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Young model Angelina
Angelina Jolie Voight was born in Los Angeles on the 4th of June 1975, apparently at 09:09, and growing up there Angelina was no stranger to the film industry, being the daughter of her Academy Award-winning father Jon Voight and of model Marcheline Bertrand. Both Angelina and her brother, James Haven Voight, were given middle names which can double as surnames in the event they preferred not to take the name Voight in later life, as would later transpire. In Angelina’s case she claims to use “Jolie” in order to become famous on her own merit - “I love my father, but I am not him.”
In her earlier years her ambition was to become a funeral director, hence some of her quotes, the tattoo of the Japanese sign for death and her slightly deviant sexual behaviour. Angelina appears to be a fan of sadism, masochism, vampirism and bondage - not what one would quite call ‘normal’, of which behaviour has lead to a few scars, mainly through the use of knives and daggers, which she is known to collect. As she aptly puts it, “You’re young, you’re drunk, you’re in bed, you have knives; sh*t happens.” She has also admitted to being bisexual, indeed a reporter once told her that she was the actress that most straight women wanted to have sex with, to which she replied that she was the one that was most likely to do it. There is, however, no evidence to suggest this.
Jon Voight separated from the family while Angelina was one year old, remaining in California while the rest of the family, Angelina, James and their mother, moved to New York, but later moved back to Los Angeles when Angelina was eleven. During which time she was to star alongside her father, at the age of seven, in “Lookin’ To Get Out,” a relatively obscure comedy directed by Hal Ashby. She was to say, later in life, “He was the perfect example of an artist who couldn’t be married. He had the perfect family, but there’s something for him that’s very scary about that.”
Professional model Angelina
Angelina went on to work, given her trademark full pouting lips, as a professional model in London, New York and Los Angeles, and appeared in music videos for such artists as Meatloaf in “Rock-n-Roll Dreams Come Through”, Lenny Kravitz in “Stand by my Woman”, The Rolling Stones in “Has Anybody Seen My Baby ?”, Antonello Venditti and The Lemonheads. Apparently her modelling career started with the Finesse Modelling Agency. Studies of Film at the New York University continued, and she later joined the Met Theatre Group in Los Angeles where Angelina was to study alongside established actors Ed Harris and Holly Hunter.
When talking to Mr. Showbiz about this interest in performing she said, “I didn’t know exactly what I wanted, but I knew I could know, I loved some kind of expression ... I want so much to try to explain things to somebody ... I’m very good at trying to explore different emotions and listen to people and feel things. That is an actor, I think.” Perhaps not the most eloquent of speeches. Never-the-less, Angelina insists that it was her mother who predominantly influenced her, “she loved taking us to the theatre.”
While at the USC School of Cinema she acted in five student films all directed by her brother James, where her first role cast her, rather aptly, as a dominatrix. Two of which were “Angela & Viril” and “Alice & Viril”, both available in the filmography, and two more may have been “Gathering Evidence” and “Oh No, Not Her.” 1993 saw Angelina’s first adult appearance as the supporting role of human-machine hybrid Casella Reese in the poorly received science fiction film “Cyborg 2: Glass Shadows,” although it only ended up on video.
The happy couple
Given all this experience, Angelina’s first major role came in the cyber-thriller “Hackers” in 1995, where she met her soon-to-be first husband co-star Jonny Lee Miller. Main character Crash Override, Jonny, working with Acid Burn, Angelina, become involved in accidentally downloading a criminally incriminating file so are forced to unite the world’s computer hackers to take-down a firm’s computer mainframe and expose the criminal to absolve themselves. Later this year, Angelina took the part of teen drug-addict Jodie Swearingen in the true-story film “Without Evidence.”
Critics began to sit up and take notice of Angelina following her portrayal of Legs, a self-posessed teenage drifter who incites female students at a small-town high school to gain assertiveness, in the 1996 film “Foxfire,” and of a star-crossed Italian girl in love with the son of a rival restauranteur in the romantic film “Love Is All There Is” of the same year. Angelina was next afforded the opportunity to work with the already acclaimed David Duchovny, and with Timothy Hutton, when taking the part of a gangster moll trapped between the affections of her mob-ruler boyfriend, and a mob doctor in his employ, in the 1997 film “Playing God”, although the film died-a-death and few people would have seen it.
Gia Marie Carangi
Later in 1997, Angelina was to appear as an intense, and impassioned, Cornelia Wallace playing opposite Gary Sinise in the television movie “George Wallace.” She was to gain a Golden Globe as Best Supporting Actress and an Emmy nomination for this escapade. Even so, her career was to take yet another up-turn by another great portrayal as Gia Marie Carangi, a bisexual, heroin-addicted, terminally Aids afflicted super-model, in the 1998 television movie “Gia”, broadcast on HBO. The extent to which Angelina absorbed herself into this specific role rather concerned her friends.
