Angelina Jolie has been, at various points in her life, the most dangerous actress in Hollywood, the most bankable action hero on the planet, the most talked-about half of a celebrity couple in decades, and one of the most genuinely consequential humanitarians working on behalf of the United Nations in the 21st century.
She wore a vial of her husband’s blood around her neck. She adopted children from three different continents. She made the decision to remove both of her breasts preemptively and wrote about it in The New York Times in a way that changed how millions of women around the world thought about genetic risk. She spent years fighting a divorce so bitter that lawyers across three countries made small fortunes from it. She trained for seven months to sing opera for a film role. She has more tattoos than most rock musicians and more humanitarian field missions than most diplomats.
Quick Facts About Angelina Jolie
| Detail | Information |
| Full Name | Angelina Jolie Voight |
| Professional Name | Angelina Jolie |
| Date of Birth | June 4, 1975 |
| Age (2026) | 50 years old |
| Birthplace | Los Angeles, California, USA |
| Nationality | American |
| Ethnicity | German, Slovak (paternal); French-Canadian, Dutch, German, part Iroquois (maternal) |
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (170 cm) |
| Father | Jon Voight (Academy Award-winning actor) |
| Mother | Marcheline Bertrand (actress; died January 27, 2007) |
| Brother | James Haven (actor) |
| Uncle | Chip Taylor (singer-songwriter, “Wild Thing”) |
| Godparents | Jacqueline Bisset (actress) and Maximilian Schell (actor) |
| First Husband | Jonny Lee Miller (married 1996; divorced 1999) |
| Second Husband | Billy Bob Thornton (married 2000; divorced 2003) |
| Third Husband | Brad Pitt (married August 23, 2014; divorced December 30, 2024) |
| Children | Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Knox, Vivienne |
| Academy Awards | 1 win (Girl, Interrupted, 1999); 3 nominations total |
| Golden Globe Awards | 2 wins |
| Net Worth (2026) | ~$120 million |
| Humanitarian Role | Former Special Envoy to UNHCR (2012–2022); Special Adviser (2022–present) |
| Jean Hersholt Award | Received at 2013 Academy Awards for humanitarian work |
| Fashion Venture | Atelier Jolie (sustainable fashion collective, New York, 2023) |
| Latest Major Film | Maria (2024) — Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress, Drama |
Where Was Angelina Jolie Born and Where Did She Grow Up
Angelina Jolie was born on June 4, 1975, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California, the city that would eventually become synonymous with her legend and her chaos in roughly equal measure.
She was born Angelina Jolie Voight, though she would later drop the Voight from her professional name, and eventually from her legal name too, in a very public severing from her father that we will get to in due course.
Her parents are both actors, both charismatic, both deeply complicated, were Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. Jon Voight was at that point one of the most respected actors in Hollywood, fresh off his Academy Award-winning performance in Coming Home (1978) and still glowing from the cultural impact of Midnight Cowboy (1969). Marcheline Bertrand was a former model and aspiring actress of French-Canadian, Dutch, and German descent who had studied acting with the legendary Lee Strasberg.
They were, by all accounts, a deeply mismatched pair. Jon was charismatic, restless, and famously unfaithful. Marcheline was devoted, gentle, and ultimately heartbroken.
The Parents Split Before Angelina Was Two
Angelina’s parents separated when she was barely a toddler, she was less than two years old when her father left. The divorce was finalized in 1980. Jon Voight’s departure was not a clean break but a gradual withdrawal and it left scars that Angelina would carry, and sometimes display quite publicly, for the rest of her life.
After the split, Marcheline Bertrand took her two children, James Haven (two years older than Angelina) and baby Angelina and moved to New York. She gave up her own acting ambitions entirely to focus on raising them. She never sought the spotlight for herself again. She poured everything into being a mother. The family lived in the Palisades, New York through Angelina’s childhood before returning to Los Angeles when she was 11 years old.
What Angelina Has Said About Growing Up Without Her Father
The absence of Jon Voight shaped Angelina in ways she has been remarkably open about. She has spoken in multiple interviews over the years about the loneliness she felt as a child, the identity confusion that comes from being the daughter of a famous father who is largely absent, and the particular kind of grief that comes with having a parent who is alive and present in the world but not in your life.
When she was a teenager, she legally changed her surname from Voight to Jolie, using her middle name as her surname, erasing the father’s name from her professional identity in a symbolic act that spoke louder than any interview could.
The estrangement with Voight would continue for decades, with occasional thaws and heated public fallouts and remains complicated even now as both are in their later years.
Angelina’s Heritage: A Rich Multicultural Mix
On her father Jon Voight’s side, Angelina is of German and Slovak descent. On her mother’s side, she has French-Canadian, Dutch, and German ancestry, as well as distant Iroquois Native American roots, her only known Indigenous ancestors were 17th-century Hurons, though her mother identified with this heritage and passed that identification to her children.
She is also the niece of Chip Taylor, the songwriter who wrote “Wild Thing” (one of the most covered rock songs in history) and “Angel of the Morning” — who is Jon Voight’s brother.
Her godparents are two distinguished film legends: actress Jacqueline Bisset and actor Maximilian Schell.
She arrived into this world with an extraordinary cultural inheritance. She would not waste a single piece of it.
Education and Early Life in the Arts
The Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute
When Angelina moved back to Los Angeles at age 11, her mother enrolled her at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, the prestigious acting school founded by the legendary acting teacher whose method had shaped Marlon Brando, James Dean, Dustin Hoffman, Al Pacino, and Robert De Niro, among many others.
Jolie studied at the institute for two years and threw herself into the work with a ferocity that surprised everyone around her. The Strasberg method demands that actors draw on genuine emotional memory and real experiences of real pain, real joy, real fear, to fuel their performances. For a girl who had already experienced her parents’ divorce, her father’s abandonment, financial instability, and the social isolation of frequent moves, emotional material was not in short supply.
She appeared in several theater productions during her time at the institute and discovered something important: she didn’t just want to perform. She needed to.
Beverly Hills High School
After her time at Lee Strasberg, Jolie attended Beverly Hills High School, the same school whose alumni roster includes Nicolas Cage, Rob Reiner, Rhonda Fleming, and various other entertainment industry figures. It was not, by her own account, a happy period.
