1] Angelina Jolie Angelina Jolie is an American actress and filmmaker. 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 first gained notoriety with her performance in the film Hackers. Angelina Jolie's Early life: Angelina Jolie was born Angelina Jolie Voight on June 4, 1975, in Los Angeles, California, to actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. She is the sister of actor James Haven and the niece of singer-songwriter Chip Taylor. She grew up around the film sets of her father and later appeared in a small role in one of his movies, Lookin' to Get Out (1982). After her parents' divorce when she was one year old, Jolie and her brother were raised by their mother, who had acting ambitions of her own. Angelina Jolie's Film roles: Angelina Jolie made her film debut in the low-budget science fiction movie Cyborg 2 (1993), in which she played a sentient cyborg ...