Angelina Jolie: Angel in Disguise

Tamara Jones is a former production operations supervisor in the
Entertainment Department of Paramount Canada’s Wonderland.

In this biography, Edgar McFay traces the life and career of an
intriguing and strikingly beautiful Hollywood personality who epitomizes
the classic bad girl gone good.

Though her parents, actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand,
separated when she was one, Angelina Jolie still considers her nomadic
childhood a happy time in her life. With adolescence, however, she
became fascinated with death, flirted with ideas of suicide, and
experimented with S&M and self-mutilation. Modelling and acting rescued
her from those dark times.

The professionally trained actress made a number of forgettable films
early in her career. It was not until she took on the role of a
psychiatric patient in Girl, Interrupted (1999) that her talent was
widely recognized. Jolie’s subsequent work as an actor has always
competed with her personal life and co-star romances, notably with Billy
Bob Thornton and Brad Pitt. She has also earned well-deserved praise for
her humanitarian efforts, serving as Goodwill Ambassador for the U.N.
High Commission on Refugees in 2001, donating one-third of her income to
charity, and raising awareness of world poverty.

McFay’s strength is to let his subject speak for herself. He respects
Jolie for her compassion and candidness, and rightfully portrays her not
as an actress, but as a star whose glamour and mystery shall never cease
to amaze.