Despite the famous address, Angelina did not fit in at Beverly Hills High. She was, by her own description, the odd one out dressed in black, interested in the macabre and the theatrical, socially isolated. She found the environment shallow and conformist. She cut herself. She experimented with dangerous behavior. She was, in the clinical language of adolescent psychology, a young woman in significant emotional distress who had not yet found the outlet that could contain her.
She later enrolled to study film at New York University, though she did not complete her degree but her acting career took off before she could finish.
The Teenage Modeling and Music Video Stint
At age 16, briefly and half-heartedly, Jolie modeled and appeared in a handful of music videos. The modeling career did not ignite. She was too angular, too intense, too obviously uninterested in being decorative.
What modeling did give her was a relationship with the camera, an understanding of how to be looked at without flinching. It is a skill that would serve her enormously.
Career Overview: From Hackers to Maria Callas
The Beginning: Lookin’ to Get Out and Hackers
Angelina Jolie’s first screen appearance came in a film most people have never seen: she appeared as a child in Lookin’ to Get Out (1982), a Jon Voight film in which she played, with exquisite early irony — Voight’s daughter. She was six years old.
Her professional career began properly in the early 1990s with a series of student films and low-budget productions. The real beginning came in 1995 with the cyber-thriller Hackers, which despite being remembered primarily as a campy relic of the early internet era launched two significant careers simultaneously: Jolie’s and that of her co-star Jonny Lee Miller. (More on the fact that she married him later.)
She followed Hackers with roles in Without Evidence (1995), Mojave Moon (1996), Foxfire (1996), and Playing God (1997). These were the years of a young actress finding her frequency intense, magnetic even in forgettable material, clearly operating at a level above her surroundings.
The Golden Globe Years: George Wallace and Gia
Everything accelerated dramatically in 1997. Jolie appeared in two television films that stopped Hollywood in its tracks and made clear that what was happening here was not the ordinary arrival of a new talent but something rarer and more disruptive.
In George Wallace (1997), a TNT television film, she played Wallace’s wife Cornelia Wallace. The performance earned her a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress in a Series, Miniseries or Film. She was 22 years old.
But the real revelation was Gia (1998) — an HBO biopic about Gia Carangi, one of the first major American supermodels, who died of AIDS at 26 in 1986. Jolie played Gia with a total, terrifying commitment exposing herself physically and emotionally in a performance that left no room for vanity, comfort, or safety. It was raw in the way that only real talent can be raw. The film and the performance earned her a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Film, making her a two-time Golden Globe winner before she had even turned 25.
Gia remains one of the most electrifying television performances of the 1990s. It is essential viewing for anyone who wants to understand how Angelina Jolie works.
Girl, Interrupted (1999): The Oscar That Changed Everything
In 1999, Jolie appeared in Girl, Interrupted, James Mangold’s adaptation of Susanna Kaysen’s memoir about her time in a psychiatric institution in the late 1960s. The film starred Winona Ryder as Kaysen. Jolie played Lisa Rowe, a sociopathic, charismatic, deeply dangerous fellow patient who is simultaneously the most alive and the most destructive person in any room she enters.
Jolie’s Lisa is one of cinema’s great performances and a portrait of someone with virtually no impulse control and absolutely lethal intelligence, played with the kind of uninhibited energy that suggests the actress didn’t just understand Lisa but recognized her. The performance earned Jolie the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at the 72nd Academy Awards.
She accepted the Oscar in a black Versace dress, kissed her brother James Haven on the lips at the ceremony in a moment that generated years of tabloid speculation, and gave a speech in which she said, with complete sincerity: “I’m so in love with my brother right now. He just held me and said he loved me and I know he’s so happy for me.”
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001): The Action Franchise That Made Her a Global Phenomenon
If Girl, Interrupted established Jolie as an actress of the highest order, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) established her as something different entirely: a global action star and pop culture icon.
The film was based on the enormously popular video game franchise featuring Lara Croft, an aristocratic British archaeologist-adventurer who was essentially Indiana Jones if Indiana Jones had been written by someone trying to create the most physically extraordinary female character in entertainment. Jolie embodied Lara completely: the accent, the physicality, the combination of intelligence and ferocity, the extraordinary grace under pressure.
The film grossed $274 million worldwide on a budget of $115 million. It made Jolie the highest-paid actress in Hollywood at the time. It made Lara Croft one of the most recognized fictional characters in the world. It made clear that Angelina Jolie was not an art-house actress who occasionally did genre work but something much more versatile and commercially formidable.
The sequel, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003), grossed approximately $157 million worldwide.
The Mid-Career Peak: Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Wanted, Salt and Beyond
The years 2005–2010 represented the apex of Jolie’s commercial career, a period when she was arguably the most bankable female action star in the history of cinema.
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005)
It was the film that changed everything — on screen and off. The action-comedy, directed by Doug Liman, starred Jolie and Brad Pitt as a married couple who discover they are both professional assassins contracted to kill each other. The chemistry between the two leads was unmissable, uncontainable, and — as the world would soon discover — entirely real. The film grossed $478 million worldwide.
A Mighty Heart (2007)
Jolie playing the real-life Mariane Pearl, wife of murdered journalist Daniel Pearl, in a performance of extraordinary restraint and emotional precision. She received her third Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.
Changeling (2008)
She played Christine Collins, a 1920s mother whose son goes missing and who is gaslit by the Los Angeles Police Department when they return the wrong child. Directed by Clint Eastwood. Grossed $113 million worldwide.
Wanted (2008)
Jolie as Fox, a tattooed assassin who recruits James McAvoy’s character into a secret society of killers. Pure, gleeful action spectacle. Grossed $341 million worldwide.
Salt (2010)
Jolie as Evelyn Salt, a CIA officer accused of being a Russian spy. Originally written for Tom Cruise; rewritten for Jolie without changing much of the male action template. A testament to her ability to own traditionally masculine material. Grossed $293 million worldwide.
The Tourist (2010)
A romantic thriller with Johnny Depp set in Venice. Glamorous, lightweight, enormous fun. Grossed $278 million worldwide.
