Angelina Jolie : Not only an actress she has another shade

Angelina Jolie : Humanitarian

 

Angelina Jolie
Jolie at the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict in June 2014
Born	Angelina Jolie Voight June 4, 1975 (age 41) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Citizenship	US, Cambodia
Occupation	Actress, filmmaker, activist
Years active	1982–present
Spouse(s)	Jonny Lee Miller (mar. 1996; div. 1999)   Billy Bob Thornton (mar. 2000;div. 2003)  Brad Pitt (mar. 2014)
Children	6
Parent(s) Relatives	Jon Voight  Marcheline Bertrand James Haven (brother)  tr Barry Voight, Chip Taylor(paternal uncles)

Angelina Jolie ; June 4, 1975) is an American actress,filmmaker, and humanitarian.She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, and has been cited as Hollywood's highest-paid actress. Jolie made her screen debut as a child alongside her father, Jon Voight, in Lookin' to Get Out (1982). Her film career began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget production Cyborg 2 (1993), followed by her first leading role in a major film, Hackers (1995). She starred in the critically acclaimed biographical cable films George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998), and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama Girl, Interrupted (1999).Jolie's starring role as the video game heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) established her as a leading Hollywood actress. She continued her successful action-star career with Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Wanted (2008), and Salt (2010), and received critical acclaim for her performances in the dramas A Mighty Heart (2007) and Changeling (2008), which earned her a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actress. Beginning in the 2010s, she expanded her career into directing, screenwriting, and producing, starting with the wartime dramas In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011) and Unbroken (2014). Her biggest commercial success came with the fantasy picture Maleficent (2014). Early life and family Born in Los Angeles, California, Jolie is the daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. She is the sister of actor James Haven and niece of singer-songwriter Chip Taylor. Her

Jon Voight at the Academy Awards

 in April 1988, where his children accompanied him

 godparents are actors Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell, On her father's side, Jolie is of German and Slovak descent, and on her mother's side, she is of primarily French-Canadian, Dutch, and German ancestry Like her mother, Jolie has stated that she is part Iroquois, although her only known indigenous ancestors were 17th-century Hurons.

After her parents' separation in 1976, Jolie and her brother lived with their mother, who had abandoned her acting ambitions to focus on raising her children. As a child, she often watched films with her mother and it was this, rather than her father's successful career, that inspired her interest in acting, though at age five she had a bit part in Voight's Lookin' to Get Out (1982). When Jolie was six years old, Bertrand and her live-in partner, filmmaker Bill Day, moved the family to Palisades, New York; they returned to Los Angeles five years later. Jolie then decided she wanted to act and enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, where she trained for two years and appeared in several stage productions

Source : wikipedia

Angelinajolie and William Hague open the Global Summit to End Sexual Violence

Angelina Jolie: How She's Become An Inspiration To Us All

-Suzannah Ramsdale 

In the early stages of Angelina Jolie's public life she was known as the wild child actress who snogged her brother on the red carpet at the Oscars, wore a vial of her then husband Billy Bob Thornton's blood around her neck and admitted to self-harming and drug use.
But all that is now long forgotten as the Oscar-winner splits most of her time between her extensive humanitarian work and bringing up her beautiful family of six. Let's take a look at how she's turned into a role model for so many.

It was while she was in Cambodia in 2001, shooting Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, that Angelina Jolie became aware of the suffering of the people in that war-ravaged country  “my eyes started to open,” she would later say. That experience  and a greater understanding of a worldwide humanitarian crisis  led the actress to contact the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees later that year.

In the years since, her work on behalf of the homeless and dispossessed has taken her to more than 30 countries  including a few war zones  and to Washington, D.C., where she has pushed for legislation to assist refugees in troubled regions around the world.

Angelina has said that she first become aware of the extent of the problems people around the world face when she filmed Lara Croft: Tomb Raider in Cambodia in 2001. She later said that seeing and meeting the people of that war-ravaged country 'opened my eyes.'

Angelina Jolie in chad :Darfur refugees

The suffering of the people in Cambodia caused Angelina to contact the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to find out how she could help. She then went on her first overseas mission - an 18-day trip to Sierra Leone and Tanzania.
She followed that up with a two-week trip back to Cambodia and then met with Afghan refugees in Pakistan. Not long after she was named a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador and her humanitarian work really got going.


