The recipient of numerous accolades , including an Academy Award , a Tony Award and three Golden Globe Awards , she has been named Hollywood's highest-paid actress multiple times. Jolie made her screen debut as a child alongside her father, Jon Voight , in Lookin' to Get Out Her film career began in earnest a decade later with the low-budget production Cyborg 2 , followed by her first leading role in Hackers Her portrayal of the titular heroine in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider established her as a star.
Her success continued with roles in the action films Mr. Smith , Wanted , and Salt , and the fantasy film Maleficent and its sequel. She also had voice roles in the animated films Shark Tale and Kung Fu Panda franchise β , and gained praise for her dramatic performances in A Mighty Heart , Changeling , which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress , and Maria Jolie is known for her humanitarian efforts.
The causes she promotes include conservation , education, and women's rights. She has undertaken field missions to refugee camps and war zones worldwide. As a public figure, Jolie has been cited as one of the most powerful and influential people in the American entertainment industry. She has been cited as the world's most beautiful woman by various publications. Her personal life, including her relationships and health, has been the subject of widespread attention.
She has six children with Pitt. However, her father says Jolie is "not seriously Iroquois", saying it is something he and Bertrand made up to make Bertrand seem more "exotic". Following her parents' separation in , she and her brother lived with their mother, who had abandoned her acting ambitions to focus on raising her children. Jolie first attended Beverly Hills High School , where she felt isolated among the children of some of the area's affluent families because her mother had a more modest income.
She was teased by other students, who targeted her for being extremely thin and for wearing glasses and braces. As a teenager, Jolie found it difficult to emotionally connect with other people, and as a result she self-harmed , [ 22 ] later commenting, "For some reason, the ritual of having cut myself and feeling the pain, maybe feeling alive, feeling some kind of release, it was somehow therapeutic to me.
