The Jolie-Pitt Family Story - Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie

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The Jolie-Pitt Family Story - Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie

After reportedly falling in love on the set of Mr. and Mrs. Smith, mega media darlings, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolia, quickly have become the 21th century Hollywood's version of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. Both carry spectacular acting careers, model as loving parents, and share their enormous fortune with an array of internationally reaching charities.

At home, three lovely adopted children, Maddox Chivan from Cambodia, Pax Thien from Vietnam, and Zahara Marley from Ethiopia, and one biological child, Shiloh Nouvel born in The Cottage Hospital in the African country of Namibia, call the super couple mommy and daddy. In August 2008, the Jolie-Pitt family are preparing to welcome the newest additions to the multicultural family, a set of baby girl twins, that will increase the family head count to two adults and six children. Angelina and Brad wish to raise their children with influence from different cultures in order to as Angelina stated in a recent interview, give them a mature outlook on the world.

The Mother : Angelina Jolie Voight

Born : June 4, 1975 in Los Angeles, California
Parents : Marcheline Bertrand and Jonathan Voight

Growing up in a famous family in Los Angeles California, Angelina Jolie sprung from her roots and made her own fame as an accomplished actress, fashion model, and good will ambassador. Keeping it in the family, Angelina performed her first film role in, Lookin' To Get Out a movie co-written by her father and starring both of her parents.

At age 11, Angelina enrolled in the Lee Strasberg Institute to study acting, but by age 12 decided to depart from her dream of acting to focus on a career as a funeral director. By the age of 14, Angelina signed with Finesse Model Management and modeled in the both the United States and Europe. While commissioned as a model, Angelina appeared in a variety of 1990s music videos for artists like Lenny Kravitz, The Lemmonheads, and Meatloaf.

While succumbing to the acting bug again, Angelina started making her mark as an accomplished actress with such films as Girl Interrupted, which won her an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Angelina pursued her career with other films like Gone in 60 Seconds and Lara Croft Tombraider. Angelina adds a sort of spice to the acting world that cannot be bottled up. She garnered media attention for flamboyant actions while married to fellow actors, Jimmey Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton. Today she uses her innovative personality to help global causes, such as working as a United Nations Ambassador.

The Father - Jonathan Vincent Voight
  Born :December 29, 1938 in Yonkers New York
  Parents :Barbara Kamp and Elmer Voytka

Jon Voight is an academy award winning actor who reached acclaim with a wide range of roles in such films as Midnight Cowboy (1969), Deliverance (1972), and Coming Home (1978). His father Elmer Voytka changed his name to Voight and made a name as a professional golfer. Jon Voight's maternal grandfather immigrated from Ko�ice and worked in the coal mines of Shickshinny, Pennsylvania. Under the pen name of Chip Taylor, Jon's brother, Wes, pursued a career as a songwriter who is most noted for the song Wild Thing. Jon's other brother, Barry Voight, studied geology at Columbia University and assumed the position of volcanologist at the Pennsylvania State University.

The Mother - Marcia Lynne "Marcheline" Bertrand
  Born :May 9, 1950 in Chicago, Illinois
  Death :January 27, 2007
  Parents :Barbara Kamp and Elmer Voytka

Born into a French Canadian family, Marcheline Bertrand grew up within the confines of her family owned bowling alley. She studied under Lee Strasburg and exercised her acting chops in the film, Lookin' to Get Out in 1982, written by her first husband Jon Voight, and in The Man Who Loved Women in 1983. Left with raising her two children, Angelina and John, after divorcing Jon Voight, she took on small acting roles. In 2007, Marcheline died of Ovarian Cancer while undergoing treatment at Cedar Siani Medical Center. She is a descendent of Zacharie Cloutier, one of the first settlers of the region of Canada called Quebec.

