Angelina: Bad Girl Of Goodwill

Posted Wednesday, August 22, 2001 at 3:01 PM Central

by Heather Koehler

Angelina Jolie is one of Hollywood's wildest cards, but she's still warm at heart. Next Monday she'll be Playing By Heart when she is named United Nations Goodwill Ambassador.

Her travels while filming Lara Croft: Tomb Raider put her in Sierra Leone and Cambodia refugee camps and she revisited both after filming ended. Angelina is in Pakistan right now.

"She has a genuine interest in refugee issues and she is fantastically popular," a U.N. spokesperson said. "The kind of people who find the U.N. boring, young people and teenagers who are not interested in refugee issues, adore Angelina Jolie."