Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight on June 4 , 1975 ) is an Oscar -winning American actress . She is known for her exotic looks, her tumultuous off-screen life, and her humanitarian work with refugees. She has received three Golden Globes as well as an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the film Girl, Interrupted. 

Although her dream as a child was actually to become a funeral director, 16-year-old Jolie worked as a professional model in London, New York and Los Angeles. Musical groups and singers such as the Rolling Stones, Lemonheads, Meatloaf, and Lenny Kravitz would cast her in their music videos, and even brother James Haven Voight directed Jolie in his student films for the USC School of Cinema.

Jolie's only movie 2005, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, is also her biggest commercial success to date. The film was directed by Doug Liman and written by Simon Kinberg and tells the story about a bored married couple who find out that they're both secret assassins. Jolie starred as Jane Smith alongside Brad Pitt. The movie earned over $478 million worldwide, making it one of the biggest hits of 2005.

On May 27, 2006, Jolie gave birth to the couple's third child (first biological), a daughter named Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt, at night at the Cottage Medi-Clinic Hospital in Swakopmund, Namibia. Shiloh was born by a scheduled caesarean section, due to breech presentation, and Pitt was there to cut her umbilical cord. The couple's Los Angeles obstetrician was assisted by local staff. Shiloh, according to a longstanding translation from the Bible, has come to mean "the peaceful one."