People.com's profile on Angelina
DARK BEAUTY
"I don't feel pretty when I'm made up," says
Mr. & Mrs. Smith's Angelina Jolie, who turned 30 on June 4. "I feel beautiful when I'm in the middle of nowhere and I'm sweating and I'm tired and I'm working really hard – or when I'm just being a mom."
UNDENIABLE CHEMISTRY
Though Jolie initially laughed off the rumors that she had an affair with a married Brad Pitt, the
Mr. & Mrs. Smith costars (pictured on the set last year) were recently spotted together in Kenya, where they shared a $2,000-a-night oceanside villa, and Morocco, where Pitt has been filming
Babel. "Brad and Angie looked very jovial," a source said of their Kenya rendez-vous. "It would have been hard to convince someone that they were not husband and wife."
STANDING TALL
Jolie and Pitt (in Las Vegas in March) have kept their distance publicly while promoting their movie. Most recently the two arrived in New York City two days apart and did a round of high-profile interviews separately. In June, Jolie again denied seeing Pitt romantically before his split with Jennifer Aniston earlier this year. She told NBC's Ann Curry: "Do I have to defend myself as a decent woman? I hope I don't have to."
HER GROUNDING
"For me, becoming a parent changed everything," says Jolie of adopted Cambodian son Maddox (in New York in June). "My priorities straightened out. He's just the greatest thing that's ever happened in my life." Even Pitt was smitten with the boy, who turns 4 in July: "Brad liked to play with (Maddox)" on the set of
Mr. & Mrs. Smith, a source told PEOPLE.
ROCK STAR
Little intimidates Jolie: Just as she did in her
Lara Croft movies, she performed her own stunts for
Mr. & Mrs. Smith, in which she plays an assassin hired to kill her husband (Pitt) – who also turns out to be a hitman. On the Asuza, Calif., set of the movie last year (left), Jolie scales a 40-ft. mountain set piece.
WORLDLY WOMAN
In her role as a United Nations goodwill ambassador – a position she's held since 2001 – Jolie travels the globe, making stops in rough locales, including, in May, an Afghan refugee camp in Pakistan. "Scenes of miseries of Afghan refugee women and children brought tears to my eyes, but I had no answers to help them out from the vulnerable conditions," she said of the experience.
PRESIDENTIAL PROWESS
"I'm not here as a politician. I'm here as a woman, as a mom," Jolie said as she continued her humanitarian mission in May, visiting the impoverished African country Sierra Leone and meeting with President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah. Later that day, she became upset when she found out workers at her hotel were paid the equivalent of $27 a month.