Maleficent: The Disney Era
In 2014, Jolie starred in Maleficent, Disney’s live-action reimagining of the Sleeping Beauty story, told from the point of view of its villain. The film was built entirely around her presence, her cheekbones, her horns, her magnificent wronged-queen-of-the-moors energy. It was a massive commercial success, grossing $758 million worldwide, the highest-grossing film of her career.
She reprised the role in Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019), which grossed approximately $491 million worldwide.
Eternals (2021): Joining the Marvel Universe
In 2021, Jolie joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe in Eternals, Chloé Zhao’s ambitious, art-house-inflected superhero ensemble. She played Thena, an Eternal warrior who has spent centuries fighting the urge to destroy the people she loves. The film was ambitious, uneven, and divisive. Jolie was reportedly paid approximately $35 million for the role, one of the largest single-film paydays in Hollywood history.
Maria (2024): The Performance of Her Lifetime
In 2024, Jolie made perhaps the most daring artistic choice of her career: she starred as Maria Callas, the legendary Greek-American opera soprano, considered by many to be the greatest opera singer of the 20th century in Pablo Larraín’s biographical drama Maria.
Larraín’s film, the final installment in his trilogy of biopics about iconic 20th-century women, following Jackie (2016) and Spencer (2021) portrays the final days of Callas’s life in Paris, as she reflects on her extraordinary career, her heartbreak, and her fading voice.
To play Maria Callas, Jolie trained for seven months to sing opera. She did not just approximate the sound she worked with vocal coaches to genuinely develop operatic technique. Some of the vocals in the film are performed by Jolie herself. The performance drew an eight-minute standing ovation at the Venice International Film Festival premiere, a reception that had journalists searching for superlatives.
The film was released on Netflix and earned Jolie a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama was her fifth major nomination. Critics described it as among the finest works of her career.
Couture (2025) and What Comes Next
In 2025, Jolie premiered Couture at the Toronto International Film Festival, a deeply personal film in which she plays a filmmaker going through a divorce who also receives a breast cancer diagnosis. Given that her own mother died of cancer, that she divorced Brad Pitt after years of bitter legal battles, and that she underwent preemptive cancer surgery herself, calling the film “personal” feels like the understatement of the decade.
She has also directed Without Blood (2024), adapted from Alessandro Baricco’s novel, adding yet another directorial credit to an increasingly impressive behind-the-camera portfolio.
Angelina Jolie as a Director
Few people know that Angelina Jolie is not just one of the most bankable actresses in history but also an increasingly serious and accomplished film director.
| Year | Film | Notes |
| 2011 | In the Land of Blood and Honey | Drama set during the Bosnian War; shot in Bosnian and Serbian; produced for $13M |
| 2014 | Unbroken | Louis Zamperini’s survival story; grossed $163M worldwide |
| 2015 | By the Sea | Romantic drama starring herself and Brad Pitt |
| 2017 | First They Killed My Father | Cambodian genocide told through a child’s eyes; Golden Globe nominated |
| 2024 | Without Blood | Adapted from Alessandro Baricco’s novel |
Her directorial work has consistently focused on stories of war, survival, human dignity, and women under pressure. It is not the portfolio of a dilettante. It is the portfolio of someone who takes storytelling seriously as a moral act.
Angelina Jolie’s Marriages and Relationships: The Full Romantic History
Jenny Shimizu: The Love Nobody Talked About Enough
Before any of the marriages, Jolie has been openly bisexual throughout her adult life. In 1996, during the filming of Foxfire, she fell for her co-star Jenny Shimizu, a model and actress. Jolie has been candid about the relationship, describing Shimizu as someone she would have married if she had not met men she fell for first.
The relationship with Shimizu is an important part of Jolie’s story that often gets relegated to footnotes. It shouldn’t. Jolie’s openness about her sexuality at a time when that openness could damage a Hollywood career was an act of genuine courage.
Marriage One: Jonny Lee Miller (1996–1999)
Jolie met British actor Jonny Lee Miller on the set of Hackers in 1995. They fell for each other with the speed and intensity that would characterize all of her major relationships. They married on March 28, 1996 and the wedding became immediately legendary when Jolie, in what she would describe as a practical and romantic gesture, arrived at the ceremony in black rubber pants and a white T-shirt on which she had written Miller’s name in her own blood.
Not lipstick. Her blood.
This was the moment the world understood that Angelina Jolie played by different rules.
The marriage lasted until 1999. The split was amicable and they have remained on respectful terms throughout the years, and Miller has spoken fondly of her even as she became one of the most famous women in the world. Their divorce was finalized shortly before she married her second husband, with barely a pause between one and the next.
In a delicious and unexpected footnote, Miller went on to star as Sherlock Holmes in the CBS series Elementary, while Jolie, the woman who once wrote his name in blood on her T-shirt, was off directing films about genocide and earning $35 million per Marvel movie.
Marriage Two: Billy Bob Thornton (2000–2003)
Billy Bob Thornton was at the time they met in 1999, an Academy Award-winning screenwriter (Sling Blade), a director, and a genuinely idiosyncratic personality with a long list of quirks, phobias, and eccentricities that made him one of Hollywood’s most genuinely odd leading men. He was also, at the time he met Jolie, engaged to actress Laura Dern.
What followed has been described as one of the most intense and publicly bewildering romances in Hollywood history. Thornton and Jolie met in January 1999. By May 2000, approximately a year and a half later, they were married, having kept their relationship almost entirely secret until the announcement.
Laura Dern told reporters she had found out via tabloids that her fiancé had secretly married someone else. It was that kind of situation.
The couple’s relationship was characterized by a passionate intensity that they made no effort to conceal. They wore vials of each other’s blood around their necks, a gesture that Thornton has always insisted was simpler and less gothic than it appeared, saying it was just a small amount of blood on pieces of paper laminated together, more symbolic than literal. Jolie had “Billy Bob” tattooed on her left arm.
They adopted Maddox, a baby from Cambodia, together in 2002, though the adoption was primarily Jolie’s project and commitment.
The marriage ended in May 2003. By Thornton’s own account, the relationship burned at a temperature that simply couldn’t be sustained indefinitely. The split was handled with relative grace given its intensity. Jolie had the Billy Bob tattoo removed and replaced with the geographic coordinates of the birthplaces of each of her children, a detail that tells you everything about her personal evolution.
