A Teenage Dream

According to Jolie, her first relationship started when she was fourteen. She and her then-boyfriend lived in her bedroom in her mother’s house. Jolie stated that this was done so as to not let her get carried away outside the house and to keep her off the streets or getting into drugs, etc. We still don’t think most adults “parent” in this fashion or ever will.

Career Beginnings

Angelina Jolie made her screen debut as a child alongside her father Jon Voight in the 1982 film Lookin’ to Get Out. In the early 1990s, she was cast in the low-budget production of Cyborg 2 (1993). Before doing Cyborg, Jolie had also acted in five student films for the USC School of Cinema, all directed by her brother, James Haven.

Acid Burn Angelina

Jolie’s most prominent role during the early years of her career was as Kate “Acid Burn” Libby in her first Hollywood picture, Hackers (1995). Her next film was 1996 comedy Love Is All There Is, a modern-day loose adaptation of Romeo and Juliet set among two rival Italian family restaurant owners in the Bronx, New York.

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