Angelina Jolie's Real Name: Angelina Jolie Voight

Quick answer: Angelina Jolie's real name is Angelina Jolie Voight. She was born on June 4, 1975, in Los Angeles, California.

Real name and early life

Biography.com records her birth name as Angelina Jolie Voight. She is the daughter of actor Jon Voight and actress Marcheline Bertrand. Jolie is her middle name, and she used it as her professional surname. Biography.com notes that she legally dropped Voight in 2002.

She made her screen debut as a child alongside her father in Lookin' to Get Out (1982). Her career took off a decade later with Cyborg 2 (1993) and her first lead role, in Hackers (1995).

Quick facts

• Real name: Angelina Jolie Voight
• Known as: Angelina Jolie
• Born: June 4, 1975, in Los Angeles, California
• Known for: Actor
• Notable work: George Wallace, Gia, Girl, Interrupted, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
• Sources checked: Biography.com

Career highlights

Jolie won Golden Globes for the TV films George Wallace (1997) and Gia (1998), then won the Academy Award for best supporting actress for Girl, Interrupted (1999). Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) made her a leading lady, followed by hits such as Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), Wanted (2008), Salt (2010), and Maleficent (2014).

Her dramatic work includes A Mighty Heart (2007), Changeling (2008), which brought a best actress Oscar nomination, and Maria (2024), in which she played opera singer Maria Callas. She voiced Tigress in the Kung Fu Panda films and directed features including Unbroken. She is also known for long-running humanitarian work with the UN refugee agency.

Jolie has won an Academy Award, a Tony Award, and three Golden Globes, and her films have grossed more than $6.9 billion worldwide. She has been named Hollywood's highest-paid actress several times. Her 2008 Oscar nomination for Changeling, directed by Clint Eastwood, came nearly a decade after her supporting-actress win.

Name notes

Because Jolie is her real middle name, "Angelina Jolie" is not an invented stage name. She simply dropped the family surname, first professionally and then legally in 2002. Fan sites often copy names from one another, so we checked this page against Biography.com. Where sources disagree, we say so rather than guess. We also leave out middle names, nicknames, and origin stories that we couldn't confirm in a reliable source. A popular claim isn't enough to earn a place on this page if no encyclopedia, official record, or major news outlet backs it up.