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The Father : William Bradley Pitt

Born :December 18, 1963 in Shawnee, Oklahoma
Parents : Jane Etta (Hillhouse) and William "Bill" Alvin Pitt

Brad Pitt was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma to Jane Etta (Hillhouse), a high school counselor, and William Alvin Pitt, a trucking company manager. Shortly after Brad was born the family moved to St. Louis, Missouri where the family welcomed the edition of his brother, Douglas (born 1966), and his little sister, Julie, (born in 1969). Shortly after the birth of the baby sister, Julie, the family finally settled in Springfield, Missouri.

In 1982, Brad graduated from Kickapoo High School where Brad was nicknamed, Brad the Pitt Bull. The Pitt family is very close. Although when Brad rocketed to stardom and the freak show of fans began, the family members sold they homes and moved, they all still live in the same neighborhood. The entire family enjoys attending Brad's premieres, fraternizing with other A-List stars, and taking an active role as major Nascar fans.

Brad's brother - Douglas Pitt (b. 1966)
Doug Pitt, married Lisa, a high school cheerleader that originally ran in Brad's circle of friends. In 1990, Doug Pitt graduated with a business degree from Southwest Missouri State University.

In 1991, when Brad was releasing his breakout film, Thelma and Louise, Doug Pitt began a successful computer consulting business, called ServiceWorld Computer Center, that originally consulted to Springfield business on how to result networking issues with Microsoft products. In recent years, the consulting firm has expanded its services and customer reach.

Doug Pitt continues to serve as the President of his computer services business, but also takes a very active rule in the local Springfield community. Doug Pitt serves as the Chairman of the Springfield Chamber of commerce and promotes his own pet projects such as, Care to Learn Program, that is partially funded by the Jolie-Pitt Foundation. The Care To Learn Project provides a resource to the Springfield Public School System when they seek necessities like shoes or warm breakfasts in an effort to provide a better environment for every child to learn.

As the self appointed family Gatekeeper, Doug filters request from the public for Brad's generous giving needs. It must be refreshing for Brad to have a younger brother who is just as successful and desires to lives his life ethically, instead of leaching off of his older brother's success.

Little Sister - Julie Pitt Neal (Born 1969)
Julie, married Rob Neal, an employee at Doug's computer business, ServiceWorld, and friend to her older brother Doug. Like her parents, Julie wishes to remain out of the media, so many people do not even know Brad has a little sister. Together, Julie and Rob Neal have a son and a set of twin daughters.

Paternal Grandparents :
  Alvin Monroe Pitt (1913 - 1959)
  Elizabeth "Betty" Jean Brown (b. 1922)

Maternal Grandparents :
  Hal Knox Hillhouse (1911 - 1976)
  Clara M. Bell (1910-2003)

Interesting Facts About The Jolie Pitt Family

1. Brad Pitt worked his daughter, Shiloh, into a scene of the movie, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, set to be released in December 2008. This is was a last minute decision due to the fussiness of the current twins playing the role. Brad remedied the situation by replacing the twin babies with his own daughter playing in the onset nursery.

2. Brad Pitt is the sole owner of plan B, a production company, he started with Bill Gray (an executive at Paramont) and Jennifer Anistan (his first wife).

3.In May 2008, Brad and Angelina bought a chateau on the french Riviera worth million. The Chateau Miraval contains 35 bedrooms, a forest, lake and a moat. Johnny Depp and Bono are close neighbours

4. Angelina's many tattoos include the Japanese sign for death, two pointy black American Indian symbols, a dragon, a large black cross, an 'H' on the inside of her wrist, the Tennesee Williams quote, "A prayer for the wild at heart, kept in cages," on her left forearm, the words "Lady Croft" on an arm and the Latin phrase "Quod me nutrit me destruit" ("What nourishes me also destroys me") across her stomach.

5. Angelina openly credits her mother for her inspiration to go into acting. To show her gratitude, Angelina gave her Oscar, Golden Globes, SAG Awards and Critic Choice Award to her mother. As another expression of honor, her mother chose the name Pax for her second adopted son.

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