At the 2025 Golden Globes, both Jolie and Thornton attended the same ceremony for the first time in decades. She was nominated for Maria. He attended with his current wife. They were courteous. Hollywood held its collective breath unnecessarily.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie: The Most Scrutinized Celebrity Relationship of the 21st Century
How They Met: Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2003–2004)
Jolie and Brad Pitt first met during the filming of Mr. and Mrs. Smith in 2003–2004. At the time, Pitt was famously, publicly, apparently-happily married to Jennifer Aniston, America’s sweetheart, the most beloved actress on television, and a woman the American public had decided was their collective best friend.
Jolie was freshly divorced from Billy Bob Thornton and was already a tabloid force unto herself.
The chemistry between Jolie and Pitt on set was, by multiple accounts, impossible to miss. In a 2006 Vogue interview, Jolie said: “I think we found this strange friendship and partnership that kind of just suddenly happened. I think a few months in I realized, ‘God, I can’t wait to get to work.'” She added that it took until the end of the shoot for them to acknowledge what the feelings might mean.
In January 2005, Pitt and Aniston announced their separation. Their divorce became one of the most coverage-saturated celebrity events in entertainment history. Pitt and Jolie went public with their relationship in early 2006 when she confirmed she was pregnant with his child.
The media immediately positioned the story as a betrayal narrative with a clear villain: Jolie as the seductress who had wrecked a happy marriage. The public split into furious camps. “Team Aniston” vs. “Team Jolie” became one of the first major celebrity cultural divides of the social media age, even before social media existed in its current form.
Brangelina: The Power Couple Years (2006–2016)
Together, Jolie and Pitt became Brangelina — one of the most powerful, most photographed, and most mythologized celebrity couples in the history of entertainment. They had six children. They traveled the world. They were both nominated for Academy Awards. They built a French wine estate. They made films together. They appeared on magazine covers globally. They were, to millions of people, the most glamorous and seemingly perfect couple on earth.
Their family grew as follows:
- Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt — Adopted from Cambodia in 2002 (before Brad); Brad adopted him in 2006
- Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt — Adopted from Ethiopia in 2005; Brad adopted her in 2006
- Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt — Born May 27, 2006, in Namibia, becoming Jolie and Pitt’s first biological child and the subject of the most discussed celebrity birth of that decade (the baby photos reportedly sold for $4.1 million)
- Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt — Adopted from Vietnam in 2007; Brad adopted him in 2008
- Knox Leon Jolie-Pitt — Born July 12, 2008, in Nice, France (twin)
- Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt — Born July 12, 2008, in Nice, France (twin); named after Jolie’s mother
They married on August 23, 2014, in a private ceremony at their Château Miraval estate in Correns, Provence, France, an 18th-century château with a working wine estate that Pitt and Jolie had purchased for approximately $60 million in 2012. The ceremony was officiated by a local mayor. The couple’s children were involved in the ceremony, with the girls wearing flower-embroidered dresses that Vivienne had designed. It was, by all available accounts, a genuinely beautiful day.
They had been together for approximately nine years before they married. Two years and one month later, it was over.
The Separation (September 2016) and What Followed
In September 2016, Jolie filed for divorce from Pitt, citing irreconcilable differences. The immediate trigger, according to multiple reports, was an incident on a private plane in which Pitt allegedly became intoxicated and physically and verbally confronted one of their children. The FBI investigated the incident. No charges were filed. Pitt subsequently acknowledged alcohol problems and enrolled in treatment.
What followed was one of the most protracted, bitter, and legally complex celebrity divorces in history, spanning eight full years, involving multiple courts in multiple countries, generating enormous legal fees, producing competing accusations and counter-accusations, and ultimately ending in a settlement finalized in December 2024 that was described as costing Pitt approximately $80 million in assets, cash, and real estate.
The central battle, beyond custody, was over Château Miraval, the French wine estate. Jolie sold her stake in the winery to a company linked to Russian oligarch Yuri Shefler in 2021 without Pitt’s consent. Pitt sued, claiming a longstanding agreement between them gave each party right of first refusal if the other wanted to sell. The winery lawsuit continued even after the divorce settlement and remains a separate ongoing legal matter.
Jolie has said, in various interviews, that the years of the divorce, during which she was simultaneously raising six children largely alone, making films, and conducting humanitarian work, were the hardest of her life.
Pitt, by multiple accounts, emerged from the divorce as a more reflective and privately troubled figure. He has spoken about sobriety, about therapy, and about rebuilding.
The Children’s Name Changes
One of the most symbolically significant footnotes to the Pitt-Jolie divorce has been the name changes undertaken by several of the children. Shiloh Jolie-Pitt legally filed to drop “Pitt” from her name, becoming Shiloh Jolie, after turning 18. Zahara Jolie-Pitt also dropped Pitt, introducing herself at Jolie’s Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority pledge events at Spelman College as simply Zahara Jolie. In July 2026, it was reported that another child had taken the final legal steps to complete a name change process, a pattern that speaks, quietly and powerfully, to where the children’s emotional allegiances rest.
Angelina Jolie’s Children: Everything You Need to Know About All Six
Angelina Jolie is the mother of six children, three adopted internationally and three biological and motherhood has been, by her own consistent account, the most defining and transformative experience of her life.
Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt (born August 5, 2001)
Maddox was adopted from Cambodia in 2002 when Jolie was filming Lara Croft: Tomb Raider in Cambodia and was moved by what she saw in the country. He was approximately seven months old at adoption. He is now in his mid-twenties, studied biochemistry at Yonsei University in South Korea, and is notably the child with the most publicly strained relationship with Brad Pitt, he reportedly refused to attend his parents’ mediation sessions with Pitt present.
Zahara Marley Jolie (born January 8, 2005)
Zahara was adopted from Ethiopia in 2005. She is now a student at Spelman College in Atlanta, one of the most prestigious Historically Black Colleges and Universities in America, and has already demonstrated a public presence of her own, accompanying her mother to the Golden Globes and drawing attention for her poise and style. She has dropped “Pitt” from her name.
