Angelina Jolie’s Early Acting Career

Angelina’s Early Career

Jolie started modeling at the Fashion shows at 14 years, mostly in New York, Los Angeles and London. In addition, she has appeared in several music videos, including a Lenny Kravitz (Video Stand By My Woman), Rolling Stones (Anybody Seen My Baby) and Meat Loaf(video Rock’n'Roll Dreams Come Through), after which aged 16 years returned to the theater.

Around the same time, her brother, James Haven, was to attend film school (USC School of Cinematic Arts), and Angelina has played in five of his experimental films. Anyway, in Jolie’s filmography, these tapes are not included; officially first role is played by Angelina Jolie in her 1993 role of a humanoid robot named Caselli “Cash” Reese in the low-budget sci-fi action movie “Cyborg 2: Glass Shadow”. Singular glory this film Angelina has not brought. But already following her role in the movie “Hackers” was noted by critics, and despite the financial setbacks, the picture became a cult after the release of the video. The newspaper ” New York Times “wrote about Jolie, that” despite the grim role of Miss Jolie’s sweet, like a cherub. ” On set pictures of Jolie met the British actor Jonny Lee Miller, her future first husband.

The new role does not take long, and in the next few years, Jolie has played in a number of paintings that have not become an event in the world of cinema, but in varying degrees, have contributed to the growth of Angelina Jolie as an actress.

Jolie’s Breakthrough and Recognition

For her part in the TV movie “George Wallace” (1997) Angelina Jolie nominated for TV award an Emmy, and received the award “Golden Globe”. The film was very warmly received by television critics and, among other things, won a Golden Globe for Best TV series / film, made for television. “Jolie played it a second wife governor of Alabama George Wallace – Cornelia.

In the next year he published another biographical film made for television – “Gia”. It Angelina played Gia Carangi, a top model, very popular in the 1970′s. This role with tenacity Jolie rejected several times, explaining her refusal by saying that Gia is too like her. Gia was infamous for her passion for drugs, bisexuality and sudden death from AIDS. Jolie won a Golden Globe Award for the second year in a row. Critics talked about the performance of Angelina that role, that if the film was made for theatrical release, and not for television, its “Gia” would be a serious claim for the prize “Oscar”.

After this difficult, by her own admission, the role of the actress took some time to rest from filming; Jolie moved to New York, where she attended courses at the writers from New York University. Then Angelina starred in several films that had success in Cinemas (first and foremost, ” Playing by Heart “and” The Bone Collector “with Denzel Washington, attended by 151 million dollars in worldwide box office).

Among the rejected Angelina roles was the role of the cyborg in “strange: Resurrection” (1997, played by Winona Ryder), as well as the role in “Charlie’s Angels”.

And finally, in 1999, screens the U.S. release of the film by James Mangold , “Girl, Interrupted” (original “Girl: Interrupted”), which, according to all forecasts, was supposed to be kinovozvrascheniem Winona Ryder, but all turned out a triumph of Angelina Jolie, who for the role of uncontrolled rebel Lisa Rowe (again biographical role) has received its third ” Golden Globe “Award , Screen Actors Guild USAand, finally, the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress. ” All the leading critics applauded Angelina Jolie, who instantly gained a Hollywood star status.

After the huge success of “Girl, Interrupted,” Jolie has allowed herself to play in a typical summer blockbuster movie called “Gone in 60 Seconds”, where she did not have special opportunities to show off her dramatic flair, but at least the film was very successful in financial terms, having collected more $ 230 million at the box office.

2000′s
2000′s were marked by the actress participation in two, with varying degrees of successful film adaptations of the game Tomb Raider. In 2001, Jolie starred in the first series of Lara Croft – Lara Croft – Tomb Raider : the film has collected in world hire more than 270 million dollars, but in spite of the widely admired for good physical shape Jolie in the role of super-heroine Lara Croft (played itself out trick), was a tick off the critics. Followed it in 2003, the sequel ” Lara Croft – Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life “, except for negative criticism was also a financial failure: fees do not exceed $ 160 million. The franchise of Lara Croft was frozen by producers, while Jolie has repeatedly declared her readiness to return to the image of super-heroines for the third time. It is noteworthy that for the second series the actress received a fee of $ 12 million, thus becoming one of the highest paid actresses in the world. During the filming of “Lara Croft ” Angelina found a special guns for lefties, so that she could easily and quickly reload them in the movie.

In between the two series about the adventures of Lara Croft and a lot of long trips on a number of third world countries as part of humanitarian mission UN Angelina starred with a number of famous Hollywood actors in movies such as “Temptation”, ” Life or Something Like It ” “Taking Lives”, ” Beyond “. The films did not gain much success among the public or the critics. Before filming the movie ” Taking Lives “(2004) Jolie consulted with a real profiler the FBI, Robert K. Ressler.

2004 proved to be the most fruitful for Angelina Jolie, with 4 movies in the box office. Rich in voices of Hollywood stars (Robert De Niro, Renee Zellweger, Will Smith) animated film “Shark Tale”, in which the voice of Angelina looks very similar to her fish Lola, became the absolute rolling hit (box office receipts – more than 363 million dollars). The remaining films were less successful in commercial terms: “Alexander” by Oliver Stone, in which Jolie played the mother of Alexander the Great, even turned out to be one of the biggest financial disasters of 2004; commercially unsuccessful “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow”, where Angelina has appeared in a small but very memorable role of the hero’s ex-boyfriend Jude Law one-eyed commander of the airborne squadron Franky Cook, has become a cult among fans of fantasy through vivid characters and unique special effects. Angelina became the third actress (after Julia Roberts and Cameron Diaz), who “joined” the club of actresses who receive a single film for more than 20 million dollars, after signing the contract for filming the movie “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” (2005).

However, following a string of commercial failures followed by the main actress rolling success – the film “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” was released in theaters in summer 2005 which collected $480 million at the box office. In this comedy Jolie plays Jane Smith, a professional killer who conceals her job as a spy in every way while in a boring marriage to John Smith, played by Brad Pitt. During the filming of both actors, repeatedly recognized as the most beautiful and sexy people of their gender, hit a flurry of press attention and the public. It was then that rumors of a secret romance began to circulate about Jolie and Pitt, confirmed later Pitt divorce with actress Jennifer Aniston and Pitt’s adoption of a child of Angelina.