Angelina Jolie – Babe of the Day [VIDEO]

We probably don't have to do much explaining for why we chose Angelina Jolie as the Rock 102.9 Babe of the Day today. We probably have to explain why we didn't choose her sooner though! Better late than never!

Jolie is best known for her acting skills, and has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. She also promotes humanitarian causes, and is noted for her work with refugees as a Goodwill Ambassador.

Today, Jolie is one of the best known celebrities around the world. According to the Q Score, in 2000, subsequent to her Oscar win, 31% of respondents in the United States said Jolie was familiar to them; by 2006 she was familiar to 81% of Americans. In a 2006 global industry survey by ACNielsen in 42 international markets, Jolie, together with Brad Pitt, was found to be the favorite celebrity endorser for brands and products worldwide. The Hollywood Reporter named Jolie the highest-paid actress of 2008, earning $15 million per film. She topped Forbes' annual "Celebrity 100" list in 2009.  Jolie was among the "Time 100", a list of the 100 most influential people in the world as assembled by Time, in 2006 and 2008.

Oh yea, she is hot too! Jolie has attracted notable media attention for her physical appearance—in particular her full lips, being her most distinctive feature. She was named the "Sexiest Woman Alive" by Esquire in 2004, and she topped the magazine's "100 Sexiest Movie Stars of All Time" list in 2007. In 2005, she was named the "Most Beautiful Woman of the Year" by the British edition of Harper's Bazaar. That same year, she topped the "100 Sexiest Women" list in the American, Philippine, and Portuguese editions of FHM; she was named runner-up in the Danish and Romanian editions in 2001, the German edition in 2002 and 2007, the American edition in 2004 and 2006, and the French, South African and Spanish editions in 2005; she was ranked No. 3 in the Romanian edition in 2004, the Australian and British editions in 2005, the German edition in 2005 and 2006, and the French edition in 2008. In 2006, she was named the world's most beautiful woman in the "100 Most Beautiful People" issue of People; she was listed for the first time in 1998 and has been featured every year since 2004. In 2007, she was voted the greatest sex symbol of all time in the British Channel 4 television program The 100 Greatest Sex Symbols. That year she also topped the "100 Sexiest Movie Stars Ever" list in Empire; she was ranked No. 3 in 2002 and No. 2 in 2004 and 2009. She was named the "Most Beautiful Woman in the World" by Vanity Fair in 2009.

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