Lookin' to Get Out (1982)
Angelina made her movie debut at the tender age of seven. She appeared as Tosh in this Hal A🥃shby movie, alongside her father Jon Voight. The movie centres on a couple of gamblers who head to Las Vegas in an attempt t☂o turn their fortunes around.
It's only a tiny role for Jolie, the first babysteps on the road to megastardom.♊ Jolie has since seen her tumultuous relationship with h🍃er father splashed across the tabloids.
Superstar Status: Too young to judge really.
Cyborg 2 (1993)
After accompanying her dad to work as a seven-year-old, Jolie stayed away from the big screen for the next 11 years, b𒁏efore appearing in this sequel to the 1989 Jean Claude Van Damme 'classic'.
Jolie is cast as a seductive cyborg, and she gets to work alongside such notaries as E🐭lias Koteas and Jack Palance. Sadly, those gravelly thesps (and a flashback Van Damme), can't rescue this one from B-movie infamy.
Superstar Status: Her intentions are go🎃od, but this isn't the vehicle to showcase her scrﷺeen charisma.
Without Evidence (1995)
Jolie's next movie project (besides a couple of shorts and an appearance🦂 in a Meat Loaf video) was in this true life taleꦅ. When the leader of a correctional institute is murdered, his brother Kevin Francke (Scott Plank) starts an investigation into the drug ring that could be behind it.
Angelina turns up as Jodie Swearingen, though sadly her character isn't as much fun as Ian McShane's in Deadwood . This is a workmanlike thriller at best, and would p♍robably have disappeared entirely if it wasn't for the presence of young AJ.
Superstar Status: Bargain bin territory.
Hackers (1995)
This was the first movie to earn Angelina some major attention, and she met her first 🦹husband, Johnny Lee Miller, on the set.
Jolie and Miller are a couple of high-school hacking experts, who end up with the secret service on their case. Treading similar ground to Sandra Bullock starrer The Net (which was released the same year), the on-screen technology i𓃲s likely to induce winces and snorts, but thisꦰ rattles along with enough youthful pace for you to almost forgive it.
Superstar Status: There are the first hiไnts of the megawatt charisma that she'll soon become famous for.
Love Is All There Is (1996)
This was a modern interpretation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet , but it was blown out of the water by Baz Luhrmann's striking modern reimagining of the star-cross💧ed lovers tale. It would've been interesting to see Jolie in the Luhrmann movie actually, as she'd have no doubt brought her unique intensity to the role of the anguished teen.
Instead she's mostly wasted in this version, though she does get to show off a lighter side.ꦛ Oddly Paul Sorvino pla🍨yed the Juliet character's father in both versions.
Superstar Status: If only she was in the other movie, this wou🌳ld have been a resounding leap upwards.
Mojave Moon (1996)
Jolie played an attractive young temptress in this largely forgettable road movie. Al McCord (Dann🥀y Aiello) spots Ellie (Jolie) while at a restaurant. He agrees to drive her to the Mojave Desert, and when they get there he starts romancing her mum.
Michꦅael Biehn is present as El💞lie's mother's irritable, no-good boyfriend, and he can't help but add to the feeling that you're watching a no-frills B-movie. An escalating string of ridiculous events follows, culminating in a silly showdown.
Superstar Status: Aꦆs the short-s෴kirted Lolita, there's no denying Ange's burning screen appeal is growing.
Foxfire (1996)
Despite her famous parentage, and her undeniable screen charisma, Jolie took a ꦦlittle while finding her wings. She's squandered again in this story of a group of high school girls and their experience of a pervy tea🐻cher.
The film gained subsequent notoriety for some Jolie nudity, and🐓 that'll likely be the only reason that 🍌anyone would bother to revisit this.
Superstar Status: 👍 This isn't exactly the best evidence for her t🌠alent.
True Women (1997)
Angelina's career was still in the 'uneventful' stages when she starred in this epic romance. She played Georgia Vi🌱rginia Lawshe Woods in this miniseries, which was adapted from the novel by Janice Woods Windle.
There's a couple of of noteworthy appearances, including Michael 'Basil Exposition' York and Candyman star Tony Todd, but sadly♊ this doesn't make for an essential box set. Epic in scope, but unable to live up to its🔴 themes.
Superstar Status: Treading water here.
George Wallace (1997)
This was another TV movie, though it had solid Hollywood connections: Gary Sinise played the lead role, and John Frankenheimer w♔as at the helm. It also won Angelina her first notable award, as she walked away with a Golden Globe.
Unsurprisingly, this is the story of George ಌWallace, one-time Governor of Alabama. He is known for his controversial stance on racial segregation, and his four failed attempts at running for president. Jolie played Wallace's second wife Cornelia.
Superstar Status: She was now starting to get some recognition.
