| Greatly admires Johnny Depp. She worked with him on The Tourist (2010). |
| Was made a honorary Dame by Queen Elizabeth II on June 13, 2014 in London. |
| Was the 116th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Girl, Interrupted (1999) at The 72nd Annual Academy Awards (2000) on March 26, 2000. |
| She handpicked Lana Del Rey to perform the song "Once Upon a Dream" as the main theme for Maleficent (2014). |
| (May 26, 2013) Her maternal aunt, Debbie Martin, died from breast cancer at age 61. |
| Jolie wrote an Op/Ed newspaper article titled "My Medical Choice" that was published on May 14, 2013, in The New York Times in which she revealed that she had undergone a double mastectomy and breast reconstruction because she is a carrier of a "faulty" gene, BRCA1. Her doctors advised her that that gene, along with her family history of breast cancer (including her mother's death at age 56) made it much more likely that she would have developed breast cancer (the medical estimate was that she had an 87% risk of breast cancer), so she elected to have the surgery as a preventative measure. |
| Gave birth to twins (her 5th and 6th child) at age 33, a son, Knox Léon Jolie-Pitt, and a daughter, Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt, on July 12, 2008. Their father is Brad Pitt. |
| Gave birth to her 4th child at age 30, a daughter Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, on May 27, 2006. Her father is Brad Pitt. |
| Has been in a relationship with Brad Pitt since May 2005 and they are engaged since April 2012. They have 6 children together. |
| Was a guest writer for The Economist's special edition The World in 2008. In an article entitled A Year For Accountability, she stated that, "accountability is perhaps the only force powerful enough to break the cycle of violence and retribution that marks so many conflicts... Common sense tells us that when risks are weighed, decisions are made differently. When crimes against humanity are punished consistently and severely, the killers' calculus will change." |
| Delivered all her biological children via scheduled Caesarean sections. |
| The three oldest children of Angelina and Brad Pitt were adopted: sons Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt (born on August 5, 2001, adopted by Angelina on March 10, 2002 and by Brad in early 2006) and Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt (born on November 29, 2003, adopted by Angelina on March 15, 2007 and by Brad on February 21, 2008), and daughter Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt (born on January 8, 2005, adopted by Angelina on July 6, 2005, and by Brad in early 2006). |
| Ranked #10 in Men's Health 100 Hottest Women of All Time (2011). |
| Returned to work 8 months after giving birth to twins Vivienne and Knox in order to begin filming Salt (2010). |
| Was 2 months pregnant with twins Knox and Vivienne when she completed filming Changeling (2008). |
| Was named after costumer designer Angela Alexander who designed costumes for the film The All-American Boy (1973) that her father Jon Voight starred in. Jon and Angela became good friends on the set, and he became fascinated when she told him her original Greek name was "Angeliki", which in Greek means "Angelic Messenger of God". During the film's shoot, Jon Voight came to Angela on the set and told her that one day if he and his wife (then actress Marcheline Bertrand) ever had a daughter he was going to name her "Angelica". They had only had a son at the time; Jolie was born two years later. Although he originally named her Angelica, a year later after his divorce with Marcheline, she began calling her "Angelina.". |
| Ranked #90 in the 2011 FHM list of "100 Sexiest Women in the World". Previously, she ranked #70 in 2010, #14 in 2009, #9 in 2008, #8 in 2007, #4 in 2006, #3 in 2005, #9 in 2004, #32 in 2003, #32 in 2002, #61 in 2001, and #68 in 2000. |
| Was born Angelina Jolie Voight, however in 2002, she dropped her surname "Voight" and began using her middle name "Jolie". |
| Was considered for the role of Ryan Stone in Gravity (2013), but Sandra Bullock was cast instead. |
| In March 1999, it was reported by People magazine that she would star as one of the three angels in Charlie's Angels (2000). However, she left the project shortly before production began, stating in an interview that she chose not to be in the film. |
| Returned to work 4 months after giving birth to her daughter Shiloh in order to begin filming A Mighty Heart (2007). |
| Was 6 months pregnant with her daughter Shiloh when she completed filming The Good Shepherd (2006). |
| Was originally cast as Dagny Taggart in Atlas Shrugged: Part I (2011) before being replaced by Charlize Theron, who in turn was replaced by Taylor Schilling. |
| Replaced Charlize Theron as Elise Clifton-Ward in The Tourist (2010) shortly before filming began. |
| Was considered for the role of Natasha Rushman/Black Widow in Iron Man 2 (2010) after Emily Blunt dropped out of the project, but Scarlett Johansson was cast instead. |
| When Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton first married, the couple moved into the Beverly Hills home formerly owned by Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash (2000). |
