Film
Angelina Jolie
Actor, director and humanitarian
Born 1975
Photo: Harald Krichel · CC BY-SA 4.0
«We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering.»
Angelina Jolie won an Academy Award for Girl, Interrupted and has since worked as a director and as a special envoy for the UN refugee agency. She has visited refugee camps and conflict zones in more than thirty countries.
Key achievements
- Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, Girl Interrupted, 2000
- UNHCR Special Envoy, visiting refugees in over thirty countries
- Co-founded the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative, 2012
Universities
- New York UniversityLeft without a degree
New York, Greenwich Village
Studied film at the Tisch School of the Arts and left without completing the degree.
Facts
- She directed In the Land of Blood and Honey, a film about the Bosnian war, shot in both Bosnian and English versions.
- She wrote publicly about her preventive surgery after a BRCA1 gene test, prompting a measurable rise in genetic testing worldwide.
- She has taught a postgraduate course on women, peace and security at the London School of Economics.
Photographs
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