This perfect characterisation grabbed her a second Golden Globe for Best Actress and yet another Emmy nomination. It was during the award ceremony of her second Golden Globe that Angelina chose to leap into the hotel swimming pool, still wearing her Robert Duke dress. During the Emmy awards, Angelina was seen to be rather intimate with her brother James, and even though it is known they are close, rumours spread that the two were acting incestuously. However, these rumours were quoshed in 2000 when the pair categorically stated this was not the case.
Unfaithful Mary
Later in 1998 would follow the rather dire “Hell’s Kitchen (N.Y.C.)” including Gloria McNeary which grossed less than $10,000 in US Box Offices, and the mediocre success as Joan in “Playing by Heart” which was undoubtedly Angelina’s most star-studded appearance - giving her a chance to hone her skills with other actors.
During the same year the timely divorce from Jonny Lee Miller in favour of a partnership with her next co-star was to take place. Increases in exposure led to more challenging, and higher profile, roles such as Angelina’s next appearance as, rather appropriately, Billy Bob Thornton’s character’s wife Mary Bell in “Pushing Tin,” the 1999 movie comedy regarding air traffic controllers directed by Mike Newell. Later in the year “The Bone Collector” was released with Angelina taking the part of policewoman Amelia Sachs who, in conjunction with co-star Denzel Washington, investigates and follows obscure clues to track down a serial killer. Director Phillip Noyce commented to Time magazine about her acting mettle, “She’s not burned out with the joy of performing. She’s in her element because she can set parameters for a character, whereas I suspect she doesn’t know her own boundaries emotionally and physically.”
Mental patient Lisa
Taking a moment to reflect, Angelina is now only 24 years of age, having had a divorce and facing another marriage, and has already gained three Golden Globes, an Academy Award and two Emmy nominations. Not a mean achievement. May 2000 was to bring her second, rather more conventional, marriage to Billy Bob Thornton.
Lady Lara Croft
: Sex Siren
June and July 2001 will inevitably be a highlight of Angelina’s career, and possibly her life, with the launch of the editor’s favourite film “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider” with Angelina playing her first leading role of the long-loved, much exposed computer game heroine giving Angelina bucket-loads of on-air time and exposure world-wide, including such countries as America, Britain, France, Germany, and even China, and earning her a cool $7m. More were to follow but her place as a global superstar was now attained and her face known everywhere.
This was perhaps Angelina’s most physically energetic performance yet, and hence in order to keep trim it is claimed that she lifted weights, played basketball and sky-dived. This was, of course, on top of the physical training she undertook specifically for the role. She was, however, still to stick to her stereotype and find some emotional outlet in her performances - this time with her own father playing Lara’s deceased father and their being briefly reunited - and even a hint of nudity when stepping out of the shower.
It must not be forgotten at this point that this was the time Angelina met little 9-month-old Rath Vibol (unkindly translating as “orphan abundant”) while on a charity mission to Cambodia hunting out landmines. Quite probably the first true love of her life she began proceedings to adopt the young orphan, much to the displeasure of Billy Bob.
Original Sin Premiere
The beginning of 2002 has seen the release of “Original Sin”. A little bemusing for husband-of-the-moment Billy Bob one would think, considering a few of the rather explicit sex-scenes. I have yet to confirm or deny quite how far Angelina and co-star Antonio Banderas actually went with these scenes. Never-the-less, yet another performance at the fringe, this time of a prostitute turned lover. Angelina, or Bonnie, or Julia, originally a prostitute escapes her pimp and takes the persona of a woman killed on a ship who was due to marry Antonio Banderas (Luis). She does so, but is caught by her pimp and the trio engage in a chase across Cuba culminating in the death of the pimp, the bankruptcy of Luis and the pair ending up together and earning a living by cheating at cards. As already hinted at this film was not for Angelina’s younger fans, indeed I was just over the age-limit at the time, and not a fantastically popular film by all accounts.
Early 2002 in the US Angelina would appear as Lanie Kerigan in “Life Or Something Like It” and, yet again, an emotion-filled role where she is facing the accurate prophecy “Oh, and you will die next Thursday; I’m sorry.” As you might understand for the perfect body with the perfect coiff, perfect apartment, perfect boyfriend and the prospect of promotion - this is not a naturally tenable proposition. Her life slowly falls apart and en-route to the new job a scuffle in the street leads to Lanie being shot - but she has not died, part of her personality has. The stages of acceptance, and their related emotional responses, ensue and, once again, she becomes physically involved with the cameraman. It is claimed that this role was designed by Angelina herself looking to show her real ‘ditzy’ self.
