Breaking!!! Angelina Jolie To Divorce Brad Pitt
Tattooed rebel, red carpet queen, goodwill ambassador and
anti-cancer warrior: Angelina Jolie is a silver screen beauty
with convictions to match, and a record of taking tough
decisions without looking back. After a decade in the
Hollywood spotlight as one half of the “Brangelina” celebrity
couple, the 41-year-old filed this week for divorce from Brad
Pitt, it emerged Tuesday.
The split opens a new chapter for the thrice-married mother
of six — whose roller-coaster life has taken her from movie
star glory to refugee camps in Africa, to a role as an
outspoken champion of women’s health.
Jolie was propelled to stardom with her role in 1999’s “Girl,
Interrupted,” taking home a best supporting actress Oscar
for her portrayal of a rebellious woman in a mental
institution.
She went on to play everything from a fairy tale villain
(“Maleficent”) to a sexy video game heroine (“Lara Croft:
Tomb Raider”) to the widow of murdered American
journalist Daniel Pearl (“A Mighty Heart”).
Jolie once flaunted a decidedly punk sensibility,
scandalizing the public with declarations of bisexuality and
quirky behavior such as wearing a vial of actor Billy Bob
Thornton’s blood around her neck during their 2000-2003
marriage.
Her relationship with Pitt became the stuff of speculation in
2004 after they were seen looking cozy on the set of “Mr. &
Mrs. Smith.” Pitt announced his split from “Friends” star
Jennifer Aniston the following year — and “Brangelina” was
born.
The megastars married in France in August 2014 after living
together for several years, and have six children together,
three of whom are adopted. But Jolie is now better known
for her humanitarian work than her tabloid-ready
comments. For several years she served as a goodwill
ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees.
In 2012, she was promoted to special envoy and has visited
refugees around the world, from Syria to the Democratic
Republic of Congo and Rwanda. Made an honorary dame by
Queen Elizabeth II, she has been a vocal advocate for
victims of sexual violence in war zones, co-hosting a global
summit on conflict rape in London.
Jolie is also one of the world’s most visible advocates in the
battle against cancer, having undergone a double
mastectomy and removal of her ovaries and fallopian tubes
to prevent an aggressive form of the disease that killed her
mother, grandmother and aunt.
– Decision to go public –
In both cases, Jolie publicized her surgeries, triggering a
global discussion about the pros and cons of the procedures
as a preventative measure. Jolie said she made the decision
to go public so that other women could learn from her story.
It was with her children in mind that Jolie decided to
undergo the surgeries. “I can tell my children they don’t
need to fear they will lose me to breast cancer,” the actress
wrote in the Times after her mastectomy in 2013. “They
know that I love them and will do anything to be with them
as long as I can.”
Her father is Oscar winner Jon Voight, hailed as one of the
finest actors of his generation, who rose to fame after
bravura performances in now classic movies like “Midnight
Cowboy,” “Deliverance” and the Vietnam drama “Coming
Home,” for which he won his Academy Award.
Her mother was an actress who appeared in US television
series, but abandoned her film career to raise her two
children.
On the other side of the camera lens, Jolie made her
directorial debut in 2011 with “In the Land of Blood and
Honey,” an unflinching drama about rape as a weapon in
wartime Bosnia, saying she hoped to use cinema as a force
for reconciliation. Jolie was married twice before, to actors
Jonny Lee Miller and Thornton.
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