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Academy Award® and three-time Golden Globe winner Angelina Jolie was seen most recently in director Robert Zemeckis' fantasy adventure, "Beowulf," and "The Good Shepherd," co-starring Matt Damon and directed by Robert DeNiro.
Angelina Jolie starred opposite Brad Pitt in the action-comedy-romance "Mrs. and Mrs. Smith" for director Doug Liman in 2005. The previous year, she starred in Oliver Stone's epic "Alexander" with Colin Farrell, Val Kilmer, and Anthony Hopkins, as well as the action/adventure "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" with Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow. Angelina Jolie also lent her voice to the animated feature "Shark Tale," along with Will Smith, Robert DeNiro and Jack Black, and starred in the thriller, "Taking Lives," with Ethan Hawke.
Angelina Jolie reprised the lead role in "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider—The Crade of Life" in 2003, and in the drama "Beyond Borders" that year. Angelina Jolie starred in the romantic comedy, "Life or Something Like It" in 2002. Angelina Jolie's work in 2001 included director Simon West's "Tomb Raider" as well as "Original Sin" opposite Antonio Banderas for GIA writer/director Michael Cristofer. In 2000, Angelina Jolie, Nicolas Cage and Robert Duvall starred in "Gone in 60 Seconds" for producer Jerry Bruckheimer.
Angelina Jolie's portrayal of a mental patient in "Girl, Interrupted" brought her an Academy Award®, her third Golden Globe Award, a Broadcast Film Critics Award and Best Supporting Actress Awards from ShoWest and the Screen Actors Guild.
Prior to that, Angelina Jolie played a rookie police officer opposite Denzel Washington's veteran detective in the thriller, "The Bone Collector," directed by Phillip Noyce. Angelina Jolie also co-starred in Mike Newell's "Pushing Tin" with Billy Bob Thornton and John Cusack. Angelina Jolie won the National Board of Review's award for Breakthrough Performance for "Playing by Heart," a character-driven drama directed by Willard Carroll and starring Sean Connery, Gena Rowlands, and Ellen Burstyn.
With the HBO film "Gia," Angelina Jolie won 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. Angelina Jolie was previously Emmy nominated for her work opposite Gary Sinise in director John Frankenheimer's "George Wallace," a period epic about the controversial Alabama governor. The film brought Angelina Jolie her first Golden Globe Award and a Cable Ace nomination for her portrayal of Wallace's second wife, Cornelia.
A member of the MET Theatre Ensemble Workshop, Angelina Jolie trained at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and has also studied with Jan Tarrant in New York and Silvana Gallardo in Los Angeles.
On August 27, 2001, Angelina Jolie was named Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), accepting the responsibility of meeting with and advocating for the protection of refugees on five continents.
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