Who Are Angelina Jolie’s Parents?

Jolie’s dad, Voight, was born in Yonkers, NY, in 1938. He started to pursue appearing after graduating from faculty and first obtained crucial approval for his position in 1969’s “Midnight Cowboy.” He received an Oscar for his position in 1978’s “Coming Residence,” and his display screen credit additionally embrace “Warmth,” “Mission: Inconceivable,” and “Ali.” Extra lately, he appeared on Showtime’s collection “Ray Donovan.” He additionally appeared in “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider” as the daddy of Jolie’s Lara. When Jolie received her personal Oscar for finest supporting actress in 2000, she thanked her dad in her speech, saying, “Dad, you are an amazing 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 an announcement on the time, “I do not need to make public the explanations for my unhealthy relationship with my father. I’ll solely say that, like each baby, [my brother] and I’d have cherished to have had a heat and loving relationship with our dad. In spite of everything these years, I’ve decided that it’s not wholesome for me to be round my father, particularly now that I’m accountable for my very own baby.” She reportedly didn’t converse to her father till her mom died in 2007.

However ultimately, it appears, Jolie began to fix fences together with her dad. She advised Parade in 2010 that that they had 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 and so they’ve met him, and I feel that is vital that they will do this,” per E! Information. “We’re in one another’s lives, however we do not, as a rule, focus on 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 advised Self-importance Honest about her dad’s abilities as a grandparent, saying, “He is been excellent at understanding they wanted their grandfather right now. I needed to do a remedy assembly final evening and he was simply round. He is aware of form of the rule — do not make them play with you. Simply be a cool grandpa who’s inventive, and hang around and inform tales and browse a guide within the library.”

Again in 2020, Voight additionally praised Jolie’s parenting abilities. “She loves her children, she’s all the time concerned with them, all the time involved for them,” he advised 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 need to do is present them with the instruments to specific that.”

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