Angelina Jolie - The Biography

Angelina Jolie was born June 4, 1975 and is an cademy Award-winning actress, a former fashion model, and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN. Often cited as on of the world's most beautiful women she is both adored and envied, either way she is constantly in the media spotlight for not only her on-screen performances but for her high profile relationship with Brad Pitt. Winner of three Gloden Globes, two Screen Actors Guild awards and an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress, Angelina has come a long way since her first low budget production Cyborg 2 in 1993. Her most famus role to date is unquestionably her portaral of videogame heroine Lara Croft with which she established herslef as one of the best known and highest paid actresses in Hollywood. Angelina has been married twice - to actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton - she currently lives with fellow actor Brad Pitt, a realtionship that has sparked a worldwide media frenzy. Jolie and Pitt have two adopted children, Maddox and Zahara, and a biological child, Shiloh.

Rhona Mercer is an editor on celebrity weekly magazine New and has interviewed countless stars and figures in showbiz. She lives and works in London.