Angelina Jolie's Life Story

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ANGELINA JOLIE’S LIFE STORY Angelina Jolie is a famous actress that is also well-known for her humanitarian efforts. She is a strong individual with her own set of values and morals but she is the kind of person that acts on what she believes not one to just stand and preach about it. 9/21/2013 Phase 5 Individual Project Colorado Technical University Online Professor Sarah Pickens PSYC101-1303B-03 Nicole Smarro I have chosen to write about actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie because I believe her to be a strong and powerful female. She does things that some people would call extreme, attention driven or even someone that is pursuing popularity. To those people I would say that you are wrong. As you read this paper, I hope that you will see what kind of a person Angelina Jolie truly is and how she got to where she is in life as well as who she has become. Angelina Jolie was born on June 4, 1975 in Los Angeles California to Marcheline Bertrand and John Voight and has a brother by the name of James. She studied at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute as a teen before attending NY University. In 2001 she was named to a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency and in 2005 the UN of the United States of America awarded her with the Global Humanitarian Action Award. “For her efforts, the United Nations Correspondents Association granted Angelina the Citizen of the World Award in 2003, the first time such an award was ever given. In 2012, the United Nations appointed Angelina Jolie as Special Envoy of UNHCR, proving her to be an actress with formidable skill and A Mighty Heart.”( http://www.eonline.com/news/angelina_jolie ) When Angelina was growing up her mother moved her and her brother to Palisides, NY state and it was here that she began collecting snakes and lizards. While attending school she became a part of a gang known as the Kissing

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