Angelina Jolie ... Academy Award-winning American actress. Best known for her exotic looks, her tumultuous off-screen life, and her humanitarian work with refugees. She's beautiful, she's eccentric, and she's highly intelligent.

The Actress: She has received three Golden Globes as well as an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the film Girl, Interrupted. Jolie had appeared in five of her brother's student films, made while he attended the USC School of Cinema, but her movie career proper began in 1993, with a supporting role in Cyborg 2, and a lead role in Hackers (1995)


Love Life: She married co-star Jonny Lee Miller on March 28, 1996. They subsequently divorced on February 3, 1999. Jolie then married American actor Billy Bob Thornton on May 5, 2000. Jolie and Thornton divorced on May 27, 2003. In an interview with a British tabloid, model Jenny Shimizu claimed to have enjoyed a long-standing romantic and sexual relationship with her former Foxfire co-star. Most recently, Angelina has started dating Brad Pitt, whom she met on the set of Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Both Jolie's and Pitt's representatives confirmed, through People, that the two were expecting their first biological child in summer 2006.


The Mother:On March 10, 2002 Angelina adopted her first child, Maddox Chivan Jolie, he was born on August 5, 2001 in Cambodia. After her divorce from her second husband Billy Bob Thornton, Angelina received sole custody for Maddox. Again in 2005 Jolie adopted a baby girl, who was orphaned by AIDS, from Ethiopia. Jolie has named her daughter Zahara Marley Jolie. Now Angelina is expecting her first biological child with actor Brad Pitt.


The Humanitarian: Jolie has been a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees since 2001.
In August 2005, Cambodia's King Norodom Sihamoni awarded Jolie Cambodian citizenship for her conservation work in the country. In September 2005 Jolie was named the new spokesperson for the clothing line 'St. John Knits' starting in the Spring/Autumn 0f 2006. The deal with includes the start-up of a charity headed by Jolie. The charity will focus on children's issues and causes.On 24 October, Angelina Jolie attended the 'First Annual Benefit Gala for the Worldwide Orphans Foundation', where she pledged to partner with WHO to treat children in Ethiopia who have been orphaned by AIDS and are HIV positive.