Angelina Jolie Hot 2013

Born in Los Angeles, California, Jolie is the daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. She is the sister of actor James Haven, niece of singer-songwriter Chip Taylor, and goddaughter of actors Jacqueline Bisset and Maximilian Schell. On her father's side, Jolie is of German and Slovak descent,[9][10] and on her mother's side, she is of primarily French Canadian, Dutch, and German ancestry.[9] Like her mother, Jolie has stated that she is part Iroquois;[11] her only known Native ancestor was a Huron woman born in 1649.[9] Jon Voight at the Academy Awards in 1988; Jolie can be seen behind his right shoulder After her parents' separation in 1976, Jolie and her brother lived with their mother, who abandoned her acting ambitions to focus on raising her children.[12] As a child, Jolie regularly saw movies with her mother and later explained that this had inspired her interest in acting; she had not been influenced by her father.[13] When she was six years old, her mother and stepfather, filmmaker Bill Day, moved the family to Palisades, New York;[14] they returned to Los Angeles five years later.

She then decided she wanted to act and enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, where she trained for two years and appeared in several stage productions. At the age of 14, Jolie dropped out of her acting classes and aspired to become a funeral director.[15] She began working as a fashion model, modeling mainly in Los Angeles, New York, and London. During this period, she wore black clothing, experimented with knife play, and went out moshing with her live-in boyfriend.[13] Two years later, after the relationship had ended, she rented an apartment above a garage a few blocks from her mother's home.[12] She graduated from high school and returned to theater studies, though in recent times she has referred to this period with the observation, "I am still at heart—and always will be—just a punk kid with tattoos."[16] Jolie suffered episodes of suicidal depression throughout her teens and early twenties.[15] She felt isolated at Beverly Hills High School among the children of some of the area's affluent families, as her mother survived on a more modest income, and she was teased by other students, who targeted her for being extremely thin and for wearing glasses and braces.[13]

She found it difficult to emotionally connect with other people, and as a result she started to self-harm;[17] later commenting, "I collected knives and always had certain things around. 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."[18] She also began experimenting with drugs; by the age of 20, she had tried "just about every drug possible," including heroin.[19]