Angelina Jolie Special: Lesser Known Facts About The Hollywood Actress

Actress Angelina Jolie made her big-screen debut at the age of five alongside her father, Jon Voight, in 'Lookin' to Get Out.'

Angelina dropped out of acting classes as she wanted to become a funeral director.

AJ has appeared in several music videos, the popular ones being Lenny Kravitz's 'Stand By My Woman', 'It's About Time', 'Anybody Seen My Baby?' and others.

In 1995, Angelina Jolie landed her first major Hollywood film break with a role in 'Hackers' alongside British actor Jonny Lee Miller.

AJ married Miller and wore black pants and a white T-shirt, on which she had written her to-be husband's name in her blood.

While being married to her second husband, American actor Billy Bob Thornton, they carried each other's blood in vials around their necks as a gesture of love.

Angelina struggled with depression, drug addiction and self-harm tendencies. It was only after adopting seven-month-old Maddox from an orphanage in Cambodia.

Angelina Jolie has six children, three of whom are adopted - Maddox, Zahara, Pax - and three are biological - Shiloh, and twins Knox and Vivienne.

Angie has had 17 tattoos inked on her body. Over the years, she has covered many of her tattoos, including the name of her second husband 'Billy Bob'.

Angelina Jolie began taking flying lessons in 2004 and now holds a private pilot license.

Angelina turned director for a 2007 documentary titled 'A Place In Time.'

In April of 2012, Jolie earned the title of Special Envoy after years of work as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

She sold off her daughter Shiloh’s first photo for $4.1 million and the first pictures of her newborn twins for 14 million and donated the money to charity.

Jolie has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and three Golden Globe Awards.

Forbes named AJ as Hollywood's highest-paid actress in 2009, 2011 and 2013, with estimated annual earnings of 27 million dollars, 30 million dollars, and 33 million dollars respectively.

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