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Angelina Jolie dropped her last name in hopes of achieving success without riding the coattails of her Oscar-winning father.
Jon Voight's spirited daughter has asserted her independence in many other ways as well. Her numerous tattoos, affinity for knives and fondness for wearing leather all point to a young woman brimming with confidence.
But Jolie has her bad days just like anyone else. "Oh, God, I struggle with low self-esteem all the time," she told Entertainment Weekly. "I think everyone does. I have so much wrong with me, it's unbelievable."
On the other hand, the actress has plenty of reasons to celebrate. Trained in the theater, Jolie launched her movie career with a feature film debut in 1995's "Hackers" (unless you really want to count 1993's "Cyborg 2"). By 1999, she'd won back-to-back Golden Globe Awards for her acting in two cable projects, "Wallace" and "Gia."
And she's racked up a list of co-stars that includes such distinguished colleagues as Sean Connery, Gena Rowlands, Gary Sinise and Faye Dunaway.
Like her father, Jolie has earned a reputation for her intensity. "As an actress, she's not timid, which is a rare thing," "Playing by Heart" director Willard Carroll told Premiere magazine. "She will just go for it."
Jolie prefers to go for the unexpected, portraying a drug-addicted supermodel one day, a cop the next. "The thing about this business, they like to stick you in one thing, and they like to tell you 'you're the dark person' or 'you're the sexy person' or 'you're the mother, and you can't be something else,'" she told Boxoffice magazine. "You just have to keep fighting against it."
In her private life, she's been known to shake things up a bit as well. For her nuptials to British actor Jonny Lee Miller, Jolie chose to write her new husband's name on her shirt -- in her blood.
Just like life itself, Jolie has learned not to take show business too seriously.
"('Hackers') taught me a good lesson," Jolie told Boxoffice magazine. "I was just starting out, and I think a lot of young actors take themselves so seriously that unless we're crying or screaming, we don't think we're acting. There's something to just being present and being in the moment and having a good time."
Source: Sac Bee
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