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Beginning of career
Interview with Angelina Jolie (Defan). This interview marked the beginning of her career, as she began to acquire fans. At the time of the interview, she was starring in many music videos and working as a model. She had played in a few stage plays, but had not yet been in a movie. The purpose of the interview was to show her personality and to mark her rising fame. ("Angelina Jolie Young As A Teenager | In High School | As A Baby"). -
Angelina's First Big Role
Angelina's first leading role was in the movie "Hackers" where she starred as Kate, a computer hacker working with her friends to unleash an online virus while being pursued by the Secret Service (Patrol). This was her first big break as an actress where she began to be noticed. -
Her Big Academy Award
Award for Best Supporting Actress (Oscars). Winning 'Best Supporting Actress' at the 2000 Oscars was won of the greatest highlights of Jolie's acting career. She had been nominated for many awards before, but this was the first time that she had actually won an academy award. (Veselinovic). -
First Adoption (Maddox)
Angelina Jolie adopted her first child, seven-month-old Maddox Chivan from Cambodia. Jolie decided to apply for adoption after she had visited Cambodia twice, while filming Tomb Raider and on a UNHCR field trip in 2001 ("Angelina Jolie’s Adoptions"). (Garfinkel). -
Angelina Jolie's Sri Lanka Journal
Journal Entry Angelina Jolie went on a week-long mission to Sri Lanka, calling on the international community to contribute to the war-torn country's recovery. Jolie got a first-hand look at the post-war conditions in northern Sri Lanka, visiting recent returnees, internally displaced persons and victims of the 20-year civil war (Jolie, Angelina. “Angelina Jolie’s Sri Lanka Journal"). ("Jolie Appeals for Aid"). -
Meeting the love of her life
Angelina Jolie met her current fiance, Brad Pitt, while filming "Mr. and Mrs. Smith." Although Brad was married to actress Jennifer Aniston at the time, he could not help but to fall in love with Angelina (Powell). -
Adoption of Zahara from Ethiopia
Jolie adopted her from Wide Horizons For Children orphanage in Addis Ababa. Shortly after they returned to the United States, Zahara was hospitalized for dehydration and malnutrition. In 2007, media outlets reported Zahara’s biological mother, Mentewabe Dawit, was still alive and wanted her daughter back, but she later denied these reports, saying she thought Zahara was “very fortunate" ("Angelina Jolie’s Adoptions"). ("Zahara"). -
Jolie gave birth to a daughter, Shiloh Nouvel
Shiloh was born in Namibia. Jolie decided to sell the first pictures of Shiloh through the distributor Getty Images herself, rather than allowing paparazzi to make these valuable photographs. $4.1 million was made and put toward they Jolie-Pitt charity ("Angelina Jolie’s Adoptions"). (Little Globetrotter Shiloh Turns 2!). -
Adoption of Pax from Vietnam
Jolie adopted a three-year-old boy from Vietnam, Pax Thien, who was born on November 29, 2003 and abandoned at birth at a local hospital, where he was initially named Pham Quang Sang. Jolie adopted the boy from the Tam Binh orphanage in Ho Chi Minh City. She revealed that his first name, Pax, was suggested by her mother before her death ("Angelina Jolie’s Adoptions"). (Pax Jolie-Pitt). -
Birth of Twins, Knox and Vivienne
She gave birth to a boy, Knox Léon, and a girl, Vivienne Marcheline, by c-section at the Lenval hospital in Nice, France. The rights for the first images of Knox and Vivienne were jointly sold to People and Hello! for $14 million—the most expensive celebrity pictures ever taken. The money also went to the Jolie/Pitt Foundation ("Angelina Jolie’s Adoptions"). (Smith). -
Breast Cancer and a Double Mastectomy
My Medical Choice "I can tell my children that they don’t need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer. I feel empowered that I made a strong choice that in no way diminishes my femininity. Life comes with many challenges. The ones that should not scare us are the ones we can take on and take control of" (Jolie). ("Angelina Jolie Gets Double Mastectomy").