Playing God (1997)
David Duchovny was carrying his first major movie after finding cult success with The X-Files . He plays Eugene Sands, a disgraced surgeon who falls into the employ of m🃏obster Raymond Blossom (Timothy Hut꧅ton).
Sands ignores the first rule of the Mob Movie Law by getting involved with the boss's trophy gal Claire (Jolie). Duchovny's name post- X-Files couldn't ꦏsave this one from disastrous reviews: it earnt paltry box office tak🅷ings, before vanishing entirely.
Superstar Status: Even in this kind of dross, she still e❀xudes that unmistakeable🏅 movie star charisma that just promises she'll make it big soon enough.
Gia (1998)
Another🔜 TV movie for Jolie here, but this one became a major calling card for the actress. She bagged another Golden Globe for the lead role in this true story of the life of model Gia Carangi.
Obviously Angelina had the looks to play the supermodel, but she proved she had th💯e acting mettle too. Exuding a beguiling mix of confidence and fragility, it was Jolie's first chance to essay a characte🦩r on the verge of a breakdown, as Gia goes from overnight success to HIV-infected drug addict.
Superstar Status: She's definitely getting there...
Hell's Kitchen (1998)
A crime movie as opposed to an episode of the Gordon Ramsay cooking challenge, though being bollocked by Gordon would have probably been more interesting. Mekhi Phifer staꦅrs as Johnny, an ex-con who has just been down for a five year stretch after a robbery goes tits up.
Angelina plays Gloria, a young girl whose brother was killed in the heist-gone-wrong. She wants to make Johnny pay for the pain he caused, but Johnny just wants to reinvent himself as a boxer. Hell's Kitchen 🐻 had an almost non-existent cinema relꩵease, and has barely been seen since.
Superstar Status: A small blip in her ascending trajectory.
Playing by Heart (1998)
Jolie joined a starry cast for what was her biggest production to date. Something of a forerunner to Love Actually , William Carroll's movie darts in and out of a bunch of relationships across LA. Jolie pairs off with Ryan Phillipe in the 'youn🏅g contingent' strand, and their segments always boost the movie's energy.
Older folks Sean Connery and Gena Rowlands are also worthy of note, but the remaining segments just sag, and by the time they're all tied together you'll have probably lost interest༺.
Superstar Status: She proves🙈 she can hack it ไalongside some seasoned cast members (and Ryan Phillipe).
Pushing Tin (1999)
Angelina met future husband Billy Bob Thornton on the set of this romantic dramedy. Mike Newell was i𒁃n the di🎶rector's chair, as air traffic controller Nick (John Cusack) slowly starts to succumb to the stress of his job.
Thornton is rival controller Russell, and Ange is Mary, his unfeasibly young and attractive wife. Nick adds to the a𒅌nxieties on his plate when he ends up bedding Mary. Things become a bit convoluted, but the quality cast (did we mention Cate Blanchett plays Nick's not-unatﷺtractive wife?) keep things moving.
Superstar Status: Her name was starting to stick i🧜n pe𓆉ople's minds now.
The Bone Collector (1999)
Jolie continued her ascent with this grisly crime thriller. Middling reviews didn't stop 🐽this one from from doing decent business at the box office.
Angelina toned down the glamour a bit to play rookie cop Amelia Donaghy, who becomes the eyes and ears of paraplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme (Denzel Washington). In the aftermath of Seven this felt creakingly old-fashioned, but Denzel still manages to ooze p𝓀resence when he's confined to a hospital bed, with Jolie seemingly unfazed by taking on bigger budget mꦑaterial.
Superstar Status: She was being promoted to the big leagues now.
Girl, Interrupted (1999)
This was supposed to be a Winona Ryder 𓆉vehicle, but Jolie steals the movie out from under her in the supporting role that wo༺n her an Oscar, and certified her position on the A list.
If this is One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with chicks then Jolie is the Jack Nicholson of the bunch. As the sociopathic Lisa Rowe, she's the lifeblood of the movie: charismatic, antagonistic, agressive and bruised. Things are a little less interesting whenever she'🌞s not onscreen.
Superstar Status: With the Oscar ♕in the bag, Jolie💯 had truly arrived.
Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000)
Perhaps looking for a bit of respite after a somewhat heavy pღeriod piece, Angelina showed that the Oscar hadn't gone to her 🀅head by starring in this ludicrous actioner opposite Nicolas Cage.
Singularly failing to deliver on the movie's premise, n🎶one of the car chase scenes here💯 are particularly impressive, and there's not much else to recommend. Vinnie Jones was still trying to launch his acting career at this point, and his appearance is particularly unsettling.
Superstar Status: She proves she can hold her own with the boys, as she flaunts her ability to convince 𝄹in action roles.
