- 2009: Nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (“Changeling”)
- 2008: Nominated for the 2008 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role (“Changeling”)
- 2008: Potrayed Christine Collins, a woman fighting for her missing son, in Clint Eastwood's drama "Changeling"
- 2008: Nominated for the 2008 People’s Choice Award for Favorite Female Star
- 2008: Voiced a Master Tigress in the animated feature, "Kung Fu Panda"
- 2008: Nominated for the 2008 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama (“Changeling”)
- 2008: Nominated for the 2008 People’s Choice Award for Favorite Female Action Star
- 2008: Co-starred as an assassin in the comic book adaptation of "Wanted"
- 2007: Starred in "A Mighty Heart," as Marianne Pearl, the wife of Wall Street Journal reporter, Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and killed in 2002 while reporting in Pakistan; produced by her partner Brad Pitt; earned an Independent Spirit Award Nomination for Best Actress; also received Golden Globe and SAG nominations for Best Actress
- 2007: Portrayed Grendel's mother in Robert Zemeckis' big-budget film version of the epic poem "Beowulf"
- 2007: Made directorial debut with the documentary "A Place in Time"
- 2006: Played a CIA agent's (Matt Damon) long-suffering wife in Robert De Niro's "The Good Shepherd"
- 2005: Starred opposite Brad Pitt, as a bored married couple that is surprised to learn that they are assassins hired to kill each other in "Mr. and Mrs. Smith"
- 2005: Appeared in the MTV special "The Diary of Angelina Jolie & Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in Africa," which will follow their trip to Sauri, a remote group of villages in western Kenya
- 2004: Co-starred with Colin Farrell in Oliver Stone's "Alexander" playing Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great
- 2004: Starred as Special Agent Illeana Scott in the thriller "Taking Lives" also starred Ethan Hawke and Kiefer Sutherland
- 2004: Portrayed Captain Franky Cook in the Sci-fi thriller "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow" opposite Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow
- 2004: Voiced Lola in the animated feature "Shark Tale "
- 2003: Starred opposite Clive Owen in "Beyond Borders"
- 2003: Reprised her role as Lara Croft for "Lara Croft and the Cradle of Life: Tomb Raider 2"
- 2002: Portrayed a TV reporter forced to question her choices in "Life or Something Like It"
- 2002: Appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- 2001: Starred opposite Antonio Banderas in "Original Sin"
- 2001: Achieved international fame playing the videogame heroine Lara Croft in "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider"
- 2000: Acted opposite Nicolas Cage in "Gone in 60 Seconds"
- 1999: Cast as a tough detective assisting a quadriplegic colleague (Denzel Washington) in tracking a serial killer in "The Bone Collector"
- 1999: Portrayed the wife of an air traffic controller (Billy Bob Thornton) in Mike Newell's "Pushing Tin"
- 1999: Won an Academy Award for her supporting role in "Girl, Interrupted" a drama based on the memoirs of a woman's two-year stay in a psychiatric hospital
- 1998: Had supporting role as a club kid in the ensemble comedy-drama "Playing By Heart"
- 1998: Earned raves reviews for her performance as Gia Carangi, a drug addicted, bisexual model who died of complications from AIDS, in the HBO film "Gia"; received an Emmy nomination for Best Actress
- 1997: Portrayed the politician's first wife Cornelia Wallace in the TNT miniseries "George Wallace"; received an Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actress
- 1996: Starred in the feature "Foxfire"
- 1995: First lead in a theatrical release, "Hackers"; co-starred with future husband, British actor Jonny Lee Miller
- 1993: Co-starred in the direct-to-video sci-fi film "Cyborg II: Glass Shadows"
- 1986: At age 11, began studying acting at the Lee Strasberg Theater Institute in NYC
- 1980: Feature debut in Hal Ashby's "Lookin' to Get Out"; co-produced and co-written by her father; credited as Angelina Jolie Voight (released in 1982)
- 1976: Moved to Palisades, New York with mother and brother
- Briefly worked as a professional model
- Acted in five student films directed by her brother, James Haven Voight
- Made stage debut in "Room Service" playing a German dominatrix
- Appeared in music videos by Meat Loaf, The Lemonheads, Rolling Stones and others
- As part of the Met Theater group in Los Angeles, worked with such veteran actors as Holly Hunter, Ed Harris and Amy Madigan