Shiloh Nouvel Jolie (born May 27, 2006)
Shiloh was born in Namibia. Jolie and Pitt had relocated there for the birth to escape the media frenzy that would have surrounded a Los Angeles delivery. The baby photos, sold to People magazine and Hello!, fetched approximately $4.1 million, which Jolie and Pitt donated to charity.
Shiloh became known from a very young age for preferring traditionally masculine clothing and short hair, and later for her extraordinary dancing ability and videos of her dancing have gone viral multiple times. She turned 18 in 2024 and legally dropped “Pitt” from her surname, becoming Shiloh Jolie.
She has been compared favorably to both of her parents in terms of her dancer’s physicality and presence.
Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt (born November 29, 2003)
Pax was adopted from Vietnam in 2007. He is now in his early twenties and has largely stayed out of the public eye, though he was reported to have been involved in a minor accident in 2024.
He has been notably vocal in his criticism of Brad Pitt, a post attributed to him on social media in 2020 describing his relationship with Pitt in extremely negative terms circulated widely online. The post has never been fully authenticated or denied.
Knox Leon Jolie-Pitt (born July 12, 2008)
Knox is Jolie and Pitt’s eldest biological son, born along with his twin sister in Nice, France. He is now 17 years old and has been seen increasingly at public events with his mother. He and his twin are the youngest of the six children.
Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt (born July 12, 2008)
Knox’s twin sister, named Vivienne Marcheline in honor of Jolie’s late mother Marcheline Bertrand. At the age of 15, Vivienne made her Broadway producing debut as assistant producer on the Tony Award-winning musical The Outsiders (2024), accompanying Jolie, who served as producer. It was one of the most charming and unexpected celebrity moments of that Broadway season.
She is, at 17, already demonstrating the family’s theatrical inheritance in a remarkably practical way.
Angelina Jolie’s Health: The Mastectomy, the BRCA1 Gene, and the Letter That Changed Everything
In May 2013, Angelina Jolie published an op-ed in The New York Times under the headline “My Medical Choice.” In it, she disclosed that she had undergone a preventative double mastectomy, the removal of both breasts, after testing positive for the BRCA1 gene mutation, which significantly increases the risk of developing breast and ovarian cancer.
The op-ed was written with clarity, compassion, and characteristic courage. Jolie explained that her doctors had estimated she had an 87% risk of developing breast cancer and a 50% risk of ovarian cancer, given the BRCA1 mutation and her family history. Her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, had died of ovarian cancer at 56 years old in January 2007, after an eight-year battle.
The decision to undergo the surgery, and the decision to write publicly about it was not taken lightly. She described the surgery process, the reconstruction, the support of Brad Pitt throughout, and her belief that other women should know this option exists and that it is not shameful.
The response was extraordinary. Within days, the number of women seeking genetic testing for the BRCA1 mutation spiked dramatically in the United States and internationally. Medical researchers called it “the Angelina Jolie effect”, a documented phenomenon in which a celebrity’s public health disclosure drives measurable changes in public health behavior.
In 2015, she published a follow-up piece disclosing that she had subsequently undergone removal of her ovaries and fallopian tubes, another preemptive measure following the detection of “early signs that could be cancer” during a preventative check-up.
Both surgeries were acts of radical self-knowledge and profound courage, choosing controlled medical intervention over uncertain biological risk, at significant personal and physical cost, and choosing to share that choice with the world in the knowledge that it might help other women make informed decisions about their own bodies.
Few celebrity moments in recent decades have had a more demonstrable positive impact on public health.
Angelina Jolie the Humanitarian: A Career Beyond the Camera
In 2001, during the filming of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider in Cambodia, Jolie encountered the realities of extreme poverty, displacement, and humanitarian crisis in a way that she has described as permanently transformative. She requested information from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and subsequently undertook her first field mission with the organization.
UNHCR Special Envoy (2001–2022)
Jolie served first as a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador from 2001, before being elevated to Special Envoy — a senior diplomatic representative role — in 2012. In this capacity she:
- Conducted over 60 field missions to some of the most dangerous and difficult humanitarian situations in the world, including Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Cambodia, Pakistan, Kosovo, Kenya, Lebanon, Ecuador, Egypt, Libya, Iraq, Jordan, Mali, Turkey, Pakistan, and Syria
- Met with heads of state, foreign ministers, and senior government officials to advocate for refugees and displaced persons
- Testified before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee on refugees in 2013
- Addressed the United Nations Security Council on multiple occasions
- Co-founded the Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict Initiative (PSVI) with then-UK Foreign Secretary William Hague in 2012
In 2022, she transitioned from Special Envoy to Special Adviser, a role that allows her to continue advocacy and policy influence while also pursuing a film career that had been necessarily curtailed during the most intensive years of her diplomatic work.
The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
In 2013, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Jolie with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, one of the most prestigious honors in film, given not for performance but for distinguished contribution to the welfare of the motion picture industry and beyond. She accepted the award at the Governors Awards ceremony.
Writing and Speaking on Global Issues
Jolie has written op-eds in major international newspapers on refugee crises, sexual violence in conflict, women’s rights, and the responsibility of powerful nations toward the displaced. She has been more consistently engaged at a policy level than almost any other celebrity in the humanitarian space, not flying in for photo opportunities but doing the painstaking, unglamorous work of briefings, field visits, testimony, and sustained advocacy.
She has been awarded honorary doctorates by the London School of Economics and the Canterbury Christ Church University, and was made an Honorary Dame Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George (DCMG) by the British government in 2014 for her global humanitarian work.
Tattoos, Style, and the Angelina Jolie Aesthetic
Angelina Jolie has arguably the most discussed body in Hollywood and we mean that in terms of both its physical presence and what is written on it.
The Tattoos
Her tattoo collection tells the story of her life more honestly than most biographies:
- “Know your rights” — on her neck, quoting The Clash song
- A Buddhist incantation in Khmer script — a blessing from a Buddhist monk before her first trip to Cambodia, on her left shoulder blade
- Bengal tiger — large, intricate, on her lower back/left hip; added in Thailand after Lara Croft: Tomb Raider
- The geographic coordinates of her children’s birthplaces — on her left arm; replacing the old “Billy Bob” tattoo with something that represents who she is now
- Cross on her lower abdomen
- The phrase “Quod me nutrit me destruit” — Latin for “what nourishes me also destroys me,” later covered
- A window cross — on her forearm
Each tattoo marks a chapter. Together they form a map of a woman who has always used her body as a record of her interior life.
