It may have been two years since Oscar winner Angelina Jolie graced the big screen but this week she is back with her new action movie Salt. She takes on the role of a CIA Agent who is accused of being a Russian spy.
So to celebrate Jolie's triumphant return to the big screen we take a look at some of the best performances of her career - and no Tomb Raider is not included.
1. Girl Interrupted
Girl Interrupted was released in 1999 and established Jolie as a cinema actress, after having major success with some television movies.
Directed by Walk the Line filmmaker James Mangold the film also starred Winona Ryder and was adapted from the original memoir Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen.
It's 1967, and 17 year old Susanna Kaysen (Winona Ryder) is like a lot of American teenagers her age confused, insecure, struggling to make sense of the rapidly changing world around her.
The psychiatrist she meets with (courtesy of her parents), however, gives this behaviour a name Borderline Personality Disorder, "manifested by uncertainty about self-image, long-term goals, types of friends or lovers to have, and which values to adopt" and whisks her away to Claymoore.
Here, Susanna discovers Lisa, Daisy, Georgina, Polly and Janet a group of offbeat young women who not only become her closest friends, but light Susanna’s way back to someone she had lost herself.
At the hospital "the other Ivy League" Susanna loses herself in a world of eccentric young women, among them Lisa (Angelina Jolie), a charming sociopath; Daisy (Brittany Murphy), a pampered "Daddy’s girl" with a predilection for rotisserie chicken and laxatives; and Polly (Elisabeth Moss), a burn victim whose heart, unlike her face, remains remarkably unscarred.
Ultimately, Susanna must choose between the world of those who belong on the inside of the institution and the often difficult world of reality on the outside.
But it was Jolie who stole the film winning an Academy Award, Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Lisa Rowe.
2. A Mighty Heart
Directed by Michael Winterbottom A Might Heart follows Mariane Pearl, the widow of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Daniel was kidnapped and executed in Pakistan in 2002, and Winterbottom's film centres on the frantic activities leading up to his death.
Fellow journalist Mariane revs into action as soon as the disappearance of her husband is announced, calling on the FBI and experts in terrorism to help in the desperate search.
With the media circling around the story like hawks, Mariane endures a very public display of grief.
Despite not being a huge financial success the film, and Jolie's performance, was well received by the critics. For her role she was nominated for Best Actress at the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
3. Gia
The film Gia follows Gia Carangi, a young woman who rose to the forefront of the modelling industry very quickly.
However her success soon brought problems as her persistent loneliness drives her to experiment with mood-altering drugs like heroin.
She becomes entangled in a passionate affair with Linda, a make-up artist. However, after a while Linda begins to worry about Gia's drug use and gives Gia an ultimatum, with Gia choosing the drugs.
Failed attempts at reconciliation with Linda and with her mother Kathleen Carangi drive Gia to begin abusing heroin.
Although she is eventually able to break her drug habit after much effort, she has already contracted HIV from a needle containing infected blood and dies of complications from AIDS in the year 1986 at the age of 26.
A film for television Gia brought Jolie critical praise and she won a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television and a Screen Actors Guild Awards.
4. Changeling
Changeling saw Jolie work alongside Oscar winning director and actor Clint Eastwood and was based on real life events in 1928 Los Angeles.
In a working-class suburb, single mother Christine Collins (Jolie) says goodbye to her nine-year-old son, Walter, and leaves for her job as a telephone operator. But when Christine returns to their modest home, she is confronted with every parent’s worst nightmare: Her son has vanished.
Five months later, when a child, claiming to be her boy, is returned by police who are eager to bask in the public-relations coup of reuniting mother and child.
Dazed by the swirl of cops, reporters, photographers and her own conflicted emotions, Christine is persuaded to take the boy home. But in her heart, she knows he is not Walter.
Facing corrupt police who question her sanity and a skeptical public hungry for a fairy-tale ending, Christine desperately hunts for answers. As she searches, she becomes an unlikely heroine for the poor and downtrodden who have been systematically abused and swept aside by the police state that has gripped L.A.
The movie was a critical success and Jolie picked up a Best actress Oscar nomination, losing out to Kate Winslet.
