About Me
I was born Angelina Jolie Voight in Los Angeles, on June 4th, 1975 - My name meaning Pretty Little Angel. My father, Jon, was already an established superstar, having topped the bill in such classics as Midnight Cowboy and Deliverance. When I was 2, he'd scoop the Best Actor Oscar for Coming Home. By then though, he'd already split from my mother, the part-Iroquois actress and model Marcheline Bertrand (now my manager), who'd moved with me and my brother James to the East Coast - to the Palisades, New York, to be more precise.
Living here, i was a happy child. I collected snakes and lizards - my favorite lizard being named Vladimir, and my favourite snake Harry Dean Stanton - and, oddly, like many females of my age, i had a major crush on Mr Spock. i would wear glittery clothing, including sparkly underwear, and flounce around, already performing, keen to make people laugh, to make them like me. I was a member of the Kissy Girls, who hunted boys down and kiss them till they screamed - until the school was forced to call the parents and the gang broke up. Marcheline would take the kids to the movies often, and I claim this is where I got the notion to be an actress - not from my uncle, Chip Taylor (an actor and composer), not from my godmother Jacqueline Bisset, and definitely NOT from my father, though at age 7 I did appear in Lookin' To Get Out, a movie about inveterate gamblers, co-written by and starring Jon Voight.
When i was 11, my mother moved the family back to Los Angeles. They had already moved often, making the me feel constantly uprooted I always dreamed of having an attic of things that I could go back up and look at Now I decided i wanted to act and, as ever jumping in at the deep end, enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute, where i trained for two years, appearing in several stage productions. As a pupil at Beverly Hills High School, i was not alone in my cinematic ambitions. But i certainly FELT alone in the midst of all those good-looking, pampered children, children who teased me mercilessly for wearing braces and glasses and being so painfully skinny. Unlike the other parents, Marcheline was not rich - so i also had to seek myself clothes at thrift stores like Aardvark. My confidence received a further battering when my attempts at modelling proved fruitless. I never got picked - too short, too thin, too fat, too scarred.
Scarred - yes. Perhaps it was the many moves, maybe it was to do with my father, a lonely, detached figure who did not want to live with his family (I always feared i would be like that myself). Maybe it was the relative poverty, or the taunting, or the way i felt that -with my big eyes, big lips, big everything - i looked like a muppet. But i had come to hate myself, to feel absolutely worthless. I felt unworthy, didn't like to be touched (I still have this problem sometimes). So, like too many young girls, I started to cut myself. At 14, i dropped out of acting classes and began an existence of fast-living and active self-loathing. I wore black, dyed My hair purple and went out slam-dancing with My live-in punk boyfriend. We experimented heavily in S&M, I once asking him to draw a blade along My jawline (the scar is now faint, but still there).
At 16, my relationship ended. i moved to an apartment opposite my mother and went back to theatre. Now committed to acting, my first role was, unsurprisingly, as a German dominatrix. i began to learn from my father, noticed how he would watch people, talk to them, become like them. I stopped fighting with him so much too, realising that we were both "drama queens". For his part, He noticed my talent, being moved to tears by my reading of the part of Catherine in A View From The Bridge.
With the braces and glasses gone, i became a model too, working in Los Angeles, New York and London. I also appeared in the video for Meat Loaf's Rock'n'Roll Dreams Come Through - I'd later turned up in promos for Lenny Kravitz, Lemonheads and The Rolling Stones. My confidence rose, though it would often plummet back down. I tell a story of how once I was so down I actually tried to hire a man to kill me. Yes, i have had a rough life and past but i feel that my acting carrer has soured and i love every minute of it. and now becoming one with brad i feel like i could do and become anything despite my past.© AV_layoutssurfourspace.com premade layouts
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