Angelina Jolie
Overview
Angelina Jolie is an American actress. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards
, and three Golden Globe Awards, and was named Hollywood's highest-paid actress by Forbes
in 2009 and 2011. Jolie is noted for promoting humanitarian causes as a Goodwill Ambassador
for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). She has been cited as the world's "most beautiful" woman, a title for which she has received substantial media attention.
Jolie made her screen debut as a child alongside her father Jon Voight
in Lookin' to Get Out
(1982), but her film career began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget production Cyborg 2
(1993).
Screen Actors Guild Awards
A Screen Actors Guild Award is an accolade given by the Screen Actors Guild to recognize outstanding performances by its members. The statuette given, a nude male figure holding both a mask of comedy and a mask of tragedy, is called "The Actor"...
, and three Golden Globe Awards, and was named Hollywood's highest-paid actress by Forbes
Forbes
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in 2009 and 2011. Jolie is noted for promoting humanitarian causes as a Goodwill Ambassador
UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador
UNHCR Goodwill Ambassadors are celebrity representatives of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees who use their talent and fame to advocate for refugees.-Current Ambassadors:...
for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). She has been cited as the world's "most beautiful" woman, a title for which she has received substantial media attention.
Jolie made her screen debut as a child alongside her father Jon Voight
Jon Voight
Jonathan Vincent "Jon" Voight is an American actor. He has received an Academy Award, out of four nominations, and three Golden Globe Awards, out of nine nominations. Voight is the father of actress Angelina Jolie....
in Lookin' to Get Out
Lookin' to Get Out
Lookin’ to Get Out is a 1982 film directed by Hal Ashby and written by Al Schwartz and Jon Voight, who also stars. Voight's daughter, Angelina Jolie, then six years old, briefly appears as the Voight character's daughter near the end of the movie. The film also stars Ann-Margret and Burt...
(1982), but her film career began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget production Cyborg 2
Cyborg 2
Cyborg 2, released in some countries as Glass Shadow, is a 1993 science fiction action film directed by Michael Schroeder. It is an unrelated sequel to the 1989 film Cyborg, although footage from the original is used in a dream sequence...
(1993).
Unanswered Questions
Discussions
Quotations
These problems do not disappear just because we do not hear about them. There is so much more happening around the world than what is communicated to us about the top stories we do hear. We all need to look deeper and discover for ourselves.... What is the problem? Where is it? How can we help to solve it?
Notes from My Travels: Visits with Refugees in Africa, Cambodia, Pakistan and Ecuador(2006)