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Angelina Jolie's Best Roles

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May 21, 2019 3:26 PM
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MGM

Hackers

This 1995 crime film about hackers being blamed for a virus causing oil tankers to capsize was Angelina Jolie's first leading role in a major film.


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20th Century Fox

Pushing Tin

Jolie met her second husband, Billy Bob Thornton, while filming this comedy about air traffic controllers.


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Columbia Pictures

Girl, Interrupted

For her role as sociopath Lisa Rowe in the 1999 film, Jolie won the Golden Globe, Academy Award, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Supporting Actress.


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Touchstone Pictures

Gone in 60 Seconds

The 2000 heist film featured a gang assembling to steal 50 cars, all dubbed with female names.


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Paramount Pictures

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider

The 44-year-old actress plays the titular role in the 2001 action flick and two years later she reprised her role in the sequel. In the first film, video game adventurer Lara Croft comes to life in a movie where she finds herself trying to recover ancient artifacts before she runs out of time or gets taken out by villains. The sequel shows Lara Croft back in action, this time trying to save the mythical Pandora's Box.


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20th Century Fox

Life or Something Like It

The 2002 romantic comedy focuses on Jolie's character trying to find the meaning of life after a psychic tells her she will die in seven days.


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Warner Bros. Pictures

Alexander

The epic historical drama was based on the life of Alexander the Great. In the film, Jolie plays the beautiful Olympias.


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20th Century Fox

Mr. & Mrs. Smith

On the set of the 2005 action film, Jolie met future husband Brad Pitt. Although the marriage didn't last, the film, which is about a married couple that discovers they are both assassins hired to kill one another, is a forever favorite.


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Universal Studios

The Good Shepherd

The 2006 spy film tells the untold tale of the birth of counter-intelligence in the CIA.


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Paramount Vantage

A Mighty Heart

The 2007 film is based on the kidnapping of Daniel Pearl, an American journalist traveling in Pakistan. Jolie plays his wife, Marianne, as she seeks justice for her husband.


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Paramount Pictures

Beowulf

Jolie famously shot her role of Grendel's mother in the 2007 fantasy film over a two-day period while she was three months pregnant with her twins.


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DreamWorks Animation

Kung Fu Panda

The actress proved her voice is just as impressive as her acting skills when she took on the role of Tigress in 2008's Kung Fu Panda. She also plays the tiger warrior in its two sequels.


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Universal Studios

Changeling

Jolie was nominated for her second Academy Award for her role as a mother on a mission to find her missing son in this 2008 drama film set in the 1920s.


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Universal Pictures

Wanted

The Los Angeles native's character is an experienced assassin in this 2008 action flick, which was a massive hit at the box office, grossing 341.1 million.


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Columbia Pictures

Salt

Talk about a powerful role! Jolie plays an agent on the run named Evelyn Salt in this thriller film.


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Columbia Pictures

The Tourist

Both Johnny Depp and Jolie were nominated for Golden Globes for their roles as a couple who meet in Italy and later find themselves on the run together.


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Maleficent

Jolie gets fabulously nasty in the 2014 Disney flick as the evil Maleficent who curses the infant Princess Aurora—Sleeping Beauty—only to realize the child may be the only one who can restore peace.


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By the Sea

In 2015, Jolie and Pitt reunited on screen to play a couple trying to repair their marriage while staying at a hotel in France.


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