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Angelina Jolie (June 4, 1975) is an American actress.She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, and was named Hollywood's highest-paid actress by Forbes in 2009 and 2011. Jolie is noted for promoting humanitarian causes as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

She has been cited as the world's 'most beautiful' woman, a title for which she has received substantial media attention.

Jolie achieved wide fame after her portrayal of video game heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), and established herself among the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood with the sequel Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003).She reinforced her reputation as a leading action star with Mr.& Mrs. Smith (2005) and Wanted (2008)-her biggest non-animated commercial successes to date and received further critical acclaim for her performances in the dramas A Mighty Heart (2007) and Changeling (2008), which earned her a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actress.

This book is your ultimate resource for Angelina Jolie. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more.

In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about her Early life, Career and Personal life right away. A quick look inside: Angelina Jolie, Lookin' to Get Out, Cyborg 2, Without Evidence, Hackers (film), Love Is All There Is, Mojave Moon, Foxfire (1996 film), True Women, George Wallace (film), Playing God (film), Gia, Hell's Kitchen (1998 film), Playing by Heart, Pushing Tin, The Bone Collector, Girl, Interrupted (film), Gone in 60 Seconds (2000 film), Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Original Sin (2001 film), Life or Something Like It, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, Beyond Borders, Taking Lives (film), Shark Tale, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Alexander (film), Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005 film), The Good Shepherd (film), A Mighty Heart (film), Beowulf (2007 film), Kung Fu Panda, Wanted (2008 film), Changeling (film), Salt (2010 film), The Tourist (2010 film), Kung Fu Panda 2, In the Land of Blood and Honey.

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Articles Angelina Jolie Lookin' to Get Out Cyborg 2 Without Evidence Hackers (film) Love Is All There Is Mojave Moon Foxfire (1996 film) True Women George Wallace (film) Playing God (film) Gia Hell's Kitchen (1998 film) Playing by Heart Pushing Tin The Bone Collector Girl, Interrupted (film) Gone in 60 Seconds (2000 film) Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

Original Sin (2001 film) Life or Something Like It Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life Beyond Borders Taking Lives (film) Shark Tale Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow Alexander (film) Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005 film) The Good Shepherd (film) A Mighty Heart (film) Beowulf (2007 film) Kung Fu Panda Wanted (2008 film) Changeling (film)

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Salt (2010 film) The Tourist (2010 film) Kung Fu Panda 2 In the Land of Blood and Honey

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Jolie at the Cannes premiere ofThe Tree of Lifein 2011

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Angelina Jolie Voight June 4, 1975 Los Angeles, California, U.S.

Actress, director, humanitarian

1982; 1991–present

Jonny Lee Miller (1996–1999) Billy Bob Thornton (2000–2003)

Brad Pitt (2005–present)

Jon Voight Marcheline Bertrand (deceased)

James Haven (brother) Chip Taylor (uncle)

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Best Supporting Actress

Golden Globe Awards

1998Best Supporting Actress–Series, Miniseries or Television Movie

1999Best Actress–Miniseries or Television Movie

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Screen Actors Guild Awards

1999Outstanding Female Actor–Miniseries or Television Movie

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Outstanding Supporting Female Actor

Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie(pronounced /dʒoʊˈliː/joh-lee, bornAngelina Jolie Voight; June 4, 1975) is an American actress. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, and was [1] [2] named Hollywood's highest-paid actress byForbesJolie is noted for promoting humanitarianin 2009 and 2011. causes as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). She has been [3] [4] [5] [6] cited as the world's "most beautiful" woman, a title for which she has received substantial media attention. Jolie made her screen debut as a child alongside her father Jon Voight inLookin' to Get Out(1982), but her film career began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget productionCyborg 2(1993). Her first leading role in a major film was in the cyber-thrillerHackers(1995). She starred in the critically acclaimed biographical television filmsGeorge Wallace(1997) andGia(1998), and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the dramaGirl, Interrupted(1999). Jolie achieved wide fame after her portrayal of video game heroine Lara Croft inLara Croft: Tomb Raider(2001), and established herself among the highest-paid actresses in Hollywood with the sequelLara Croft Tomb Raider: The [7] Cradle of Life(2003). She reinforced her reputation as a leading action star withMr. & Mrs. Smith(2005) and [8] Wanted(2008)—her biggest non-animated commercial successes to date—and received further critical acclaim for her performances in the dramasA Mighty Heart(2007) andChangeling(2008), which earned her a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actress. Divorced from actors Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton, Jolie now lives with actor Brad Pitt, in a relationship that has attracted worldwide media attention. Jolie and Pitt have three adopted children, Maddox, Pax, and Zahara, and three biological children, Shiloh, Knox, and Vivienne.

