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Angelina Jolie is back again this week with blood in her eye, evil in her heart and horns on her
head to reprise her aggressively colorful portrayal of the title character in “Maleficent: Mistress
of Evil.” So we thought it might be a good time to look back at some highlights — and lowlights
— of her movie career — as a performer, that is.
Coming up next, the Oscar winner has Peter Pan prequel “Come Away,” the Taylor Sheridan-
directed drama “Those Who Wish Me Dead” and Marvel’s “Eternals,” in which she plays Thena.
Jolie has also delved into directing in the last decade, helming “In the Land of Blood and Honey”
in 2011, “Unbroken” in 2014, “By the Sea” in 2015 and “First They Killed My Father” in 2017.
Jolie has also focused much of her time on humanitarian causes, completing dozens of field
missions and traveling to war zones to meet with U.S. troops and refugees. She credits her
experiences filming “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider” with opening her eyes to the situation in
Cambodia, the setting of “First They Killed My Father.”
The daughter of actor Jon Voight, she made her acting debut as a child in Hal Ashby’s “Lookin’
to Get Out,” which starred her father.
PHOTO : MGM
15. “Alexander” (2004)
For her less-than-stellar performance as Queen Olympias in Oliver Stone’s ill-starred historical
epic, Jolie was “honored” with a Golden Raspberry nomination as Worst Actress of 2004.
Actually, she was co-nominated for her equally forgettable work in “Taking Lives” — but lost
anyway to Halle Berry of “Catwoman.” Maybe she should have demanded a recount.
PHOTO : MGM
11. “Gone in 60 Seconds” (2000)
As the sensual Sara “Sway” Wayland, occasional accomplice and sometime lover of master car
thief Randall “Memphis” Raines (Nicolas Cage), Jolie gets to pose a provocative question:
What’s more of a turn-on, boosting cars or making love? Amazingly enough, Memphis is so
dedicated to his craft that he must seriously ponder the alternatives before responding.
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4. “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider” (2001)
With her skin-tight attire, her saucy smirk and her formidable pair of offensive weapons – not to
mention her automatic pistols – Jolie redefines the term “action figure” as the title character in
Simon West’s videogame-inspired action-adventure.
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2. “Maleficent” (2014)
There probably are laws in several states that prohibit actors from enjoying their own over-the-
top excess as much as Jolie clearly does as the eponymous villainess in this lavish Disney-
produced reconstitution of the “Sleeping Beauty” fairy tale (and, of course, Disney’s own 1959
animated feature).