Who Are Angelina Jolie’s Mother and father?

Jolie’s dad, Voight, was born in Yonkers, NY, in 1938. He started to pursue appearing after graduating from faculty and first acquired essential popularity of his position in 1969’s “Midnight Cowboy.” He received an Oscar for his position in 1978’s “Coming Dwelling,” and his display credit additionally embrace “Warmth,” “Mission: Unimaginable,” and “Ali.” Extra just lately, he appeared on Showtime’s sequence “Ray Donovan.” He additionally appeared in “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider” as the daddy of Jolie’s Lara. When Jolie received her personal Oscar for greatest supporting actress in 2000, she thanked her dad in her speech, saying, “Dad, you are an important actor however you are a greater father.”

However Jolie and Voight’s difficulties have typically been made public. In 2002, when Jolie cut up from then-husband Billy Bob Thornton, Voight slammed Jolie within the press. He mentioned he was “brokenhearted . . . as a result of I have been attempting to succeed in my daughter and get her assist, and I’ve failed and I am sorry,” per Leisure Weekly. “Actually I have never come ahead and addressed the intense psychological issues she has spoken about so candidly to the press over time, however I’ve tried behind the scenes in each approach.”

Jolie mentioned in a press release on the time, “I do not wish to make public the explanations for my dangerous relationship with my father. I’ll solely say that, like each baby, [my brother] and I might have cherished to have had a heat and loving relationship with our dad. In any case these years, I’ve decided that it’s not wholesome for me to be round my father, particularly now that I’m chargeable for my very own baby.” She reportedly didn’t converse to her father till her mom died in 2007.

However finally, it appears, Jolie began to fix fences together with her dad. She instructed Parade in 2010 that they’d began talking once more. She spoke a bit about their reconciliation within the January 2012 situation of Marie Claire, saying, “He is met the children they usually’ve met him, and I believe that is necessary that they’ll try this,” per E! Information. “We’re in one another’s lives, however we do not, as a rule, talk about the previous,” she mentioned, including that she was the one who referred to as him when her mother handed, which was the primary time they’d spoken in six years.

In 2017, Jolie instructed Self-importance Honest about her dad’s abilities as a grandparent, saying, “He is been excellent at understanding they wanted their grandfather presently. I needed to do a remedy assembly final evening and he was simply round. He is aware of type of the rule — do not make them play with you. Simply be a cool grandpa who’s artistic, and hang around and inform tales and browse a ebook within the library.”

Again in 2020, Voight additionally praised Jolie’s parenting abilities. “She loves her youngsters, she’s at all times concerned with them, at all times involved for them,” he instructed reporters at a pre-Golden Globes gala, per Folks. He added that the largest factor he is discovered about being a grandfather is “each baby is exclusive.” He defined, “All of them have one thing particular, and what you wish to do is present them with the instruments to specific that.”

Voight can also be a vocal supporter of former President Donald Trump.