Did you know that…
• She is left handed.
• Voted #1 star most men would like to kiss under the mistletoe in a poll for Sky Movies.
• She was voted #2 on VH1′s “100 Hottest Hotties.”
• Was named “The sexiest woman alive” by the Swedish evening newspaper “Aftonbladet.” [2003]
• Performed her own stunts in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and received cuts from the chandelier scene as a result.
• Voted Hollywood’s Sexiest Single Mother, in a poll for website Date.com.
• Named Most Beautiful Woman in People Magazine’s 50 Most Beautiful People 2005 issue. More than 500,000 readers were polled.
• Appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Geneva, Switzerland after her visits to Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Pakistan. [August 27, 2001]
• In role as goodwill ambassador, visited Tham Hin refugee camp in Thailand, May 2002, to check on conditions of 9,000 refugees from bordering Myanmar.
• Her favorite Disney character is Dumbo the flying elephant, she has said that she cried when he was able to fly.
• She was voted the ninth sexiest woman in FHM UK’s top 100 sexiest in 2004.
• Voted as #6 on the “Top 100 Sexiest Women” 2004 in FHM [DK].
• Went to High School with Michael Klesic.
• Has said that she speaks “very little French”.
• Went to elementary school at William O. Schaefer School in Tappan, New York.
• In August, 2005 was made an official citizen of Cambodia by the King for her ongoing efforts to help the environment there.
• The King of Cambodia has signed legal papers giving her Cambodian Citizenship (August 2005)
• Was nominated for Worst Actress at the Razzie Awards for four straight years from 2002 to 2005, but each time was beaten by another of her fellow nominees. She has still yet to “win” an award.
• When filming Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), she set fire to her silk pajamas on the chandelier while she was doing her “bungee jumps” in the house. She was taken to a hospital with minor burns but resumed filming the next day.
• One of the first actresses to win 3 consecutive Golden Globes in 3 different categories: “Best Supporting Actress in a Mini Series”: George Wallace (1997) (TV), “Best Actress in a TV Movie or Mini Series”: Gia (1998) (TV), “Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture”: Girl, Interrupted (1999). Coincidentally, all her roles were based on real people.
• She graduated from El Rodeo elementary school in 1989.
• Ranked and Voted #3 by AskMen.com’s Top 99 Most Desirable Women of 2006
• Has a private pilot and Airbase single engine land civilian pilot’s license.
• Has a fondness for Liverpool Football Club because her son Maddox “only wants to play for Liverpool”.
• Was the cover girl for the much anticipated issue of Forbes Magazine, in which appeared the infamous Celebrity 100 list [June 2006]
• Became the third actress to join the coveted $20 Million Club (after Julia Roberts and ‘Cameron Diaz ), when she signed to do Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) for that amount.
• Jolie once described herself as “most likely to sleep with a female fan”.
• She is openly bisexual.
• She considers herself to be very straightforward.
• She drives a black Ford truck.
• Angelina Jolie thinks that Cheerios are the “greatest food in the world”
• Named the world’s sexiest woman in Swedish magazine Café.
• Graduated from Beverly Hills High School at age 16.
• “Introducing Angelina Jolie” in opening credits of Love Is All There Is (1996) suggests delayed release as Jolie already had at least two major screen roles by 1996.
• Ranked #87 in Premiere’s 2002 annual “Power 100″ list.
• Announced in late 2002 that she is “in talks” to portray the late porn star Linda Lovelace. Eventually, she lost the role to Courtney Love.
• She is the woman most American males would like to date on New Year’s Eve, according to a survey by movie rental chain Blockbuster Inc. Results of the survey showed her in the top spot with 35 percent of respondents saying she would be their number one pick for a hypothetical New Year’s Eve candle-lit dinner. Rival star Catherine Zeta-Jones gained second spot in the online survey conducted by Blockbuster November 11-24, 2003. The survey had 31,969 responses.
• Voted the 3rd Sexiest Female Movie Star in the Australian Empire Magazine September 2002.
• Started modelling at the age of 14.
• Is planning to give up her acting career to settle in England with her son Maddox and become a full time mum. She says she wants to “Quit movies, be a great mum to Maddox and join the Parents and Teachers Association”. [2003]
• Attended same high school as Lenny Kravitz.
• Ranked #6 in Stuff magazine’s “102 Sexiest Women in the World.” [2002]
• Consulted with real-life FBI profiler Robert K. Ressler for her role in Taking Lives (2004).
• She ranked #2 in 2000 on Mr. Blackwell’s Worst Dress List.
• Named Esquire Magazine’s Sexiest Woman Alive in 2004.
