Angelina Jolie

Name : Angelina Jolie
Born: 4 June 1975
Where: Los Angeles, California, USA
Awards: Won 1 Oscar and 3 Golden Globes
Height: 5' 7"

Back onscreen, 2008 would bring another action hit in Wanted, Jolie saying she'd needed a physical role to take her mind off her mother. The US debut of director Timur Bekmambetov, this would see James McAvoy as a nervous, hen-pecked accounts manager who's picked up in a bar by a glamorous Jolie and told he's born to join the Fraternity, an ancient order of assassins. As McAvoy now goes after the guy who killed his father, Jolie screams around in a red sports car, performing all manner of hot stunts, exuding utter competence in a man's world. After Tomb Raider and Mr And Mrs Smith, she'd become well used to such roles and the public clearly liked her in them, Wanted steaming through the $100 million barrier in the US. With all its frenetic action and CGI effects, it would be very different from her next outing, Clint Eastwood's tough drama Changeling. Based on the true story of Christine Collins, this would see Jolie back in the late 1920s, playing a single mother whose young son disappears. Several months later, under pressure to solve the case, the police present her with another boy, not her son, and so she's forced to battle massive corruption in the force and City Hall, being banged up in a psycho ward for her pains. Both distressed and determined, Jolie would be impressive as she fought for her son and her rights in a painfully sexist system. The same year, 2008, would see Jolie give birth to twins, Knox and Vivienne, official pictures of which would bring an amazing $11 million. She'd furthermore be reunited with her father after a 6 year split.