• Niece of Chip Taylor.
•One of People Magazine's "50 Most Beautiful People." [2000]
•She is extremely close to and protective of her brother James Haven.
•He often accompanies her to awards shows, and she used his name, or at least his memory, as inspiration in the
"Where's Jamie?!" scene in Girl, Interrupted (1999).
•Has the letter "H" tattooed on the inside of her left wrist, which is a reference to two people
she is close to who have this letter in their names: her brother, James Haven, and Timothy Hutton.
She got the tattoo when she was dating Timothy but since their break up she now says it's only for James.
•Has a tattoo of the Tennessee Williams quote, "A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages." on her left forearm.
•Was married to Jonny Lee Miller in a black leather pants and a white shirt.
On the white shirt she painted her husband's name in her own blood (across the back).
•Tattoos include the Japanese sign for death, two pointy black American Indian symbols, a dragon, and a large black cross.
•Majored in film at New York University.
•Collects knives and has an interest in mortuary science.
•Angelina and her brother, to whom she is very close, publicly spoke out to deny
false rumors that the two were having an incestuous love affair. [2000]
•Had childhood dream of becoming a funeral director.
•Named the world's sexiest woman in Swedish magazine Café.
•"Jolie" means "pretty" in French.
•Goddaughter of actress Jacqueline Bisset.
•Graduated from Beverly Hills High School at age 16.
•Has the Latin phrase "Quod me nutrit me destruit" ("What nourishes me also destroys me") tattooed across her stomach.
•Appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva,
Switzerland after her visits to Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Pakistan. [27 August 2001]
•Born at 9:09 AM PDT
•"Introducing Angelina Jolie" in opening credits of Love Is All There Is (1996)
suggests delayed release as Jolie already had at least two major screen roles by 1996.
•She is of Czech and American descent on her father's side and French and Haudenosaunee
(Iroquian Indian) heritage on her mother's side.
•Performed her own stunts in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and received cuts from the chandelier scene as a result.
•Ranked #87 in Premiere's 2002 annual "Power 100" list.
•In role as goodwill ambassador, visited Tham Hin refugee camp in Thailand,
May 2002, to check on conditions of 9,000 refugees from bordering Myanmar.
•July 2002 - confirms break up with actor Billy Bob Thornton.
•Measurements(before pregnancy): 36C-27-36.
•Announced in late 2002 that she is "in talks" to portray the late porn star Linda Lovelace.
Eventually, she lost the role to Courtney Love.
•Goddaughter of actor Maximilian Schell.
•Voted the 3rd Sexiest Female Movie Star in the Australian Empire Magazine September 2002.
•Her adopted son, Maddox Chivan Jolie, was born on August 5th, 2001.
•Her favorite Disney character is Dumbo the flying elephant, she has said that she cried when he was able to fly.
•She is the woman most American males would like to date on New Year's Eve,
according to a survey by movie rental chain Blockbuster Inc.
Results of the survey showed her in the top spot with 35 percent of respondents
saying she would be their number one pick for a hypothetical New Year's Eve candle-lit dinner.
Rival star Catherine Zeta-Jones gained second spot in the online survey conducted by Blockbuster November 11-24, 2003.
The survey had 31,969 responses.
•Started modelling at the age of 14.
•Was named "The sexiest woman alive" by the Swedish evening newspaper "Aftonbladet." [2003]
•She was voted the ninth sexiest woman in FHM UK's top 100 sexiest in 2004.
•Favorite music: Madonna, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, The Clash, Matchbox 20.
•Favorite TV shows: "King of the Hill" (1997), the Game Show Network and Animal Planet.
•Voted as #6 on the "Top 100 Sexiest Women" 2004 in FHM [DK].
•She was voted #2 on VH1's "100 Hottest Hotties."
•Attended same high school as Lenny Kravitz.
•She and Egyptian actor Adel Imam are goodwill ambassadors for the UNHCR.
•Went to High School with Michael Klesic and Bahar Soomekh.
•Ranked #6 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World." [2002]
•Has said that she speaks "very little French".
•Voted #1 star most men would like to kiss under the mistletoe in a poll for Sky Movies.
•Used to own a pet rat snake. Therefore had no problem shooting the snake scene in Alexander (2004).
•Went to elementary school at William O. Schaefer School in Tappan, New York.
•Her father starred with her godmother Jacqueline Bisset in Richter und sein Henker, Der (1975),
which was directed by her godfather Maximilian Schell.
•Consulted with real-life FBI profiler Robert K. Ressler for her role in Taking Lives (2004).
•In 2003 was first recipient of the Citizen of the World Award from the UN's Correspondents'
Association for her work as a goodwill ambassador with the UNHCR.
•In 2004 was made an honorary citizen of Cambodia by the Prime Minister of Cambodia for her humanitarian work there.
•July 6th 2005: she adopted a newborn baby girl from Ethiopia who was thought
to be orphaned by AIDS. But it was later revealed that the child's mother did not have the money to care for her.
She named the girl Zahara Marley Jolie.
•She ranked #2 in 2000 on Mr. Blackwell's Worst Dress List.
•Named Esquire Magazine's Sexiest Woman Alive in 2004.
•Named Most Beautiful Woman in People Magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People 2005 issue. More than 500,000 readers were polled.
•In August, 2005 was made an official citizen of Cambodia by the King for her ongoing efforts to help the environment there.
•The King of Cambodia has signed legal papers giving her Cambodian Citizenship (August 2005)
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