Angelina Jolie

Academy Award® and three-time Golden Globe Award winner Angelina Jolie Pitt, is a director, actress, screenwriter and humanitarian who received the 2013 Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for her work as Special Envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and her wider advocacy on global issues.

In 2011, Jolie Pitt made her feature-film directorial debut with In the Land of Blood and Honey, and in 2014 directed and produced the Oscar®-nominated Unbroken.
Jolie Pitt directed First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers, a depiction of the Cambodian genocide through the eyes of a child, and was executive producer on the animated feature film set in Afghanistan, The Breadwinner.

Jolie Pitt starred in the title role of Walt Disney Pictures' Maleficent, based on the studio's 1959 animated film of the fairy tale "Sleeping Beauty."

Among Jolie Pitt's many film credits are Clint Eastwood's Changeling, which earned her Academy Award®, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award nominations; Phillip Noyce's action-thriller Salt, Timur Bekmambetov's fantasy-thriller Wanted, Robert Zemeckis' Beowulf, Michael Winterbottom's A Mighty Heart, the story of Mariane and Daniel Pearl, Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd, Doug Liman's Mr. & Mrs. Smith and Oliver Stone's Alexander.
Jolie Pitt's additional credits include the Kung Fu Panda franchise; Taking Lives; the action-adventures Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life and Lara Croft: Tomb Raider; Martin Campbell's Beyond Borders, in which she played a United Nations relief worker and Gone in Sixty Seconds.

In 1999, Jolie Pitt won an Academy Award®, a Golden Globe Award, a Broadcast Film Critics' Award and a SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress, among many other honors, for her performance in James Mangold's Girl, Interrupted. She also appeared in The Bone Collector, Pushing Tin and Willard Carroll's Playing by Heart, which garnered her the National Board of Review Award for Breakthrough Performance.

Jolie Pitt won a Golden Globe and SAG award for her performance in Michael Cristofer's HBO film Gia. She received a Golden Globe Award for her role in John Frankenheimer's made-for-television film George Wallace.

Jolie Pitt is the first recipient of the UNCA Citizen of the World Award from the United Nations Correspondents Association and received the UNHCR Global Humanitarian Action Award in 2005. In 2007, she joined the nonpartisan think tank Council on Foreign Relations. In 2012 she was appointed Special Envoy to UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres. In 2012 she also co-founded the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative, which seeks to end the use of rape as a weapon of war and has attracted the support of more than 155 nations.

In 2014, at a ceremony in Buckingham Palace, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II conferred upon Jolie Pitt the rank of Honorary Dame Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, for extraordinary services to British foreign policy.

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