Angelina Jolie is celebrated worldwide for both her talents as an actress and her beauty. Her personal life has always been of great public interest and widely reported, but beyond all this, Jolie is most passionate about humanitarian causes, particularly the plight of refugees. Since her appointment by the United Nations in 2001 as a Goodwill Ambassador for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), she has gone on field missions to over twenty countries around the globe.