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Career contents Slide 1.....Introduction Slide 2.....Profile Slide 3.....Background Slide 4.....Early Life Slide 5.....Life as a Teenager Slide 6.....Career
contents Slide 1.....Introduction Slide 2.....Profile Slide
3.....Background Slide 4.....Early Life Slide 5.....Life as a
Teenager Slide 6.....Career Slide 7.....The Family Slide
8.....Tattoos Slide 9.....Charity Slide 10.....UNHCR Slide
11.....Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation Slide 12.....Achievements Slide
13.....Conclusion Slide 14.....Bibliography
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But me as a person who is completely inspired by films and
acting, I find it quite interesting to do her. Although many people
know her for her fame, I felt that people should know her early I
life and commitment to charity because many people dont know her
background, e early life and dreadful teenage years. I believe that
she is a good role model to look up to as she faces her hard times
and moves on to make her life more livable, and to live a life that
she herself can be proud of one day in the future. So sit back and
please enjoy my project on Angelina Jolie's Life and good works!!!
This is a Project on Angelina Jolie showing why she is a great
world leader. The reasons why I did my project on Angelina Jolie
was because of her talent and humanitarian work. In my knowledge I
knew she was an amazing actress and that she appeared in many
films.
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Leader Profile Name: Angelina Jolie Voight DOB: 4 June 1975 (37
years old) Born: Los Angeles, California, US Occupation: Actress,
Producer & Humanitarian Parents: Jon Voight, Marcheline
Bertrand Siblings: James Haven Partner: Brad Pitt Children: 6
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Background Angelina born in Los Angeles, California, is the
daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. She is the
sister of actor James Haven and niece of singer-songwriter Chip
Taylor. On her father's side, Angelina is of German and Slovak
descent and on her mother's side, she is of French Canadian, Dutch,
and German ancestry. In her earliest years, Angelina began
absorbing the acting craft from her parents. Her dad is the
Oscar-winning actor Jon Voight and her mother is Marcheline
Bertrand, who had studied with Lee Strasberg. At age 11, Angelina
began studying at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, where she
was seen in several stage productions.
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Early Life After her parents separated in 1976, Angelina and
her brother lived with their mom, who abandoned her acting to focus
on raising her children. As a child, Angelina saw movies with her
mother and later explained that this had inspired her interest in
acting but not influenced by her dad. When she was six years old,
her mom and stepdad, filmmaker Bill Day, moved to Palisades, New
York. They returned to LA five years later. At the age of 14, Jolie
dropped out of her acting classes and wanted to become a funeral
director. She began working as a fashion model and modelled mainly
in LA, New York, and London.
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During her teenage years, she wore black clothing and
experimented with knives. She graduated from high school and
returned to theatre studies. Angelina suffered episodes of suicidal
depression throughout her teens and early twenties. She felt lonely
at Beverly Hills High School among other kids. As her mother
survived on a more modest income she was teased by other students,
who targeted her for being extremely thin and for wearing glasses
and braces. She found it difficult to emotionally connect with
other people, and as a result she started to harm herself. She said
"I collected knives and always had certain things around. For some
reason, the ritual of having cut myself and feeling the pain, maybe
feeling alive, feeling some kind of release, it was somehow
therapeutic to me." She also began experimenting with drugs. By the
age of 20, she had tried just about every drug possible including
heroin. Angelina has had a difficult relationship with her father.
Due her parents breakup she was estranged from her father for many
years. They reconciled and he appeared with her in Lara Croft: Tomb
Raider, but their relationship again got worse. In July 2002,
Angelina who had used her middle name as a stage name to make her
own identity as an actress filed a request to legally drop Voight
as her surname, which was granted on September 12, 2002.
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In the mid-1990s, Jolie appeared in various small films where
she got good notices, including Hackers and Foxfire. Her critical
acclaim increased when she played strong roles in True Women and in
George Wallace which won her a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy
nomination. Jolie's acclaim increased even further when she played
the lead role in the HBO production Gia. This was the true life
story of supermodel Gia Carangi. Angelina's performance in Gia
again got her a Golden Globe Award Angelina got a major break in
1999 when she won a leading role in the successful feature The Bone
Collector. In that same year she gave performance in Girl,
Interrupted playing opposite Winona Ryder. The movie was a true
story of women who spent time in a psychiatric hospital. In 2000,
Jolie was asked to star in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider At first, she
was uninterested, but then decided that the required training for
the athletic role was intriguing. The public paid $275 million for
theatre tickets. Afterwards she became powerful and appeared in
many films. Jolie then starred with Brad Pitt in Mr. & Mrs.
Smith. The movie earned $478 million worldwide, making it the
seventh-highest grossing film of 2005. Jolie next starred in the
2010 thriller The film was an international success with revenue of
$294 million She also starred opposite Johnny Deppin The Tourist
which was a major critical failure.
