What is Angelina Jolie's net worth and salary?
Angelina Jolie is an American actress, filmmaker, philanthropist, spokeswoman, and humanitarian who has a net worth of $120 million. Angelina Jolie is an American actress, filmmaker, and humanitarian who has made a significant impact on the entertainment industry and global advocacy. She began her acting career in the 1990s, gaining critical acclaim for her performances in films like "Hackers," "Girl, Interrupted," and "Gia." Jolie's breakthrough role came in 2001 with the blockbuster hit "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider," establishing her as a leading action star.
Throughout her career, Jolie has showcased her versatility as an actress, starring in a wide range of genres, including dramas, thrillers, and action films. Some of her notable works include "Mr. & Mrs. Smith," "A Mighty Heart," "Changeling," and "Maleficent." She has received numerous accolades for her performances, including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for "Girl, Interrupted."
In addition to acting, Jolie has ventured into directing and producing, with films like "In the Land of Blood and Honey," "Unbroken," and "First They Killed My Father." As a humanitarian, Jolie has been a dedicated advocate for refugees, conservation, and women's rights. She has served as a Special Envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and has been actively involved in various charitable causes.
Highest Paid Actress
Angelina Jolie has, at times, been one of the highest-paid actresses in the world, commanding a minimum of $20 million in salary for a single role. Between 2001 and 2011 alone, Angelina Jolie earned over $120 million in movie salaries alone. She earned $7 million for the first Lara Croft movie, then $12 million for the second. She earned $10 million for Mr & Mrs Smith, The Good Shepherd, and A Mighty Heart. Her salary jumped to $15 million for Wanted, then $20 million for Salt, and $19 million for The Tourist.
Financial Problems?
As part of their bitter divorce battle, in August 2018, Angelina claimed to be cash-strapped and demanded more financial support from Brad Pitt. Court records revealed that Pitt had given Jolie $8 million as a down payment for the $25 million Cecil B. Demille mansion because she did not have the funds herself. In reality, it's likely that Angelina has ample funds that are locked up in trusts and investments.
When they married in 2014, Pitt and Jolie agreed they did not need a prenup because both were coming into the marriage with net worths "exceeding $100 million." So where was Jolie's money? One answer is that she simply did not want to divest her assets to buy a new house when she knew that Pitt would almost certainly be obligated to provide her with the funds. It should also be noted that between August 2017 and August 2018, Angelina earned $28 million from salary and endorsements, which made her the second-highest-paid actress on the planet during that period.
Early Life
Angelina Jolie Voight was born June 4, 1975, in Los Angeles, California. She is the daughter of actor John Voight and actress Marcheline Bertrand. Jolie's parents divorced in 1976, and she and her brother, James Haven, lived with their mother, who gave up her acting ambitions to raise her children. Her father's successful acting career inspired young Angelina to become an actor. When she was five years old, she had a bit part in her father's film Lookin' to Get Out (1982). When she was six, her mother and her live-in boyfriend moved to Palisades, New York. They moved back to Los Angeles five years later. It was at this time that she decided she wanted to act and enrolled at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute. She trained there for two years.
Jolie spent some time at Beverly Hills High School, where she felt isolated from her affluent classmates because her family survived on her mother's modest income. She was bullied by other teens for being very thin with glasses and braces. Her mom tried to get her to model, but early attempts at that were unsuccessful. She transferred to Moreno High School. It was at this point that she began wearing all-black clothing. She lived with her boyfriend and experimented with knife play.
Career
Jolie's first leading role in a film was in the 1993 straight-to-video sci-fi thriller Cyborg 2, followed by the cult-hit Hackers in 1995. Her breakthrough role came two years later, in 1997, with the biopic George Wallace, for which she won her first Golden Globe Award, followed up with another Golden Globe for her portrayal of supermodel Gia Carangi in HBO's Gia. Jolie swept the awards, earning a third Golden Globe, a second Screen Actors Guild Award, and her first Academy Award for her supporting role in Girl, Interrupted. Jolie's diversity has secured her roles as an action star, as seen in the Lara Croft franchise and Mr. and Mrs. Smith, and as a voice actress for features Shark Tale and Kung-Fu Panda, which is Jolie's most financially successful film to date with gross earnings at $632 million worldwide.
