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Angelina Jolie
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pencil on paper
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21cm x 30cm
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unframed
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For Sale £15 original sketch plus print (£4 print only) incl. UK P&P
Born in Los Angeles, California, Angelina Jolie Voight, is an American actress with an Academy, two Screen Actor Guild and three Golden Globe Awards to her name.
Cited as one of most attractive/beautiful women in the world, her distinctive features are a mix of Slovak and German from her fathers side and French Canadian from her mother.
As her father and mother separated when she was just one, she and her brother were raised by her mother, in New York.
Somewhat of a rebel, from an early age, she had a live-in boyfriend at 14yrs, reflecting later ‘I am still at heart, and always will be, just a punk kid with tattoos’. Although she made her screen debut along side her father John Voight in 1982, her first leading role, in a major film was in Hackers (1995). She met her first husband, co-star Johnny Lee Miller at this time, although they separated the following year. She won a Golden Globe for her performance in George Wallace in 1998 and a second for her portrayal of supermodel Gia Carangi in Gia the following year. Whilst shooting Pushing Tin, in 1999, she met Billy Bob Thornton and they married in May 2000, sadly this too ended in divorce after three years. Also in 1999 she played a support role in Girl Interrupted, the sociopath Lisa Rowe, for which she won her third Golden Globe, her second Screen Actors Guild and an Academy Award. In 2001 she starred as Lara Croft in Tomb Raider, which elevated her to international superstar, reprising the role in the 2003 sequel. In 2005 she played opposite Brad Pitt in Mr & Mrs Smith with whom she now lives, the couple famously dubbed Brangelina by the media. Having previously adopted a Cambodian child Maddox, an Ethiopian child Zahara and a Vietnamese child, Pax, she has a daughter, Shiloh and twins, Knox and Vivienne to Pitt.
A couple of quotes by her: ‘I don’t think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to me work and that’s what counts’ and contrarily, ‘I never like being touched, ever. People used to say I held my breath when they were hugging me. I still do’