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Facing up to cancer
In May 2013, Angelina Jolie published an article in the New York Times detailing how she had a double mastectomy upon learning that she carried a gene that increases her risk of breast and ovarian cancer. "I choose not to keep my story private because there are many women who do not know that they might be living under the shadow of cancer," the actress wrote. (Facundo Arrizabalaga / EPA, file) Share Back to slideshow navigation

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Laughing with children
Jolie has used her acting fame to carve out a role for herself as a globe-trotting activist and humanitarian. Here Jolie, herself a mother of six, reaches out to a child while meeting with Syrian refugees in Lebanon on Sept. 12, 2012. (Jason Tanner / UNHCR via EPA) Share Back to slideshow navigation

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Addressing G8 ministers
Flanked by G8 Foreign Ministers, Jolie, right, in her role as UN envoy, speaks during a news conference regarding sexual violence against women in conflict, during the G8 Foreign Ministers meeting in London on April 11, 2013. (Alastair Grant / Pool via EPA) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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Anti-rape campagn
Britain's Foreign Secretary William Hague, center, and UNHCR Special Envoy Jolie, right, listen to refugees on March 25, 2013 during a visit to the Nzolo refugee camp in Democratic Republic of Congo. Jolie joined Hague on a visit to the country in a bid to encourage world powers to do more to tackle rape and sexual assault in war zones. (Iggy Roberts / British Foreign Office via AFP - Getty Images) Share Back to slideshow navigation
Women in the World summit
Jolie attends the Women in the World Summit 2013 on April 4, 2013 in New York. (Daniel Zuchnik / Getty Images) Share Back to slideshow navigation

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Special envoy for refugee issues
Jolie, center, visits Iraqi returnees from Syria escaping the conflict there, in Baghdad on Sept. 15, 2012. (Jason Tanner / UNHCR via Reuters) Share Back to slideshow navigation
Star smile
Jolie is photographed at a screening of her film "In the Land of Blood and Honey" at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London on May 29, 2012. Before the screening, Jolie discussed the Foreign Secretary's initiative on preventing sexual violence in conflict. (Dan Kitwood / Pool via AFP - Getty Images) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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Legging it
Jolie infamously jutted out one leg at the Oscars on Feb. 26, 2012, leading to numerous Internet parodies and jokes. (Amy Sancetta / AP) Share Back to slideshow navigation
The witching hour
Jolie stars in "Maleficent," a story about the Disney villain from "Sleeping Beauty." The film is scheduled to be released in 2014. (Disney Enterprises, Inc.) Share Back to slideshow navigation
Golden star on the red carpet
Jolie arrives at the Golden Globe Awards in Los Angeles on Jan. 15, 2012. (Matt Sayles / AP) Share Back to slideshow navigation
White House trip
Jolie, left, and her partner Brad Pitt meet with President Barack Obama in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Jan. 11, 2012. Jolie was in Washington for the premiere of her film "In the Land of Blood and Honey" at the Holocaust Museum. (Mandel Ngan / AFP - Getty Images) Share Back to slideshow navigation
Director at work
Writer-director Jolie busy on the set of "In the Land of Blood and Honey." (Ken Regan / Film District via AP) Share Back to slideshow navigation
Grim visit
Pitt and Jolie visit Con Dao prison off Vietnam's southern coast on Nov. 13, 2011. Jolie and Pitt adopted a Vietnamese boy in March 2007. (Thuan Thang / Tuoitre via Reuters) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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Lady in red
Jolie is welcomed by fans as she arrives at the Japan premiere of her partner Brad Pitt's film "Moneyball' in Tokyo on Nov. 9, 2011. (Kazuhiro Nogi / AFP - Getty Images) Share Back to slideshow navigation
It's a family affair
Accompanied by their six children, Pitt and Jolie appear before photographers upon their arrival at Haneda Airport in Tokyo on Nov. 8, 2011. (Toru Yamanaka / AFP - Getty Images) Share Back to slideshow navigation