Jolie directed, wrote, and produced the film In the Land of Blood and Honey in 2011. After a three-and-a-half-year absence from the screen, Jolie starred in Maleficent (2014), a live-action re-imagining of Disney's 1959 animated film Sleeping Beauty. That same year, she wrote and directed the film Unbroken. Jolie's next directorial effort was the marital drama By the Sea (2015), in which she starred opposite her then-husband, Brad Pitt, marking their first collaboration since 2005's Mr. & Mrs. Smith. Jolie also wrote, produced, and directed the 2017 movie First They Killed My Father and starred in. and executive produced the film The Breadwinner.
Jolie reprised the role of Maleficent in the Disney fantasy sequel Maleficent: Mistress of Evil in 2019, which received unfavorable reviews from critics but did moderately well at the box office with a global gross of $490 million. Since then, she has starred in 2020's Come Away, 2021's Those Who Wish Me Dead, and 2021's Eternals, and lent her voice to 2020's The One and Only Ivan. She is set to voice Master Tigress once again in 2024's Kung Fu Panda 4.
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Personal Life
Jolie met Jonny Lee Miller on the set of Hackers in 1995 and married him in March 1996. Instead of the traditional bridal gown, Jolie wore black rubber pants and a white t-shirt on which she had written her groom's name on in her blood. They split the following year and divorced in 1999.
Jolie's divorce was finalized just shortly before she married actor Billy Bob Thornton on May 5, 2000, in Las Vegas after two months of dating. They met on the set of 1999's Pushing Tin. The couple was known for public declarations of their love, including wearing vials of one another's blood around their necks. Jolie and Thornton adopted a son, Maddox, from Cambodia in March 2002. They separated abruptly three months later. Their divorce was finalized on May 27, 2003.
Jolie was accused of causing the divorce of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston in October 2005. She said she fell in love with with Pitt while they were filming 2005's Mr. & Mrs Smith. They went public with their relationship in January 2006, when she confirmed that she was pregnant with his child. Jolie and Pitt were together for 12 years. Their family grew to include six children, three of whom were adopted. Jolie and Pitt married on August 23, 2014. They separated in September 2016. Their divorce proceeding and custody battle has been drawn out. Their divorce was final on April 12, 2019.
Jolie has six children: three sons and three daughters. Of the children, three were adopted internationally, while three are her biological children with Brad Pitt. Maddox (born in 2001) was adopted from Cambodia in 2002 with Billy Bob Thornton. Pitt adopted Maddox in 2006. Pax (born 2003) was adopted from Vietnam in 2007 by Jolie and adopted by Pitt in 2008. Zahara (born 2005) was adopted from Ethiopia in 2005 by Jolie and by Pitt in 2006. Shiloh (born 2006), Knox (born 2008), and Vivienne (born 2008) are Jolie and Pitt's biological children.
Jolie is heavily involved in humanitarian efforts, becoming involved with UNHCR, traveling all over the world on field missions, and donating money to various relief organizations. In December 2022, Jolie resigned from the ambassadorship but pledged to continue to advocate for refugees. Jolie also co-founded the Jolie-Pitt Foundation with actor Brad Pitt.
In 2022, Jolie visited Ukrainian children at the Vatican Children's Hospital and traveled to Lviv, Ukraine, to meet with more displaced and hospitalized children in the wake of the Russian invasion of the country.
Real Estate
In June 2017 Angelina paid $24.5 million for a home in LA's Los Feliz neighborhood. At the time, it was roughly double the record price-paid for the neighborhood. The home is located in the gated community of Laughlin Park, just five minutes from the compound Brad Pitt owns in Bronson Canyon. From 1913 to 1959, the 2-acre estate was occupied by Cecil B. Demille.
