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Angelina Jolie
It was an unusually quite 35th birthday for Angelina Jolie on Friday. Hollywood superstar Jolie, often described as the most beautiful woman in the world, was spotted having a pre-birthday lunch with only her assistant for company. Boyfriend Brad Pitt and her six children were conspicuous by their absence. However there may be lots of excitement, some welcome and some not, coming her way soon. While Jolie gets ready to promote new film Salt, celeb author Andrew Morton has announced a biography that will reveal details of the actress' wild past, including her trysts with drugs, self-harm and voodoo.
Jolie's life is certainly a tapestry of myriad shades and hues. She was born to famous Oscar winning actor Jon Voight and actress Marcheline Bertrand on June 4, 1975 in Los Angeles, California. Her parents separated just a year after her birth and she and he brother were brought up by their mother in New York.
She enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute at the age of 11 but dropped out just two years into the programme. Marcheline Bertrand let her 14-year-old daughter's older boyfriend move into their home, with Jolie and her elder brother James Haven. She broke up with her boyfriend in 1991.
Teen years were not happy for Jolie. Her mother was not well off and she was often teased by other students at school for being extremely thin and for wearing glasses and braces. Depression and low self-esteem led young Jolie to start inflicting cuts on herself. "I had that problem early on when I couldn't feel a bond with another human being," she told Allure in a 2004 interview. Elsewhere she has been quoted as saying "For some reason, the ritual of having cut myself and feeling the pain, maybe feeling alive, feeling some kind of release, it was somehow therapeutic to me."
Jolie started her showbiz career at the age of seven with her father in the film Lookin' to Get Out.
From there she graduated to modeling and shooting for music videos. She worked with artistes like Meat Loaf ('Rock & Roll Dreams Come Through'), Antonello Venditti ('Alta Marea'), Lenny Kravitz ('Stand by My Woman'), and The Lemonheads ('It's About Time').
Recently Jolie's earliest modeling photographs went under the hammer. The actress, who was just 15 at the time, posed for photographer Harry Langdon.
It was while working for another 1995 film Hackers that Jolie made her first husband Jonny Lee Miller. The film followed the exploits of a group of gifted high school hackers and their involvement in a corporate extortion conspiracy. However it failed to do well at the box office.
The actress repeated her success in 1998, winning the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for TV. The role of supermodel Gia Caragea in the TV drama Gia propelled Jolie to the line-up of Hollywood's best actresses. Wild at heart Jolie reportedly celebrated by jumping into the pool at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, still in her Randolph Duke gown.
Original Sin (2001) in which Jolie starred opposite Antonio Banderas as the mail-order bride Julia Russell, did not do anything for her reputation as an actress. However her steamy scenes in the film did create quite a stir and Jolie promptly laid claim to the title of the 'sexiest woman in the world'.
Premiered at Cannes, Clint Eastwood's Changeling (2008) is based on an actual incident that rocked California's legal system. Changeling tells the shocking tale of a mother's quest to find her son, and those who won't stop until they silence her. Jolie received her second Academy Award nomination, and was also nominated for a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for her portrayal of Christine Collins.
Jolie has three biological children. She gave birth to a daughter, Shiloh Nouvel, in Swakopmund, Namibia, on May 27, 2006. The first pictures of Shiloh were reportedly sold for $7 million, with the proceeds going to charity. The twins, Knox Léon and Vivienne Marcheline were born in Nice, France, on July 12, 2008. This time entertainment magazines Hello! and People doubled the price for photos and $14 million went to the Jolie/Pitt Foundation.
Jolie's celebrity status is without few parallels. In 2006 she was described as the world's most beautiful woman by People magazine and again by Vanity Fair in 2009. She has been on the Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world, in 2006 and 2008. She was also voted the greatest sex symbol of all time in a British Channel 4 show in 207. She has been on the cover of nearly every well-known magazine in the world, including Esquire, Rolling Stone, Maxim, Marie Claire and GQ.
Given her no-holds barred attitude to life, it is natural for Jolie to court controversies from time to time. She has run into rough weather over the intimate kiss she shared with her brother at the Oscars in 2000 and for a November 2008 photograph on the cover of W magazine that showed her breastfeeding her new born twins, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline. In 2005 the actress was accused of breaking up Brad Pitt's marriage to Jennifer Aniston. It was as charge that Jolie vehemently denied. "To be intimate with a married man, when my own father cheated on my mother, is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife," she said in an interview in June 2005.