The Look
Jolie’s physical presence is one of the most distinct in Hollywood history. The combination of extremely high cheekbones, enormous eyes, and famously full lips creates a face that cameras cannot ignore. She is 5 ft 7 in, not unusually tall, but she carries herself with a verticality that suggests much more height.
Her style has evolved dramatically over the decades, from the black-rubber-pants-and-blood-writing of the late 1990s to the supremely controlled, structured elegance of her current aesthetic. She favors clean lines, architectural shapes, and black. A lot of black. She has become as associated with a particular kind of severe, precise elegance as with any of her film roles.
Atelier Jolie: Sustainable Fashion
In 2023, Jolie opened Atelier Jolie, a sustainable fashion collective in New York’s SoHo neighborhood, housed in a landmarked building. The collective brings together master tailors, artisans, and fashion designers from around the world to work with clients on custom, sustainable pieces. It is not a conventional fashion brand and it is more accurately a creative community built around making beautiful, intentional clothing without the waste and exploitation that characterizes most of the fashion industry.
Angelina Jolie and Jon Voight: The Father-Daughter Story
No relationship in Angelina Jolie’s life has been more publicly complex than the one with her father, Jon Voight.
Voight, one of the great actors of his generation, whose work in Midnight Cowboy, Deliverance, and Coming Home placed him among the finest screen performers of the 1970s, was largely absent from Angelina’s childhood after his divorce from Marcheline Bertrand. The wound of that abandonment was deep and visible in Jolie for years.
In 2001, at perhaps the absolute nadir of their relationship, Voight gave a television interview to Access Hollywood in which he expressed concerns about his daughter’s mental health, saying she needed help. The public airing of what were clearly private family grievances was devastating. Jolie responded by cutting off contact entirely. She legally dropped the Voight surname from her professional name. For years, she described having no father.
Over the following two decades, there have been occasional partial reconciliations, photographs of them together at events, statements suggesting a tentative peace, but nothing that could be described as a fully restored relationship.
In recent years, Voight, who became a vocal supporter of Donald Trump’s political campaigns and Jolie have found themselves on public opposite sides of political issues including the Israel-Gaza conflict, with Voight publicly criticizing his daughter’s statements.
Awards and Nominations: The Complete Record
Academy Awards
| Year | Category | Film | Result |
| 1999 | Best Supporting Actress | Girl, Interrupted | WON |
| 2007 | Best Actress | A Mighty Heart | Nominated |
| 2008 | Best Actress | Changeling | Nominated |
Golden Globe Awards
| Year | Category | Film/Show | Result |
| 1997 | Best Supporting Actress, TV | George Wallace | WON |
| 1998 | Best Actress, TV | Gia | WON |
| 2007 | Best Actress, Drama | A Mighty Heart | Nominated |
| 2008 | Best Actress, Drama | Changeling | Nominated |
| 2024 | Best Actress, Drama | Maria | Nominated |
Screen Actors Guild Awards
| Year | Category | Film | Result |
| 1999 | Outstanding Performance, Female Actor, Drama | Gia | WON |
| 1999 | Outstanding Performance, Supporting Female | Girl, Interrupted | Nominated |
Honorary and Special Awards
| Year | Award | Notes |
| 2013 | Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |
| 2014 | Honorary DCMG | British government; for humanitarian work |
| 2013 | Honorary Doctorate | London School of Economics |
| 2017 | Honorary Doctorate | Canterbury Christ Church University |
Other Major Awards
- Multiple Screen Actors Guild nominations as part of ensemble casts
- Critics’ Choice Award nominations for A Mighty Heart and Changeling
- Multiple MTV Movie Award nominations and wins
- Multiple Teen Choice Award wins
- People’s Choice Award wins across multiple categories
- Nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globes for First They Killed My Father (2017) as director
Complete Filmography
Feature Films as Actress
| Year | Film | Role | Worldwide Gross |
| 1982 | Lookin’ to Get Out | Jon Voight’s daughter (uncredited) | — |
| 1995 | Hackers | Kate “Acid Burn” Libby | — |
| 1996 | Foxfire | Legs Sadovsky | — |
| 1997 | George Wallace | Cornelia Wallace (TV) | TV film |
| 1998 | Gia | Gia Carangi (TV) | TV film |
| 1998 | Playing God | Claire | — |
| 1999 | Girl, Interrupted | Lisa Rowe | $28.9M (Oscar-winning role) |
| 1999 | The Bone Collector | Amelia Donaghy | $151M |
| 2000 | Gone in 60 Seconds | Sara “Sway” Wayland | $237M |
| 2001 | Lara Croft: Tomb Raider | Lara Croft | $274M |
| 2001 | Original Sin | Julia Russell / Bonny Castle | $28M |
| 2002 | Life or Something Like It | Lanie Kerrigan | $17M |
| 2003 | Lara Croft: Cradle of Life | Lara Croft | $157M |
| 2003 | Beyond Borders | Sarah Jordan | $4.4M |
| 2004 | Taking Lives | Agent Illeana Scott | $37M |
| 2004 | Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow | Commander Franky Cook | $58M |
| 2004 | Shark Tale | Lola (voice) | $367M |
| 2005 | Mr. and Mrs. Smith | Jane Smith | $478M |
| 2006 | The Good Shepherd | Margaret Ann Russell | $60M |
| 2007 | A Mighty Heart | Mariane Pearl | $18M |
| 2008 | Kung Fu Panda | Tigress (voice) | $632M |
| 2008 | Wanted | Fox | $341M |
| 2008 | Changeling | Christine Collins | $113M |
| 2010 | Salt | Evelyn Salt | $293M |
| 2010 | The Tourist | Elise Clifton-Ward | $278M |
| 2011 | Kung Fu Panda 2 | Tigress (voice) | $665M |
| 2014 | Maleficent | Maleficent | $758M |
| 2015 | Kung Fu Panda 3 | Tigress (voice) | $521M |
| 2015 | By the Sea | Vanessa | $533K |
| 2019 | Maleficent: Mistress of Evil | Maleficent | $491M |
| 2020 | Come Away | Alice’s Mother | — |
| 2021 | Those Who Wish Me Dead | Hannah Faber | $17M |
| 2021 | Eternals | Thena | $402M |
| 2024 | Maria | Maria Callas | Netflix release |
| 2025 | Couture | Filmmaker going through divorce | Toronto premiere |
Films as Director
| Year | Film | Notes |
| 2011 | In the Land of Blood and Honey | Bosnian War drama; shot in Bosnian and Serbian |
| 2014 | Unbroken | WWII survival story; $163M worldwide |
| 2015 | By the Sea | Romantic drama starring herself and Brad Pitt |
| 2017 | First They Killed My Father | Cambodian genocide; Golden Globe nominated |
| 2024 | Without Blood | Based on Alessandro Baricco’s novel |
Net Worth: How Angelina Jolie Built and Manages Her $120 Million Fortune
As of 2026, Angelina Jolie’s net worth is estimated at approximately $120 million by Celebrity Net Worth and multiple other financial tracking publications. Here is how that fortune was built:
Acting Salary Highlights
| Film | Reported Earnings |
| Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) | ~$12 million (made her highest-paid actress) |
| Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005) | ~$20 million |
| Wanted (2008) | ~$20 million |
| Salt (2010) | ~$20 million |
| Maleficent (2014) | ~$33 million (largest single payday) |
| Eternals (2021) | ~$35 million (reported; among highest in MCU history) |
Business Ventures
- Château Miraval wine estate — purchased with Brad Pitt for approximately $60 million in 2012. Jolie sold her stake in the winery to a company linked to businessman Yuri Shefler in 2021 for a reported $54.4 million. Brad Pitt subsequently filed a lawsuit challenging the sale as a breach of their agreement. The litigation remains active.
