Angelina Jolie child, seven-month-old Maddox Chivan, from an orphanage in Battambang, Cambodia. He was born as Rath Vibol on August 5, 2001, in a local village. After twice visiting Cambodia, while filming "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider" (2001) and on a UNHCR field mission, Jolie returned in November 2001 with her husband, Billy Bob Thornton, where they met Maddox and subsequently applied to adopt him. The adoption process was halted the following month when the U.S. government banned adoptions from Cambodia amid allegations of child trafficking. Although Jolie's adoption facilitator was later convicted of visa fraud and money laundering, her adoption of Maddox
Angelina Jolie attention to humanitarian causes. "Beyond Borders" was a critical failure; Kenneth Turan of the "Los Angeles Times" acknowledged Jolie's ability to "bring electricity and believability to roles," but wrote that "the limbo of a hybrid character, a badly written cardboard person in a fly-infested, blood-and-guts world, completely defeats her." The year 2004 saw the release of four films featuring Jolie. She first starred in the thriller "Taking Lives" as an FBI profiler summoned to help Montreal law enforcement hunt down a serial killer. The film received mixed reviews; "The Hollywood Reporter" critic Kirk Honeycutt concluded, "Jolie plays a role that