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Witness to a revolution
Jolie was in Misrata, Libya, to help agencies bringing aid to Libyans in Tripoli and Misrata on Oct. 11, 2011. "I have come to Libya for a variety of reasons, to see a country in transition at every level and to witness efforts to fully realize the promise of the Arab Spring," Jolie said. (J. Tanner / UNHCR via Getty Images) Share Back to slideshow navigation
And the award goes to ...
Jolie presents the 2011 Nansen Refugee Award at a ceremony in Geneva, Switzerland, on Oct. 3, 2011. The prize was awarded to the founder and 290 staff of SHS, a non-governmental organization, for their life-saving work in helping the thousands of refugees and migrants who arrive on Yemen's shores each year. (J Tanner / UNHCR via Getty Images) Share Back to slideshow navigation
Everybody was kung fu fighting
Jack Black and Jolie arrive at the Los Angeles premiere of "Kung Fu Panda 2" at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on May 22, 2011 in Hollywood, Calif. Jolie voices the tough Tigress while Black gives voice to Po, the chubby panda of the title. (Alberto E. Rodriguez / Getty Images) Share Back to slideshow navigation

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Vive la France
Jolie and partner Brad Pitt arrive for the screening of 'The Tree of Life' during the 64th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, France on May 16, 2011. Pitt stars in the film, which won the film festival's highest honor. (Christophe Karaba / EPA) Share Back to slideshow navigation

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Taking time to listen
In her role as goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Jolie talks with Syrian refugees at the Altinozu camp in the Hatay province of Turkey on June 17, 2011. Jolie has been active in international relief efforts for years. (Jason Tanner / AFP - Getty Images) Share Back to slideshow navigation
Helping those in need
Jolie visits Somali refugees at a refugee camp in Tunisia on April 5, 2011. The actress travelled to the camp to encourage continued funding and support from the international community to further assist the hundreds of thousands of people who have crossed into Tunisia to escape the violence in Libya. (Jason Tanner / UNHCR via Getty Images) Share Back to slideshow navigation
Mother Jolie
The actress met with Khanum Gul, a 35-year-old mother of eight, and Gul's youngest son, Samir, in Kabul, Afghanistan, in February 2011. (Jason Tanner / UNHCR via Getty Images) Share Back to slideshow navigation
A winning look
The actress wore a long-sleeve Versace gown to the 68th annual Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Jan. 16, 2011. She was nominated for best actress for "The Tourist," but lost to Annette Bening. (Mario Anzuoni / Reuters) Share Back to slideshow navigation
A-list 'Tourist'
"Tourist" star Angelina Jolie attended the German premiere of the film with partner Brad Pitt on Dec. 14, 2010, in Berlin. The movie, which had an estimated budget of $100 million, grossed $67 million by February 2011, and was widely panned by critics. (Jens Kalaene / EPA) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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'Tourist' season
Actress Angelina Jolie, right, and actor Johnny Depp are shown in a scene from their new film "The Tourist," about an American tourist in Europe who gets caught up in a whirlwind romance with a mysterious woman. (Sony Pictures / Reuters) Share Back to slideshow navigation
Film shoot
Jolie, second right, directs actors on set in the city of Esztergom, Hungary, on Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010. The directorial debut for the A-list actress is a love story set during the Bosnian war. (Bea Kallos / AP) Share Back to slideshow navigation
'Mega' stars
Jolie and Brad Pitt arrive at the Paris premiere of the animated fim "Megamind" on Nov. 29, 2010. Pitt voices one of the main characters in the film. (Pascal Le Segretain / Getty Images) Share Back to slideshow navigation

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Jolie, right, meets 64-year-old Zenul Hawa at her flood-damaged home in the village of Mohib Bandi in Pakistan on Sept. 7, 2010. Jolie, a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Goodwill Ambassador, was in Pakistan visiting flood-affected communities in the northwest. (Reuters) Share Back to slideshow navigation
Spicing things up
Jolie promotes the launch of spy thriller "Salt" in Cancun, Mexico, on June 30, 2010. In the film, she plays a CIA agent who goes on the run after she's accused of being a KGB double agent. (Stringer Beijing / Reuters) Share Back to slideshow navigation

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'Salt' of the earth
In the thriller "Salt," Jolie stars as Evelyn Salt, a CIA officer accused of being a spy for the Russians. (Sony Pictures) Share Back to slideshow navigation
International embrace
In this image released by UNHCR on April 6, 2010, Jolie shares a laugh and traditional painted Easter eggs with Bosnian women Babic Lena and her unnamed sister in the eastern Bosnian town of Rogatica, east of Sarajevo. (AP) Share Back to slideshow navigation
Taxi!
Jolie is seen at the Piazzale della Stazione, filming on location for "The Tourist," on March 17, 2010, in Venice, Italy. (Barbara Zanon / Getty Images Contributor) Share Back to slideshow navigation
Treats for everyone
Jolie and Pitt walk out of an ice-cream shop with children Zahara, front right, Shiloh Nouvel, Pax, left, and Maddox, background, in Venice, Italy, on Feb. 16, 2010. (Luigi Costantini / AP) Share Back to slideshow navigation

