When Angelina Jolie Voigt started acting, she dropped her last name because she didn’t want her rise to be tied to her father, famed and Oscar-winning actor Jon Voight. Many years later, she is considered one of the most popular and best actresses in the world with 2 Oscars, 3 Golden Globes and many other awards to go for a career spanning over 50 movies and TV shows grossing over $2 billion.
Although best known as a film actress, Jolie is also a voice actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian. Have you ever wondered what his best movies are?
Angelina Jolie Movies and TV Series
1. Interrupted Girl (1999)
Not the best movie you’ll find by Angelina Jolie managed to pull off a sensational performance that won her an Oscar, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Awards.
She took on the role of a sociopath (Lisa Rowe), whoShe has been in the mental institution since she was 9 years old. Although highly respected and respected by other patients, she is very rebellious. The film centers on his relationship with Susanna Kaysen (Winona Ryder), who is the main character.
2.Gia (1998)
Among Angelina Jolie’s other films and TV series, this stands out because it was probably the work that first revealed her as a serious actress to be reckoned with in 1998, the same year. George Wallace, another of his great film, has been released.
Pretty this time around is model GiaMarie Carangi, whose fame is rapidly rising in fame, is also a misfortune, as she now dies at the age of 26 due to the AIDS she contracted from of his life of drugs and bad decisions.
This Golden Globe Award-winning HBO film also became the reason many first fell in love with her as an actress.
3. Changeling (2008)
A mystery crime drama directed by Clint Eastwoodfilm, Jolie is seen appearing as Christine Collins, a single mother whose son has gone missing. It is discovered that the child was kidnapped by a serial killer but the police rescued her and returned a different child to her. As she protests, she is told that she is unfit to be a mother and is therefore now in an institution.
The drama which is based on a historical event is probably one of her most difficult roles but also one of her greatest successes.
4. A Mighty Heart (2007)
This movie didn’t win any major awards for Jolie, but the debate over whether it’s the greatest movie she’s ever made is still the same.
Angelina takes on the role of a Mariana Pearl, the pregnant wife of Daniel Pearl (Dan Futterman) who has gone to Pakistan but cannot be found. Based on real events of 2002, Mariana is now trying to find her husband.
5. Maleficent (2014)
Since 2011, Angelina Jolie did not appear in any movie until 2014 when she came on as Maleficent in this movie which she also produced. She is an evil fairy who puts a curse on a baby, but now realizes she may have to rely on him for peace in the troubled land.
With $758.5 million at the box office, it is his highest-grossing film.
6. Wanted (2008)
Wesley Gibson (James McAvoy) an account executive, realizes that his father, who is now deceased, was a member of a fraternity and was a professional assassin with superhuman killing abilities. His life hangs in the balance, so he must rely on Fox (Jolie) to keep him alive and mentor him to develop the deadly abilities he shares with his late father.
An adaptation of Mark Millar’s Kick-Ass, Wanted Angelina Jolie is just one of many films in which she goes all out, bringing sexiness to the action-thriller. And yes, many still hope that she will return for the sequel.
7. Salt (2010)
What Jolie managed to do in this movie is show that the successes of her previous acting roles weren’t just luck. She interprets the role of Evelyn Salt, who leaves her audience to find out which side she belongs to, in the United States or in Russia. One of the most memorable things about this film is that Jolie not only came in with intense stunts, but also performed it all on her own.
8. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
For those who have come to love Angelina Jolie’s action thriller, it’s very significant because it’s her birth in the genre. Inspired by the game of the same name, this film has Jolie as Lara Croft who finds herself in an Egyptian tomb where she sets off in pursuit of a diamond. Now she has a lot to fight for, both to stay alive and to get the diamond she is looking for.
9. Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)
It’s yet another movie that’s not going to raise its head among the best movies on any list, but among the Angelina Jolie movies to remember, it will still be coming. It’s not because of the resulting scandal when Brad Pitt left his wife, Jennifer Aniston, for Angelina Jolie, whom he later married.
Jane Smith (Angelina Jolie) and her husband, John Smith (Brad Pitt) seem to be leading normal lives until they find out they’re both killers and it’s time to face off.
10. The Bone Collector (1999)
It’s hard for an actor not to stay awake when playing alongside Denzel Washington. Not to suggest that Angelina didn’t always deliver, but in The Bone Collector which is a psychological thriller film, a combined effort of the two great books on something amazing.
Amelia Donaghy (Angelina Jolie) is a young police officer who is attached to Lincoln Rhyme (Denzel Washington) who is one of the smartest experts in forensics. Now the two have a very big mystery case to solve as a killer is out there.
11. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
In this sci-fi action-adventure, New York faces another attack, but this time it’s giant flying robots leading the attack. Along with other stars such as Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow, Angelina Jolie, who plays Commander Francesca Cook (Franky), is in charge of a Royal Navy flying aircraft carrier against robots.
Although she took the role after returning from filming Lara Croft: Tomb Raider – The Cradle of Life (2003), she did well in the job which, at the end of the day, earned her a People’s Choice Awards as well as a Saturn Award nomination.
12. In 60 Seconds (2000)
Angelina Jolie doesn’t have to say found herself starring in movies that weren’t so good in the past. It’s a. However, as almost always, she managed to create a good one with Nicolas Cage.
In this action heist film which was directed by Dominic Sena, Sara “Sway” Wayland (Angelina Jolie) is a car thief who, along with Memphis Raines (Nicolas Cage) and other members of their team must steal up to fifty cars luxury to save the life of the brother from Memphis who had a car theft job going badly for him and has now been kidnapped.
With almost everything wrong with the film, the two things it has saved are its financial success and the performances of Cage and Jolie which earned the actress Blockbuster Entertainment Awards.
13. Play by Heart (1998)
This is yet another of the rare comedic-dramaAngelina Jolie films. This film tells a story quite different from the others because it takes different couples with their different love stories. You will find Jolie (Joan) who is in a relationship with Ryan Phillippe (Keenan), a man she meets in a nightclub. Like the others in the film, the couple tries to make their way through love in Los Angeles.
14.George Wallace (1997)
Oddly enough, it’s one of Angelina Jolie’s most underrated and often forgotten films, although she did shine with a superb performance by Cornelia Wallace, which earned her the first Golden Globe Award she won. as well as an Emmy Award nomination.
It is a biographical film that tells the story of George Wallace, the former governor of Alabama led by John Frankenheimer. While Gary Sinise takes on the role of George, Jolie takes on the role of his wife, Cornelia Wallace.
15. Hackers (1995)
As a movie, few people really loved Hackers, but somehow Jolie, who’s one of the main characters, did her job even as it’s one of his first films.
She appears as Kate Libby in the detective film which focuses on high school students who are into hacking and extortion. For Jolie and the others, it started out as something very small but they can’t say how far it will go.