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Angelina Jolie
In the tabloids throughout the summer of 2008 for another baby
on the way with reports that she finally gave
birth to twins in July the sexy Hollywood actress was
born Angelina Jolie Voight on June 4, 1975 to actor Jon Voight
and actress Marcheline Bertrand.
Inheriting
her parents' striking Hollywood looks, Jolie began a modeling career while still
in her teens and later enrolled in the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute and attended
New York University where she began acting in school productions.
Her
soon-forgotten first film, Cyborg 2, was followed by a
more memorable performance as a computer hacker in the 1995 film,
Hackers. Jolie finally won real recognition in 1997, and
with it a Golden Globe for her performance as George Wallace's
wife in the TV movie George Wallace, followed shortly with
an Emmy-nominated performance in Gia.

First
photos of twin babies
born on July 12, 2008.
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Her
star continued to rise when, in 2000, the actress won an Academy
Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Girl, Interrupted
and In
2001 Jolie's career skyrocketed with a star turn in the role of
Tomb
Raider's Lara Croft in the video-game-inspired movie that
was an instant hit with audiences. Since then, other notable work
include starring roles in Beyond Borders, Sky Captain: The
World of Tomorrow and as the voice of the femme fatale Lola
in Shark
Tale.
Brad
& Angelina As
Jolie attended the London premiere of Alexander in 2004, rumors swirled
back home linking her to the much-reported marriage breakup of Brad
Pitt and Jennifer
Aniston. At the
time, Star magazine published a
candid photo of Jolie and Pitt in what is reported to be a cozy moment near
Naples where they had been shooting a scene for the Mr.
and Mrs. Smith, released in June 2005. Remaining
good friends following the film, Pitt and Jolie both steadfastly denied having
an affair, but rumors and gossip continued to swirl until news was confirmed that
the couple - now dubbed "Brangelina" - were expecting their first child.

Angelina
on the October
cover of W Magzine in a
photo taken by Brad Pitt.
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Following
one of the most anticipated announcements of the year, Jolie finally
gave birth to her first child in Namibia, a baby girl named Shiloh
Nouvel Jolie-Pitt.
In
a surprise move in early 2007, Jolie and Pitt were rumored to be moving
to New Orleans and planning to send their three children to school there.
The movie star couple moved to the Big
Easy on January 11 and have purchased a multi-million dollar, six-bed mansion
in the city's French Quarter. Off
the set, the Hollywood star couple also set in motion the adoption of yet another
child, a reported 3-4-year
old Vietnamese boy, whom the couple renamed Pax Thien Jolie.
Otherwise,
Angelina Jolie fans were hotly anticipating the actress' next
movie role, playing the seductive mother of the demon Grendul
in the Dark Ages epic Beowulf
which opened in November 2007. However, an earlier dramtic performance
in A
Mighty Heart garnered Jolie even more critical notice.
Brangelina Twins
Jolie's
personal life yet again became he subject of tabloid attention
with news of expectant
twins - fathered by husband Brad Pitt - which arrived after much
worldwide anticipation on July 12.
Brad
and Angelina's new twins are a boy and a girl each weighing 5
lbs. The babies names are Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline. They
were delivered by c-section
and were doing well according to a spokesman from the Nice hospital
where the births took place.
The
happy news brings Jolie's burgeoning family with partner Brad
Pitt to six. The couple have three adopted children: Maddox, Pax,
Zahara, and a biological child, Shiloh, born in May 2006.
Most
recently, Angelina Jolie is slated to appear on the cover of W
Magazine depicting her breastfeeding
one of her new twins in a personal photo taken by husband
Brad Pitt. On screen, Jolie is at the center of early Oscar
buzz for her dramatic starring role in The Changeling.
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