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Helping refugees
Jolie attends the 2009 World Refugee Day at National Geographic Society June 18, 2009, in Washington, DC. Jolie paid tribute to the 10.5 million refugees now recognized by the Commission. The UNHCR announced that she and her partner, Brad Pitt, have donated $1 million to help Pakistanis displaced by fighting between troops and Taliban militants (Robert Giroux / Getty Images) Share Back to slideshow navigation

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Hollywood glamour
Jolie arrives at the Academy Awards in February 2009. She didn't take home any trophies, but she landed on numerous best-dressed lists, thanks to her choice of a classic strapless Elie Saab gown highlighted by emerald earrings. (Matt Sayles / AP) Share Back to slideshow navigation
Power couple
Jolie and Pitt arrive for the Cannes Film Festival screening of his movie, the Quentin Tarantino-directed "Inglourious Basterds," in May 2009. (Anne-christine Poujoulat / AFP - Getty Images) Share Back to slideshow navigation
Reaching out to children
Jolie visits with Karenni refugee children in the Ban Mai Nai Soi refugee camp in northern Thailand on Feb. 4, 2009. (K. Mckinsey / UNHCR via AP) Share Back to slideshow navigation
The Jolie-Pitt brood visits the Land of the Rising Sun
One of the advantages to being the child of an actor? You get to travel to places most young kids never see. Here, Pitt and Jolie and their children arrive at Narita International Airport in Narita, east of Tokyo, Japan, where they attended the Japanese premiere of Pitt's film, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," in January 2009. (AP) Share Back to slideshow navigation

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I see Angelina's back
Some of Jolie's tattoos are visible as she arrives at the 15th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Jan. 25, 2009. She has more than a dozen tattoos and says each has a special meaning. The tattoo between her shoulder blades reads "know your rights" and is the title of a Clash song. The one on her left shoulder blade is a lengthy Buddhist Pali incantation written in Khmer, the language of Cambodia. Her first son, Maddox, was adopted from Cambodia. (Jewel Samad / AFP - Getty Images) Share Back to slideshow navigation
Blasting out of the pages of the comics
In 2008, Jolie starred in the thriller "Wanted" as Fox, a mysterious assassin with a tragic past. The film was loosely based on Mark Millar's comic-book series. (Universal Pictures) Share Back to slideshow navigation
Under the desert sun
In her role as UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, Jolie spoke to women in Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, in October 2008. (Marco Di Lauro / AFP - Getty Images) Share Back to slideshow navigation
A mother no one believes
Jolie was nominated for an Academy Award for best actress for her starring role in 2008's "Changeling," directed by Clint Eastwood. In the film, which is based on a true story, she plays a woman whose son is abducted in the 1920s. When a boy is brought to her, she knows it's not her own child, but authorities brand her delusional for reasons of their own. (Universal Pictures) Share Back to slideshow navigation
Fresh ink
Three months after the birth of their twins, Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline, Pitt and Jolie attend a screening of her film "Changeling" in New York on Saturday, Oct. 4, 2008. The new tattoos on Jolie's upper arm reportedly denote map coordinates of the birthplace of the twins, under the coordinates for the couple's four other children. (Evan Agostini / AP) Share Back to slideshow navigation

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New two
Pitt and Jolie reveal the latest additions to their family -- twins Knox Leon and Vivienne Marcheline -- on the cover of the Aug. 4, 2008, issue of People magazine. "It is chaos, but we are managing it and having a wonderful time," Jolie told the magazine. (People) Share Back to slideshow navigation