| Victoria Bonya named her daughter after her. |
| In July 2009, she was voted in first place in a poll to find the 100 Greatest Sex Symbols for Britain's Channel 4. Elvis Presley was runner-up. |
| Friends with Gwen Stefani. |
| Went to Beverly Hills High School with writer/actor Quincy Rose, son of Mickey Rose, and Antonia Bennett, daughter of Tony Bennett. |
| In an interview about her movie Changeling (2008), Angie revealed that although her mom's name was Marcheline, everyone called her "Marshmallow", because she was such a softie. |
| Since becoming a Goodwill Ambassador in 2001, she has visited over 20 countries. |
| Was considered for the role of Kelly Kapowski on Saved by the Bell (1989), which went to Tiffani Thiessen. |
| The first male to hold Jolie in his arms was Charley Boorman. He'd served as a pageboy at the wedding of Jolie's parents Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand during the Deliverance (1972) shoot, and later happened to be present during the delivery of Jolie. Boorman was just 8-years-old and Jolie was but an infant. Today (2008) Boorman quips that his epitaph should read: "I was the first man to get his hands on Angelina Jolie". |
| Ranked #3 in the 2008 Forbes Celebrity 100 list. |
| In 2006, after the birth of her daughter Shiloh, she sold the first pictures of her newborn for $4,100,000. She later donated the profits to charity. |
| In 2007, she moved to New Orleans with Brad Pitt and their four children. |
| In 2007, Forbes magazine estimated her earnings for the year at $20 million. |
| Ranked #33 on EW's The 50 Smartest People in Hollywood (2007). |
| Is an alumna of the Lee Strasberg Institute as are Frank Miranda, Harvey Keitel, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Sally Field. |
| Ranked #12 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 Women of 2007 list. |
| Was on the "Time 100", a list of the world's 100 most influential people in the world by "Time" magazine (2006). |
| Chosen the greatest sex symbol of all time in the British television show "The 100 Greatest Sex Symbols". [February 2007] |
| (January 27, 2007) Her mother Marcheline Bertrand died from ovarian cancer in Los Angeles after a 7 1/2 year battle. |
| Is left-handed and therefore had to have guns specially made so that she could reload them easily for Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001). |
| Named #2 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006" supplement. |
| Is a huge fan of author Ayn Rand. |
| Became the third actress to join the coveted $20 Million Club (after Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz), when she signed to do Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) for that amount. |
| Named #4 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 Women of 2006 list. |
| Was the cover girl for the much anticipated issue of Forbes magazine, in which appeared the infamous Celebrity 100 list. [June 2006] |
| She donated many items to Rocky Stone to be given to less fortunate kids as part of the Toy Mountain Campaign. |
| Has a fondness for Liverpool Football Club because her son Maddox "only wants to play for Liverpool". |
| Holds a Private Pilot Certificate with the Airplane, Single Engine, Land rating. This means that she is qualified to fly any single-engined aircraft based on land (i.e., no seaplanes) under visual flight rules only (i.e., no instrument qualifications yet so she cannot fly in conditions requiring instruments). |
| Has tattoos of the coordinates representing the birth countries of each of her kids (she even has the coordinates of France tattooed on her arm twice, one each for Knox and Viv), which cover up the Billy Bob Thornton tattoo. [June 2006] |
| Named #1 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement. |
| (April 28, 2006) One of People magazine's 100 Most Beautiful People in the World. |
| Ranked and voted #3 by Ask men.com's Top 99 Most Desirable Women of 2006. |
| One of the first actresses to win 3 consecutive Golden Globes in 3 different categories: "Best Supporting Actress in a Mini Series": George Wallace (1997), "Best Actress in a TV Movie or Mini Series": Gia (1998), "Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture": Girl, Interrupted (1999). Coincidentally, all her roles were based on real people. |
| Gave her mother the nickname "Great Lady". |
| Her godfather Maximilian Schell always gave her a doll as a birthday present, from her first to sixteenth. Sometimes it was a modern doll, made of plastic, sometimes it was an old and precious one, made of wood or porcelain. |
| Gave her Oscar Statuette, Golden Globes, SAG Awards, and Critic Choice Award to her mother. She felt she didn't need to hang on to awards. |
| Ranked #1 in E! Television's 2006 101 Sexiest Celebrity Bodies. |
| Named #7 on Maxim magazine's Hot 100 Women of 2005 list. |
| Performed her own stunts in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and received cuts from the chandelier scene as a result. She also set fire to her silk pajamas on the chandelier while she was doing her "bungee jumps" in the house. She was taken to a hospital with minor burns but resumed filming the next day. |
