Angelina Jolie ( born Angelina Jolie Voight; June 4, 1975) is an American actress and filmmaker. She has won an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, and has been cited as Hollywood's highest-paid actress. In addition to her film career, she promotes humanitarian causes, and is noted for her work with refugees as a Special Envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Her activism has received wide recognition, among which an honorary Academy Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, and an honorary damehood of the Order of St Michael and St George (DCMG).
