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Angelina spent a week on location at a place I used to work when she was filming the first Tomb Raider film a few years ago. Our paths crossed from time to time over the week and she always said hi and was an extremely grounded and pleasant individual who at the time had no entourage floating around at all. Genuinely beautiful too, which was a surprise and is a rare thing in the current celebrity mad world. Nice girl.

How interesting - up to now I always had exactly the oposite image of her.

Perhaps the absence of management/PR has done her a favour here?

Every once in a while we come across celebrities who are in fact genuine and it brings a smile to my face to find they're not all living in a dreamworld.

It's nice to hear Angelina is one of those people as it's always the impression I got. Kylie Minogue is another example and it's these people that deserve to have the press shunned for them when the press makes up utter nonsense and gossip for the sake of sales without care for the feelings of these real people.

I think if I ever met one of these celebrities who are genuinely nice I'd have to tell them I look up to them, not for being successful, but for remaining down to earth and human in spite of the corrupting influence success all to often brings because success is all to often gained undersevedly nowadays but the way people respond in the face of success is what tells a real story about how good a person someone really is. Again, it's lovely to hear Angelina is one of these people and that Kylie and maybe one or two select others aren't the only ones who have had the strength and resolve to stay human.

She's classic beautiful and a great actress (Girl Interrupted). Your comment about her being the "least controlled" celebrity you have met is interesting. She's so young (at least from my perspective) that she hasn't yet learned to guard herself. I hope she gets better at keeping a low profile.

Firstly, isn't this something of a sad indictment of those who are taken in by the modern day plague that is the cult of celebrity? The fact that someone is singled out for priase simply for being polite, frieindly and accommodating is indicative of everything that is wrong with how the Hollywood myth making machine has become so powerful and persuasive. These qualities are the least we should be demanding of those elevated to the highly paid and priviliged world of the celebrity.

Secondly, why is this article appearing in a column under the Arts & Culture banner? Miss Jolie's movies may be many things but they are certainly neither art nor culture. If Ms Iqbal really wishes to write pieces that are little more than insubstantial entertainment fluff then, perhaps, she should place them elsewhere.

I think it's great that AJ is going to put her kids before her career but millions of women do it every day without a jot of praise or attention. They also have to sacrifice a lot to do it. I doubt AJ will have to sacrifice anything!

Tacrepus, acting = art. I think she's a fabulous actress. Nice to know that she's down to earth and not like the rest of Hollywood.

Thank you Ms. Iqbal for sharing your experience in meeting Ms Jolie. I do enjoy reading about huge stars such as Ms. Jolie been so natural and down-to-earth instead of the lurid of tabloids.

Thanks Ms. Iqbal for the excellent blog updated about the meeting with Angelina Jolie.

i always saw Jolie in that light--she and Chalize....i hope she keeps it up though.

I've had the pleasure of meeting Angelina (someone i've been a fan of since her Gia days) albeit briefly and she was lovely, very charming and very warm also, my limited experience of meeting 'celebrities' hasn't always been nice but she was great to chat to quickly and very open to everyone around her.
I'm glad that this has been written, i do agree that it's rare not to find a selfish and rather spoilt Hollywood star which is a shame considering it's the people who buy the movie tickets that put them in the fortunate position they're in.

I agree completely with Razia...cinema is absolutely a form of art. Let's not forget that Jolie has done some spectacular work in her time (Gia) and some not so spectacular (Tomb Raider). It seems rather tunnel visioned to dismiss a form of art because it is relatively new, or because it appeals to a mass market.

Jolie satisfies the general criteria for an artist and an entertainer, mixing highbrow work with "fluff" as it has been referred to. Whilst I agree that it is slightly disappointing that celebrity is top of the pyramid, we can't deny that the stars are using their celebrity for good and noble causes; something the politicians seem to be having trouble with these days.