• 1 “Jolie” means “pretty” in French.


• 2 Jolie currently has 13 known tattoos, among them “know your rights” on her upper back, between her shoulder blades, the Tennessee Williams’s quote “A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages”, which she got together with her mother, the Arabic phrase, and a Yantra prayer written in the ancient Khmer and Pali scripts for her son Maddox, and a dragon on her lower back. She also has four sets of geographical coordinates on her upper left arm indicating the birthplaces of her children. This tattoo covers the “Billy Bob” tattoo, the name of her former husband Billy Bob Thornton. Jolie has lasered a Chinese character for death and a window on her lower back; she explained that she removed the window, because, while she used to spend all of her time looking out through windows wishing to be outside, she now lives there all of the time. During The Changeling premiere on October 4, Angelina showed off amendments to her upper arm tattoo. Here appeared new inscriptions of the longitude and latitude co-ordinates of the birthplace of her twins, Vivienne and Knox.

• 3 Angelina’s mom chose the name for her third adopted child, a baby boy from Vietnam. Her mom named him Pax.

• 4 Angelina Jolie used her son Maddox’s Nintendo DS online games to lose baby weight after giving birth to twins in July 2008. Maddox was showing Angie his games when they discovered Let’s Pilates! According to the source, Jolie tried to get in an hour of Pilates three times a week. “She’s picking it up pretty quickly and is already at the hardest setting!”

• 5 Jolie graduated from Beverly Hills High School at age 16, the same school as Lenny Kravitz.

• 6 She gave her Oscar Statuette, Golden Globes, SAG Awards, and Critic Choice Award to her mother. She felt she didn’t need to hang on to awards.

• 7 Angelina is left-handed and therefore had to have guns specially made so that she could reload them easily for Lara Croft: Tomb Raider.

• 8 Angelina Jolie is a natural blonde. “My hair went from light blonde naturally to a darker kind of blonde. My mother dyed my hair dark when I was a child as I loved the look then. So I’m basically a natural blonde,’ the star said in one of her interviews.

• 9 Jolie holds a Private Pilot Certificate with the Airplane, Single Engine, Land rating.

• 10 She teaches Buddhism to her son Maddox because she considers it part of his culture.