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Jolie is left-handed, so she had to have guns specially made to reload easily for Lara Croft: Tomb Raider 2001.
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She performed her own stunts in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider 2001 and received cuts from the chandelier scene. She also set fire to her silk pajamas while doing bungee jumps and was taken to a hospital with minor burns, but resumed filming the next day.
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She was offered the role of Trinity in The Matrix 1999 but had to decline due to scheduling conflicts; Carrie-Anne Moss was cast instead.
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After giving birth to daughter Shiloh in 2006, she sold the first pictures of her newborn for $4,100,000 and donated the profits to charity.
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Jolie wrote an op-ed in The New York Times on May 14, 2013, revealing she had undergone a double mastectomy due to carrying the BRCA1 gene and having an 87% risk of breast cancer.
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She was made an official citizen of Cambodia by the King for her environmental efforts.
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She became the third actress to join the $20 Million Club when she signed on for Mr. & Mrs. Smith 2005 for that amount.
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She collects knives and has an interest in mortuary science.
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She gave her Academy Award, Golden Globe Awards, Screen Actors Guild Awards, and Critic Choice Award to her mother, feeling she didn’t need to hang onto them.
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She handpicked Lana Del Rey to perform Once Upon a Dream as the main theme for Maleficent 2014.
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She began modeling at age 14 and had a childhood dream of becoming a funeral director.
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She has tattoos of the coordinates representing the birth countries of each of her children, including France twice for Knox and Vivienne, which cover up the Billy Bob Thornton tattoo.
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She was awarded Honorary Dame Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 2014 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for her services to UK foreign policy and the campaign to end war zone sexual violence.
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She was six months pregnant with Shiloh when she completed filming The Good Shepherd 2006, and two months pregnant with twins when she completed Changeling 2008.
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In a multilingual household, her children speak French, and according to Jolie, they all have their own respective languages: Shiloh is learning Khmer, Pax is learning Vietnamese, Maddox is learning German and Russian, Zahara is focused on French, Vivienne is learning Arabic, and Knox is learning American Sign Language.
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She is mother of six children with ex-husband Brad Pitt: adopted sons Maddox Chivan b. August 5, 2001, Pax Thien b. November 29, 2003, daughter Zahara Marley b. January 8, 2005, and biological daughter Shiloh Nouvel b. May 27, 2006 and twins Knox Léon and Vivienne Marcheline b. July 12, 2008.
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She was named after costume designer Angela Alexander, whose original Greek name Angeliki means Angelic Messenger of God. Her father Jon Voight originally named her Angelica, but a year after his divorce, her mother began calling her Angelina.
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Her godfather Maximilian Schell gave her a doll as a birthday present every year from first to sixteenth birthday.
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In an interview about Changeling 2008, she revealed that her mother’s nickname was Marshmallow because she was such a softie.
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She is extremely close to her older brother James Haven and used his name as inspiration in the ‘Where’s Jamie?! scene in Girl, Interrupted 1999.
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She used to own several pet reptiles, including two snakes, so the snake scene in Alexander 2004 was no problem.
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She has a quote from Tennessee Williams tattooed on her left forearm: A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages. Also has the Latin phrase Quod me nutrit me destruit tattooed across her stomach, along with the Japanese sign for death, American Indian symbols, a dragon, and a large black cross.
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On her father’s side, she has German and Slovak ancestry. Her mother was of French-Canadian, Dutch, and Polish descent. Angelina also has a remote Huron ancestor, Catherine Anenontha, born circa 1649 in Quebec.
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She holds a Private Pilot Certificate with Airplane, Single Engine, Land rating, qualified to fly any single-engined aircraft under visual flight rules.
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She returned to work four months after giving birth to Shiloh to begin filming A Mighty Heart 2007, and eight months after giving birth to twins to start filming Salt 2010.
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She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Tisch School of the Arts, New York University in 1993.
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She is one of the first actresses to win three consecutive Golden Globe Awards in three different categories: Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries for George Wallace 1997, Best Actress in a TV Movie or Miniseries for Gia 1998, and Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture for Girl, Interrupted 1999.
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Her mother Marcheline Bertrand passed away from ovarian cancer on January 27, 2007 in Los Angeles after a 7½ year battle.
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She is goddaughter of actress Jacqueline Bisset.
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She and her brother publicly denied false rumors of an incestuous relationship.
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She was appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the UNHCR after visits to Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Pakistan.
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She visited Tham Hin refugee camp in Thailand to check on conditions of 9,000 refugees from Myanmar.
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She is a natural blonde and dyes her hair dark.
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Since becoming a Goodwill Ambassador in 2001, she has visited over 20 countries.
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When she married Billy Bob Thornton, they moved into the Beverly Hills home formerly owned by Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash.
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She is an alumna of the Lee Strasberg Institute, as are Frank Miranda, Harvey Keitel, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and Sally Field.
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She married Jonny Lee Miller wearing black leather pants and a white blouse with his name painted in her own blood across the back.
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She is friends with Gwen Stefani.
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She had her ovaries removed to prevent ovarian cancer, which runs in her family.
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She delivered all her biological children via scheduled Caesarean sections.
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She is the daughter of Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand, and niece of Chip Taylor.
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She has a fondness for Liverpool Football Club because her son Maddox only wants to play for Liverpool.
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In 2003, she was the first recipient of the Citizen of the World Award from the UN’s Correspondents’ Association for her work as a goodwill ambassador with the UNHCR.
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She was a guest writer for The Economist’s special edition The World 2008 in an article titled A Year for Accountability, stating that accountability is the only force powerful enough to break the cycle of violence.
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She moved to New Orleans with Brad Pitt and their four children.
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She and Brad Pitt married in California on August 14, 2014 and in southern France on August 23, 2014. She filed for divorce on September 19, 2016, citing irreconcilable differences.
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In preparation for Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow 2004, she interviewed dozens of British WWII veterans and aviators to adapt proper mannerisms.
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She underwent a preventive double mastectomy and two years later had reconstructive surgery with breast implants.
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One of her favorite television series is King of the Hill 1997. She also enjoys the Game Show Network and Animal Planet.
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Her father Jon Voight starred with her godmother Jacqueline Bisset in End of the Game 1975, directed by her godfather Maximilian Schell.
