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HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Angelina Jolie
ILLUSTRATION BY SEAN McCABE
(JUNE 4): The actor and filmmaker wants to create a better world.
EARLY YEARS: Jolie is the child of actors Marcheline Bertrand and Jon Voight. She made her film debut in 1982’s Lookin’ to Get Out.
GOLDEN GIRL: Jolie’s awards include three Golden Globes, a Tony and an Oscar (for Girl, Interrupted). In 2013, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored her with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
HUMANITARIAN EFFORTS: Jolie has traveled to war zones, helped fund schools and served as a goodwill ambassador for the UNHCR. After adopting son Maddox from Cambodia, she formed a foundation to alleviate poverty and protect wildlife there.
RECENT WORK: Jolie is a producer on the Tony-winning Broadway musical The Outsiders. In 2024, she played Maria Callas in the biopic Maria, a role that required more than six months of singing lessons. —Whitney Matheson
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Illustration by Sean McCabe: Angelina Jolie primary photo: Taylor Hill/FilmMagic/Getty Images. Clockwise from top right: Fitzroy Barrett/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal/Getty Images, Pablo Larrain/Netflix/Everett Collection, Frank Trapper/Corbis/Getty Images, 20thCentFox/Everett Collection, HBO/Everett Collection; Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures/Everett Collection, Paramount/Everett Collection. 50 Cent: Theo Wargo/Getty Images; Rodriguez: Manny Hernandez/Getty Images; Hurley: Cindy Ord/VF25/Getty Images for Vanity Fair; Carvey: Jerod Harris/Getty Images for Netflix; DaFoe: Andrew Toth/WireImage/Getty Images; Mirren: Kristina Bumphrey/Variety/Getty Images.