Angelina Jolie

Actress, humanitarian. Born June 4, 1975, in Los Angeles, California. The daughter of actor Jon Voight and French actress Marcheline Bertrand, Angelina Jolie rose to stardom in the 1990s. She began acting at a young age, studying at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute while in her early teens. Jolie later attended at New York University.

In the 1990s, Angelina Jolie became a popular actress. She gave a star-making performance in the 1998 television film Gia based on the short, tragic life of model Gia Marie Carangi, which won her a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress. Another great dramatic role in Girl, Interrrupted (1999) brought Jolie her first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has continued to take on a variety of interesting roles, such as an adventurer in the Lara Croft films, a FBI profiler in Taking Lives (2004), an assassin in Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005), and a neglected, troubled socialite wife in The Good Shepherd (2006).

A devoted humanitarian, Angelina Jolie was made a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency in 2001. She has made headlines for her work to obtain aid for refugees in Cambodia, Darfur and Jordan, to name just a few. In 2005, Jolie received the Global Humanitarian Action Award from the United Nations Association of the USA for her activism on behalf of refugee rights. She continues to travel the world to drawing attention to global issues.

Famous for her off-screen romances, Angelina Jolie has been married twice. She married Hackers co-star Jonny Lee Miller in 1995. The couple divorced in 1999. The next year Jolie married Academy Award-winning actor Billy Bob Thornton. That union lasted until 2003.

In 2002, Angelina Jolie adopted a son from Cambodia and named him Maddox. Three years later, she adopted a daughter, Zahara, and later in 2005, actor Brad Pitt filed paperwork to adopt both of Jolie’s children. Jolie and Pitt met during the making of Mr. and Mrs. Smith in 2004. The couple’s first biological daughter, Shiloh, was born in the African country of Namibia in 2006. Jolie, Pitt, and their children had traveled there to avoid the media frenzy that seemed to follow them wherever they went. After the joy of welcoming her third child to the world came great sadness for Jolie. She experienced a great personal loss in the beginning of 2007—her mother died of cancer after fighting the disease for many years.

In March 2007, Angelina Jolie added a new member to her family. She adopted a three-year-old boy from a Vietnamese orphanage. Her son is named Pax Thien Jolie.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Other notes
1982	Lookin' to Get Out	Tosh
1993	Cyborg 2	Casella "Cash" Reese
1995	Hackers	Kate "Acid Burn" Libby
1996	Mojave Moon	Eleanor "Elie" Rigby
	Love Is All There Is	Gina Malacici
	Foxfire	Margret "Legs" Sadovsky
1997	Playing God	Claire
	True Women (TV)	Georgia Virginia Lawshe Woods
	George Wallace (TV)	Cornelia Wallace	Golden Globe – Best Supporting Actress
1998	Gia (TV)	Gia Marie Carangi	Golden Globe, SAG Award – Best Leading Actress
	Hell's Kitchen	Gloria McNeary
	Playing by Heart	Joan	National Board of Review Award – Breakthrough Performance Actress
	Pushing Tin	Mary Bell
1999	The Bone Collector	Amelia Donaghy
	Girl, Interrupted	Lisa Rowe	Golden Globe, SAG Award, Academy Award – Best Supporting Actress
2000	Gone in Sixty Seconds	Sara 'Sway' Wayland
2001	Lara Croft: Tomb Raider	Lara Croft
	Original Sin	Julia Russell/Bonnie Castle
2002	Life or Something Like It	Lanie Kerrigan
2003	Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life	Lara Croft
	Beyond Borders	Sarah Jordan
2004	Taking Lives	Illeana Scott
	Shark Tale	Lola	(voice)
	Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow	Franky
	Alexander	Olympias
2005	Mr. & Mrs. Smith	Jane Smith
2006	The Good Shepherd	Clover Wilson
2007	A Mighty Heart	Mariane Pearl
	Beowulf	Grendel's mother
2008	Wanted	The Fox
	Kung Fu Panda	Tigress	(voice)
	The Changeling

Awards
Preceded by Kathy Bates for The Late Shift	Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Mini-series, or Motion Picture Made for Television 1997 for George Wallace	Succeeded by Faye Dunaway for Gia, Camryn Manheim for The Practice
Preceded by Alfre Woodard for Miss Evers' Boys	Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Mini-series or Motion Picture Made for Television 1998 for Gia	Succeeded by Halle Berry for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
Preceded by Alfre Woodard for Miss Evers' Boys	Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Actress - Miniseries or Television Movie 1998 for Gia	Succeeded by Halle Berry for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
Preceded by Judi Dench for Shakespeare in Love	Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress 1999 for Girl, Interrupted	Succeeded by Marcia Gay Harden for Pollock
Preceded by Lynn Redgrave for Gods and Monsters	Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture 1999 for Girl, Interrupted	Succeeded by Kate Hudson for Almost Famous
Preceded by Kathy Bates for Primary Colors	Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture 1999 for Girl, Interrupted	Succeeded by Judi Dench for Chocolat

Jessica Marie Alba

Jessica Marie Alba was born in Pomona, California, on April 28, 1981. Jessica’s family moved to Biloxi, Mississippi while Jessica was very young. Her father, who was in the Air Force, moved the family to Del Rio, Texas, later. Eventually, the family settled in southern California when Jessica was nine. Jessica had always wanted to be an actress from the age of five. She took her first acting class at the age of 12. Shortly later, Jessica was signed by an agency.

