Angelina Jolie comes from a family rich with acting and fame. Angelina was born, Angelina Jolie Voight to Oscar winner Jon Voight and actress Marcheline Bertrand. They chose the name Jolie because it could be used as a last name if she chose acting or didn't want her famous dad's last name. Her parents divorced when she was just a baby and Angelina and her brother James Haven (Voight) were raised mostly by their mom.

Angelina Jolie made her movie debut at age five in a film with her dad, Looking To Get Out. The talented youngster enrolled in the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute at age 11, and continued her career into her teens with professional modelling and music video shoots.

Eventually, she did film studies at New York University, but soon gave up on school and began working with the Met Threatre Group in L.A. By 1993, Angelina had decided to pursue acting full time. She got her big break in 1995's cyber-thriller Hackers, where she met her first husband, actor Jonny Lee Miller (Trainspotting). The couple divorced in 1999. Angelina Jolie met actor/director Billy Bob Thorton when she starred as his on-screen wife in 1999's Pushing Tin. They tied the knot in Las Vegas in May of 2000. Unfortunately, their divorce was finalized in 2003.

It was her role in Girl, Interrupted that planted her firmly in the spotlight. But with fame, also comes the scrutiny of the public eye. Jolie has been the center of many rumors; some with basis, some not. Regardless, she certainly can raise eyebrows. She just wouldn't be Jolie if it were any different. Update: Most importanly though, she's now a mother and is showing a distinctly softer and more self and world-aware persona. Currently however, she's getting prepared for a possible legal battle as it turns out her adopted son, Maddox, may have not been an orphan... but rather was purchased from his mother by the agency Jolie got him through.