Early life and family Born in Los Angeles, California, Jolie is the daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. She is the sister of actor James Haven, niece of singer-songwriter Chip Taylor, and goddaughter of actors Jacqueline Bisset and [9] [10] Maximilian Schell. On her father's side, Jolie is of German and Slovak descent, and on her mother's side, she is [9] [11] of French Canadian, Dutch, and German ancestry. She has also claimed to be part Iroquois through her mother, [12] although Voight has said that Bertrand was "not seriously Iroquois." After her parents' separation in 1976, Jolie and her brother lived with their [13] mother, who abandoned her acting ambitions to focus on raising her children. As a child, Jolie regularly saw movies with her mother and later explained that this had inspired her interest in acting; she had not been influenced by her [14] father. When she was six years old, her mother and stepfather, filmmaker Bill [15] Day, moved the family to Palisades, New York; they returned to Los Angeles five years later. She then decided she wanted to act and enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, where she trained for two years and appeared in several stage productions.

At the age of 14, Jolie dropped out of her acting classes and aspired to become a [16] funeral director. She began working as a fashion model, modeling mainly in Los Angeles, New York, and London. During this period, she wore black Jolie's father Jon Voight at the clothing, experimented with knife play, and went out moshing with her live-in Academy Awards in 1988; Jolie can [14] boyfriend. Two years later, after the relationship had ended, she rented an be seen behind his right shoulder [13] apartment above a garage a few blocks from her mother's home. She graduated from high school and returned to theater studies, though in recent times she has referred to this period with the observation, "I am still at heart—and always will be—just a punk kid [17] with tattoos."

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[16] Jolie suffered episodes of suicidal depression throughout her teens and early twenties. She felt isolated at Beverly Hills High School among the children of some of the area's affluent families, as her mother survived on a more modest income, and she was teased by other students, who targeted her for being extremely thin and for wearing [14] glasses and braces. She found it difficult to emotionally connect with other people, and as a result she started to [11] self-harm; later commenting, "I collected knives and always had certain things around. For some reason, the ritual of having cut myself and feeling the pain, maybe feeling alive, feeling some kind of release, it was somehow [18] therapeutic to me." She also began experimenting with drugs; by the age of 20, she had tried "just about every [19] drug possible," including heroin. Jolie has had a difficult relationship with her father. Due to Voight's marital infidelity and the resulting breakup of [20] her parents' marriage, she was estranged from her father for many years. They reconciled and he appeared with [13] her inLara Croft: Tomb RaiderIn July 2002, Jolie(2001), but their relationship again deteriorated. —who had long used her middle name as a stage name to establish her own identity as an actress—filed a request to legally drop [21] Voight as her surname, which was granted on September 12, 2002. In August of that year, Voight claimed that his daughter had "serious mental problems" onAccess Hollywood. In response, Jolie released a statement in which she [20] indicated that she no longer wished to pursue a relationship with her father. She stated that she did not want to publicize her reasons for their estrangement, but because she had adopted her son Maddox, she did not think it was [22] healthy for her to associate with Voight. In 2009, Jolie again reconciled with her father after a seven-year [23] estrangement.

