit Gone in 60 Seconds, as well as starring in the romantic comedy Life or Something Like It.
Jolie’s portrayal of a mental patient in Girl, Interrupted garnered her an Academy Award, her third Golden Globe Award, a Broadcast Film Critics Award, ShoWest’s Supporting Actress of the Year, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress. The film, based on the true story by Susanna Kayson, was directed by James Mangold, and co-starred Winona Ryder.
Prior to that she played a rookie police officer opposite Denzel Washington’s veteran detective in the thriller The Bone Collector directed by Phillip Noyce. Jolie also co-starred in Mike Newell’s Pushing Tin with Billy Bob Thornton and John Cusack. Playing by Heart earned her The National Board of Review’s award for breakthrough performance. This character-driven drama directed by Willard Carroll included an all-star ensemble cast including Sean Connery, Gena Rowlands, Madeline Stowe, Ellen Burstyn, Gillian Anderson and Dennis Quaid.
The HBO film "Gia" earned Jolie critical praise as well as a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Emmy nomination for her portrayal of the supermodel who died of AIDS. Jolie also received an Emmy nomination for her work opposite Gary Sinise in director John Frankenheimer’s "George Wallace," a period epic for TNT about the controversial Governor from Alabama. Jolie won her first Golden Globe Award and a Cable Ace nomination for her portrayal of George Wallace’s second wife, Cornelia.
Jolie also co-starred with David Duchovny and Timothy Hutton in director Andy Wilson’s film Playing God for Touchstone and prior to that she starred in the Hallmark Hall of Fame four hour miniseries presentation "True Women," directed by Karen Arthur, based on Janice Woods Windle’s best selling historical novel. In addition she starred in Annette Haywood-Carter’s much acclaimed Foxfire for Samuel Goldwyn and Iain Softley’s Hackers for United Artists.
A member of the famed MET Theatre Ensemble Workshop, Jolie trained at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and has also studied with Jan Tarrant in New York and Silvana Gallardo in Los Angeles.
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