Tag: Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie files for divorce from Brad Pitt

by Frankie TAGGART LOS ANGELES, United States (AFP) — Angelina Jolie has filed for divorce from Brad Pitt and is seeking custody of their six children, spelling the end for “Brangelina,” one of Hollywood’s highest-profile celebrity couples. The 41-year-old Jolie filed legal documents on Monday citing irreconcilable differences with Pitt, 52, and listing their date of separation as September 15, according to entertainment news websites TMZ and People. “This decision was made for the health […]

UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie visits Syrian refugee camp in Jordan

  (Reuters) — The United Nations Refugee Agency’s (UNHCR) Special Envoy Angelina Jolie called on world leaders gathering in New York later this month to put the “root causes of the Syrian conflict and what it will take to end it” at the centre of their discussions. During a visit to the Azraq refugee camp in Jordan on Friday (September 9), Jolie said all of the camp’s 60,000 residents had suffered loss and trauma, yet […]

Angelina Jolie named visiting professor of London university

LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Hollywood star and UN refugee agency envoy Angelina Jolie is to become a visiting professor at Britain’s prestigious London School of Economics, the university announced Monday. Jolie was named as one of four new “visiting professors in practice” who will contribute to a new master’s program on “women, peace and security”. “I am very encouraged by the creation of this master’s program,” Jolie said in a statement. “I hope other […]

Angelina Jolie, the hero?

Academy award winning Actress Angelina Jolie known for her work in Tomb Raider to Mr. and Mrs. Smith and aside from being a Hollywood royalty, Jolie is also known for humanitarian and goodwill ambassador. (Eagle News Service, Reported by MJ Racadio)

Angelina Jolie addresses House of Lords committee

SEPTEMBER 10 (Reuters) — Actress and UN special envoy for refugees Angelina Jolie joined the former British Foreign Secretary William Hague in the House of Lords in London on Tuesday (September 8). They gave evidence to a parliamentary ad hoc Committee who were charged with considering the UK’s policy and practice of preventing sexual violence in conflict. The Committee took evidence from Hague, Jolie Pitt and Baroness Helic as part of an initiative Hague described as […]

Angelina Jolie ‘open’ to pursuing life in politics

(Reuters) – Academy award winning actress Angelina Jolie is “open” to pursuing a life in politics, diplomacy or public service, she told Vanity Fair magazine. Jolie, who won a best supporting actress Oscar award for her role in “Girl, Interrupted,” has already turned her hand to directing. Her latest film behind the camera, “Unbroken,” about Olympic runner, World War Two airman and prisoner of war Louis Zamperini, is set to open on Dec. 25. The […]

Angelina Jolie takes the vile out of villain in ‘Maleficent’

(Reuters) – Maleficent is a villain, and one of Disney’s most popular since she appeared as the wicked fairy in the 1959 animated feature “Sleeping Beauty,” in which she casts an evil spell on the princess. The modern reimagining of that fairytale in “Maleficent” allows Jolie to show the hurt that sparked her character’s evil side and how she overcomes it. It may be dark at times – “the darkest Disney will go” says Jolie […]