Jolie’s public image is strongly tied to her perceived beauty and sex appeal. She is one among the highest paid actresses in Hollywood and also one among those who was always honored with various awards. Jolie has something more than beauty, and that is magnificent. From the been on the most famous humanitarian, here we brought you some rare facts about Angelina Jolie.
1. Angelina Jolie was born in Los Angeles, California and is daughter of actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. On her father’s side, Jolie is of German and Slovak descent,and on her mother’s side, she is of primarily French-Canadian, Dutch, and German ancestry.
2. As a child, she often watched films with her mother that inspired her interest in acting
3. As a teenager, Jolie found it difficult to emotionally connect with other people, and as a result she self-harmed. She started cutting herself and feeling the pain so that it helps to release some kind of stress in her.According to her, cutting herself somehow therapeutic her.
4. She also struggled with insomnia and an eating disorder, and by the age of 20 she began experimenting with drugs and know about every drug possible, particularly heroin.
5. Jolie returned to Cambodia for two weeks and met with Afghan refugees in Pakistan, where she donated $1 million in response to an international UNHCR emergency appeal, the largest donation UNHCR had ever received from a private individual.
6. Jolie was named a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador at UNHCR headquarters in Geneva on August 27, 2001.
7. Over the next decade, she went on more than 40 field missions, meeting with refugees and internally displaced persons in over 30 countries.
8. Jolie has pushed for legislation to aid child immigrants and other vulnerable children in both the U.S. and developing nations, including the “Unaccompanied Alien Child Protection Act of 2005.
9. Jolie has funded a school and boarding facility for girls at Kakuma refugee camp in northwestern Kenya, which opened in 2005, and two primary schools for girls in the returnee settlements Tangi and Qalai Gudar in eastern Afghanistan, that opened in March 2010 and November 2012 respective.
10. In October 2011, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres presented Jolie with a gold pin reserved for the most long-serving staff, in recognition of her decade as a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador.
11. In August 2002, she received the inaugural Humanitarian Award from the Church World Service’s Immigration and Refugee Program, and in October 2003, and also was the first recipient of the Citizen of the World Award by the United Nations Correspondents Association. She was also awarded the Global Humanitarian Award by the UNA-USA in October 2005, and received the Freedom Award from the International Rescue Committee in November 2007.
12. On March 10, 2002, Jolie adopted her first child, when he was seven-month-old Maddox Chivan, from an orphanage in Battambang, Cambodia.
13. Angelina has a fascination with tattoos and she has 14 tattoos on her body in total.
14. Angelina’s dream about her career were different. While she was growing up, she aimed to be a Funeral Director as an adult.
15. This woman can fly planes and has a Private Pilot Certificate with Airplane, Single Engine and Land rating.
16. Her natural hair color is dark blonde and it was her mother who dyed them in dark brown color, and she kept it dark ever since.
17. She has won one Oscar, 3 Golden Globe awards and 2 Screen Actors Guild awards till now.
18. Angelina is a citizen of three continents. She is an American citizen by birth and a Cambodian citizen because it was awarded by the Cambodian king in honor of her conservation work in the country. Above all, she is also an European citizen because of her honorary citizenship granted to her in recognition of her preservation of truth in the Bosnian war through her directorial movie.