Career

Early work: 1982; 1991–1997 When she was seven years old, Jolie had a small part inLookin' to Get Out(1982), a movie co-written by and starring her father, Jon Voight. She committed to acting at the age of 16, but initially found it difficult to pass [16] auditions, often being told that she was "too dark." She appeared in five of her brother's student films, made while he attended the USC School of Cinematic Arts, as well as in several music videos, namely Lenny Kravitz's "Stand by My Woman" (1991), Antonello Venditti's "Alta Marea" (1991), The Lemonheads's "It's About Time" (1993), and Meat Loaf's "Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through" (1993). She began to learn from her father, as she noticed his method of observing people to become like them. Their relationship during this time was less strained, with Jolie [14] realizing that they were both "drama queens." Jolie began her professional film career in 1993, when she played her first leading role in the low-budget, straight-to-video science-fiction sequelCyborg 2, as Casella "Cash" Reese, a near-human robot, designed to seduce her way into a rival manufacturer's headquarters and then self-detonate. Jolie was so disappointed with the film that [16] she did not audition again for a year. Following a supporting role in the independent filmWithout Evidence (1995), Jolie starred as Kate "Acid Burn" Libby in her first Hollywood picture,Hackers(1995).The New York Times wrote, "Kate (Angelina Jolie) stands out. That's because she scowls even more sourly than [her co-stars] and is that rare female hacker who sits intently at her keyboard in a see-through top. Despite her sullen posturing, which is all [24] this role requires, Ms. Jolie has the sweetly cherubic looks of her father, Jon Voight." The movie failed to make a [25] profit at the box office, but developed a cult following after its video release. She next appeared in the 1996 comedyLove Is All There Is, a modern-day loose adaptation ofRomeo and Julietset among two rival Italian family restaurant owners in The Bronx, New York. In the road movieMojave Moon(1996) she played a young woman who falls for Danny Aiello's middle-aged character, while he develops feelings for her mother, played by Anne Archer. That same year, Jolie also portrayed Margret "Legs" Sadovsky, one of five teenage girls who form an unlikely bond in the filmFoxfireafter they beat up a teacher who has sexually harassed them. The Los Angeles Timeswrote about her performance, "It took a lot of hogwash to develop this character, but Jolie, Jon Voight's knockout daughter, has the presence to overcome the stereotype. Though the story is narrated by Maddy,

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[26] Legs is the subject and the catalyst." In 1997, Jolie starred with David Duchovny in the thrillerPlaying God, set in the Los Angeles underworld. The movie was not received well by critics; Roger Ebert noted that "Angelina Jolie finds a certain warmth in a kind of [27] role that is usually hard and aggressive; she seems too nice to be [a criminal's] girlfriend, and maybe she is." She then appeared in the television filmTrue Women(1997), a historical romantic drama set in the American West and based on the book by Janice Woods Windle. That year, she also appeared as a stripper in the music video for "Anybody Seen My Baby?" by the Rolling Stones.

