Celebrity Olympics

Angelina Jolie is the first high-profile celebrity to accept an invitation to be a torchbearer of the Olympic Flame in the final stage of its international relay around five continents. In her acceptance letter to organizers Jolie wrote that "I would consider it an honour to run with the Olympic torch as a gesture of hope for refugees and to express my active support for sport and world peace" and noted that "the preferred time for me to run would be 1800 or 1900 hours."

Jolie starred as Lara Croft in the Tomb Raider action movies, the second of which was partially filmed on the Greek island of Santorini. In the fall she will be seen in Oliver Stone's swords-and-sandals epic Alexander.