Moved to Palisades, New York with mother and brother

Feature debut in Hal Ashby's "Lookin' to Get Out"; co-produced and co-written by her father; credited as Angelina Jolie Voight (released in 1982)

At age 11, began studying acting at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in NYC

Made stage debut in "Room Service" playing a German dominatrix

Briefly worked as a professional model

Appeared in music videos by Meat Loaf, The Lemonheads, Rolling Stones and others

Acted in five student films directed by her brother, James Haven Voight

As part of the Met Theater group in Los Angeles, worked with such veteran actors as Holly Hunter, Ed Harris and Amy Madigan

Co-starred in the direct-to-video sci-fi film "Cyborg II: Glass Shadows"

First lead in a theatrical release, "Hackers"; co-starred with future husband, British actor Jonny Lee Miller

Starred in the feature "Foxfire"

Portrayed the politician's first wife Cornelia Wallace in the TNT miniseries "George Wallace"; received an Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actress

Earned raves reviews for her performance as Gia Carangi, a drug addicted, bisexual model who died of complications from AIDS, in the HBO film "Gia"; received an Emmy nomination for Best Actress

Had supporting role as a club kid in the ensemble comedy-drama "Playing By Heart"

Portrayed the wife of an air traffic controller (Billy Bob Thornton) in Mike Newell's "Pushing Tin"

Cast as a tough detective assisting a quadriplegic colleague (Denzel Washington) in tracking a serial killer in "The Bone Collector"

Won an Academy Award for her supporting role in "Girl, Interrupted" a drama based on the memoirs of a woman's two-year stay in a psychiatric hospital

Acted opposite Nicolas Cage in "Gone in 60 Seconds"

Achieved international fame playing the videogame heroine Lara Croft in "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider"

Starred opposite Antonio Banderas in "Original Sin"

Portrayed a TV reporter forced to question her choices in "Life or Something Like It"

Appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

Reprised her role as Lara Croft for "Lara Croft and the Cradle of Life: Tomb Raider 2"

Starred opposite Clive Owen in "Beyond Borders"

Starred as Special Agent Illeana Scott in the thriller "Taking Lives" also starred Ethan Hawke and Kiefer Sutherland

Portrayed Captain Franky Cook in the Sci-fi thriller "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" opposite Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow

Voiced Lola in the animated feature "Shark Tale "

Co-starred with Colin Farrell in Oliver Stone's "Alexander" playing Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great

Starred opposite Brad Pitt, as a bored married couple that is surprised to learn that they are assassins hired to kill each other in "Mr. and Mrs. Smith"

Appeared in the MTV special "The Diary of Angelina Jolie & Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in Africa," which will follow their trip to Sauri, a remote group of villages in western Kenya

Played a CIA agent's (Matt Damon) long-suffering wife in Robert De Niro's "The Good Shepherd"

Made directorial debut with the documentary "A Place in Time"

Starred in "A Mighty Heart," as Marianne Pearl, the wife of Wall Street Journal reporter, Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and killed in 2002 while reporting in Pakistan; produced by her partner Brad Pitt; earned an Independent Spirit Award Nomination for Best Actress; also received Golden Globe and SAG nominations for Best Actress

Portrayed Grendel's mother in Robert Zemeckis' big-budget film version of the epic poem "Beowulf"

Voiced a Master Tigress in the animated feature, "Kung Fu Panda"

Co-starred as an assassin in the comic book adaptation of "Wanted"

Potrayed Christine Collins, a woman fighting for her missing son, in Clint Eastwood's drama "Changeling"

Nominated for the 2008 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama (“Changeling”)

Nominated for the 2008 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role (“Changeling”)

Nominated for the 2008 People’s Choice Award for Favorite Female Star

Nominated for the 2008 People’s Choice Award for Favorite Female Action Star

Nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (“Changeling”)