Breakthrough: 1998–2000 Jolie's career prospects began to improve after she won a Golden Globe Award for her performance in TNT'sGeorge Wallace(1997). She portrayed Cornelia Wallace, the second wife of Alabama Governor George Wallace, played by Gary Sinise. The film was very well-received by critics and won, among other awards, the Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries or Television Film. Jolie also received an Emmy Award nomination for her performance. In 1998, Jolie starred in HBO'sGia, portraying supermodel Gia Carangi. The film chronicled the destruction of Carangi's life and career as a result of her addiction to heroin, and her decline and death from AIDS in the mid-1980s. Vanessa Vance from Reel.com noted, "Angelina Jolie gained wide recognition for her role as the titular Gia, and it's easy to see why. Jolie is fierce in her portrayal—filling the part with nerve, charm, and [28] desperation—and her role in this film is quite possibly the most beautiful train wreck ever filmed." For the second consecutive year, Jolie won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for an Emmy Award. She also won her first Screen Actors Guild Award. In accordance with Lee Strasberg's method acting, Jolie preferred to stay in character in between scenes during many of her early films, and as a result had gained a reputation for being difficult to deal with. While shootingGia, she told her then-husband Jonny Lee Miller that she would not be able to phone him: "I'd tell him: 'I'm alone; I'm dying; [29] I'm gay; I'm not going to see you for weeks.'" AfterGiawrapped in 1997, Jolie announced that she had given up [30] acting for good, because she felt that she had "nothing else to give." She separated from Miller and moved to New York, where she enrolled at New York University to study filmmaking and attend writing classes; she later described [30] it as "just good for me to collect myself." Encouraged by her Golden Globe Award win forGeorge Wallaceand [16] the positive critical reception ofGia, she resumed her career. Jolie returned to film in the 1998 gangster movieHell's Kitchen. Later that year, she appeared inPlaying by Heart, part of an ensemble cast that included Sean Connery, Gillian Anderson, Ryan Phillippe, and Jon Stewart. The film received predominantly positive reviews, and Jolie was praised in particular. TheSan Francisco Chroniclewrote, "Jolie, working through an overwritten part, is a sensation as the desperate club crawler learning truths about what [31] she's willing to gamble." Jolie won the Breakthrough Performance Award from the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. In 1999, she starred in the comedy-dramaPushing Tin, alongside John Cusack, Billy Bob Thornton, and Cate Blanchett. The film received a mixed reception from critics, and Jolie's character—Thornton's seductive wife—was particularly criticized.The Washington Postwrote, "Mary (Angelina Jolie) [is] a completely ludicrous writer's creation of a free-spirited woman who weeps over hibiscus plants that die, wears lots of turquoise rings and gets real [32] lonely when Russell spends entire nights away from home." She then co-starred with Denzel Washington inThe Bone Collector(1999), an adaptation of a crime novel by Jeffery Deaver. Jolie played a police officer haunted by her cop father's suicide, who reluctantly helps Washington track down a serial killer. The movie grossed $151 million [8] worldwide, but was a critical failure. TheDetroit Free Pressconcluded, "Jolie, while always delicious to look at, [33] is simply and woefully miscast." "Jolie is emerging as one of the great wild spirits of current movies, a loose cannon who somehow has deadly aim." [34] —Roger Ebert on Jolie's performance inGirl, Interrupted(1999)

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Jolie next took the supporting role of the sociopathic Lisa Rowe inGirl, Interrupted(1999), an adaptation of former mental patient Susanna Kaysen's memoir of the same name. While Winona Ryder played the main character in what [35] was hoped to be a comeback for her, the film instead marked Jolie's final breakthrough in Hollywood. She won her third Golden Globe Award, her second Screen Actors Guild Award, and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress.Varietynoted, "Jolie is excellent as the flamboyant, irresponsible girl who turns out to be far more [36] instrumental than the doctors in Susanna's rehabilitation". In 2000, Jolie appeared in her first summer blockbuster,Gone In 60 Seconds, in which she played Sarah "Sway" Wayland, the ex-girlfriend of car thief Nicolas Cage. The role was small, andThe Washington Postcriticized that "all she does in this movie is stand around, cooling down, modeling those fleshy, pulsating muscle-tubes that nest so [37] provocatively around her teeth." She later explained that the film had been a welcome relief after the emotionally [8] heavy role of Lisa Rowe. It became her highest grossing movie up until then, earning $237 million internationally.