5. Wanted
The same year that Jolie was wowing everyone with her dramatic performance in Changeling she was kicking everyone's ass in Timur Bekmambetov's first English speaking movie Wanted.
The anxious, clumsy and abused office clerk Wesley Allan Gibson has a hell and boring routine life: his obese boss humiliates him all the time and his girlfriend betrays him with his colleague and best friend during working period.
When he meets the sexy Fox, Wesley is informed that his father was a professional killer that belonged to an ancient organization called Fraternity and killed by the skilled and powerful Cross, a hit-man that has betrayed the Fraternity.
Wesley learns that his anxiety actually is a manifestation of his latent abilities and he joins the society under the command of Sloan. Trained by Fox, he changes his personality and attitude, being prepared to face the dangerous Cross and find a hidden secret.
The film took $341 million at the box office.
Salt is released 18th August.
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It may have been two years since Oscar winner Angelina Jolie graced the big screen but this week she is back with her new action movie Salt. She takes on the role of a CIA Agent who is accused of being a Russian spy.
So to celebrate Jolie's triumphant return to the big screen we take a look at some of the best performances of her career - and no Tomb Raider is not included.
1. Girl Interrupted
Girl Interrupted was released in 1999 and established Jolie as a cinema actress, after having major success with some television movies.
Directed by Walk the Line filmmaker James Mangold the film also starred Winona Ryder and was adapted from the original memoir Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen.
It's 1967, and 17 year old Susanna Kaysen (Winona Ryder) is like a lot of American teenagers her age confused, insecure, struggling to make sense of the rapidly changing world around her.
The psychiatrist she meets with (courtesy of her parents), however, gives this behaviour a name Borderline Personality Disorder, "manifested by uncertainty about self-image, long-term goals, types of friends or lovers to have, and which values to adopt" and whisks her away to Claymoore.
Here, Susanna discovers Lisa, Daisy, Georgina, Polly and Janet a group of offbeat young women who not only become her closest friends, but light Susanna’s way back to someone she had lost herself.
At the hospital "the other Ivy League" Susanna loses herself in a world of eccentric young women, among them Lisa (Angelina Jolie), a charming sociopath; Daisy (Brittany Murphy), a pampered "Daddy’s girl" with a predilection for rotisserie chicken and laxatives; and Polly (Elisabeth Moss), a burn victim whose heart, unlike her face, remains remarkably unscarred.
Ultimately, Susanna must choose between the world of those who belong on the inside of the institution and the often difficult world of reality on the outside.
But it was Jolie who stole the film winning an Academy Award, Golden Globe and a Screen Actors Guild for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Lisa Rowe.
2. A Mighty Heart
Directed by Michael Winterbottom A Might Heart follows Mariane Pearl, the widow of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Daniel was kidnapped and executed in Pakistan in 2002, and Winterbottom's film centres on the frantic activities leading up to his death.
Fellow journalist Mariane revs into action as soon as the disappearance of her husband is announced, calling on the FBI and experts in terrorism to help in the desperate search.
With the media circling around the story like hawks, Mariane endures a very public display of grief.
Despite not being a huge financial success the film, and Jolie's performance, was well received by the critics. For her role she was nominated for Best Actress at the Golden Globes and the Screen Actors Guild Awards.
3. Gia
The film Gia follows Gia Carangi, a young woman who rose to the forefront of the modelling industry very quickly.
However her success soon brought problems as her persistent loneliness drives her to experiment with mood-altering drugs like heroin.
She becomes entangled in a passionate affair with Linda, a make-up artist. However, after a while Linda begins to worry about Gia's drug use and gives Gia an ultimatum, with Gia choosing the drugs.
Failed attempts at reconciliation with Linda and with her mother Kathleen Carangi drive Gia to begin abusing heroin.
Although she is eventually able to break her drug habit after much effort, she has already contracted HIV from a needle containing infected blood and dies of complications from AIDS in the year 1986 at the age of 26.
A film for television Gia brought Jolie critical praise and she won a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television and a Screen Actors Guild Awards.
4. Changeling
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