- Atelier Jolie — sustainable fashion collective opened in 2023 in New York
- Production company credits — producing fees and backend participation across multiple films
Endorsements and Brand Work
Jolie has historically been one of the most selective entertainers when it comes to commercial endorsements — she has declined far more than she has accepted. Key partnerships have included:
- Louis Vuitton — a 2011 campaign photographed by Annie Leibovitz; reportedly worth several million dollars
- St. John Knits — fashion campaigns
- Shiseido — Beauty campaign for the Japanese market
The Divorce Settlement
After nearly eight years of litigation, Jolie and Pitt reached a divorce settlement finalized in December 2024. Under the terms, which are partially sealed,Pitt paid Jolie approximately $80 million in assets, cash, and real estate, though experts have clarified this should not be understood as a single cash payment but rather the aggregate value of assets transferred. The French winery dispute remains separate and unresolved.
Interesting and Lesser-Known Facts About Angelina Jolie
Here are the details that go beyond what Wikipedia offers — the things that make Angelina Jolie who she actually is:
- She wore Jonny Lee Miller’s name in her own blood on her T-shirt at their wedding. Not his surname in lipstick. Actual blood, actual T-shirt.
- She and Billy Bob Thornton wore vials of each other’s blood around their necks. Thornton has always insisted it was less dramatic than it sounded — a small smear on paper, laminated, in a locket. Still blood. Still around their necks.
- Her godfather is Maximilian Schell. The Austrian actor and two-time Oscar nominee. The other godparent is Jacqueline Bisset.
- She is the niece of Chip Taylor — the songwriter behind “Wild Thing” (The Troggs) and “Angel of the Morning.” Jon Voight’s brother.
- She trained for seven months to sing opera for Maria. Not to approximate it. To actually do it. Some of the vocals in the film are hers.
- She was the highest-paid actress in Hollywood in 2001, following the success of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider — a title she would hold or contest for much of the following decade.
- Her daughter Vivienne produced a Tony Award-winning Broadway musical at 15. The Outsiders (2024) won Best Musical. Vivienne was credited as an assistant producer.
- She has conducted over 60 UNHCR field missions to conflict zones and refugee sites around the world — not photo opportunities, but working visits involving briefings, facility inspections, and meetings with displaced persons.
- She received an Honorary Dame Commander from the British government — the female equivalent of a knighthood — for her humanitarian work.
- Shiloh’s birth photos sold for $4.1 million, donated entirely to charity.
- She legally changed her surname from Voight to Jolie as a teenager — using her middle name as her surname, effectively erasing her father’s name in a private act that said everything.
- She spoke publicly about BRCA1 testing and preventative surgery in a New York Times op-ed that measurably increased genetic testing rates internationally — a demonstrable positive public health impact attributed directly to her disclosure.
- Her daughter Zahara attends Spelman College — one of the most prestigious HBCUs in America — and has publicly introduced herself as Zahara Jolie, having dropped the “Pitt” from her name.
- She opened a fashion collective in SoHo, New York in 2023 — Atelier Jolie — built on principles of sustainability, artisan craftsmanship, and global talent. It is the opposite of fast fashion.
- She directed a film in Bosnian and Serbian — In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011) — without speaking either language fluently, using the discipline and empathy she had developed across decades of humanitarian field work.
Angelina Jolie in 2026: Where She Is Now
As of 2026, Angelina Jolie is 50 years old, single, based in Los Angeles, and in one of the most creatively productive periods of her career.
Her divorce from Brad Pitt was finalized in late 2024, after eight years of legal battle. A close source told People magazine in early 2026 that she has not been in a relationship since the split: “Dating hasn’t been important to her. She hasn’t had a boyfriend. She’s pretty much been a single mom since the divorce, so that’s where most of her focus has been.”
She is focused on her children, Maddox in his mid-twenties, Zahara at Spelman College, Shiloh dancing and living as Shiloh Jolie, Pax in his early twenties, and the twins Knox and Vivienne turning 18 in July 2026, after which a source has suggested she intends to move away from Los Angeles and begin a new chapter.
Her latest film Couture premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2025 to strong critical response. She continues to develop projects as a director and producer. Atelier Jolie is open and operating in New York. She maintains her role as Special Adviser to the UNHCR. She continues to write, speak, and advocate on global issues.
She is, in other words, exactly who she has always been: doing multiple things simultaneously, at the highest possible level, on her own terms.
Frequently Asked Questions About Angelina Jolie
Who is Angelina Jolie?