Later in the year, red tape was eventually cleared up to allow her to adopt the Cambodian orphan whom she renamed Maddox Chivan Jolie. After parading him proudly and doting on him diligently a problem with her marriage was to cause a hiccup in her life. It has been unreliably confirmed that Billy Bob, while touring with his band, was cavorting with a few female roadies and he could not abide the new addition to the family - Maddox was taking his place as the limelight of Angelina’s life. Fairly soon a divorce paper was filed claiming “irreconcilable differences,” and Angelina cut herself right out of Billy Bob’s, and even her father’s, life.
New son Maddox
Staff were sent into their marital home on the 21st of September (2002) to clear out her possessions, and she held up in a local hotel for a while, before flying to Britain to continue filming Tomb Raider II. For a while between October and December, she sought solice in former husband Jonny Lee Miller, but this broke down when he refused to join her for Christmas. The divorce came through in 2003, along with the laser-removal of her tattoo of Billy Bob’s name on her left-arm and she purchased a home in London, and later in the year she began construction of a Cambodian abode to bring Maddox ‘home“ to and another purchase of a manor and 300-acre estate in Fulmer, Buckinghamshire, no more than a couple of miles from Pinewood Film Studios.
Jon Voight, her father, left the family early in his life, and is claimed to be a womaniser. He has been photographed with his two children, on a number of occasions, but with the marriage problem and the concentration on Maddox somehow Angelina became soured to her father, has legally removed the “Voight” from her name, and is deliberately ignoring her father - so much so that when she heard he would attend the 2003 Oscars she refused to go. All this despite his very public televisual plea.
TRII Premiere
Later the same year, “Beyond Borders” was released, but only in selected countries. Titled as a loves story among humanitarian aid workers caught up in war around Cambodia, it was apt for Angelina as her humanitarian work was now peaking all round the world. Not a particularly well accepted film, but it made an impact on those who have seen it. Finally, we have Illeana Scott, a rather morbid FBI agent, in the rather disappointing “Talented Mr. Ripley” take-off “Taking Lives”.
Angelina has not stopped accepting roles. Now being released are “Shark Tale” with the voice/character of Lola, British naval commander Franky Cook in retro “Sky Captain & The World Of Tomorrow”, Catherine The Great in historical epic “Alexander” and as Mrs. Smith in “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” - busy life !
As for Angelina’s future, that is rather open. Humanitarian efforts continue, alongside present flying lessons. Her hopes include being a qualified pilot, purchasing a hotel in America, to learn to cook, to learn French, and she would like to have children, but is presently content with adopted Maddox. A second adoption is a strong possibility.
Angelina’s career has been varied and exciting, although perhaps a little crazed and wild, showing her face and naked figure to people of all ages and tastes, from the young and teenage boys and girls with Tomb Raider and Hackers, to the 20s and 30s females with Girl, Interrupted, to the middle-aged men with the over exposed Gia and Original Sin, and more. Her career has allowed her to act alongside Hollywood’s top stars, including Sean Connery, Leslie Phillips, Denzel Washington, Nicolas Cage, Gillian Anderson, Antonio Banderas, Dennis Quaid and her father Jon Voight. Long may her career continue.
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Angelina’s Family
Jon & Angelina
| Date of Birth : | 29 - 12 - 1938 |
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| Place of Birth : | Yonkers, New York, USA |
| Star Sign : | Capricorn |
Born in Yonkers, New York, to Elmer (a Czechoslovakian-American pro-Golfer) and Barbara on December 29th 1938 to join two brothers - Barry and Chip Taylor. Chip, or James Wesley Voight, later developed into a talented musician and songwriter (noted by appearances on “Top of the Pops”), and Barry into a volcanologist.
Jon’s acting career started on the stage in productions at Archbishop Stepinac High School (Yonkers), but followed academia to the Catholic University of America in Washington DC and graduated BFA in 1960. One year later his career continued to “The Sound of Music” on Broadway and later that decade he guest starred on television shows such as “Coronet Blue” and “Gunsmoke,”, making his film debut in “Hour of the Gun,” starring James Garner and Jason Robards, in 1967, which also marked the end of a five-year marriage to actress Lauri Peters.
His big break came in 1969 when he was chosen to star as Joe Buck in the fairly famous “Midnight Cowboy” for which he received his first Academy Award nomination, but no win. Next year another small role in “Catch-22” and his marriage to French actress Marcheline Bertrand on 12th December, soon followed by another compelling role in another famous film “Deliverance” in 1972 - about a group of four friends on a canoe trip that goes haywire were followed by a part as Pat Conroy in the author of “Conrack” in 1974.
