Overview

• Born on June 4, 1975 in Los Angeles to actors Marcheline Bertrand and Jon Voight, Jolie debuted on screen at age 7 in Hal Ashby’s Lookin’ to Get Out.
• She won an Academy Award in 2000 for Girl, Interrupted and later led blockbusters including Tomb Raider, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Maleficent and Eternals.
• Branching into filmmaking, Jolie wrote and directed features such as In the Land of Blood and Honey, By the Sea and Unbroken.
• After discovering a BRCA1 gene mutation, she underwent a preventive double mastectomy in 2013 and shared her story in the New York Times to raise cancer awareness.
• Appointed a UNHCR special envoy, Jolie has visited refugee camps from Cambodia to Bosnia and earned the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award in 2014 for her advocacy.