Angelina Jolie produces musicals, opens a fashion line, acts in movies and raises six children after divorcing Brad Pitt.
Angelina Jolie celebrates her 49th birthday on June 4. According to ET , the star gathered with her children at home on this occasion. Zahara – the actress’s adopted daughter – returned home from Spelman College in Georgia to celebrate. Photo: Vogue
After the divorce, the image of Angelina Jolie every time she appears is often associated with her children. Jolie’s seven-member family is currently attracting attention after her children, including Shiloh, 18, Vivienne, 15, Zahara, 19, and Maddox, 23, all dropped their father’s last nаme “Pitt”, keeping the last nаme “Pitt”. Jolie”. The star couple’s first daughter – Shiloh – attracted more public attention when she applied for the court to recognize her new nаme “Shiloh Jolie” on her birthday May 27.
At a young age, Angelina Jolie achieved success in the Broadway field. The Outsiders project , which she produced, received 12 Tony nominations – an award for theater, one of the four biggest art awards in America besides Oscar, Grammy and Emmy. There are two important categories: Outstanding Musical and Outstanding Director.
The Outsiders is the passion of her and her youngest child Vivienne, according to People. The girl participated in the project as her mother’s assistant, and was also the one who inspired the star to perform the play. The actress commented that her daughter is a young artist who helps her colleagues to the best of her ability.Besides Broadway, Angelina Jolie continues to contribute to the cinema industry. After Eternals (2019), she is preparing to return to the silver screen with the role of Italian opera singer Maria Callas in Maria , scheduled to be released this year.
Angelina Jolie’s appearance in Maria. Photo: IMDb
In March, Atelier Jolie – Jolie’s sustainable fashion brand – collaborated with artist Chaz Guest to design the Oscar costume of writer Suleika Jaouad – singer Jon Baptiste’s wife. Photo: Instagram Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie designs red carpet outfits for the first time. Inspired by Jon Baptist’s documentary American Symphony , Jolie wаnted to incorporate hand-printed drawings carrying the theme of the work into the dress. She and Guest applied the Japanese Sumie fabric painting technique to complete the painting of a conductor and orchestra of musicians on the back of the dress.Atelier Jolie is headquartered in Manhattan, New York, starting operations at the end of 2023. In an interview with Vogue in September 2023, the actress said her two children Zahara and Pax Thien helped their mother build the company. Pax researched the office design, Jolie and Zahara found the location.
In 2021, the star launched the book Know Your Rights and Claim Them A Guide For Youth to help youth equip with knowledge and skills to figҺt injustice in society. She collaborated with human rights lawyer Geraldine Van Bueren – one of the first people to draft the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1989. Photo: Instagram Angelina Jolie
Actor and daughter Shiloh in Cambodia in 2022. Photo: Instagram Angelina Jolie
After the divorce, Jolie continued to carry out many humanitarian activities around the world, visiting leaders of countries and territories or community activists. In 2018, Jolie and her two daughters, Shiloh and Zahara, went to Jordan to meet Syrians living in the Zataari refugee camp in a program organized by the United Nations. The star once took Shiloh to Cambodia – eldest brother Maddox’s hometown – to interact and support charities.
Pax Thien (left) and Maddox on the set of Without Blооd 2022. Photo: People
In an interview with Entertainment Weekly in 2021, she said she loved directing but there was a time when she couldn’t pursue her passion because of family circumstances.
In June 2022, Angelina Jolie announced the production of the movie Without Blооd – a film project adapted from the work of the same nаme by writer Alessandro Baricco, with the theme of wаr. Jolie is both a director and a screenwriter. Maddox and Pax Thien supported their mother as assistant directors. The film currently has no release date.
The star has produced five film projects: In the Land of Blооd and Honey (2011), Unbroken (2014), By The Sea (2015), First They Killed My Father (2017) and Without Blооd (2022). Among them, Unbroken received an Academy Award nomination for outstanding cinematography, and In the Land of Blооd and Honey competed for the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
At the premiere of the movie Eternals in 2019, her children, except Pax Thien, appeared to support their mother’s new movie. Photo: WireImage
On the red carpet, the star told People : “What touches me is that the children always want me to be strong. The children are very happy if they see their mother happy and healthy.”
Angelina Jolie was born into a family with an artistic tradition. She first appeared on screen with her father, Jon Voight, in the film Lookin’ to Get Out (1982) and made her acting debut in 1993 with Cyborg . The star has won three Golden Globe awards and an Oscar.
She went through two marriages before marrying Brad Pitt in 2014 and divorced three years later. After the custody bаttle, the beauty and her ex-husband were entangled in a lawsuit related to estate shares in France, leading to controversy over confidentiality contracts before and after the divorce.