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Yahoo!'s Web Celeb Angelina Jolie

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Angelina Jolie Voight grew up in Los Angeles and was no stranger to the film industry. She studied acting at the Lee Strassberg Institute, and landed her first role as a German dominatrix in her school play ROOM SERVICE. She got her first Hollywood starring role in the movie HACKERS. She portrayed the only female in the group capable of reaching elite status in the hacker business. She followed up that initial success with the film FOXFIRE, which is based on the novel by Joyce Carol Oates.

Angelina also worked as a professional model in London, New York, and Los Angeles. She appeared in music videos for artists like Meat Loaf, Lenny Kravitz, Antonello Venditti and The Lemonheads. She keeps her personal life pretty guarded. She married HACKERS costar Jonny Lee Miller in 1996, but she doesn't talk about it. What she does talk about are her tattoos, including a cross on her hip, a dragon on her arm, two Indian symbols on her back, and the Japanese word for death tattooed on her shoulder.

Angelina is the daughter of Academy Award winner Jon Voight (he won Best Actor for 1978's COMING HOME.) She decided on Angelina Jolie as her screen name. She loves her father, but says "I'm not him." If you translate her name in the romance languages, you get "pretty little angel eyes."

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Originally, Angelina wanted to be a funeral director. She says "there's something about death that is comforting. The thought you could die tomorrow frees you to appreciate your life now." It was Angelina's mother, former actress Marcheline Bertrand, who influenced her into choosing a life on screen. After her role in HACKERS, Angelina went on to star in the critically praised HBO movie GIA. She was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for her portrayal of the supermodel Gia Carangi who died of AIDS.

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She received an Emmy nomination as well as a Cable Ace nomination for her work in the TNT movie GEORGE WALLACE (co-starring Gary Sinise.) Her role as Cornelia Wallace snagged her a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress. GEORGE WALLACE also won a Golden Globe for Best Miniseries.

Angelina can be seen next in Mike Newell's upcoming PUSHING TIN, also starring John Cusack and Billy Bob Thorton. She can be seen in the Miramax film PLAYING BY HEART, and she stars next to Denzel Washington in THE BONE COLLECTOR. Not bad for a girl with the nickname "Jellybean."

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