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
Jolie won the once-coveted role of Lara Croft over a number of competitors. While the film is far fr♓om perfect, it showed that her star was rising in Hollywood. The pl♕ot is of little interest really, which is a good thing, as it makes not one bit of sense.
What is important is that Jolie gets to kick ass like a video game character come to life, taking down all manner of adversaries in a variety of bloodless ways. Poor reviews didn't stop this becoming the biggest ever videogame adap (until Bruckheimer's Prince Of Persia stole the worldwide title this year).
Superstar Status: Proving her action and box-office credentials.
Original Sin (2001)
A bizarre step for Jolie to take, th𒊎is seems more like the tawdry tat that 🐼you'd associate with a pre-fame starlet, not a blockbustress at the top of her game.
Cuban coffee magnate Luis (Antonio Banderas) seeks an American bride, and gets more than he bargained for (for better and worse) when Julia (Jolie) turns up on his🍒 doorstep. There's rampant nudity aplenty, but no amount of Jolie flesh or Banderas buns𓃲 make this late-night-cable thriller masquerading as Hollywood gloss appealing.
Superstar Status: Down a few notches.
Life or Something Like It (2002)
Jolie's career graph continued on it's negative dip with this weak karmic comedy. At her very blondest, Jolie still manages to shine amidst the relentless tidal wave of carpe diem cliche.
She play🉐s a newscaster who decides to change her way 🐭of life when a psychic tells her she's only got a week left to live. Cue her deciding that schlubby, earnest cameraman Ed Burns is really the guy for her.
Superstar Status: She🐼 must wield quite some power if she can escape this kind of pap with her dignityജ intact.
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003)
The first movie wasn't exactly amazing, but there was the sense that, now the character has been established, she would be able to run riot as the queen of a new adventure franchise. Cradle of Life stopped any of those hopes dead.
Jan de Bont takes the reins as director, and he seems unable to deliver a satisfying movie fr﷽om the sum of its considerable parts. Jolie reconfirms that she was the ideal choice for the role, but this lacks any sense of fun, or momentum, and action set-ups are wastefully squandered. Lara's last life.
Superstar Status: She's more than this dull sequel deserved.
Beyond Borders (2003)
Jolie's well known for her political good deeds in real life. She's long been a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations, and she has become famous for her humanitarian work. Beyond Border s unsuccessfully atte🐟mpts to merge her charitable work and movie stardom.
Director Martin Campbell shows none of the Bond -revitalising flair he's become famous for in this turgid, over-sentimental affair. It doesn't help that it also stars Clive Owen at his least charismatic. While shooting this movie, Angelina adopted first child🅰 Maddox, so some good came out of it.
Superstar Status: She fails to mesh the two si🌳des of her pu𒉰blic persona here.
Taking Lives (2004)
Jolie was back in thriller territory here, but this crime novel adaptation fa♚iled to put the spark back into her career. She stars alongside Ethan Hawke, another actor who has a similar habit of often plumping for material beneath his talent level.
Angelina is an FBI profiler on the hunt for a killer who takes on the identities of his victims. Hawke is witness w🍎ho she ends up doing the nasty with. A decent start, but the idea is smothered by cleaving to close to bogstandard formula.
Superstar Status: S🐲he seemed to be losing the golden touch by this point.
Shark Tale (2004)
You can't blame Angelina for signing up for this one. CGI🐻 animations had taken off in a big way, and it had an amazing cast and a pretty fun concept, but it turned out to be a horrible mess.
The script never really delivers the mob laughs that this desperately needs, and Will Smith's Oscar was a detestable 🌜lead character. Jolie is the seductive Lola, and the ani🍒mators have obviously tried to capture her look, but they ended up with something pretty creepy.
Superstar Status: This kerchinged big-ti𝕴me at the box office, bꩵut didn't exactly boost the credibility of anyone who appeared in it.
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Another CGI-heavy movie for Jolie, another disappointment considering the component parts. 🎐Shot almost entirely on bluescreen, this was a hi-tech, but defiantly old-fashioned, adventure. Jude Law is the titular ace pilot, out to rid the retro-futurisitic 30s of a robot enemy.
Jolie shows off her irrepressiꦍbly feisty presence as an eye-patched Navy Commander, but there's little going on beneath the glossy visuals, which, impressive as they are to look at, don't have t𝓰he texture or heft to convince.
Superstar Status: Dented by another unexpected misfire.
Alexander (2004)
Alexander received extremely mixed reviews upon release, and it has continued to divide opinion ever since. Some couldn't take Colin Farrell (and his blond hairdo) seriously as the man who conquered the world, other's felt he captured Alexander's youth, i🍨nexperience and chutzpah.
Angelina played his mother (despite the fact she's less tꦗhan a year older than Farrell), and her vampish, bizarrely-accented oedipal nightmare just shouldn't work, but she lights up the screen whenever she's on.
