دانلود کتاب بیوگرافی آنجلینا جولی

In Hollywood, acting has often been a family affair—from silent film stars Dorothy and Lillian Gish, to The Marx Brothers, to modern-day parentchild thespians Martin and Charlie Sheen and Goldie Hawn and Kate Hudson. Indeed, by all appearances, entertainment runs in the blood. Yet even so, being a member of a successful acting family is no assurance that a journey to the silver screen will be either smooth or inevitable. This was certainly true for Oscar-winning actress Angelina Jolie. While she and her father, Oscar-winner Jon Voight, are one of the most successful family acts currently at work in Hollywood, their relationship and its effect on Angelina’s career is complicated. Children sometimes reject their parents’ values, but they often share the same ambitions that caused the rejection in the first place. Perhaps in the end, this is nothing more than the apple not falling as far from the tree as it may have wanted to, or perhaps, for all our free will, we are still slaves to our blood ties. Voight’s career would have a significant influence on Angelina. He pursued acting with a single-minded purpose, which he demonstrated even as a young boy growing up in the New York City suburb of Yonkers. His father, Elmer, was a professional golfer and his mother, Barbara, was a housewife. Voight remembers his dad as a wonderful, strongly principled man. “He didn’t tolerate dishonesty, didn’t like liars and didn’t suffer fools gladly. People loved him,” Jon recalled. 1 While Jon showed flair as both an athlete and an artist, he aspired to act, so after graduating from Washington D.C.’s Catholic University, Voight made the pilgrimage to New York City, where he took acting classes and began landing small acting jobs. Although he picked up odd jobs here and there, he frequently had to borrow money from his father. Nevertheless, Jon says that his dad was always supportive and understanding, which he now understands “was difficult in a certain sense for a parent. Because you never know if a kid is going to be successful.” 2 When his dad was struck by a car and killed in 1964, Jon went through a period of severe grief and loss. However, he knew his father would want him to continue, so rather than pack up and go home, he kept going on auditions and took any roles that came his way. Then, in 1967, he became famous. His breakout role was in Midnight Cowboy as Joe Buck, a naïve male prostitute whose homoerotic relationship with his ad hoc pimp earned the film Hollywood’s first X-rating as well as an Oscar for Best Picture. The movie’s critical success gave Voight what he needed—an entrée into film casting offices. Unfortunately, Voight’s professional success coincided with the demise of his first marriage to actress Laurie Peters, whom he divorced in 1967. Voight moved to Los Angeles to pursue his film career and was cast in a string of successful movies, including Deliverance , Odessa File , and Catch 22 . He also remarried—this time to 20-year-old French actress Marcheline Bertrand. In 1973, Bertrand gave birth to James Haven, who was followed two years later by Angelina Jolie, born June 4, 1975. The children’s middle names were intentional—Marcheline and Jon foresaw a day when their children might want to pursue entertainment careers but not use the family name.