Talented, charming and a famous Hollywood star, but “dark fairy” Maleficent is better known as the woman of the family and a role model for women to follow.
Possessing seductive lips, captivating eyes and a beautiful body like a goddess, Angelina Jolie is always on the list of the most beautiful women on the planet. The man of her life is the coveted actor – Brad Pitt – and together they are raising 6 children. In terms of film career, this beauty born in 1975 has had an Oscar, three Golden Globes and millions of movies around the globe.
But her life is not always so full, but unfolds like a movie. Jolie started out as a rebellious girl with a dark outlook on everything and then became an influential woman beyond the borders of the United States.
Talent and Rebellion
Her full name is Angelina Jolie Voight, but when she registered her stage name, she used her middle name and dropped her father’s last name Voight. As a movie star and Oscar winner in 1979, Jon Voight is not a good family man. His promiscuity made little Angelina have to go through a family breakup at the age of one. This caused the relationship between Angelina and her biological father to be broken for many years after that and was only restored after her mother died of cancer in 2007.
It was the mother Marcheline Bertrand, not the actor father, who brought Angelina Jolie’s love of cinema. After the divorce, her mother single-handedly raised her with her brother and in her spare time, she often watched movies with her grandmother – who had to give up her passion for acting to focus on her children.
Childhood without father’s affection partly shaped a rebellious Angelina Jolie a few years later. When she went to school in Beverly Hills, she was discriminated against by friends because of her thin body or braces. Jolie used to live with her boyfriend in her own home from the age of 14 to 16, but when this relationship broke up, she was in so much pain that she was determined to focus on pursuing an acting career.
In addition to the emotional pain, difficulty in getting along with others, Jolie even tortured herself with a knife and “tried almost every stimulant in the world” when she was only 20 years old. But despite the psychological troubles mentioned above, this “fallen angel” still has a good start in the entertainment industry, showing artistic qualities. After working as a photo model and appearing in music videos for Lenny Kravitz, Meat Loaf… in the early 1990s, Jolie began her professional film career in 1993 with the film Cyborg 2.
However, this was not a smooth start when the film was only released as a videotape and received negative reviews. Frustrated with her first move, Jolie stopped auditioning for a year. Before that, casting agents called her “too dark” and Jolie tried to learn how to act by observing others to imitate them.
Things gradually changed for the better in 1995, when Jolie participated in the movie Hackers, which she co-starred with the actor who would later become her husband – Jonny Lee Miller. The film did not make a profit when it was released, but it became widely known later through video and was the premise to help Jolie shine brightly in the next 5 years.
In 1997, she received an Emmy nomination as well as her first Golden Globe win with George Wallace – a critically acclaimed TV series on TNT. A year later, Jolie received the same honor again when she played another real-life character, supermodel Gia Carangi, in HBO’s Gia.
This role took a lot of time and effort from Jolie, as she tried to get into the character even after the camera was closed. Considered as “bringing life to the character with grace and despair”, but after Gia, Jolie even wanted to retire when she thought she had “nothing left to offer”. She separated from her husband Miller, moved to New York to study filmmaking and only returned to stand behind the camera after witnessing Gia’s success in the eyes of critics and fans.
After appearing alongside famous Hollywood actors like Sean Connery or Denzel Washington in Hell’s Kitchen (1998) and The Bone Collector (1999), Jolie decided to take on the role of patient Lisa Rowe in Girl. , Interrupted. This psychological drama was originally expected to be the return of Winona Ryder (the female lead) but ended up becoming Jolie’s biggest breakthrough.
The character Rowe has a complex personality with blonde hair, crazy eyes, and possesses the ability to manipulate the female patients around her. There is something about Rowe that reminds people of Jolie’s rebellious image in her youth, especially when she puffs a cigarette in her mouth or suggests crazy actions.
While the movie Girl, Interrupted itself received mixed reviews, Angelina Jolie was unanimously praised. Acclaimed critic Roger Ebert called her “one of the greatest wild personalities in cinema today” before the Golden Globes and Oscars judges presented the star with coveted awards afterward. for the supporting role of Rowe. At the age of 24, Angelina Jolie has almost everything: from beauty, money to career… But that woman still lacks family affection and a true home – which she did not acquired from an early age.
Turning point with Brad Pitt
Even after becoming a Hollywood star, Angelina Jolie still shows her rebellion and personality openly. Emotionally, she had two expensive divorces with Jonny Lee Miller (lasting from 1996 – 1999) and Billy Bob Thornton (2000 – 2003); in which the marriage with the second person left a strong impression on the public when she and her husband used to wear two small vials containing the other’s blood around their necks to show their attachment.
Not only that, Jolie also had a homosexual relationship with her Foxfire co-star, actress Jenny Shimizu – whom Jolie once claimed that she “loved from the first moment and would probably have married her if not” there’s Miller.”
In 2005, she was entangled in another love scandal when she fell in love with actor Brad Pitt – then the husband of Jennifer Aniston – when the two co-starred in the movie Mr. & Mrs. Smith. This incident attracted global media attention and caused many people to criticize Jolie, especially after Brad and Aniston’s divorce in early 2005. But those criticisms gradually subsided over time. Time and information changed for the better as “Brangelina” showed the world that their relationship was really serious.
Brad Pitt not only cherished Jolie but also took care of her adopted child, Maddox, and adopted Pax Thien with her before giving her the happiness of being a mother. The image of Angelina Jolie lovingly looking at Brad Pitt with her newborn daughter Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt on the cover of People magazine in early 2006 is proof for all that Angelina Jolie has finally found the piece of her life.
With Brad Pitt, Jolie not only got the peaceful landing of her life, but also found the man who made her a better person. Together, they have done charitable deeds, adopted an African baby girl and have another pair of beautiful twins. After serving well as a Goodwill Ambassador of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees for a decade since 2001; In 2012, she was appointed Special Envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner.
In mid-2013, Jolie again gained global attention when she publicly announced that she had a mastectomy to prevent cancer through an open letter published in the New York Times. Her actions received support and admiration everywhere because Jolie bravely faced the disease, sacrificed her charm to prevent the risk of disease and also spoke out to warn or motivate many people. other women like her, calling for medical support for women in underserved areas.
This summer, Jolie returned to the big screen with the blockbuster Maleficent, a Disney movie invested nearly 200 million USD based on the famous story Sleeping Beauty. The work has a different content from the original expected by a beautiful trailer with tragic scenes and “magnet” Angelina Jolie.
She plays the “dark fairy” Maleficent, but Jolie’s real-life image is not “dark” at all. A home next to the man of her life and her children, her noble actions and gestures to society… show that Angelina Jolie is no longer just a Hollywood star but has become an icon. about beauty, kindness, family happiness and the will to fight disease.
