For three decades, Angelina Jolie has been dominating the entertainment industry one film at a time.
The daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand grew up in Los Angeles and decided to follow in her famous parents’ footsteps after failing to succeed as a model. As a teenager, she dealt with numerous personal struggles — she self-harmed, contemplated suicide, abused drugs and battled an eating disorder — before ultimately falling in love with acting.
Jolie made her debut in the 1993 movie Cyborg 2 and starred in her first major film, Hackers, two years later. By the end of the ‘90s, she had a number of awards and nominations under her belt for her roles in George Wallace, Gia and Girl, Interrupted.
The Oscar winner continued to find success in the 2000s through movies including Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Mr. & Mrs. Smith and Changeling. Around the same time, she began working as a humanitarian and went on to become a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
In the 2010s, Jolie continued acting, starring in films such as Salt and Maleficent, in addition to working behind the camera. She directed projects including In the Land of Blood and Honey and Unbroken and executive-produced The Breadwinner and Serendipity.
The megastar’s personal life has also made headlines countless times through the years. She has been married three times — to Jonny Lee Miller from 1996 to 1999, Billy Bob Thornton from 2000 to 2003 and Brad Pitt from 2014 to 2019 — and has six children: Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne.
While Jolie and the Fight Club star were declared legally single in April 2019, they continued to be locked in a messy court battle regarding custody of their minor children. Us Weekly previously confirmed in May 2021 that a judge ruled in Pitt’s favor to share custody after the Salt actress had previously attempted to disqualify the judge over his alleged personal history with Pitt. The judge was eventually disqualified, leaving the final decision up in the air.
Jolie later sparked dating speculation with The Weeknd (born Abel Tesfaye) after the duo were spotted together multiple times. Though the “Blinding Lights” crooner and the Eternals actress played coy about their romantic status, a source told Us in September 2021 that Jolie “lights up” when discussing their bond.
“Both Angie and Abel are telling people that they are just friends, but those who know them think something romantic is going on,” the insider added at the time. “She’s definitely warming toward Abe. He’s been pouring on the charm and going out of his way to impress her.”
While downplaying her love life, the director focused on being a devoted mom to her six children, even bringing them along to multiple international premieres of her Marvel movie in October 2021, where her daughters repurposed her iconic red carpet gowns.
Scroll down to see photos of Jolie through the years:
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1986
Voight brought Jolie, then 10, her brother, James Haven, and their grandmother Barbara Voight to the 1986 Oscars, where the actor was nominated for his role in Runaway Train.
1993
Jolie made her movie debut in the 1993 straight-to-video sci-fi sequel Cyborg 2. She later told Rolling Stone that she was so embarrassed by the film that she did not go on any auditions for another year.
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1995
She made her big screen debut two years later in Hackers alongside her future husband Miller.
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1996
Jolie and Miller tied the knot in March 1996 during a small civil ceremony, with her mother and his best friend as the only guests. The bride wore black rubber pants and a white shirt with the groom’s name written in her blood across the back, later telling The New York Times that she “very carefully” used a “clean surgical needle.” The pair amicably separated a year and a half later and divorced in 2000.
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1997
The actress portrayed former first lady of Alabama Cornelia Wallace in the TNT miniseries George Wallace in 1997. She won a Golden Globe Award for her performance and was also nominated for an Emmy.
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1998
Jolie received critical acclaim for her portrayal of supermodel Gia Marie Carangi in the 1998 HBO biopic Gia. She won her second Golden Globe and received another Emmy nomination for the role.
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1999
The movie star became a household name after playing a sociopath named Lisa Rowe in the 1999 movie adaptation of Susanna Kaysen’s memoir, Girl, Interrupted.
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2000
Jolie took home her first Academy Award for best supporting actress in Girl, Interrupted in 2000. She also won her third Golden Globe that year.
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2000
The Oscar winner married her Pushing Tin costar Thornton in May 2000. Throughout their relationship, the couple, who have a 20-year age difference, caused a stir for their eccentricities, including wearing vials of each other’s blood around their necks. They split in June 2002 and finalized their divorce the following year.
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2001
Jolie gained international recognition with her title role in the 2001 movie Lara Croft: Tomb Raider. She returned as the archaeologist in the 2003 sequel, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider — The Cradle of Life.
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2001
While filming Tomb Raider in Cambodia, Jolie became involved with humanitarian efforts through the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. She was named a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador in August 2001 and held the title for over a decade before being promoted to Special Envoy in April 2012.