Angelina Jolie speaking as a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador in 2002Since being appointed as a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, Angelina has visited over 30 countries and even risked her life. On a recent trip to Afghanistan she revealed that she had written a farewell letter to Brad Pitt after being warned she was a target for attack. Two weeks after she arrived home a UN bunker was attacked and everyone inside it was killed.

Angelina Jolie in Iraq, 2008

Angelina is beyond admirable in her courage for visiting highly volatile areas, during her time as a Goodwill Ambassador she's visited Darfur in Sudan during the verocious conflict there, Chad during its civil war, Iraq and Libya during the Libyan revolution.


                                           Angelina Jolie in Pakistan, 2005

    Angelina, on the whole, has focused her attention on refugees and people who have been displaced due to conflict. This cause has seen her visit Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Cambodia, Pakistan, Thailand, Ecuador, Kosovo, Kenya, Namibia, Sri Lanka, North Caucasus, Jordan, Egypt, New Delhi, Costa Rica, Chad, Syria, and Iraq.
She has also helped those who have been displaced by natural disasters, including earthquake victims in Haiti.

      

Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in Haiti, 2006

Angelina has also set up and financed many charity organisations. In 2003, she founded the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation (after her first son, Maddox, who she adopted from Cambodia) which is dedicated to community development and environmental conservation in Cambodia.

Actress and UNHCR goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie, left, speaks with the Indian Minister of State for External Affairs, Anand Sharma, at Hyderabad House in New Delhi on Nov. 5, 2006. Jolie, who was in New Delhi for two days to work with the UN refugee agency, met with refugee women and children from Myanmar and also the Khalsa Diwan Welfare Society, an organization run by and for Sikh Afghan refugees in India.

But it doesn't stop there, in 2007 Ange joined forces with economist Dr. Gene Sperling and founded the Education Partnership for Children of Conflict, which funds education for children affected by man-made or natural disasters.
And in 2008, she worked with Microsoft to set up the Kids in Need of Defense, a group of law firms and volunteers who have commiteed to giving legal counsel for immigrant kids in the US.

 
          Angelina Jolie with asylum seekers in Malta, 2011

Both Angelina and Brad dig deep when it comes to charity, with the pair donating millions and millions of their own money each year. Records from 2009 show the couple gave at least $7m to charitable causes.

  
                                           Angelina Jolie in india press conference

When Brad and Angelina's twins, Knox and Vivienne, were born the couple sold the first images of the babies to People and Hello! for $14 million, using the entire amount to help fund the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation. Most recently Angelina joined forces with William Hague to raise awareness about the use of rape as a weapon in conflicts. The pair visited the Congo and Angelina spoke at the G8 in London.
Angelina used her directorial debut to highlight the horrors of the war in the former Yugoslavia, for which, she and some of the cast of the film received threats. At the movie's premiere in Sarajevo, she said: 'There were things sent to me, there were things posted online. The cast have never complained to me about these threats but I've heard through other people it was happening. One of them did have their windows smashed in on their cars and someone else had an issue when their phone was hacked and emails were sent out saying they were from them and saying they had been hurt.'

Despite her selfless humanitarian work, generous charity donations and her role as a devoted mother, it was Angelina's announcement that she had undergone a preventative double mastectomy that really won people's admiration.
Not only did the star take the brave decision to have the dramatic surgery, after discovering that she had a high chance of developing cancer, the same disease that killed her beloved mother, Marchelline Bertrand, in 2007, but she wrote a moving op-ed piece for the New York Times so that other women would hopefully benefit from her decision.

Speaking about Angelina's bravery at the premiere of World War Z, where Ange made her first public appearance since revealing the news, Brad Pitt said: 'I was so proud of her. What everyone is seeing is absolutely who she is and who she has always been.
'She’s faced her problems head on and found out her options to make the smartest decision for her, and she’s shared that knowledge with everyone else.
'I always want her by my side. Life will go on and we’re taking care of business as usual. We’re on the other side of that.
'It’s the bravest thing and I get a little emotional about the act she did for our family and telling her story to others.
'She’s a very special woman. It’s important that this testing is not available for everyone and it should be, and that there are surgical options and everyone should have these options.'
Bravery, elegance, generosity and poise - what an incredible woman!