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Twins on the way
Dustin Hoffman, left, and Jack Black provide "security" around Jolie at the Cannes Film Festival on Thursday, May 15, in southern France. The three lend their voices to the animated film "Kung Fu Panda," by directors Mark Osborne and John Stevenson. (Jean-paul Pelissier / Reuters) Share Back to slideshow navigation
Cheetohs all around!
Jolie carried daughter Shiloh while leading her other children Maddox, Pax and Zahara for a walk and a treat at their neighborhood corner store by their home in New Orleans. (Splash News) Share Back to slideshow navigation
Into the war zone
Gen. David Petraeus, commander of multi-national forces in Iraq, meets with Jolie in Baghdad on Feb. 7, 2008. Jolie, a U.N. goodwill ambassador, visited Iraq on a humanitarian mission and met top officials to seek help for people displaced by the war. (Staff Sgt. Lorie Jewel / AFP - Getty Images) Share Back to slideshow navigation
Mother and son
Jolie and her son Maddox attend a news conference in New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward on Monday, Dec. 3, 2007. Jolie's boyfriend Brad Pitt was announcing his latest project to build affordable, environmentally friendly homes in the area devastated by Hurricane Katrina. (Bill Haber / AP) Share Back to slideshow navigation

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Show of support
Pitt joined Jolie on the red carpet at the European premiere of her film "Beowulf" in London on Sunday, Nov. 11, 2007. (Nathan Strange / AP) Share Back to slideshow navigation

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Lending a hand
Jolie made a two-day visit to Iraq and Syria in August 2007 as part of her role as UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador. Here she met with an elderly refugee, one of some 1,300 trapped at the makeshift Al Waleed camp in Iraq, unable to leave the country for neighboring Syria. (Morris Bernard / UNHCR via EPA) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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An addition to the family
Jolie carries her newly adopted son, Pax Thien Jolie, onto a plane at Noi Bai airport in Hanoi, Vietnam, on March 21, 2007. (Stringer/vietnam / Reuters) Share Back to slideshow navigation
Sunny stroll
Pitt and Jolie take daughters Zahara and Shiloh for a walk in the sunshine in the French Quarter of New Orleans on March 5, 2007. (INFphoto.com) Share Back to slideshow navigation

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'Mighty' role
Jolie arrives at a location for the shooting of "A Mighty Heart" in Mumbai, India in November 2006. The film is about the life of American journalist Daniel Pearl who was slain by terrorists in Pakistan four years ago. Jolie plays Daniel's widow Mariane, on whose book of the same name the film is based. (Gautam Singh / AP) Share Back to slideshow navigation
To the Matt
Clover Russell, played by Jolie, intrigues her future husband, Edward Wilson, played by Matt Damon, in "The Good Shepherd," the untold story of the birth of the CIA. The fillm and "The Good German," another new film, offer a less than romanticized view of politicking, compromising and exploiting that followed World War II. (Universal Pictures via AP) Share Back to slideshow navigation
A high-profile birth
Pitt and Jolie listen to Marlene Mungunda, the Namibian minister of child welfare, at a June press conference. The couple holed up at an exclusive resort there for the May 27, 2006, birth of baby Shiloh Nouvel. Jolie used the event as a way to promote her humanitarian work, but the remote locale also gave the couple total control over media coverage. People magazine spent an estimated $4 million on exclusive rights to their baby pics, and waged a legal campaign to keep them from being distributed online. (AP) Share Back to slideshow navigation
Settling in
A visibly pregnant Jolie takes a stroll along a Paris street in 2006. She and Pitt reportedly planned to settle in the City of Light, becoming the latest high-profile celebrity couple to make a home in France. (Gamma Press) Share Back to slideshow navigation

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A sweet moment
Jolie and Pitt enjoy a pleasant winter moment in a Paris park under the Eiffel Tower. In Pitt's arms is adopted daughter Zahara, who seems to be eyeing that tower of cotton candy. (Eric Travers / Sipa Press) Share Back to slideshow navigation
One on one
Jolie sits for a Jan. 2006 chat with 7-year-old Haitian schoolgirl Naomi Georges in Port-au-Prince. Jolie was focusing attention on her philanthropic work, but all eyes were on her rounder belly, as confirmation came that the Oscar winner was indeed pregnant. (Brennan Linsley / AP) Share Back to slideshow navigation
One big happy family
Jolie, right, and Pitt, rear, holding Jolie's adopted child, Zahara, tried to make a quick dash through Narita International Airport outside of Tokyo, Japan, on Nov. 27, 2005. The actors arrived for the Japanese premiere of "Mr. and Mrs. Smith." Pitt started proceedings at the end of 2005 to adopt Jolie's two adopted children. (Shizuo Kambayashi / AP) Share Back to slideshow navigation
Lending a hand
Jolie listens as an elderly Pakistani woman speaks through a translator, left, about the damage her village sustained during the earthquake in Pakistan. Jolie urged the world to honor its pledges of aid for Pakistani quake victims. (Jack Redden / AFP - Getty Images) Share Back to slideshow navigation
Playing the press?
Jolie and Pitt promote their film "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" in Las Vegas in 2005. Though photographers took shots of the couple together on a beach in Africa during the summer, both denied that they were a couple. (Isaac Brekken / AP) Share Back to slideshow navigation

