Actress, director, activist, mother of six children, controversial muse, proud outsider. In a world that has often tried to pigeonhole her – in the role of fatal beauty, of the famous wife, of the Action heroine – she has always responded with a single strategy: to be greater than any definition.
And today, more than ever, it is clear that reducing Angelina Jolie to a famous face or a tabloid gossip is not only wrong, but also boring. His is a story of continuous transformation, poised between light and shadow, success and fragility, rebellion and depth.
At fifty, Angelina is the living portrait of what it means never give up on oneself. Not even when the world observes you with an already ready judgment.
Angelina Jolie’s debuts
Before becoming Oscar winner, established director, screenwriter, pilot of planes and philanthropa, Angelina was simply a Californian girl with a burning character. Daughter of actor Jon Voight – he too Oscar for Returning home in 1978 – initially followed the Paterne footsteps, and then distance himself until he gave up the surname.
As a teenager, he dreamed of becoming a funeral organizer, an idea born after the death of his grandfather. “I have never been afraid of death,” he said. But life, for her, had something much bigger in store. And that something, Angelina has conquered it with determination, finding in acting the perfect means of expressing all its inner facets.
So she decided to become an actress: for herself, but also to honor her mother’s dream, who had sacrificed her career to raise her children. At eleven he began studying acting, he worked as a model at fourteen and shortly thereafter he gets the first roles, immediately showing an expressive intensity out of the ordinary.
After minor experiences – such as video clip High tide by Antonello Venditti – The first real awards arrive. At 23 he won his first Golden Globe for George Wallacefollowed by two others and, only 25, from an Oscar winner for best supporting actress. It was just the beginning.
The best films by Angelina Jolie
In the collective imagination Angelina’s face is linked to tomb Raider, Mr. & Mrs. Smith (where the relationship with Pitt was born) e Maleficent, where the fairy tale antagonist made immortal. But the actor evidence that best tells his skill are elsewhere.
In Already – a woman beyond all limitJolie gives body and soul to the tragic figure of Gia Carangi, homosexual model and drug addict, victim of AIDS. An intense, authentic, unforgettable performance that alone would be enough to silence those who consider it only a pop icon.
To consecrate it definitively is then Interrupted girlsfeminist and disturbing film, in which he plays Lisa Rowe, magnetic and dangerous sociopath. A role that is worth the Oscar and remains among the most emblematic of her career.
But just On the threshold of fifty years, Angelina gave another extraordinary interpretation: it is Maria Callas in the biopic Maria by Pablo Larraín. A powerful, profound identification work that deserves a place in the podium of his best films by right.
Birthday with children
Angelina Jolie has always protected her private life, but for the age of 50 she would have agreed to be celebrated. According to nearby sources, he organized one Intimate party with the closest friends – including Salma Hayek and Ellen Pompeo – And of course with his six children: Maddox (23), Pax (21), Zahara (20), Shiloh (19) and twins Knox and Vivienne (16). No trace, however, of the ex -husband Brad Pitt.
With his children he dreams of a trip to Cambodia, a country to which he is linked by a deep love: that’s where Maddox has adopted, and that’s where he hopes to move as soon as the twins are of age. “I have to stay in Los Angeles because of the divorce, but as soon as the twins are 18 years old I go”he confided.
Fashion, cinema and humanitarian commitments
In the meantime, Angelina does not stop. After 14 years she returned to Cannes as godmotherdelivering the Trophée Chopard to two young promises. Continue to carry on the project Atelier Jolieborn two years ago in Noho, New York, in the study that was from Basquiat. There promotes one Sustainable, inclusive fashion, at the service of migrant designers.
In 2024 we saw it in Paris on the set of Couturehis new film, and will soon be in a project with Aimee Lou Wood, a nascent star of White Lotus.
The battle with genetics
Behind the limelights, there are also Shadows and difficult choices. In 2007 Angelina lost her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, for a tumor. This prompted him to undergo the BRCA1 genetic test, discovering he has a very high risk of developing breast and ovar cancer.
In 2013 he underwent a double mastectomy, followed, two years later, by the removal of ovaries and fallopian tubes. He publicly told these experiences on the pages of New York Timescontributing to greater global awareness on the importance of prevention and genetics.
Angelina Jolie is now 50 years old. And he continues, as always, to live in his own way: with courage, style, depth. Out of the rules. Within the story.
