In 1990s, Angelina Jolie
became a popular actress. She gave a star-making performance in the television
film Gia based on the short, tragic life of model Gia Marie Carangi. She won a
best actress Golden Globe for the role.
Another great
dramatic role in Girl, interrupted (1999) brought Jolie her first Academy Award
(for the supporting actress). In the new millennium she continued to take on a
variety of interesting roles, such as an adventurer in the Lara croft to take
on a variety of interesting roles, such as an adventure in the Lara croft films
(2001 and 2003), a FBI profiler in Taking Lives (2004), an assassin in Mr. and
Mrs. Smith (2005) and neglected, troubled socialite wife in the good shepherd
(2006). Jolie also embraced the word of sci-fi/fantasy with her roles as a
squadron commander in Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) and a
vengeful, monstrous mother in Beowulf (2007).
