Angelina Jolie covers Harper’s Bazaar US holiday December 2019-January 2020 issue, styled by Patrick Mackie. The ‘Maleficent: Mistress of Evil’ costar who will play in Marvel’s ‘The Eternals’, release date Nov. 6, 2020, is lensed by Sølve Sundsbø in ‘A Prayer for the Wild at Heart’./ Hair by Malcolm Edwards; makeup by Val Garland

In their introduction to their end of one decade, launch of the 2020s interview, Harper’s does a quick survey of Angelina Jolie — the founding muse of AnneofCarversville.com. I remember well reading Angelina’s Esquire interview on a warm Sunday morning in Carversville. It was a moment that changed my own trajectory, returning me to a life of activism in a post-September 2001 world.

Considering Angelina’s thoughts about beheaded by ISIS WSJ reporter Daniel Pearl — in a moment of pure impulse — AOC was born.

Harper’s introduction to Angelina’s interview — answers delivered digitally — makes me proud to know we have covered every step of issues that matter deeply to Angelina Jolie. Read those articles in Angelina’s widget at the end of her Harper’s Bazaar US images and invitation to ‘Dream Big’. ~ Anne

As we wrap up 2019, and look ahead to 2020, Harper’s BAZAAR chose Angelina Jolie to grace our final issue of the year because quite simply, there’s no one else like her. Jolie has spent nearly 20 years with the UN Refugee Agency fighting for the rights and freedoms of displaced people, and over 10 years funding schools for girls from Afghanistan to Kenya to Cambodia. She is a Visiting Professor in Practice at the London School of Economics, educating students on peace and security and the fight for women’s rights internationally. She champions women’s health—in particular, treatment for cancer—with honesty and openness about her own health experiences in years past.

Here, she writes candidly about “visible and invisible scars,” her fight for freedom around the world, and why she doesn’t mind sharing her new home in Cambodia with a family of chipmunks.