In 1976 Jon separated from wife Marcheline Bertrand and remained in Los Angeles while she and their two children, James Haven Voight and Angelina Jolie Voight, upped sticks to New York.
His next role was to be Luke Martin, a Vietnam war veteran, in “Coming Home.”, for which his commanding performance earned a second Academy Award nomination which he was to win. After confirmation of divorce from Marcheline came through he starred in a remake of “The Champ” in 1979, co-starring Faye Dunaway and Ricky Schroder, “Table For Five” and “Lookin’ to Get Out” in which he starred alongside his daughter in her first screen appearance.
His third Award nomination was for “Runaway Train” in 1985 where he portrayed escaped convict Manny. Little followed in the 1980s but he resurfaced acting in his directorial debut for “The Tin Soldier” on cable, which was followed by “Chernobyl: Final Warning” and “The Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior.” Important films for Jon as they analysed real-life events.
Later to come was “Eternity” for which he wrote the screenplay and directed, and in 1995 he starred alongside Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro in “Heat”. Now is the pinnacle of his career, such that his next appearance was with Tom Cruise in the blockbuster “Mission: Impossible” - albeit as the villain - and in 1997 he was to appear in “Rosewood,” “Anaconda,” “Mosted Wanted,” and John Grisham’s “The Rainmaker.”. A Golden Globe nomination for The Rainmaker was not won.
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Marcheline
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James Haven
| Date of Birth : | 11 - 05 - 1973 |
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| Star Sign : | Taurus |
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Son Maddox
| Date of Birth : | 05 - 08 - 2001 |
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| Place of Birth : | Cambodia |
| Star Sign : | Leo |
His name translates as “Beneficient” from (Welsh) Celtic and according to Kabalarins, a society analysing names, his name “gives you a clever, quick, analytical mind, but you suffer with a great deal of self-consciousness, lack of confidence, and much aloneness because of misunderstandings. Your idealistic and sensitive nature gives you a deep appreciation for the finer things of life and a strong desire to be of service to humanity. There are times when you experience inner turbulence at your inability to say what you mean. It is far easier for you to express your deeper thoughts and feelings through writing than verbally. You find pleasure in literature, in poetry, and in your ideals and will turn to them when you feel you have been misunderstood. You are deeply moved by the beauties of life, especially nature. Because your feelings run deep, you must guard against the ups and downs, being very inspired one minute, then moody, reserved, and depressed the next. Your reactions to people vary according to how you feel. You tend to be secretive and noncommittal about private matters, yet at times you will talk effusively in order to hide your self-consciousness or to lead others away from personal subjects. You are inspired by encouragement from others, yet suspicious of their intent. You crave affection but seldom find anyone who understands your nature.
Physical weaknesses would show in your heart, lungs, or bronchial organs.”
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Jonny
| Date of Birth : | 15 - 11 - 1972 |
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| Place of Birth : | Kingston, Surrey, UK |
| Star Sign : | Scorpio |
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Perhaps best known for his part as ‘Sickboy’ in the film trainspotting, this British actor has appeared in a few
movies.
Following a brief courtship after having met on the set of the movie Hackers, in which both Angelina and Jonny star, the pair wed in 1995. The nuptials unfortunately earned her the first bad reviews of her career. For the wedding, Angelina wore black leather-look rubber trousers, and a white blouse with “Jonny Lee Miller” scrawled across the back in her own blood. When questioned about this, Angelina said to the New York Times, “It’s your husband, you’re about to marry him. You can sacrifice a little to make it really special.”
This marriage, however, was not to last. The pair separated in 1997 after only two years of marriage, and eventually signed the divorce papers in 1999, and so parted ways in 2000.
When he marriage with Billy Bob Thornton failed in 2002, Angelina returned to the arms (and lips) of Jonny around October 2002, and the pair were in contact through to December when he refused to join her for Christmas in America.
If you would like more information on Jonny, feel free to have a look over :
Billy Bob
| Date of Birth : | 04 - 08 - 1955 |
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| Place of Birth : | Hot Springs, Arkansas, USA |
| Star sign : | Leo |
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Not the first marriage for either partner, Billy Bob has been married five previous times, and it was only by breaking the heart of a rival fiancée that Angelina was able to grab Billy Bob. It was understood that he was to wed Laura Dern, leaving her mother to say to the Enquirer “Billy Bob Thorton is a real Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. I’m shocked. Billy Bob told me he wants my daughter to be his wife and I know they’ve talked about having kids. I don’t know how to make sense out of it.”