International success: 2001–present Although highly regarded for her acting abilities, Jolie's films to date had often not appealed to a wide audience, but Lara Croft: Tomb Raider(2001) made her an international superstar. An adaptation of the popularTomb Raider videogame, Jolie was required to learn a British accent and undergo extensive martial arts training to play the title role of Lara Croft. She was generally praised for her physical performance, but the movie generated mostly negative reviews.Slantcommented, "Angelina Jolie was born to play Lara Croft but [director] Simon West makes her journey [38] [8] into a game of Frogger." The movie was an international success nonetheless, earning $275 million worldwide, and launched her global reputation as a female action star. Jolie then starred opposite Antonio Banderas as his mail-order bride inOriginal Sin(2001), a thriller based on the novelWaltz into Darknessby Cornell Woolrich. The film was a major critical failure, withThe New York Times [39] noting, "The story plunges more precipitously than Ms. Jolie's neckline." In 2002, she starred inLife or Something Like Itas an ambitious television reporter who is told that she will die in a week. The film was poorly received by critics, though Jolie's performance received positive reviews. CNN's Paul Clinton wrote, "Jolie is excellent in her role. Despite some of the ludicrous plot points in the middle of the film, this Academy Award-winning actress is exceedingly believable in her journey towards self-discovery and the true meaning of [40] fulfilling life." Jolie reprised her role as Lara Croft inLara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of [7] Life(2003), which established her among Hollywood's highest-paid actresses. The sequel was not as lucrative as the original, earning $156 million at the [8] international box office. She appeared in the music video for Korn's "Did My Time," which was used to promote the film. She next starred inBeyond Borders (2003), as a socialite who joins aid workers in Africa and Asia. The film reflected Jolie's real-life interest in promoting humanitarian relief, but it was critically and financially unsuccessful. TheLos Angeles Timeswrote, "Jolie, as she did in her Oscar-winning role inGirl, Interrupted, can bring electricity and believability to roles that have a reality she can understand. She can also, witness theLara Croftfilms, do acknowledged cartoons. But the limbo of a hybrid Jolie at the Cologne premiere of character, a badly written cardboard person in a fly-infested, blood-and-guts Alexanderin 2004 [41] world, completely defeats her."

In 2004, Jolie starred alongside Ethan Hawke in the thrillerTaking Lives. She portrayed an FBI profiler summoned to help Montreal law enforcement hunt down a serial killer. The movie received mixed reviews andThe Hollywood Reporterconcluded, "Angelina Jolie plays a role that definitely feels like something she has already done, but she [42] does add an unmistakable dash of excitement and glamour." She also provided the voice of the angelfish Lola in the DreamWorks animated movieShark Tale(2004), and had a brief appearance inSky Captain and the World of

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Tomorrow(2004), a science fiction adventure film shot entirely with actors in front of a bluescreen. That same year, Jolie played Olympias inAlexander, about the life of Alexander the Great. The film failed domestically, which [43] director Oliver Stone attributed to disapproval of the depiction of Alexander's bisexuality, but it succeeded [8] internationally, with revenue of $139 million outside the United States. Jolie then starred opposite Brad Pitt in the 2005 action-comedyMr. & Mrs. Smith, which tells the story of a bored married couple, John and Jane Smith, who find out that they are both secret assassins. The film received mixed reviews, but was generally lauded for the chemistry between the two leads. TheStar Tribunenoted, "While the story feels haphazard, the movie gets by on gregarious charm, galloping energy [44] and the stars' thermonuclear screen chemistry." The movie earned [8] $478 million worldwide, making it one of the biggest hits of 2005.

Jolie next appeared in Robert De Niro'sThe Good Shepherd(2006), a Jolie and her partner Brad Pitt at the Cannes film about the early history of the CIA, as seen through the eyes of premiere ofA Mighty Heartin 2007 Edward Wilson, an officer based on James Jesus Angleton and played by Matt Damon. Jolie played the supporting role of Margaret "Clover" Russell, Wilson's neglected wife. According to theChicago Tribune, "Jolie ages convincingly throughout, and is blithely unconcerned with how her brittle [45] character is coming off in terms of audience sympathy."

In 2007, Jolie made her directorial debut with the documentaryA Place in Time, which captures daily life in 27 locations around the world during a single week. The film was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival and was intended for distribution to high schools through the [46] National Education Association. Jolie then starred as Mariane Pearl in the documentary-style dramaA Mighty Heart(2007). Based on Pearl's memoir of the same name, the film chronicles the kidnapping and murder of her husband,The Wall Street Journalreporter Daniel Pearl, in Pakistan.The Hollywood Reporterdescribed Jolie's performance as "well-measured and moving," played "with respect and [47] a firm grasp on a difficult accent." Jolie was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance. She also played Grendel's mother in the animated epic Beowulf(2007), which was created through the motion capture technique.

