10+ Little Known Facts About Angelina Jolie

She is known for far more than just her acting skills.

She is an amazing activist, and was in the news for a long time due to the drama that surrounded her and Brad Pitt.

In fact, there are a ton of things that fans might not know about the major star!

But don't worry! We are here to help! Let's get into it!

Angelina has served as a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

The appointment came after she visited and provided relief efforts in Pakistan, Tanzania, as well as Sierra Leone.

"I see different aid workers in camps helping each other from everywhere – people who have come together from all over the world to help. It’s changed my view of what is important," she has said.

While most kids her age were dreaming about becoming famous rockstars or athletes, Angelina aspired to be a funeral director.

As a young girl, Angelina was fascinated by death and wanted to explore the concept to the fullest.

"And in fact it wasn't a need to be destructive or rebellious—it's that need to find a full voice, to push open the walls around you. You want to be free."

"It may come out very strange, it may be interpreted wrong, but you're trying to find out who you are."

When she was a kid, Angelina used to keep snakes as pets! She reportedly owned two of them growing up.

As you can probably imagine, this came in handy when the time came for her to shoot the snake scene in Alexander.

Angelina is the daughter of legendary actor, Jon Voight. The pair have had a very public and tumultuous relationship over the years, which Jolie says stemmed from Voight's infidelity toward her mother.

The pair appeared on-screen together in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

The film was Hackers and Angelina played Kate Libby, better known on the dark web as Acid Burn.

When I was young, my best friend was totally obsessed with this movie. It actually isn't half-bad to tell you the truth.

Angelina took things to a whole new level of weird when she decided to wear a white shirt with Johnny's name written on the back — in her own blood!

To celebrate their first year of marriage, Billy Bob and Angelina wore a vial of each other's blood around their necks.

Does anyone else think that Angelina might actually be a vampire?

Angelina has what's called a Single Engine Land Rating, which basically means she can fly any single-engine plane (other than a seaplane) under visual flight rules.

This means that Angelina is not instructed on how to fly with the assistance of instruments...yet.

Angelina says that since both she and her brother had an estranged relationship with their father, it brought them closer together.

But their behavior is often "a little more than kin." At one point, the siblings were accused of having an incestuous relationship with one another.

In preparation for the birth of their daughter Shiloh, Angelina and Brad Pitt sold the first pictures of their newborn for an incredible $4.1 million.

After receiving the funds, they donated the proceeds to charity.

Over the years Angelina has worked tirelessly to help the people of Cambodia.

In 2005, she was made an honorary citizen by the king himself, as a way of saying thank you for her tireless efforts.

In 2013, Angelina received horrible news. Her doctor informed her that she carried a recessive gene that gave her an 87% probability of contracting breast cancer.

Rather than face the odds, Angelina made the decision to have a double mastectomy.

Lana Del Rey's voice has the haunting allure of a siren's call. It's equal parts captivating and eerie and her talents played perfectly for the score of the film.

It was all thanks to Angelina, who is said to have hand-picked Lana for the job.

Being as multicultural and diverse as the Jolie-Pitt family are, they have many opportunities to learn from one another.

More specifically, Jolie makes sure that the kids all learn more than one language.

I don't know about you, but that sounds like a really well-educated bunch!

Languages aren't easy to learn!

In case you were wondering, a dame is essentially the female equivalent of a knight. Why knights still can't be female is a discussion for another day.

Angelina was made an honorary dame in 2014 for her work in UK foreign policy.

"I realized that very young—that a life where you don't live to your full potential, or you don't experiment, or you're afraid, or you hesitate, or there are things you know you should do but you just don't get around to them, is a life that I'd be miserable living."

Honestly, she makes a lot of sense if you ask me.

"Brad and I made the decision that we wouldn't keep them from sets and the fun of making movies, but we wouldn't [glorify it either]—we wouldn't make it a good thing or a bad thing. But I would really prefer they do something else," she said to Elle.

We might have mentioned it above when we talked about her fascination with death, but we're going to deep dive into it more!

There was a very thoughtful reason behind her desire!

“It sounds like this very strange, eccentric, dark thing to do but in fact I lost my grandfather and was very upset with his funeral. How somebody passes and how family deals with this passing and what death is should be addressed in a different way.”

"I knew little about the world and I was completely self-absorbed," she said. "I used to think I was unstable, because I had this thirst for something. I could never figure out what it was."

"And I always saw myself — wherever I was in life — staring out the window."

Just because movies and TV tells us women have an eye for decoration, that doesn't mean it's true!

In fact, Jolie doesn't really know how to manage that! House stuff, and decorating, according to her "was always Brad’s thing."

“We care for each other and care about our family, and we are both working towards the same goal.” she said in an interview with Vanity Fair.

It's important to keep the family working well!

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