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Angelina Jolie was born to actress Marcheline Bertrand and actor Jon Voight. Although they were married for five years, they would go on to separate in 1976, and would file for divorce in 1978, when Jolie was still a toddler.

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Jolie's first movie was as a child actor in the American comedy movie 'Looking to Get Out'. She was only seven years old here and this film also starred her father, Jon Voight, whose surname she would go on to drop in the future as an actress.

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Jolie was in a live-in relationship with her then boyfriend, at the age of fourteen. She and her boyfriend were living with Jolie's mother at their house. This was the time when she had developed dangerous habits such as knife-play, drug abuse and self-harm.

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Jolie had openly admitted to having tried all kinds of drugs that ever existed by the time she turned twenty. She just liked the feeling after getting under the influence of drugs, as a way of escaping her reality.

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Tragic Details Revealed About Angelina Jolie

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While she was still suffering from drug addiction, nervous breakdowns and constant thoughts of self-harm, her decision to adopt an orphan baby from Cambodia changed her life completely. She was filming for 'Lara Croft: Tomb Raider' in Cambodia in 2001 when she found Maddox in an orphanage. That decision led to her becoming a humanitarian who would go on to dedicate her entire life for caring for refugees and shedding light on social issues. The movie also went on to become a commercial success by gaining more than $270 million worldwide.

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Jolie was appointed the Goodwill Ambassador in 2001 for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). She would go on to serve various countries and engage in fieldwork in this position until 2012, after which she was promoted to the rank of 'Special Envoy' to High Commissioner Antonio Guterres.

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Jolie adopted her second child, daughter Zahara, from Ethiopia in 2005. Zahara was only six months old when she was adopted by then single parents, Jolie. After her involvement with Brad Pitt, he went on to co-adopt Zahara in 2006.

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Brad and Angelina met while filming for their first movie together 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' (2005). Brad was still married to his former wife, Jennifer Aniston when rumours began to circulate that Brad was cheating on her with Jolie. The couple got married in 2014, amidst their adoptive and biological children.

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In 2013, Jolie revealed that she had undergone a double mastectomy surgery, as a preventive measure against breast cancer. Jolie had lost her own mother to the same illness, for which she did not want her own children to go through the kind of trauma that she did after her mother's death.

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After almost twelve years of togetherness, two years of being married to each other and being parents to three adoptive and three biological children, Jolie decided to file for divorce claiming to have been undergoing irreconcilable differences.

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In 2021, Jolie sold her part of a winery that was owned by both Jolie and Pitt while they were still together. According to Pitt, he was not informed about this decision and it was primarily done to damage the brand image of the business. Jolie filed for a countersuit against this.

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Brad Pitt sues Angelina Jolie for selling winery to Russian oligarch - National | Globalnews.ca

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The couple bought the winery — located in Correns, France — in 2008 and Pitt says he made it a success in 2013 after Jolie took a back seat.

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Opinion | My Medical Choice (Published 2013)

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Opening a conversation on women’s health.

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Owing to her strong humanitarian background, Jolie has always been ahead of her peers when it comes to advocating for social causes and human rights. This article is about her speech at the Senate where she delivered an emotionally-charged speech about the plight that women are in and the kind of violence that is meted out to them around the world.

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Angelina Jolie continues to be one of the most vocal proponents of reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, a legislation aimed at reducing domestic and sexual violence and protecting survivors that expired in 2018. On Wednesday, the 46-year-old Academy Award winner again headed to the Capitol to urge senators for its renewal, marking the third time she's done so in the past four months. Just like this past December, she was accompanied by her 17-year-old daughter Zahara Jolie-Pitt, whom she thanked for "calm[ing her] nerves" ahead of delivering an emotional six-minute speech at the White House that ended with her nearly in tears.

"Standing here, at the center of our nation's power, I can think only of everyone who's been made to feel powerless by their abusers, by a system that fails to protect them," Jolie began. "Parents whose children have been murdered by an abusive partner, women who suffer domestic violence yet are not believed, children who have suffered life-altering trauma and post-traumatic stress at the hands of people closest to them. Anyone who's been in those situations will tell you just how far they feel from the power concentrated here in this building-the power to pass laws that might have prevented their pain the first place."

"The reason that many people struggle to leave abusive situations is that they've been made to feel worthless," Jolie continued. "When there is silence from a Congress too busy to renew the Violence Against Women Act for a decade, it reinforces that sense of worthlessness. You think, 'I guess my abuser's right, I guess I'm not worth very much.'" The way things stand, Jolie continued, "the ugly truth is that violence in homes is normalized in our country." Citing the fact that child abuse and neglect claims the lives of between four and seven children each day in America, she stressed that the VAWA would be one of the most important votes that senators in attendance will cast this year.

"As survivors of abuse know all too well, victims of our failed systems are not allowed to be angry," Jolie went on. "You're supposed to be calm, patient and ask nicely. But you try staying calm when it's as if someone is holding your head under water and you're drowning. Try to stay calm when you're witnessing someone you love being harmed. Try to stay calm if after you were strangled and you find the courage to come forward, you discover that your chances of proving the abuse are now gone, because no one took into account the different ways bruising presents in Black or brown skin and they failed to check properly for signs of injury."

Measures as simple as funding for non-racially biased forensic evidence collection, Jolie concluded, are basics that no survivor should have to ask for. Listen to her full speech below.

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Angelina Jolie Gave an Emotional Speech on the Violence Against Women Act

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Angelina Jolie continues to be one of the most vocal proponents of reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, a legislation aimed at reducing domestic and sexual violence and protecting survivors that expired in 2018. On Wednesday, the 46-year-old Academy Award winner again headed to the Capitol to urge senators for its renewal, marking the third time she's done so in the past four months.