Angelina Jolie is an American actress, director, producer, and humanitarian born June 4, 1975, in Los Angeles. She is one of the most acclaimed and highest-paid actresses in Hollywood history, with an Academy Award, two Golden Globes, and a UNHCR humanitarian career alongside her film work.
How old is Angelina Jolie?
Angelina Jolie is 50 years old as of June 2026. She was born on June 4, 1975.
Where was Angelina Jolie born?
She was born in Los Angeles, California, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She spent part of her childhood in Palisades, New York, before returning to Los Angeles at age 11.
Who are Angelina Jolie’s parents?
Her father is Jon Voight, the Academy Award-winning actor best known for Midnight Cowboy and Coming Home. Her mother is the late Marcheline Bertrand, an actress and humanitarian who died of ovarian cancer on January 27, 2007, aged 56.
Does Angelina Jolie have siblings?
Yes. She has one older brother, actor James Haven. She is also the niece of songwriter Chip Taylor (Jon Voight’s brother).
Who were Angelina Jolie’s husbands?
She has been married three times: to actor Jonny Lee Miller (1996–1999), to actor and filmmaker Billy Bob Thornton (2000–2003), and to actor Brad Pitt (2014–2024 divorce finalized).
Is Angelina Jolie still married to Brad Pitt?
No. Their divorce was finalized on December 30, 2024, after nearly eight years of legal proceedings following their September 2016 separation.
Why did Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt divorce?
Jolie filed for divorce in September 2016 citing irreconcilable differences. Reports indicated an incident on a private plane involving Pitt, which was investigated by the FBI with no charges filed. The subsequent divorce was one of the most prolonged and bitter in celebrity history, involving custody disputes and a major lawsuit over their French wine estate.
How many children does Angelina Jolie have?
Six: three adopted internationally and three biological. They are Maddox (adopted, Cambodia), Zahara (adopted, Ethiopia), Pax (adopted, Vietnam), Shiloh (biological, with Brad Pitt), and twins Knox and Vivienne (biological, with Brad Pitt).
Did Angelina Jolie’s children change their names?
Yes. Shiloh legally dropped “Pitt” from her name upon turning 18, becoming Shiloh Jolie. Zahara has publicly introduced herself as Zahara Jolie. Several other children have also reportedly taken steps toward name changes.
Did Angelina Jolie have a mastectomy?
Yes. In 2013, following positive testing for the BRCA1 gene mutation, Jolie underwent a preventative double mastectomy. In 2015, she also had her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed. She wrote publicly about both decisions in The New York Times.
Why did Angelina Jolie have a mastectomy?
She carries the BRCA1 gene mutation, which her doctors estimated gave her an 87% risk of breast cancer and 50% risk of ovarian cancer. Her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, died of ovarian cancer in 2007. Jolie chose preemptive surgery to reduce her risk.
What is Angelina Jolie’s net worth?
Approximately $120 million as of 2026. Her wealth comes from acting (her highest payday was reportedly $35 million for Eternals and $33 million for Maleficent), directing, producing, endorsements, and the partial settlement from the Château Miraval wine estate.
What did Angelina Jolie receive in the Brad Pitt divorce settlement?
After eight years of legal battle, Pitt paid Jolie approximately $80 million in assets, cash, and real estate as part of a settlement finalized in December 2024. Their French winery dispute remains a separate, ongoing legal matter.
Has Angelina Jolie won an Oscar?
Yes. She won Best Supporting Actress for Girl, Interrupted at the 72nd Academy Awards (1999). She has received two additional nominations, for A Mighty Heart (2007) and Changeling (2008).
Has Angelina Jolie won a Golden Globe?
Yes — twice. She won Best Supporting Actress in a TV Movie for George Wallace (1997) and Best Actress in a TV Movie for Gia (1998). She received a nomination for Maria (2024).
What is Angelina Jolie doing in the United Nations?
She served as a UNHCR Special Envoy from 2012 to 2022, conducting over 60 field missions to refugee and conflict zones. She is now a UNHCR Special Adviser, continuing her advocacy and policy engagement on refugee issues, sexual violence in conflict, and women’s rights.
What is Atelier Jolie?
Atelier Jolie is a sustainable fashion collective opened by Jolie in New York’s SoHo neighborhood in 2023. It brings together master tailors and artisans from around the world to work on custom, sustainable fashion pieces — built around principles of ethical production, artisanal craftsmanship, and minimal waste.
What is Maria about and what did Angelina do to prepare?
Maria (2024) is a biographical drama about opera legend Maria Callas in the final days of her life in Paris, directed by Pablo Larraín. Jolie prepared for the role by training for seven months in operatic singing technique, and performed some of the vocals herself. The film premiered at Venice and earned her a Golden Globe nomination.
What is Couture?
Couture (2025) is a film in which Jolie plays a filmmaker going through a divorce who receives a breast cancer diagnosis. She described it as “a very personal story,” given her own experiences with divorce, cancer-related surgery, and the death of her mother from cancer. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2025.
What was Angelina Jolie’s relationship with Billy Bob Thornton like?
Intense, theatrical, and genuinely passionate. They wore vials of each other’s blood around their necks, got each other’s names tattooed, and married six weeks after going public. They divorced after three years. Jolie has had the Billy Bob tattoo removed and replaced with the coordinates of her children’s birthplaces.
Who are Angelina Jolie’s godparents?
Her godparents are actress Jacqueline Bisset and actor Maximilian Schell — two distinguished figures from Hollywood’s golden generation.
What is the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award?
It is one of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ most prestigious honorary awards, given not for film performance but for distinguished service to the welfare of the motion picture industry and the broader world. Jolie received it in 2013.
What tattoos does Angelina Jolie have?
Notable tattoos include “Know Your Rights” (on her neck), a Buddhist incantation in Khmer script (shoulder blade), a Bengal tiger (lower back), and the geographic coordinates of all six of her children’s birthplaces (on her left arm, replacing the old “Billy Bob” tattoo).
Is Angelina Jolie in a relationship in 2026?
No. A source close to the actress told People magazine in early 2026 that she has not been in a relationship since the Brad Pitt divorce was finalized. Her focus is entirely on her children, her films, and her humanitarian work.
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