Actress Angelina Jolie was born on June 4, 1975, in New York, USA. She began her career as a fashion model and stage actress in her mid-teens. She made her film debut in 1993. She gained attention in 1995 for her first leading role in "The Man Who Knew Too Much." She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1999 for "Petty Pie." She then played the lead role of Lara Croft in 2001's "Tomb Raider," cementing her status as a Hollywood star. She has been married and divorced twice. In 2005, she dated Brad Pitt, with whom she co-starred in "Mr. & Mrs. Smith," for seven years, and officially became engaged in April 2012. The couple has three biological children and three adopted children. She is also active in charitable activities and serves as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). When she appeared in a Louis Vuitton ad in 2011, the photoshoot took place in Cambodia, the country that is said to have inspired her to work with UNHCR. Her fee was donated to charity. Since 2008, she has been designing jewelry and has launched her own jewelry brand, "The Style of Jolie." All proceeds are donated to her newly established foundation, "The Education Partnership for Children of Conflict." The foundation is promoting a plan to establish educational institutions, including a girls' school, banned under Taliban rule, in the outskirts of Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, which was hit hard by the war.

Last month, she made headlines by announcing that she had undergone a double mastectomy after being diagnosed with an oncogene.