Introduction

Name : Hilary Duff 

Birth Date : September 28, 1987 

Birth Place : Houston, Texas, USA 

Birth Name : Hilary Ann Duff 

Height : 5' 4 

Nationality : American 

Profession : Actress, musician

Biography

Hilary Duff was born on 4 June 1975 in Los Angeles, California. She was born to Jon Voight - the Academy Award-winning actor and former actress/model Marcheline Bertrand. However when she was just one year old herparents divorced. Angelina was originally called Hilary Duff Voight at her birth but then she decided to use her midle name as her last name so that she earns success on her own and not because of his famous father. Angelina had always wanted to be a funeral director. But then she abondened her plans to get a name in the show business as a professional model and actress in music videos. 6-year-old Jolie worked as a professional model in London, New York and Los Angeles.

She went on to appear in five student films directed by her older brother, James Haven Voight, and as part of the Met Theater in Los Angeles honed her craft alongside such veteran players as Holly Hunter, Ed Harris and Amy Madigan. Musical groups and singers such as the Rolling Stones, Lemonheads, Meatloaf, and Lenny Kravitz would cast her in their music videos. In order to get more success in her field she decided to study at the Met Theatre group in L.A., whose alumni include Ed Harris and Holly Hunter. 

Angelina did get a chance to prove herself with a supporting role in 1993's Cyborg 2, which didn't even make it to the big screen, and a lead role in Hackers (1995),. here she met her future husband and British actor Jonny Lee Miller. Though they went through a marriage ceremony but this union was not long lasting and within an year they filed for a divorce. 

Meanwhile angelina concentrated more on her career and did numerous films. She received critical acclaim in Without Evidence (1995), where she portrayed a drug-addicted teen; Foxfire, a 1996 Joyce Carol Oates adaptation, for her portrayal of a rebellious teen known as "Legs"; as well as in 1996's Love Is All There Is, for her role as an Italian girl in love with the son of her family's rival. She then did a a supporting role in the box-office bomb Playing God, starring David Duchovny and Timothy Hutton.

What brought in the ultimate credit and recognition for Angelina was her roles int eh television. She was honored with a 1997 Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe Award and an Emmy nomination for her role as Cornelia Wallace in the TV movie George Wallace, co-starring Gary Sinise. But the best was only yet to come for Jolie. 

She won her second Golden Globe for her role as model Gia Carangi in HBO's biopic Gia. Her intense role as the drug-addicted model who was diagnosed with AIDS was highly deserving of the Best Actress Golden Globe, Emmy nomination and critical acclaim it received.

Playing By Heart, with Sean Connery, Gillian Anderson and Ryan Phillippe on the big screen was really successful for her. She played Billy Bob Thornton's seductive wife in 1999's 'Pushing Tin' and starred opposite big leaguer Denzel Washington in the thriller 'The Bone Collector' later that same year. Something which brought Angelina to the top of the chart was her role in 'Girl, Interrupted' She recieved a Golden Globe and an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.

Angelina has starred in a slew of films including Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) with Nicolas Cage, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001), for which Angelina is proud to say she did her own stunts, Original Sin (2001) with Antonio Banderas, Life Or Something Like It (2002), Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003), and Beyond Borders (2003).

In 2004, Angelina was busy starring in Taking Lives, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, Shark Tale, and as Olympias in Oliver Stone's Alexander. Then she gave yet another hit of the year 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith ' Jolie kept making headlines not only woth her success in the Hollywood film industry but also because of some sensuos acts. 

Firstly she made headlines when she eloped with her Pushing Tin co-star Billy Bob Thornton and then soon for filing a divorce. Secondly she once again made headlines when the rumors spread that she was having an affair with his co-star in Mr. and Mrs. Smith - Brad pitt.