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2002
The activist adopted her first child, Maddox, from an orphanage in Cambodia in March 2002. She and Thornton announced the news as a couple, but Jolie adopted the 7-month-old on her own. The former couple separated just three months later.
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2005
Jolie starred opposite her future husband, Pitt, in the 2005 action movie Mr. & Mrs. Smith. They went public with their romance that April after the actor’s split from Jennifer Aniston, whom he married in July 2000.
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2005
Jolie adopted her second child, Zahara, from an orphanage in Ethiopia in July 2005. Pitt became Maddox and Zahara’s adoptive father the following year.
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2006
Jolie and Pitt announced her first pregnancy in January 2006. She gave birth to Shiloh that May in Namibia, where the couple had traveled to escape the inevitable frenzy.
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2007
After a supporting role in Robert De Niro’s The Good Shepherd, Jolie starred as journalist Mariane Pearl in A Mighty Heart in 2007, landing another Golden Globe nomination.
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2007
Jolie adopted her fourth child, Pax, from an orphanage in Vietnam in March 2007. Pitt legally became his father the next year.
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2008
Brangelina, as they became known, announced at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2008 that Jolie was expecting twins. Knox and Vivienne arrived in France two months later.
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2008
Jolie received critical acclaim for her role as Christine Collins, a woman whose 9-year-old son went missing in 1928, in the 2008 drama Changeling. She received nominations at the Oscars, Golden Globes and SAG Awards.
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2011
Four years after directing the documentary A Place in Time, Jolie made her feature film directorial debut with In the Land of Blood and Honey in 2011.
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2012
Jolie and Pitt announced their engagement in April 2012. “It is a promise for the future, and their kids are very happy,” his rep said in a statement at the time.
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2013
The actress underwent a preventive double mastectomy in February 2013 after learning she had an 87 percent risk of developing breast cancer due to a defective BRCA1 gene. She subsequently underwent reconstructive surgery. Two years later, she underwent another preventive operation after finding out she had a 50 percent chance of developing ovarian cancer.
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2013
Jolie received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, an honorary Oscar, in November 2013. During her acceptance speech, she thanked her family, saying their “support and … guidance make everything that I do possible.”
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2014
Jolie and Pitt married at their Château Miraval estate in France in August 2014 in front of their children and other family and friends. She later changed her last name to Jolie-Pitt.
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2014
After taking a few years off from acting, Jolie returned to the big screen to play the title role in the 2014 Disney movie Maleficent. She reprised the part five years later in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil.
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2014
Queen Elizabeth II made Jolie an honorary dame in October 2014 for her work fighting sexual violence.
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2016
Jolie announced in May 2016 that she would serve as a visiting professor at the London School of Economics to teach a course on women, peace and security.
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2016
The By the Sea star shocked the world when she filed for divorce from Pitt in September 2016 after he and Maddox were allegedly involved in an altercation on a private jet. Her rep said in a statement at the time, “This decision was made for the health of the family.” The former couple became legally single in April 2019.
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2019
Marvel announced at Comic-Con in July 2019 that Jolie is set to star in the 2021 movie The Eternals alongside Richard Madden, Gemma Chan, Kumail Nanjiani and more.
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2021
Amid her custody battle with the Oklahoma native, the Maleficent star fueled romance rumors with The Weeknd. The pair kept quiet about their supposed romantic status, insisting they are just good friends.
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2021
Jolie brought kids Maddox, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne to the Los Angeles premiere of Marvel’s Eternals in October. In the group photos, her daughters even donned their mom’s old gowns.
“My kids are all mixed with vintage, and in my old Oscars dress. We did all vintage and upcycled my old stuff,” Jolie told Entertainment Tonight at the time.
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2021
The Salt actress walked the Eternals red carpet in Rome with daughters Zahara and Shiloh, holding hands while posing together.
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2023
The actress confirmed the launch of her fashion venture via Instagram in May 2023. “I’m starting something new today — a collective where everyone can create,” she wrote at the time. “Atelier Jolie is a place for creative people to collaborate with a skilled and diverse family of expert tailors, pattern makers and artisans from around the world.”
The label, which will launch in fall 2023, also honors the California native’s passion for sustainability as Atelier Jolie will “make use of high-quality vintage material and headstock fabric already available,” she explained.
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