Angelina Jolie is an Oscar-winning actress
who has become popular by taking on the title role in the "Lara Croft"
series of blockbuster wallpapers movies. Off-screen, Jolie has become prominently
involved in international charity projects, especially those involving
refugees. Angilina Jolie wallpapers She often appears on many "most beautiful women" lists
Jolie made her screen debut as a child
alongside her father, Jon Voight, in Lookin' to Get Out (1982), but her
film career began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget
production Cyborg 2 (1993). Her first leading role in a major film was
in the cyber-thriller Hackers (1995). She starred in the critically
acclaimed biographical television films George Wallace (1997) and Gia
(1998), and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her
performance in the drama Girl, Interrupted (1999).
Although highly regarded for her acting abilities, Jolie's films to date had often not appealed to a wide audience, but Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) made her an international superstar. An adaptation of the popular Tomb Raider videogame, Jolie was required to learn an English accent and undergo extensive martial arts training to play the title role of Lara Croft. She was generally praised for her physical performance, but the movie generated mostly negative reviews. Slant commented, "Angelina Jolie was born to play Lara Croft but [director] Simon West makes her journey into a game of Frogger."[41] The movie was an international success nonetheless, earning $275 million worldwide,[10] and launched her global reputation as a female action star.
An unauthorized biography on Jolie by Andrew Morton was published in 2010. Janet Maslin highlights the lack of sources noted in the book in a review in The New York Times, saying "the people most eager to tell him about Ms. Jolie are people who don’t know her, so that the book is shrink-wrapped in glib insights from dubious psychiatric talents". Allen Barra describes it as "the worst book in the 21st century so far" in a Salon review which summarizes the book as "ill-informed, moralistic and just plain mean"
Although highly regarded for her acting abilities, Jolie's films to date had often not appealed to a wide audience, but Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) made her an international superstar. An adaptation of the popular Tomb Raider videogame, Jolie was required to learn an English accent and undergo extensive martial arts training to play the title role of Lara Croft. She was generally praised for her physical performance, but the movie generated mostly negative reviews. Slant commented, "Angelina Jolie was born to play Lara Croft but [director] Simon West makes her journey into a game of Frogger."[41] The movie was an international success nonetheless, earning $275 million worldwide,[10] and launched her global reputation as a female action star.
An unauthorized biography on Jolie by Andrew Morton was published in 2010. Janet Maslin highlights the lack of sources noted in the book in a review in The New York Times, saying "the people most eager to tell him about Ms. Jolie are people who don’t know her, so that the book is shrink-wrapped in glib insights from dubious psychiatric talents". Allen Barra describes it as "the worst book in the 21st century so far" in a Salon review which summarizes the book as "ill-informed, moralistic and just plain mean"
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