| Was nominated for Worst Actress at the Razzie Awards for four straight years from 2002 to 2005, but each time was beaten by another of her fellow nominees. |
| She was made an official citizen of Cambodia by the King for her ongoing efforts to help the environment there. [August 2005] |
| Named Most Beautiful Woman in People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in the World (2005). More than 500,000 readers were polled. |
| Named Esquire magazine's Sexiest Woman Alive in 2004. |
| She ranked #2 in 2000 on Mr. Blackwell (aka Richard Selzer)'s Worst Dressed List. |
| 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. |
| Consulted with real-life FBI profiler Robert K. Ressler for her role in Taking Lives (2004). |
| Voted Hollywood's Sexiest Single Mother, in a poll for website Date.com. |
| Her father starred with her godmother Jacqueline Bisset in End of the Game (1975), which was directed by her godfather Maximilian Schell. |
| Went to elementary school at William O. Schaefer School in Tappan, New York. She graduated from El Rodeo elementary school in 1989. |
| Used to own several pet reptiles, including two snakes. Therefore she had no problem shooting the snake scene in Alexander (2004). |
| Voted #1 star most men would like to kiss under the mistletoe in a poll for Sky Movies. |
| Ranked #6 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World" (2002). |
| Graduated from Beverly Hills High School at age 16, the same school as Lenny Kravitz. She also went to school with Michael Klesic and Bahar Soomekh. |
| She was voted #2 on VH1's "100 Hottest Hotties". |
| One of her favorite television series is King of the Hill (1997). She also enjoys the Game Show Network and Animal Planet. |
| Voted #9 in the 2004 FHM UK list of 100 Sexiest Women in the World. |
| Was named "The sexiest woman alive" by the Swedish evening newspaper "Aftonbladet" (2003). |
| She is the woman most American males would like to date on New Year's Eve, according to a survey by movie rental chain Blockbuster Inc. Results of the survey showed her in the top spot with 35 percent of respondents saying she would be their number one pick for a hypothetical New Year's Eve candlelit dinner. Rival star Catherine Zeta-Jones gained second spot in the online survey conducted by Blockbuster in November 2003. The survey had 31,969 responses. |
| Voted the 3rd Sexiest Female Movie Star in the Australian Empire Magazine. [September 2002] |
| Announced in late 2002 that she was "in talks" to portray the late porn star Linda Lovelace. |
| In role as goodwill ambassador, she visited Tham Hin refugee camp in Thailand to check on conditions of 9,000 refugees from bordering Myanmar. [May 2002] |
| Ranked #87 in Premiere magazine's 2002 annual "Power 100" list. |
| On her father's side, she has German and Slovak ancestry. On her mother's side, she has French-Canadian, Czech, Dutch, German, and remote Huron, ancestry. Her Huron ancestor was her eight times great-grandmother, Catherine Anenontha, who was born in 1649. |
| "Introducing Angelina Jolie" in opening credits of Love Is All There Is (1996) suggests delayed release as Jolie already had at least two major screen roles by 1996. |
| Born at 9:09 AM PDT |
| (August 27, 2001) Appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva, Switzerland after her visits to Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Pakistan. |
| Has the Latin phrase "Quod me nutrit me destruit" ("What nourishes me also destroys me") tattooed across her stomach. |
| Goddaughter of actress Jacqueline Bisset. |
| "Jolie" means "pretty" in French. |
| Named the world's sexiest woman in Swedish magazine Café. |
| Started modelling at age 14 and had a childhood dream of becoming a funeral director. |
| Angelina and her brother, to whom she is very close, publicly spoke out to deny false rumors that the two were having an incestuous love affair (2000). |
| Collects knives and has an interest in mortuary science. |
| Daughter of Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. |
| Tattoos include the Japanese sign for death, two pointy black American Indian symbols, a dragon, and a large black cross. |
| Was married to Jonny Lee Miller in a black leather pants and a white shirt. On the white shirt she painted her husband's name in her own blood (across the back). |
| Has a tattoo of the Tennessee Williams quote, "A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages." on her left forearm. |
| Has the letter "H" tattooed on the inside of her left wrist, which is a reference to two people she is close to who have this letter in their names: her brother, James Haven, and Timothy Hutton. She got the tattoo when she was dating Timothy but since their break-up she now says it's only for James. |
| She is extremely close to and protective of her older brother, James Haven. He often accompanies her to awards shows, and she used his name, or at least his memory, as inspiration in the "Where's Jamie?!" scene in Girl, Interrupted (1999). |
| One of People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in the World (2000). |
| Niece of Chip Taylor. |