Sydney Riethman

Angelina Jolie
Actress
Director/Producer
Humanitarian

Angelina Jolie Pitt is an American woman best known for her work in acting, producing, and
humanitarian efforts. Angelina has received various awards and recognitions for not only her
skills behind and in the screen, but for her global impact with the United Nations, child
immigration, education, human and womens rights, and conservation. She has received an
Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, three Golden Globes, and countless other
nominations for her work in the film industry and in result, has been cited as one of the highestpaid actress.
Angelinas acting career started in 1982 as she costarred with her father in the film Lookin to
Get Out and has since starred in over 39 films. She then expanded her professional career in the
early 2010 by not only acting, but also by directing, producing, and writing 2 different films.
Angelinas third directed movie release is expected to appear in theaters sometime this year.
Though Angelinas efforts in the Hollywood spotlight have yet to go unnoticed, she is holding
this same reputation in her humanitarian work around the globe. While filming the movie Tomb
Raider in 2001 in Cambodia, Angelina was exposed and became deeply troubled with war-torn,
impoverished areas around the world. After learning more about the conditions of these areas
through various mission trips, Jolie returned to Cambodia and donated $1 million dollars to the
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. In April of 2012, Angelinas work for with
UNHCR was promoted as she received and still holds the honor of being Special Envoy to
Commissioner Antonio Guterres.
Angelina was also a supporter for the legislation of the Unaccompanied Alien Child Protection
Act of 2005 while also funding the launch of the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants.
In also advocating early childhood education, Angelina has also founded the Clintons Global
Initiative, which assists in funding education to children in war-torn areas. In addition to this
educational initiative, she has also founded a girls boarding school in northwestern Kenya and
10 others within the country. Along with this, she has opened two educational medical facilities
to inform, spread awareness, and treat children with HIV in war-torn areas such as Cambodia and
Ethiopia.
With her humanitarian efforts, Angelina also looks to improve the area of human and womens
rights as she founded a campaign to end sexual violence in military conflict zones in 2012, which
would later be known as the Preventing Sexual Violence Initiative. Earlier this year, Angelina
launched the first academic Centre on Women, Peace, and Security in the United Kingdom,
which works to end issues of war rape, prostitution, and womens rights across the map.
March 26, 2015

Through all her humanitarian work, Angelina has received the inaugural Humanitarian Award,
Citizen of the World Award, Global Humanitarian Award, Freedom Award, Jean Hersholt
Humanitarian Award, been appointed Honorary Dame Commander of the Order of St. Michael
and St. George, and has been nominated and recognized for many others.
Angelina is married to her husband, Brad Pitt, and together they have six children, three of
whom where adopted internationally. She is an avid reader as she enjoys collecting first addition
books and is also a licensed pilot that owns a single engine aircraft that she uses for personal and
humanitarian reasons.