Superstar Status: The film wasn't a bigꦦ hit, but it showed that Ange▨lina had an unmatchable presence on screen.
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005)
Jolie finally got the hit she had been waiting for in this ro⛦mantic actioner. Her subsequent relationship with co-star Brad Pitt has kept her name in the tabloids ever since.
Doug Liman's story of a marri💛ed couple who are secretly rival assassins is throwaway stuff, but it's bombastic fun while it lasts. Jolie handles the action and the chemistry with conviction, cementing her ultimate moviestar status.
Superstar Status: And she's back in the game!
The Good Shepherd (2006)
Showing that she could hold the screen even when she's not toting a gun, Jolie is emotional and engaging in Robert De Niro's CIA drama. Matt Damon stars as Edward Wilson, a𓄧 fictꦅionalised version of real-life character James Angleton.
There's no denying this is long, in👍volving and dense, but there's plenty to appreciate if you've got the patience, not least Damon and Jolie going toe-to-toe in the domestic battles.
Superstar Status: The action gal ♎proves she can work wonders with old-school material.
A Mighty Heart (2007)
Jolie took another stab at an extremely political movie, with much strong🥃er results. Michael Winterbottom helmed this adaptation of Mariane Pearl's book. It follows her struggle to find the truth when her husband Daniel is kidnapped (and later beheaded) 💜by Pakistani militants.
It's not an easy watch, but it is a respectful tribute to real-life events. Jolie picked up a number of nominatons for ♈her committed role, and Winterbottom sustains a vivid, suffocating atmosphere.
Superstar Status: It's an int﷽imate movie but she's got gravitas to spare.
Beowulf (2007)
Another animation for Jolie, but this one captured her look to striking effect. Giving Grendel's mother the comely form of Jolie was one of Zemeckis' best decisions, moving away from the hag of the original tale (at least in the way 🐷Beowulf sees her anyway).
She manages to be seductive even when she's kitted out in stilletto hooves and an off-putting tail, and covered in a general smattering of gold scales. The movie's action scenes really benefitted from the 3D, before multi-dimensionality swamped cinemas and lost some of it💟s impact.
Superstar Status: She's has limited screentime in a supporting role, but﷽ sh✃e absolutely steals it.
Kung-Fu Panda (2008)
More CGI antics here, though this is pretty much the opposite of Beowulf 's olde Englishe bloodthirst. Inevitably, this isn't up there with the finest Pixar movies in terms of emotional wallop, 🌸but it's still decent fun, and a nice play on Jolie's action gal persona.
The action scenes are particularly not🐎eworthy, bringing the kind of verve and energy too rarely seen in animated movies. It must have been an experience that Jolie enjoyed, as she's signed up to return to the sequel, which is due to arrive in 2011.
Superstar Status: She's just having fun in here.
Changeling (2008)
Another award-magnet of a performance here, for Clint Eastwood's true-life drama. Jolie shows off some extreme stamina in the tear duct deparment as Christine Collins, a woman whose son goes missing in 20s LA. When she refuses to 🃏believe that a child who is brought to her is her missing son, she's institutionalised.
A long struggle follows, and while none of the supporting cha🍸racters match Jolie for depth, you'd be hard-pressed to not at least find a lump in your throat before the mo𒀰vie's out.
Superstar Status: Sky high: this is the Jolie show right here.
Wanted (2008)
This next movie couldn't be more different to Changeling . Angelina is back in ballsy, kick-ass, action c♍hick mode as an assassin who's part of a secret organisation who keep the world in order by carrying out hits (based on the advice of the magical loom...)
The plot makes little to no sense, but that hardly matters. Timur Bekmambetov packs✤ the screen with ultra-violent, super-showy action, and turns James McAvoy into a convincing action lead.
Superstar Status: She makes this kind of stuff look all too easy.
Salt (2010)
Are there any other actresses out there that could convincingly take on an action role earmarked for a bloke? This was originally going to be Edwin A. Salt , but the 🌺protagonist got a sex change w♉hen Tom Cruise left and Jolie stepped up.
Evelyn Salt is a CIA agent who goes on the run after being accused of double-agentry. There are twists aplenty, and this doesn't best its inspiration Bourne , but it manages to b𝓰e great, almost old-fashioned, fun, and as ever, Angelina owns the action scenes, playing the role with enough ambiguityﷺ to keep you guessing.
Superstar Status: This still could become her franchise...
The Tourist (2010)
Angelina is back in cinemas this week.
The Tourist pits her slinky charms against Johnny Depp's hapless bumbling, amidst the uber-glamourous Venice locations. The Lives of Others director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck is calling the shots on this light-hearted adventure that's 🔯aiming for an💎 old-school vibe.
The film hits cinemas today,🌺 and you can check out the official Total film verdict .
