ANGELINA JOLIE (Lola) was honored with an Academy Award® for Best Supporting Actress for her work in the 1999 drama “Girl, Interrupted.” For her multi-layered performance as the young, streetwise mental patient Lisa Rowe, Jolie also won the Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild (SAG), and Critics Choice Awards in the same category. She was also named the Supporting Actress of the Year at the 2000 ShoWest Convention.
In addition to being an award-winning dramatic actress, Jolie has emerged as one of the film industry’s most popular female action stars. In 2001, she starred in the title role of the hit film “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider,” and she later reprised her role in the sequel “Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life.” She also starred as a car thief, teamed with Nicolas Cage and Robert Duvall, in the crime actioner “Gone in Sixty Seconds.”
Jolie more recently starred in D.J. Caruso’s thriller “Taking Lives,” with Ethan Hawke and Kiefer Sutherland; Martin Campbell’s drama “Beyond Borders”; Stephen Herek’s romantic comedy “Life or Something Like It”; and the dramatic thriller “Original Sin,” opposite Antonio Banderas, which reunited her with writer/director Michael Cristopher.
Jolie had previously collaborated with Michael Cristopher when he directed her in the title role of the 1998 HBO movie “Gia,” about the life and tragic death of supermodel Gia Carangi. Jolie’s unflinching performance as the stunning young woman whose life was cut short by drug abuse and then AIDS brought her Golden Globe and SAG Awards, as well as an Emmy Award nomination. She received dual Emmy nominations that year, earning another one for her work in John Frankenheimer’s miniseries “George Wallace,” opposite Gary Sinise. Jolie also won a Golden Globe Award and garnered a Cable ACE Award nomination for her portrayal of the controversial Alabama governor’s second wife, Cornelia.
She first gained the attention of critics and audiences with starring roles in such films as Iain Softley’s “Hackers” and Annette Haywood-Carter’s “Foxfire.” Jolie then joined the all-star ensemble cast of “Playing by Heart,” winning the National Board of Review’s award for Breakthrough Performance of the Year for her work in the film. She went on to star in Mike Newell’s “Pushing Tin,” with John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton, and Phillip Noyce’s thriller “The Bone Collector,” opposite Denzel Washington.
This fall, Jolie is starring in two more feature films in addition to “Shark Tale.” She next stars with Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow in the sci-fi action adventure “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.” In November, she stars in Oliver Stone’s epic biopic “Alexander,” opposite Colin Farrell as Alexander the Great. She most recently wrapped filming on the romantic action adventure “Mr. and Mrs. Smith,” in which she stars with Brad Pitt under the direction of Doug Liman.
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