Jolie as Christine Collins on the set of Changelingin 2007

Jolie co-starred alongside James McAvoy and Morgan Freeman in the 2008 action movieWanted, an adaptation of Mark Millar's graphic novel of the same name. The film received predominately favorable reviews and proved an [8] international success, earning $342 million worldwide. She also provided the voice of Master Tigress in the DreamWorks animated movieKung Fu Panda(2008). With revenue of $632 million internationally, it became her [8] highest grossing film to date. That same year, Jolie took on the lead role in Clint Eastwood's dramaChangeling, [48] which had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Based in part on the Wineville Chicken Coop Murders, the film stars Jolie as Christine Collins, who is reunited with her kidnapped son in 1928 Los Angeles—only to realize the boy is an impostor. TheChicago Tribunenoted, "Jolie really shines in the calm before the storm, the scenes [...] [49] when one patronizing male authority figure after another belittles her at their peril." Jolie received nominations for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a BAFTA Award.

Jolie next starred in the 2010 thrillerSalt, her first film in two years. She starred alongside Liev Schreiber as CIA agent Evelyn Salt, who goes on the run after she is accused of being a KGB sleeper agent. Originally written as

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male, the character Salt underwent a gender change after a Colombia Pictures executive suggested Jolie for the role [8] to director Phillip Noyce. The film was an international success with revenue of $294 million. It received mixed to positive reviews, with Jolie's performance earning praise;Empireremarked, "When it comes to selling incredible, [50] crazy, death-defying antics, Jolie has few peers in the action business." She also starred opposite Johnny Depp in The Tourist(2010), which was a major critical failure. Peter Travers wrote, "Depp and Jolie hit career lows, [51] producing the chemistry of high-fashion zombies." After a slow start at the domestic box office, the film went on [8] to gross $278 million worldwide. Jolie received a controversial Golden Globe Award nomination, which was [52] [53] speculated to have been given merely to ensure her high-profile presence at the awards ceremony.

In 2011, Jolie reprised her voice role as Master Tigress in the animated DreamWorks sequelKung Fu Panda 2. It [8] surpassed the original as her highest grossing film to date, earning $663 million at the international box office. She will also make her directorial feature debut withIn the Land of Blood and Honey(2011), a love story set during the Bosnian War. The film was shot in October 2010 using local actors and is scheduled for release in December.

Humanitarian work "We cannot close ourselves off to information and ignore the fact that millions of people are out there suffering. I honestly want to help. I don't believe I feel differently from other people. I think we all want justice and equality, a chance for a life with meaning. All of us would like to believe that if we were in a bad situation someone would help us." [54] —Jolie on her motives for joining UNHCR in 2001

Jolie first became personally aware of worldwide humanitarian crises while filmingLara Croft: Tomb Raider(2001) in Cambodia. She contacted the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) for information on [54] international trouble spots. To learn more about the conditions in these areas, Jolie began visiting refugee camps around the world. In February 2001, she went on her first field visit, an 18-day mission to Sierra Leone and [54] Tanzania; she later expressed her shock at what she had witnessed. In the following months, she returned to [55] [56] Cambodia for two weeks and met with Afghan refugees in Pakistan. She covered all costs related to her missions and shared the same rudimentary working and living conditions as UNHCR field staff on all of her [54] visits. Jolie was named a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador at UNHCR headquarters in Geneva on August 27, [57] 2001.

Since then, Jolie has been on field missions around the world and met with refugees and internally displaced persons [58] in more than 30 countries. Asked what she hoped to accomplish, she stated, "Awareness of the plight of these [55] people. I think they should be commended for what they have survived, not looked down upon." Jolie aims to [59] visit what she terms "forgotten emergencies," crises that media attention has shifted away from. She is noted for [60] not shying away from traveling to areas that are at war: she visited the Darfur region of Sudan during the Darfur [61] [62] [63] [64] conflict in 2004; Chad during its civil war in 2007; Iraq during the Second Gulf War in 2007 and 2009; [65] [66] Afghanistan during the ongoing war in 2008 and 2011; and Libya during the Libyan revolution in 2011.