Girl, Interrupted

ANGELINA JOLIE: Angelina Jolie's career breakthrough was paced as much by provocative off-camera behavior as by the troubled roles she tackled on screen, a dossier including an addicted model ("Gia") and a mental patient ("Girl, Interrupted"). Her frank comments about bisexuality,... more a high-profile and eccentric marriage to Billy Bob Thornton, and a bitter public estrangement from father Jon Voight all added to Jolie's aura of transgression. Yet Jolie's evolution into a settled (if still legally unbound) partnership with Brad Pitt, her devotion to her expanding adoptive family and her emphasis on social change and humanitarian work (inspired during the shoot for "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider") have transformed this erstwhile "bad girl" into one of the most admired and respected superstars extant.

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