Description: based on Susanna Kaysen's best-selling memoir of her own two-year stay in a similar institution. Her showy co-starring turn netted her a Best Supporting Actress Oscar and her equally showy personal life--which included a eyebrow-raising close relationship with her lookalike brother James Haven, exotic tattoos, knife collections, provocative revalations and intimations of a profoundly edgy sex life--captivated the public.
* 1976 Moved to... ( +expand to view full text )
Description: based on Susanna Kaysen's best-selling memoir of her own two-year stay in a similar institution. Her showy co-starring turn netted her a Best Supporting Actress Oscar and her equally showy personal life--which included a eyebrow-raising close relationship with her lookalike brother James Haven, exotic tattoos, knife collections, provocative revalations and intimations of a profoundly edgy sex life--captivated the public.
* 1976 Moved to Palisades, New York with mother and brother (date approximate)
* 1980 Feature film debut, bit role in Hal Ashby's "Lookin' to Get Out", co-produced and co-written by her father, credited as Angelina Jolie Voight; film not released until 1982
* 1986 At age 11, began studying acting at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in NYC (date approximate)
* 1993 Co-starred in "Cyborg II: Glass Shadows", a direct-to-video sci-fi actioner
* 1995 First lead in a theatrical release, "Hackers"; co-starred with future husband, British actor Jonny Lee Miller
* 1996 Starred in the feature "Foxfire"
* 1997 Portrayed the politician's first wife Cornelia Wallace in the TNT miniseries "George Wallace"; received 1998 Emmy nomination as Best Supporting Actress
* 1998 Earned raves for her starring performance as Gia Carangi, a drug addicted, bisexual model who died of complications from AIDS, in the HBO biopic "Gia"; received 1998 Emmy nomination as Best Actress
* 1998 Had supporting role as a club kid in the ensemble comedy-drama "Playing By Heart"
* 1999 Cast as a tough detective assisting a quadriplegic colleague (Denzel Washington) in tracking a serial killer in "The Bone Collector"
* 1999 Co-starred in "Girl, Interrupted", a drama based on the memoirs of a woman's two-year stay in a psychiatric hospital; received a Best Supporting Actress Oscar nomination
* 1999 Portrayed the wife of an air traffic controller (Billy Bob Thornton) in "Pushing Tin", directed by Mike Newell
* 2000 Acted opposite Nicolas Cage in "Gone in 60 Seconds"
* 2001 Had title role in "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider"
* 2001 Starred opposite Antonio Banderas in "Original Sin"
* 2002 Appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
* 2002 Portrayed a TV reporter forced to question her choices in "Life or Something Like It"
* 2003 Returned to her starring role for the sequel "Lara Croft and the Cradle of Life: Tomb Raider 2 "
* 2003 Starred opposite Clive Owen in "Beyond Borders"
* 2004 Co-starred with Colin Farrell in Oliver Stone's "Alexander" playing Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great
* 2004 Portrayed Captain Franky Cook in the Sci-fi thriller "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" starring Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow
* 2004 Starred as Special Agent Illeana Scott in the thriller "Taking Lives" also starred Ethan Hawke and Kiefer Sutherland
* 2004 Voiced Lola in the animated feature "Shark Tale "
* 2005 Appeared in the MTV special "The Diary of Angelina Jolie & Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in Africa," which will follow their trip to Sauri, a remote group of villages in western Kenya
* 2005 Starred opposite Brad Pitt, as a bored married couple that is surprised to learn that they are assassins hired to kill each other in "Mr. and Mrs. Smith"
* Acted in five student films directed by her brother, James Haven Voight
* Appeared in music videos by Meat Loaf, The Lemonheads, Rolling Stones and others
* As part of the Met Theater group in Los Angeles, worked with such veteran actors as Holly Hunter, Ed Harris and Amy Madigan
* Made stage debut playing a German dominatrix in "Room Service"
* Reportedly planned to become a funeral director
* Set to star in Robert Zemeckis' big-budget film version of "Beowulf" (lensed 2005)
* Set to star opposite Matt Damon in the spy thriller "The Good Shepherd," directed by Robert De Niro (lensed 2005)
* Worked briefly as a professional model
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