Angelina Jolie through the years

A look at the life and career of actress Angelina Jolie. Jolie wrote and directed the new film "In the Land of Blood and Honey," about the war in Bosnia.

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Director and actress Angelina Jolie is seen at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City. Jolie wrote and directed the movie, "In the Land of Blood and Honey."

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Jolie and Jonny Lee Miller in “Hackers.” The two were married from 1996 to 1999.

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Winona Ryder (left) and Jolie in "Girl, Interrupted." Jolie won a best supporting actress Oscar for her performance.

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Jolie gives her acceptance speech after winning the Oscar in 2000.

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Angelina Jolie and Nicolas Cage appear in a scene from “Gone in Sixty Seconds.”

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Jolie with her second husband, actor Billy Bob Thornton, in 2000.

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Jolie stars as Lara Croft in "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider." The movie and its sequel grossed $478 million worldwide.

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Jolie and Antonio Banderas in a scene from "Original Sin."

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Jolie plays a Seattle television reporter who dreams of hosting a national morning show in "Life or Something Like It."

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Jolie played Lara Croft again in "Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life.”

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Jolie and Clive Owen in "Beyond Borders."

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Ethan Hawke and Jolie star in the psychological thriller "Taking Lives."

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Jolie, Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow star in “Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow.”

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Jolie portrays Queen Olympias and actor Colin Farrell plays Alexander the Great in a scene from "Alexander."

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Jolie, a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, helps in the measuring and monitoring of children in a UNHCR refugee camp inside Chad in 2004.

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Jolie and Brad Pitt in 2005's "Mr. & Mrs. Smith." Pitt and Jolie have been a couple since filming the movie, and many accused Jolie of splitting up Pitt’s marriage to actress Jennifer Aniston.

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Cover of the Feb. 7, 2005, issue of Us with Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie.

From left, U.S. diplomat Richard Holbrooke, Jolie, philanthropist Trevor Neilson and Joseph Biden attend a congressional briefing titled, "Business, Government and HIV/AIDS: Tackling Global Economic and Security Threats" in 2005.

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Jolie, holding the hand of her son Maddox, and actor Brad Pitt, rear, holding Jolie's daughter Zahara, arrive at Tokyo's international airport at Narita in 2005. Pitt and Jolie have six children together.

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Jolie and Matt Damon in "The Good Shepherd.”

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Jolie stars as Mariane Pearl in Michael Winterbottom's "A Mighty Heart." She was nominated for a Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild award for the role.

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Jolie on the cover of Esquire in 2007. The magazine named her its first “Sexiest Woman Alive” in 2004.

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Brad Pitt and Jolie arrive for the premiere of the film "Kung Fu Panda" in 2008. Jolie was pregnant with twins at the time.

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Jolie in the fantasy-thriller "Wanted."

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Jolie earned an Oscar nomination for best actress for her performance in 2008’s "The Changeling."

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In "Salt," Jolie starred as potential Russian spy Evelyn Salt. "With 'Salt,' she's poised to fuse the nodes that have defined her career -- serious acting chops and outsize physical derring-do -- more seamlessly than ever before," wrote Post critic Ann Hornaday.

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Jolie on the set of her directorial debut, “In the Land of Blood and Honey.”

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Jolie wrote and directed the new film "In The Land of Blood and Honey," about the war in Bosnia. Here she poses with two of the film’s actors, Goran Kostic and Zana Marjanovic.

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