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Goodwill Ambassador
Jolie stands on a hill at the Bella refugee camp near the village of Ordzhonikidzevskaya in Ingushetia, a region bordering Chechnya. (Tanya Makeyeva / AP) Share Back to slideshow navigation
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Tattooed beauty
Jolie's many tattoos include a blue window on her lower back, a quotation from Tennessee Williams on her left inner arm and the Japanese symbol for death on her shoulder blade. (Carlo Allegri / Getty Images) Share Back to slideshow navigation
Mad about Maddox
Jolie adopted son Maddox from Cambodia in 2004. (Mahmoud Tawil / AP) Share Back to slideshow navigation
Making the geeks swoon
Jolie portrayed video game character Lara Croft in two "Tomb Raider" films. Though the films were largely dismissed by critics, they did well at the box office. During the filming of the first "Tomb Raider" film she discovered her love for Cambodia, and decided to adopt a child. (Alex Bailey / Paramount Pictures) Share Back to slideshow navigation

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Soul mates
Billy Bob Thornton married Jolie in April 2000 after meeting her on the set of "Pushing Tin." The two were known for their voracious sexual appetites and their quirky habit of wearing vials of each other's blood around their necks. The couple split in 2002. (Jason Kirk / Getty Images) Share Back to slideshow navigation

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Brotherly love
Jolie attended the 72nd Oscars with her brother James Haven Voight. The two siblings are the children of actor Jon Voight. The two created a stir at the Oscars when, after Jolie won her trophy, she proclaimed, "I'm so in love with my brother." (Fred Prouser / Reuters / Corbis) Share Back to slideshow navigation

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Award winning role
Jolie won an Oscar for her role opposite Winona Ryder in 1999's "Girl, Interrupted." In the film, she plays a self-destructive girl in a mental hospital during the 1960s. (Corbis Sygma) Share Back to slideshow navigation
First love?
Jolie met Jonny Lee Miller when they co-starred in the 1995 film "Hackers." The two married that same year and amicably split in 1999. (Frank Trapper / Corbis Sygma) Share Back to slideshow navigation

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Aloha!
In this undated photo, Jolie poses with her mother, French actress Marcheline Bertrand and her brother James. Bertrand passed away in 2007 at age 56 from cancer. Her struggle with the disease helped her daughter decide to have a preventative double mastectomy in 2013. (Splash News) Share Back to slideshow navigation

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Facing up to cancer

Laughing with children

Addressing G8 ministers

Anti-rape campagn

Women in the World summit

Special envoy for refugee issues

Star smile

Legging it

The witching hour

Golden star on the red carpet

White House trip

Director at work

Grim visit

Lady in red

It's a family affair

Witness to a revolution

And the award goes to ...

Everybody was kung fu fighting

Vive la France

Taking time to listen

Helping those in need

Mother Jolie

A winning look

A-list 'Tourist'

'Tourist' season

Film shoot

'Mega' stars

Spicing things up

'Salt' of the earth

International embrace

Taxi!

Treats for everyone

Helping refugees

Hollywood glamour

Power couple

Reaching out to children

The Jolie-Pitt brood visits the Land of the Rising Sun

I see Angelina's back

Blasting out of the pages of the comics

Under the desert sun

A mother no one believes

Fresh ink

New two

Twins on the way

Cheetohs all around!

Into the war zone

Mother and son

Show of support

Lending a hand

An addition to the family

Sunny stroll

'Mighty' role

To the Matt

A high-profile birth

Settling in

A sweet moment

One on one

One big happy family

Lending a hand

Playing the press?

Goodwill Ambassador

Tattooed beauty

Mad about Maddox

Making the geeks swoon

Soul mates

Brotherly love

Award winning role

First love?

Aloha!

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