Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie: A mother to All
She was born Angelina Jolie Voight in Los Angeles, on June 4th, 1975 - her name meaning Pretty Little Angel. Her parents, Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand, divorced when she was one year old. Therefore, she lived with her mother on the east coast. Living there, Jolie was a happy child. She had a normal childhood. At the age of 11, her mother moved the family back to Los Angeles. They had already moved often, making the Jolie feel constantly uprooted. "I always dreamed,” she says "of having an attic of things that I could go back up and look at.” (Tiscali) As a student at Beverly Hills High School, she was not alone in her cinematic ambitions. But she certainly felt alone in the midst of all the good-looking, pampered children, children who teased her gruesomely for wearing braces and glasses and being so painfully skinny. Unlike the other parents, Marcheline was not rich - so Angelina also had to seek her clothes at thrift stores like Aardvark.
Now, Jolie has become one of the most fascinating women in Hollywood. Daring to be different, perhaps to the point of being bizarre, Jolie never loses sight of her important role as a concerned global citizen and active UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador. Jolie’s involvement with UNHCR began with a mission to Sierra Leone, a small African country that has been devastated by years of brutal civil war. Seeing firsthand the enormous challenges that refugees face was a life-altering experience for Angelina, who decided to use her fame to aid their cause. In 2001, she was named a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador. As a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, Angelina Uses her status as a superstar to generate media coverage about the plight of refugees and the conditions under which they live. She has traveled widely to remote refugee camps and receiving centers in countries including Tanzania, Namibia, Cambodia, Pakistan, Thailand, and Ecuador. For her efforts, Angelina has been honored with the Church...
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