Angelina Jolie: Snapshot

Name
Angelina Jolie
Birth Date
06/04/1975
Birth Place
Los Angeles, Calif.
Before making house with movie star Brad Pitt, Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie didn't have a problem generating headlines solo: She shared a shocking kiss with her brother, had bisexual interludes with a Calvin Klein model and wore a vial of ex-husband Billy Bob Thorton's blood around her neck.

But, of late, the bee stung-lipped wild child has transformed herself into a globe-trotting U.N. goodwill ambassador and mother of four – three of them adopted (Maddox, Pax Thien and Zahara) and one (Shiloh) conceived with Pitt, with whom she now shares the frenzy that is ''Brangelina.'' In 2008, Jolie confirmed that she's carrying twins, which will round out their brood to six!

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Angelina Jolie: Five Fun Facts

  1. As a child, Angelina Jolie wanted to be an undertaker and studied embalming.
  2. Angelina Jolie keeps her famous lips in shape with drugstore brand Blistex lip balm.
  3. Angelina Jolie doesn't like being hugged. "Growing up, I had a thing about people hugging me, even my mother," she told London's Mail on Sunday. "I'm holding my breath now just talking about it."
  4. As a teen, Angelina Jolie listened to punk rock music but also took ballroom dancing lessons in her spare time.
  5. Angelina Jolie collects knives and first-edition books.

Angelina Jolie: Biography

1982

Angelina Jolie

On Camera with Dad

A 6-year-old Jolie appears with her father, actor Jon Voight, in Lookin' to Get Out. It's one of the few moments she spends with her father. Jolie would later say that their time together was always and only in front of a camera.

early 1990s

Angelina Jolie

Turbulent Teens

Marcheline Bertrand allows her 14-year-old daughter's older boyfriend to move in to their L.A. home, with Jolie and older brother James Haven. In her teens, Jolie suffers bouts of depression and begins cutting herself. "I had that problem early on when I couldn't feel a bond with another human being," she tells Allure in 2004. "Mostly it was all about trying to connect." Jolie and her boyfriend break up in 1991.

1995

Angelina Jolie

September 15

Big-Screen Beginning

Jolie, 20, stars in Hackers opposite British actor Jonny Lee Miller. Seven months later, Jolie weds Miller wearing black leather pants and a white top with his name scrawled on the back in Jolie's own blood. Only her mother and his best friend attend the ceremony. Though the marriage would prove to be short-lived – they split in 1997 and divorce in 1999 – the pair would remain good friends.

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Photo Credits

Top Left: Yariv Milchan/Corbis Outline

BIOGRAPHY (top to bottom): Wenn; Splash News; MS/allaction/Retna

Edited by Mai Dinh, Janet Murphy