Angelina Jolie, star of the Oscar-bound Maria Callas biopic Maria, has mixed thoughts about biopics. "That gets the most insane question award," Jolie recently told The Times in response to a question about what a Pablo Larraín biopic of her own life would look like.

Angelina Jolie has played many a real-life figure throughout her Oscar-winning career, from supermodel Gia Carangi (“Gia”) to journalist Mariane Pearl (“A Mighty Pearl”) and now opera singer Maria Callas (“Maria”).

Netflix film Maria, directed by Pablo Larraín from a Steven Knight screenplay, sees Jolie playing the American-Greek soprano in her final days in Paris, as the diva reckons with her identity and life after a glamorous and tumultuous life in the public eye. In real life, Callas died of a heart attack at her Paris home in 1977 at age 53.

“Maria,” Pablo Larraín’s cinematic portrait of opera legend Maria Callas, arrives as the third of the director’s films centered on iconic women of the 20th century.

Finding the breath of Maria Callas was enough to bring things out of Jolie that she didn’t even know were in her.

While the glamorous role of a declining opera diva would seem perfect for a star of Jolie's profile, it's undernourished by the screenplay's limited conception.

Oscar winner Angelina Jolie sits down to talk about motherhood and her new starring role in "Maria" on "Good Morning America."

Angelina Jolie glides through the final days of Maria Callas in Pablo Larraín’s “Maria." Currently playing in select theaters and streaming on Netflix Dec. 11, “Maria," rated R, plays like an opera, grandly theatrical and evocative of a larger-than-life star.