Four days prior to the marriage it was reported that Angelina checked herself into UCLA for psychological examination, although nobody is entirely sure why. Prior to the wedding she also decided to get yet another tattoo, this time of his name on her arm, and after the marriage another of his name in a rather more private place.
The marriage was to take place in May 2000 in the “Little Church of the West”, Las Vegas, in a rather subdued atmosphere, especially with Angelina wearing a blue sleeveless sweater.
Angelina claims this partnership to be true love, saying Billy Bob is the love of her life. She has also told friends that he is “the biggest in Hollywood,” which we assume is referring to a part of his anatomy, so would be important to her since Angelina has said “I love sex! I never get enough, I need it more than anyone I know.”
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To everyone’s dismay it appeared that Billy Bob was both unfaithful to Angelina and unwilling to join in with newly adopted Maddox, so in
early 2002 Angelina packed her things and left the house and quickly filed divorce papers. The papers went through early 2003 and the seemingly
fitting pair are now officially divorced - to the extent that she has had her tattoo of his name on her left arm has been removed by laser surgery.
Billy Bob has a fan (or hate ?) mail address, as follows : Billy Bob Thornton c/o Creative Artists Agency, 9830 Wilshire Boulevard, Beverly Hills, CA. 90212-1825. USA. |
Billy bob and Angelina split up !
As reported by the National Enquirer, a somewhat distraught Angelina Jolie split from second husband Billy Bob Thornton on the 1st of June, who was already flirting with other women.
Angelina moved out of their Beverly Hills estate and checked into the ‘Four Seasons Hotel’ with newly adopted Maddox. Friends fear their two-year marriage is headed for divorce because Billy Bob is jealous of little Maddox!
The Enquirer visited Angelina at the hotel suite and asked if she and Billy Bob had separated, however, while playing with Maddox, she commented “I cannot talk about this at this time.” Never-the-less, she graciously took time to introduce us to the star of her life. Opening the door to her hotel room she said, “this is our son Maddox. We call him ‘Madness’ and he is my new best friend.”
Billy Bob, already a father of three, now feels he has been forced out of the spotlight and his reaction has ripped apart the marriage. Now that Angelina dotes on little Maddox, Billy bob has lost the undivided attention of her he was used to, and being an actor accentuates his need for attention all the more.
A close source mentioned that “Angelina is a hands-on mother - changing the diapers and doing the feedings. She carries Maddox around everywhere. She has been sleeping in bed with the baby next to her.” Angelina also said to a source “My husband and I are going through some rough sh** right now.”
While Billy Bob gallivants around the country with his rock band, he is enjoying the ‘single life,’ and has been spotted partying with women young enough to be his daughters. Indeed recently he has been partying heavily with 21-year-old blonde Katie Timmins, a waitress at the Columbus Fish Market eatery in Ohio.
A source from the eatery disclosed that "Billy Bob, who was with a couple of pals, was very friendly from the moment Katie went to their table. Billy Bob began to flirt. After lunch, he gave Katie the telephone number where he was staying, at the Doubletree hotel in downtown Columbus, and asked her if he could have her number.”
They continued, “They made arrangements to meet later that evening at Brickyard, a club where Billy Bob would be jamming on drums with former Allman Brothers' guitarist Dickey Betts. Katie arrived at the club with several pals, and as the evening progressed and the cocktails flowed, the attraction between Billy Bob and Katie really began to heat up. They appeared very attracted to each other.”
At about 1 a.m. when the show ended, Billy Bob and his friends, mostly women, left and carried on the partying at Thornton’s suite 201 at the Doubletree. “Some of them brought beer, liquor and wine to Billy Bob’s room, and the party continued full throttle. It looked like Katie and Billy Bob were flirting, and when the party started to wind down after a couple of hours, Katie was one of the last ones to leave at about 2:30.”
Contacted by The Enquirer, Katie refused to comment on her relationship with Thornton. However, friends mentioned that they never moved beyond flirting, although she boasted that Billy Bob invited her to visit him in LA.
Billy Bob was also spotted with a sexy admirer while his band was appearing in Austin, Texas. “The girl climbed on the band bus with Billy Bob and left with him.”
During a recent visit to a refugee camp in Myanmar she revealed that she “would love to adopt another child from wherever there is a need,” adding that Billy Bob was “nervous every time I go to another country.”
While friends fear for the marriage, we doubt it will be quite that easy to bury her relationship with soulmate Billy Bob. A friend concluded “Billy Bob could not find a more devoted and loving woman than Angelina Jolie. Hopefully he’ll realise that before it is too late.”
Credit to The National Enquirer for composing much of this text.
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