In 1993, Jessica made her movie debut in Camp Nowhere. She was originally hired for a short time but got lucky when one of the main actresses dropped out. Jessica, who had the same color hair as the actress, eagerly took over the spot. After her first movie, Jessica appeared in two commercials for Nintendo and J.C. Penny and a few independent films. In 1994, she landed a reoccurring role in "The Secret World of Alex Mac." She played a snob who made life hard for the main character with magical powers.

Also in 1994, she landed the role of Maya for a pilot of "Flipper". Jessica spent 1995 filming the first season of "Flipper" in Australia. Jessica is a PADI-certified diver and the "Flipper" show allowed her to have fun and play with the dolphins. The success of the first season of "Flipper" lead to the filming of the second season, which Jessica also starred in. Jessica involvement in "Flipper" lasted from 1995-1997. Since "Flipper" Jessica has appeared in a number of television shows and movies.

In 1996, Jessica appeared in Venus Rising as Young Eve. Also in 1996, she appeared in an episode of "Chicago Hope", as Maria. In 1997, Jessica appeared on the "Dini Petty Show", a Canadian talk show, and talked about her role in Flipper and her general acting career. She began working on P.U.N.K.S., featuring Randy Quaid, in 1998. P.U.N.K.S. was just recently released on video in early January, 1999.

In 1998, Jessica appeared in several TV shows for an episode or two. In early 1998, she appeared in "Brooklyn South", as Melissa. A few months later, she appeared in two episodes of "Beverly Hills 90210", as Leanne. And finally, she appeared in an episode of "Love Boat: The Next Wave." In 1999 she appeared a huge number of magazines. She had a small role in "Never Been Kissed" which was released in the Spring. A month later she could be found with a larger role in "Idle Hands." Her two performances in those movies started a buzz in the entertainment industry. Many more magazines would come knocking on her door. Shortly after the release of those two movies, she landed the starring role in "Paranoia". She finished filming Paranoia in June. The movie is in post-production now.

Shortly later she started working on what will potentially be her biggest work ever. She auditioned for the leading role in Dark Angel. She caught the eye of James Cameron and will now star in the post anticipated TV show of 2000, Dark Angel. With the huge success of Dark Angel and its legion of fans, Jessica will no longer be a rising star, she will be among the hollywood elite, a star.

Jessica made a comeback in 2003 with the title role in Honey. In 2005 she appeared opposite Bruce Willis in the movie "Sin City", the down-and-dirty feature-film version of
Frank Miller's popular graphic novels. Alba played Nancy Nancy Callahan, stripper with a tortured past who's about as close to innocence as it gets in a grisly black-and-white world. She also starred in the classic Marvel Comics character Sue Storm, the Invisible Woman in the Fantastic Four. Jessica went on to host the 2006 MTV Movie Awards and performed sketches spoofing the movies King Kong, Mission Impossible 3, and The Da Vinci Code.

In 2006, readers of Askmen.com voted Alba No. 1 on 99 Most Desirable Women, while in 2007, Maxim Magazine placed Alba on the number 2 spot of their Top 100, Both GQ and In Style magazines had Alba on their June covers, and in May, after eight million votes, FHM named Alba the winner as 2007’s Sexiest Woman in the World.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2007	Sin City 2	Nancy Callahan	(Cameo)
	The Eye 2 Part 2	Allison	(Cameo)
	Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer	Sue Storm	(completed)
	The Eye	Allison	(filming)
	The Ten	Liz
	Bill	Lucy	(post-production)
	Good Luck Chuck	Cam Wexler	(completed)
	Awake	Sam	(completed)
2005	Into the Blue	Sam
	Fantastic Four	Sue Storm
	Sin City	Nancy Callahan
2003	Honey	Honey Daniels
	The Sleeping Dictionary	Selima
2000–2002	Dark Angel	Max Guevara/X5-452	(TV series)
2000	Paranoid	Chloe
1999	Idle Hands	Molly
	Never Been Kissed	Kirsten Liosis
	P.U.N.K.S.	Samantha Swoboda
1996	Too Soon for Jeff	Christy	(TV series)
1995–1996	Flipper	Maya	(TV series)
1995	Venus Rising	Young Eve
1994	Camp Nowhere	Gail