All All. Sign In. Not Alphabetical Order. The second part of prettiness actresses will coming soon. List activity. Angelina Jolie. Actress Producer Director Maleficent Angelina Jolie is an Academy Award-winning actress who rose to fame after her role in Girl, Interrupted , playing the title role in the "Lara Croft" blockbuster movies, as well as Mr. Smith , Wanted , Salt and Maleficent Off-screen, Jolie has become prominently involved in international charity projects, especially those involving refugees.
She often appears on many "most beautiful women" lists, and she has a personal life that is avidly covered by the tabloid press. In her earliest years, Angelina began absorbing the acting craft from her actor parents, Jon Voight , an Oscar-winner, and Marcheline Bertrand , who had studied with Lee Strasberg.
Her good looks may derive from her ancestry, which is German and Slovak on her father's side, and French-Canadian, Dutch, Polish, and remote Huron, on her mother's side. At age eleven, Angelina began studying at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, where she was seen in several stage productions. At age 16, she took up a career in modeling and appeared in some music videos. In the mids, Jolie appeared in various small films where she got good notices, including Hackers and Foxfire Her critical acclaim increased when she played strong roles in the made-for-TV movies True Women , and in George Wallace which won her a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy nomination.
Jolie's acclaim increased even further when she played the lead role in the HBO production Gia This was the true life story of supermodel Gia Carangi , a sensitive wild child who was both brazen and needy and who had a difficult time handling professional success and the deaths of people who were close to her.
Carangi became involved with drugs and because of her needle-using habits she became, at the tender age of 26, one of the first celebrities to die of AIDS. Angelina got a major break in when she won a leading role in the successful feature The Bone Collector , starring alongside Denzel Washington.
