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Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight on June 4, 1975) is an American film actor and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. She has ... More »Angelina Jolie (born Angelina Jolie Voight on June 4, 1975) is an American film actor and a Goodwill Ambassador for the UN Refugee Agency. She has been cited as one of the world's most beautiful women and her off-screen life is widely reported. Jolie has received three Golden Globe Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and an Academy Award.Though she made her screen debut as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in the 1982 film Lookin' to Get Out, Jolie's acting career began in earnest a decade later with the low budget production Cyborg 2 (1993). Her first leading role in a major film was in Hackers (1995). She starred in the critically acclaimed biographical films George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998), and won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the drama Girl, Interrupted (1999). Jolie achieved international fame as a result of her portrayal of video game heroine Lara Croft in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), and since then has established herself... [ Wikipedia ]

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Angelina Jolie's courageous act will save women's lives

Angelina Jolie (Mark Boster / Los Angeles Times / November 15, 2007) Four days after her April 27 breast reconstruction, the third and final surgery aimed at sparing her an early death from breast cancer, Angelina Jolie was in good spirits at home. Upon paying a house call, her ...

Reacting to Angelina Jolie's Breast Cancer News

Here’s something I never imagined: that my name would be associated with Angelina Jolie’s. But because of a recent cover article I wrote for the magazine, “ Our Feel-Good War Against Breast Cancer ,” I’ve been deluged by questions about her decision, which she revealed in an op-ed ...

Healthcare for Angelina Jolie

We applaud Times columnist Robin Abcarian for shining the light on the inequities in our healthcare system in response to Angelina Jolie ’s recent announcement about her prophylactic mastectomy. When Jolie made her medical decision, she had at her disposal the resources to pay for ...

Break Time: Brad Pitt won't film any more sex scenes on screen

The actor’s friend told Esquire magazine that Pitt hasn’t been doing steamy scenes since he got serious with Angelina Jolie. “This is a guy who has tried not to do any sexy scenes with other women since he's met Angelina,” Frank Pollaro told the mag. “He's crazy about her, and ...

Angelina Jolie Proves Medical Care Saves Lives If You Can Get It

Actress Angelina Jolie attends the Women in the World Summit 2013 on April 4, 2013 in New York, United States. (Image credit: Getty Images via @daylife) Angelina Jolie’s recent decision to have a prophylactic double mastectomy has helped reduce her risk of getting breast cancer ...

Angelina Jolie will have ovaries removed

Angelina Jolie talks during a news conference at the G8 Foreign Ministers meeting in London, Thursday, April, 11, 2013. (KABC Photo) LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- She's already had a double mastectomy, but Angelina Jolie has made a new decision to undergo another cancer preventive ...

Demi Moore's new boyfriend Will Hanigan is the guy with something extra

Brad Pitt's so committed to Angelina Jolie he skips sex scenes with others; Kim Jong-un misses Dennis Rodman's b-day Demi Moore met her latest boyfriend, Will Hanigan, in yoga classes. Fashion chiefs like Guy Attal, Armand Marciano and Dean Ziff are tapping a home market They really are ...

Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [258]

This comparison is patently... ... WE INTERRUPT THIS COLUMN FOR BREAKING NEWS -- We here at FTP News Network have obtained exclusive before-and-after photos of Angelina Jolie's breasts! In these side-by-side shots, the viewer can easily see the transformation of two of the most famous ...

Salman Khan is like Tom cruise of India: Lauren Gottlieb

Salman Khan is like Tom cruise of India: Lauren Gottlieb IANS | Posted on May 23, 2013 at 05:35pm IST Mumbai: If international dancer-actress Lauren Gottlieb hopes to be seen in an action film soon a la Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie, she also wants to team up with Bollywood superstar ...

No Quick or Easy Choices

This is the new normal.” Last week the actress Angelina Jolie announced in The New York Times that she had had a double mastectomy in February after testing positive for a genetic mutation that put her at high risk for breast and ovarian cancer. She also had reconstructive surgery. Her ...

Victoria’s Secret Declines to Make ‘Survivor’ Bra Line

Maiden was particularly disappointed in Victoria’s Secret’s decision after actress Angelina Jolie announced that she’d had a preventive mastectomy after learning she had the BRCA gene, which predisposes a woman to breast cancer. “She put the news out there that you can still be ...

How Cheap Genetic Testing Complicates Cancer Screening For Us All

After discovering a mutated BRCA1 gene, known to increase breast cancer 60 to 80%, actress Angelina Jolie’s underwent a radical preventive double mastectomy. Her brave confession in the New York Times brought much needed attention to breast cancer awareness, but it’s dangerous in the ...

Opinion: Will scandals stall Obama agenda?

And no talk about the biggest stories of the week would be complete without a conversation about Angelina Jolie's decision to have a preemptive double mastectomy and the message it sends to millions. The scandals outweighed what might have otherwise have been regarded as a stretch of ...

Myriad Soars Higher on Celeb Clout

Academy Award winning Hollywood star Angelina Jolie had tested positive for a ‘faulty’ version of the BRCA1 gene, which is exclusively licensed with the company. Subsequently, the stock climbed 2.99% higher to close at $34.10 on Tuesday. The film star’s disclosure that she underwent a ...

Dennis Rodman asks Kim Jong Un to let Korean-American go

" After filming a movie in Cambodia, actress Angelina Jolie began to visit refugee camps around the world and in 2001 was named a goodwill ambassador by the U.N. Refugee Agency. Since then, Jolie has visited refugee camps in more than 30 countries (such as Lebanon in September...

Thefts rock the Cannes scene with jewel heist that parallels Sofia Coppola's 'Bling Ring' film

NBC hopes its Ann Curry connection brings an Angelina Jolie interview; Kelly Rowland, Paulina Rubio are headed to 'X Factor' The jewelry was still in place on Sofia Coppola (r.) and her ‘Bling Ring’ stars at a screening in Cannes. From left are Taissa Farmiga, Katie Chang and Emma ...

Angelina is rich, famous and human. Get over it

I had an epiphany – OK, sudden thought, then – the day that Angelina Jolie announced she’d had a double mastectomy. I’d first read her direct, unsentimental piece in the New York Times. Then I’d jumped on to Twitter, which alerted me to some of the reaction online. Here, I discovered ...

Kirstie Allsopp and her sister faced Angelina Jolie's cancer dilemma. Here they reveal why only one...

Kirstie Allsopp and her sister faced Angelina Jolie's cancer dilemma. Here they reveal why only one has had a double mastectomy Given that they share the same gene pool, it’s hardly surprising that sisters Kirstie and Sofie Allsopp seem like two peas in a pod. Both are confident...

In Australia, It’s Rinehart Who is The Most Powerful Woman, Not Gillard, Forbes World’s 100 Most Pow...

Even women from media and entertainment were included and cited for their contributions, such as Oprah Winfrey (13), Angelina Jolie (37) and even Beyonce (17). "From Singapore to Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom to the United States and beyond, the 100 influential women on our list are ...

How Hello! has gently sailed through the stormy waters of celebrity

In 2006 the magazine launched legal action against an American magazine website that had leaked two shots of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's newborn daughter, Shiloh Nouvel. Three years before, Hello! had been at the other end of a media tussle over photographs of the wedding of Catherine ...

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