MY LIFE IN 10 PICTURES

Look back at Angelina Jolie’s storied career.

GROWING UP separated from father Jon Voight because of divorce, Angelina Jolie Voight “always wanted to be useful” like her mother Marcheline Bertrand. But, she admitted, “I was never satisfied. I had trouble sleeping. I didn’t really fit. I always feel that I’m searching for something deeper, something more, more...I wanted to live very fully. I wanted to live many lives and explore many things.” Of course, as an actress, she’d get many of those opportunities, even with the scrutiny that came from three high-profile marriages. But, her time in Cambodia while shooting Lara Croft: Tomb Raider opened her eyes to the beauty and tragedy in the world — leading her to find fulfillment as a UN Special Envoy and adopt three of her six children. Now, Angelina, who turns 45 on June 4, feels like she’s close to finding herself. “I actually feel more of a woman because I feel like I’m being smart about my choices, and I’m putting my family first, and I’m in charge of my life and my health,” she said. “I think that’s what makes a woman complete.”

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1982 KID STUFF “I did not want to be a Voight, as an actress, because people would react to the name,” said Angelina, who made her film debut with father Jon in Lookin’ to Get Out. “Dad always used to apologize, when I was young, for the fact that articles described me as ‘Jon Voight’s daughter.’” And besides that, “I didn’t feel that close to my father. I felt more of my mother’s daughter when I was a child. So that was one part of it.”

“Difference and diversity are what I value most — in my family and in others.” — Angelina

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1995 ON THE WHOLE Soon after making Hackers, Angelina wed co-star Jonny Lee Miller (front, right) — but their marriage would only last three years. “I just wasn’t feeling very good about myself, I just couldn’t imagine that I could be what somebody needed. And I think if you lose that kind of confidence, then you can lose your passion for someone…I just wasn’t whole as a person.”

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1998 FACE VALUE “I was so sad for her,” she said of her star-making turn as the tragic model in HBO’s Gia. “Playing a real person you identify with and can feel makes you feel a responsibility. Then you live inside her world for a bit and you just feel so deeply sad that she never really knew love and felt she was of value other than a thing or a face.”

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1999 TIN EAR After meeting Billy Bob Thornton on the set of Pushing Tin, Angelina “knew it was true love because I kept walking into walls. That’s the kind of daze I was in.” Yet, it wouldn’t last as they’d divorce in 2003 after three years of marriage. “Because we’re actors, we go away for months at a time and you grow and change separately. I think one day we had just nothing in common. It’s scary.”

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2000 GIRL THING For her Oscarwinning role as a psychiatric patient in Girl, Interrupted, Angelina “really, genuinely thought I was the only character who was sane in the entire film. I was actually almost upset when people said I was so good at playing insane because I never thought she was insane. She was just incredibly honest, which, I guess, made her seem crazy.”

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2001 CROFT WORK She liked the “intense training” of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider because “there is only one way to do something and for me it’s in extremes… I’ve always been ridiculously fearless. I feel alive when I’m afraid. And you know what? The worst thing that happens is I die. At least I lived.”

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2005 PITT STOP Although she “was quite content to be a single mom” after adopting first son Maddox, Angelina’s feelings changed while filming Mr. & Mrs. Smith with Brad Pitt. “We just became kind of a pair. And it took until, really, the end of the shoot for us, I think, to realize that it might mean something more than we’d earlier allowed ourselves to believe .... Brad was a huge surprise to me.”

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2008 FOR KICKS “I would have done this film if I didn’t have children,” confessed Angelina of playing Tigress in Kung Fu Panda. “I think every woman has an element of a tiger in her, but I love this character and I love that she didn’t turn out to be a love interest. She’s a soldier and she’s trained and disciplined and focused on kung fu. She’s a woman I admire.”

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2014 EVIL EYE “I loved Maleficent when I was a little girl. She was my favorite Disney character. I was afraid of her and I loved her,” she said of retooling Sleeping Beauty’s evil fairy for Maleficent. “She represents all sides of what it is to be human, even though she is not. She’s slightly crazy, extremely vibrant, a little wicked and has a big sense of humor, so she’s quite full-on.”

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2019 HOLDING TRUE “The part of us that is free, wild, open, curious can get shut down by life. By pain or by harm,” reflected Angelina after her muchpublicized split from Brad. “My children know my true self, and they have helped me to find it again and to embrace it. They have been through a lot. I learn from their strength.”