How old is angelina jolies dad

When Bertrand died of cancer in , Jolie credited her parenting style to her mother, saying she taught her many things about parenting her children. Jolie addressed these rumors saying that she is fascinated that people thought she was obsessed with death and said that she might speak about death more often than the average person, but only because she loved life more than those people.

However, Jolie later admitted that she had used self-harming to relieve her thoughts and feelings of depression. This further contributed to people's perception that she was troublesome, which was not helped by her father's allegations against her. Jolie and Voight remained close until when Voight began saying things about Jolie that she did not agree with. The father and daughter had a lot to say but ultimately stopped speaking. At the time of the allegations made by Voight, Jolie was in the process of adopting her son, Maddox.

However, Voight could never meet any of his grandchildren because of the estrangement between the two. Both Jolie and her brother had said that they were severely affected by how their father treated their mother and found it difficult to be around him. They said that it was not mentally or emotionally healthy for them to be around their father.

It has been said that her relationships with each of her failed marriages have largely resulted from her relationship with her father. Even when she and her father were on good terms, their relationship was strained. The fact that Jolie harbored resentment toward her father contributed to the fact that she found it difficult to be in healthy romantic relationships and had issues with trust and being a good partner.

Although the role was a small one, Voight appreciated it. It has been alleged that the father-daughter duo has a brief reunion afterwards for about a year. In , Voight reportedly announced to the world at the pre-Oscars party how excited he was about being a grandfather. Angelina Jolie and her then-husband Billy Bob Thornton were going adopt their son Maddox from Cambodia and were keeping the news under wraps.

Despite Jolie's sweet gesture, the bond between Jolie and Voight did not improve. Brad Pitt insisted that Angelina Jolie makes peace with her father after the death of her mother Marcheline Bertrand. He allegedly even asked her to do so for the sake of her children if not herself. After the couple divorced, Voight stated to the press saying that something serious might've happened for Jolie to take such a huge step.

Voight stayed in touch with Pitt even after the divorce, and this managed to piss Jolie off. It has been reported that Jolie is in talking terms with her father, but she isn't sharing a lot with him. Now follow your favourite television celebs and telly updates. She says her mother was not only denied a career, but also a voice. Jolie says she was determined that she would not be silenced as her mother had been.

By 16, she was modelling swimwear, and at 20 she was starring in Hackers alongside future husband Jonny Lee Miller. In , at the age of 24, she won the best supporting actress Oscar for her visceral portrait of a psychiatric patient in Girl, Interrupted. Her choice of acting roles suggests she acts primarily for the money — alongside the odd quality film she was great as Mariane Pearl, the wife of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in A Mighty Heart, despite the controversy of a white woman playing a mixed-race character , there have been any number of stinkers.

Before separating from Pitt, she was establishing herself as a film-maker. First They Killed My Father, the last film she made as a director released in , is a haunting portrait of life under the Khmer Rouge, in which she coaxed exceptional, understated performances from her actors — particularly the children. Since then, her career has taken a back seat as she has dedicated herself to being pretty much a full-time mother. Does she feel her rights have always been respected?

A good therapy question. But you know, I started working really young to help her pay bills and stuff. I felt that these were things you had to demand or fight for, and sometimes be seen as difficult when you do. When was the first time she felt sufficiently disrespected in the industry to tell somebody to fuck off? I worked with him when I was young. She says women often play down an assault if they manage to escape — as she did at the time.

The truth is that the attempt and the experience of the attempt is an assault. What happened? It was beyond a pass, it was something I had to escape. I stayed away and warned people about him. I was asked to do The Aviator, but I said no because he was involved.

I never associated or worked with him again. It was hard for me when Brad did. In , she says Pitt approached Weinstein to work as a producer for the noir thriller Killing Them Softly , which the Weinstein Company later distributed. In doing so, Jolie felt he was minimising the sexual assault she had endured. She avoided attending promotional events for the film.

Jolie is drinking from a bottle as she talks. What is it? I ask if her children are interested in activism. I ask Jolie if she always wanted to adopt. Then in my late teens I became aware of what adoption is, and the idea that there were children around the world who had been orphaned, and it just made sense to me. In , Jolie wrote an op-ed in the New York Times revealing that she had had a preventive double mastectomy because she was a carrier of the BRCA1 genetic mutation that had killed her mother and put her at high risk of breast and ovarian cancer.

Two years later, she wrote another article announcing she had also had surgery to remove her ovaries and fallopian tubes. It was unheard of to hear a Hollywood A-lister at the peak of her career discussing these issues.

But it proved a gamechanger. A year later a UK report found that her decision to go public on the mastectomy led to a doubling in NHS referrals for genetic tests of breast cancer risk. Was going public a form of activism, I ask. In fact, she adds, she rarely uses the word full stop. Was it a way of saying to people: if preventive surgery can make sense for me, it can for you, too? I tell her I find it fascinating, the binary way in which she is portrayed — either as a saint or a crazy, an arch manipulator.

It has been suggested that she is fighting for custody of the children simply because she wants to move out of America — something she denies. Does it affect my ability to work with Muhammad and help him? As she talks, I notice how tired she looks.

What have the past five years taken out of her? There is a long pause. She cups her face in her hands, and looks ready to burst into tears. Has it proved hard to come out of all this at peace with herself?

She looks even more upset. D iscovering that the convention on the rights of the child has not been ratified by the US has given her a sense of purpose: rather than simply fighting for her children, she can see it as a bigger human rights cause. She is trying to put a positive spin on her situation.