• Ranked #1 in E! Television’s 2006 101 Sexiest Celebrity Bodies
• In 2003 was first recipient of the Citizen of the World Award from the UN’s Correspondents’ Association for her work as a goodwill ambassador with the UNHCR.
• In 2004 was made an honorary citizen of Cambodia by the Prime Minister of Cambodia for her humanitarian work there.
• Named #7 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2005 list.
• She donated many items to Rocky Stone to be given to less fortunate kids as part of the Toy Mountain Campaign.
• Used to own a pet rat snake. Therefore had no problem shooting the snake scene in Alexander (2004).
• Topped People magazine`s “100 most beautiful people” list in 2006 (April 28, 2006).
• Named #1 in FHM’s “100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005″ special supplement. (2005)
• Flys a Cirrus SR-22 (N805MX) registered to Chivan Productions, Inc.
• Named #4 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2006 list.
• She was a childhood athlete.
• She collects vampire books, knives, daggers and has an interest in mortuary science.
• She knows how to tango and how to play the drums.
• She has a fear of being buried alive.
• She thinks Cherrios are the “greatest food in the world.”
• She had a crush on Dr. Spock in Star Trek when she was young.
• She has starred in 5 student films directed by her brother James Haven Voight.
• She has a Honda Nighthawk Motorbike.
• She has spoken of using knives/daggers in sex play.
• 95% of the stunts that had to be done for the character of Lara were done by Angelina.
• While filming Tomb Raider burnt her leg on a chandelier and ripped a ligament in her ankle causing her to have to use a cane behind the scenes.
• When she was younger she used to have lizards and other reptiles as pets. She had a snake called Harry Dean Stanton and a lizard called Vladmir.
• She rarely wears make-up.
• She lived with her boyfriend when she was 14, because her mother would not let her stay out late with him.
• She’s a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
• Loves to hang out in her pajamas.
• She is a patron of the Adopt A Minefield charity.
• She works with Cambodian Vision and Development (CVD) and the HALO trust.
• She had childhood dreams of becoming a funeral director.
• She took a home course in embalming when only 15 years old.
• She has taken Cocaine, Ecstasy, LSD and Heroin, but has vowed to remain clean.
• She is not, and has never been, happy with her appearance – she thinks she looks like a muppet.
• She made her stage debut as a German dominatrix in Room Service.
• She was originally asked to play Winona Ryder’s role in Alien, Resurrection.
• She thinks she should have been born a man because of her restless spirit.
• She never goes anywhere without her Blistex.
• She loves putting on lotion.
• She would have no problem killing someone, especially if they hurt her brother or if she absolutely had to.
• She can count all her partners on the fingers of one hand.
• She is always running late.
• She likes surrealism and self-help books.
• She likes to be alone a lot and does not ‘depend on anyone.’
• She smoked Parliament Lights cigarettes, but has now quit.
• She claims inspiration actress wise is Gena Rowland with whom she starred in Playing By Heart.
• She worked as a professional model in London, New York and Los Angeles.
• She doesn’t have an agent or a publicist.
• Named #2 in FHM magazine’s “100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006″ supplement. (2006).
• Is left-handed and therefore had to have guns specially made so that she could reload them easily for Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
• Chosen the greatest sex symbol of all time in the British television show The 100 Greatest Sex Symbols (February 2007).
• Was on the “Time 100″, a list of the world’s 100 most influential people in the world by “Time” magazine, in 2006.
• Ranked #12 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2007 list.
• Is an alumna of the Lee Strasberg Institute as are Frank Miranda, Harvey Keitel, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Sally Field.
• Ranked #33 on EW’s The 50 Smartest People in Hollywood. (2007)
• In 2007, Forbes Magazine estimated her earnings for the year at $20 million.
• Ranked #3 in the 2008 Forbes The Celebrity 100 list.
• The first-ever male to hold Jolie in his arms was Charley Boorman. He’d earlier served as a pageboy at the wedding of Jolie’s parents Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand during the Deliverance (1972) shoot, and later happened to be present during the delivery of Jolie. Boorman was just 8-years-old and Jolie was but an infant. Today (2008) Boorman quips that his epitaph should read: “I was the first man to get his hands on Angelina Jolie”.
• Was considered for the role of Kelly Kapowski on Saved by the Bell (1989).
• Since becoming a Goodwill Ambassador in 2001, she has visited over 20 countries.
• Went to Beverly Hills High School with writer/actor Quincy Rose and Antonia Bennett, the daughter of Tony Bennett.
• Did not return to work until eight months after giving birth to twins Vivienne Marcheline and Knox Leon in order to begin filming Salt (2010).