Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie is a co-founder of KIND, the Co-Chair of the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and an award-winning actress. Since becoming a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador in 2001, Jolie has met with refugees and internally displaced people in more than 20 countries on five continents worldwide and become an eloquent voice on behalf of the displaced, particularly women and children.

Jolie won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance in 1999's Girl, Interrupted, and has won three Golden Globe awards and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. She was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for Changeling (2008), directed by Clint Eastwood.

Jolie began appearing in films and TV production in the mid-1990s, winning a first Golden Globe for her role as the wife of the controversial lead character in the 1997 small screen production of George Wallace. She won a second Golden Globe the following year with her title role in Gia, a TV drama about the supermodel Gia Carangi, as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Emmy nomination.

Jolie played a rookie police officer opposite Denzel Washington's veteran detective in The Bone Collector (1999). Her breakthrough performance came that same year with Jolie's portrayal of a mental patient in Girl, Interrupted, for which she won multiple awards, including an Oscar.

Jolie then appeared with Nicolas Cage and Robert Duvall in Gone in 60 Seconds (2000). She followed this in 2001 with the phenomenally successful Tomb Raider, which helped her become a Hollywood superstar. In 2003, she filmed a sequel , Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life.

In 2003, Jolie portrayed a United Nations relief worker in the provocative drama, Beyond Borders. The actress co-starred with Brad Pitt in Mr. and Mrs. Smith in 2005. She also appeared in Oliver Stone's ancient Greece epic, Alexander, and action/adventure Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow with Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow. She lent her voice to the animated feature Shark Tale, and in 2008, to another animated film, Kung Fu Panda.

In 2006, she appeared in Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd, about the early history of the CIA, with Matt Damon. The following year, Jolie made her directorial debut with the documentary A Place in Time, which captures life in 27 locations around the globe during a single week.

In the same year, Jolie starred as Mariane Pearl in Michael Winterbottom's documentary-style drama, A Mighty Heart, about the 2002 kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan. The film earned Jolie her fifth Golden Globe nomination and her third Screen Actors Guild Award nomination.