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Although her relationship with her Dad was rocky, Angelina
infact had always wanted a big family. She first adopted Maddox in
Cambodia while filming Lara croft and she adopted him as a single
parent. Angelina adopted Zahara from Ethiopia. On May 27, 2006,
Jolie gave birth to a daughter, Shiloh in Swakopmund. On March 15,
2007, Angelina adopted a son called Pax from an orphanage in
Vietnam In May 2008, Angelina said that she was expecting twins.
She gave birth to a son, Knox, and a daughter, Vivienne, on July
12, 2008.
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Charity When one of the Croft movie's filming locations was
Cambodia. While there, Angelina saw the poverty of the country. She
considered this an eye opening experience, and so began the
humanitarian chapter of her life. Angelina began visiting refugee
camps around the world and was soon appointed as a Goodwill
Ambassador for the UNHCR. Some of her experiences were written and
published in her popular book "Notes from My Travels" whose profits
go to UNHCR. Jolie has stated that she now plans to spend most of
her time in humanitarian efforts, to be financed by her actress
salary. She devotes one third of her income to savings, one third
to living expenses and one third to charity.
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unchr After years of dedicated service to the UNHCR and the
cause of refugees, Angelina Jolie in April 2012 was appointed as
Special Envoy of UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antnio Guterres.
In her new role, she focused on major crises resulting in
population displacements and representing UNHCR and Guterres at the
diplomatic level and also with decision making on global issues.
Angelina Lolie has done many countless things for the UNHCR and she
aims to visit what she terms "forgotten emergencies," crises that
media attention has got away from. She visited the Darfur region of
Sudan during the Darfur conflict in 2004, Chad during its civil war
in 2007, Iraq during the Second Gulf War in 2007 and 2009,
Afghanistan during the ongoing war in 2008 and 2011 and Libya
during the Libyan revolution in 2011. After more than a decade of
service as Goodwill Ambassador, She was promoted to the rank of
Special Envoy of High Commissioner Antnio Guterres on April 17,
2012. As Special Envoy, she represents the UNHCR and High
Commissioner Antnio Guterres at the diplomatic level and works to
facilitate long-term solutions for people displaced by large-scale
crises, such as Afghanistan and Somalia.
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In 2003 Angelina Jolie created the Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation
for the conservation of Cambodias endangered Cardamom Mountains.
The focus of its conservation work was on the protection of Samlout
National Park. Samlout contains most of the regions forests,
freshwater ecosystems, and endangered species. As more resources
became available, MJPs operations expanded into other areas such as
reforestation, community protected area and park. In 2007, the
organization changed its name to Maddox Jolie-Pitt Foundation,
retaining the MJP initials, to better reflect the scope of its
field projects. Achieving food security and nutritional wellbeing
has been central to MJPs poverty programme in Samlout. Achieving
the educational targets in Samlout is a complex undertaking
requiring multiple, interventions. To make sure that interventions
are educationally sound, practical and sustainable the MJP
education team continues to access the expertise and experience of
educational partners both within Cambodia and internationally. Over
700 villagers live in Samlout. Since the end of the civil war in
1979, Samlout commune lacked the health facilities and medical
practitioners needed to ensure basic quality health services for a
growing population. Inadequate private clinics operate in the area
with poorly trained and non-licensed medical assistants.
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Achievements Angelina Jolie has accomplished many things in
life since she was a young girl. Without the help of her Dad she
managed to make it to be an award winning star. Even though she has
suffered through depression and suicide she managed to achieve a
happy and stable life. She achieved in stopping to take drugs as
well. For a woman she has appeared in many action films proving
that she can do what men can do. Through her good works to charity
she managed to improve many 3 rd world communities. She has
achieved the honour of becoming a UN Goodwill Ambassador. Lastly
she has managed to win many awards through her talent of acting
such as Golden Globe Awards, Oscar & Academy Awards etc...
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Conclusion While most Hollywood stars do everything they can to
appear cool and fabulous. But not many has dedicated the last
eleven years of their life promoting the refugees and displaced
children as Angelina Jolie. Someone who is known to always doing
something for charity. She has adopted children from third world
countries, supports the rights of women, kids and the right for
everyone to be at peace. Despite Being the daughter of Academy
Award winner Jon Vought, Angelina was no stranger to the film
industry but she worked hard independently without the help of her
Dad. During the mid-90s, Jolie appeared in many small films that
gained her attention from audiences worldwide. She won an Academy
Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1999 and was ranked one of the
top paid actress in Hollywood. In 2000, Jolie first became aware of
worldwide humanitarian crises while filming Tomb Raider in
Cambodia. Witnessing the natural beauty, culture and poverty of the
country was an eye opening experience. This is where the chapter of
her humanitarian work began. In order for her to learn more about
the UNHCR, Jolie began visiting refugee camps around the world. She
donated millions of her own money to Afghan refugees, as well
covering all costs related to her missions. She also shares the
same living and working conditions as all UNHCR staff on her
visits. In 2001, she was named a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador. So in
conclusion, these are the reasons why that Angelina Jolie is a
respected world leader.