The Evolution of Angelina Jolie

On 4-June-1975, actor Jon (also credited as John in some films) Voight and his wife, Marcheline Bertrand, an actress, were blessed with a baby daughter, named Angelina Jolie Voight. Considered Hollywood royalty (a term used to describe children born to famous actor parents, i.e. inherited stardom) by many, Angelina Jolie (the name she chose to use professionally) would grow up to become one of the most recognized celebrities in the world. But it can be a madcap journey to reach such a summit.

Her life started out in a rather formulaic manner (for a budding starlet): Angelina Jolie grew up in Los Angeles, worked as a professional model, and cut her teeth with the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, acting in a few stage productions. She has appeared in music videos, and also acted in several student films directed by her older brother, James Haven Voight (professionally known merely as James Haven) for USC School of Cinema. She even majored in film at New York University, although she did not complete her studies. Somewhere along the way, however, there's a bit of a detour from the proscribed formula....

On 28-March-1996, at the tender age of 21, wearing a pair of black leather pants and a white shirt, she married Jonny Lee Miller, a British actor she met while filming "Hackers" (1995). On the back of white shirt Jolie had painted her husband's name in her own blood. This might seem strange were it not for the fact that Jolie has a professed interest in mortuary science, collects knives, and has said she dreamed of being a funeral director as a child. Not surprisingly, the young celebrity couple divorced roughly four years later, on 3-February-1999.