ANGELINA JOLIE

Angelina was born in 1975 in Los Angeles to acting parents Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. Despite regularly topping sexiest female polls Angelina was very much an ugly duckling in her younger years. At school she was bullied for her odd looks and braces. She began self harming to deal with the pain of being a social outcast. Years later on CNN she admitted, “I collected knives and always had certain things around."For some reason, the ritual of having cut myself and feeling the pain - maybe feeling alive - and feeling some kind of release, it was somehow therapeutic to me.”

She flirted with the idea of becoming a funeral director but gave up this rather unusual career ambition to become an actress. After taking acting lessons and contacting various agents offers from Hollywood came flooding in. She went on to star in Hackers, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Gia and The Bone Collector. The actress has indulged in a number of romances with people she has met on set. Angelina married Johnny Lee Miller in 1996 after starring with him in cult film Hackers. They divorced a year later. Her well-publicised relationship with Billy Bob Thornton in 2000 blossomed after she met him on the set of Pushing Tin.

The outlandish couple made frequent and public displays of affection and famously wore each other’s blood in vials around their necks. Despite their obvious infatuation the romance was destined not to last. In 2002 Angelina adopted her first child Maddox after a trip to Cambodia. After her high-profile divorce from Billy Bob, she was granted sole custody of her son. Her second child Zahara was adopted from an orphanage in Ethiopia and Hollywood heartthrob Brad Pitt was reportedly present when she signed the papers in July 2005.

Early that year Angelina was romantically linked to the Ocean's Eleven actor who was married to Jennifer Aniston at the time. The Mr and Mrs Smith co-stars at first denied rumours of a budding relationship, but have since been the talk of the tabloids after Brad and Jennifer's five-year-marriage ended in October 2005. Angelina gave birth to Brad’s baby, named Shiloh Jolie-Pitt, in May 2006 in Namibia and he has since legally adopted her first two children. Following Shiloh's birth, a three-year-old boy from Vietnam joined the Jolie-Pitt clan. Pax is the newest arrival to the family, although Angelina is currently expecting another child.

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