Who are Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's six children as Knox Jolie-Pitt joins his mother at awards

Angelina Jolie had the perfect companion for the 2024's Governor's Awards astatine Dolby Theatre successful Los Angeles connected Sunday November 17.

Standing taller than his parent and looking a batch similar his father, Brad Pitt, Knox Jolie-Pitt made a uncommon quality arsenic the 2 posed for pictures.

At the star-studded occasion, his 5 siblings were conspicuously absent, creating a unsocial mother-son moment.

Jolie's quality coincides with her promotion of her astir caller movie, Maria, a biopic astir opera vocalist Maria Callas that is already creating Oscar talk.

Jolie-Pitt is 1 of the youngest children of their celebrated parents and helium has a duplicate sister called Vivienne.

Here is everything we cognize astir the actors’ children and what they are up to now.

Jolie and Pitt's oldest child, Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt, was calved connected August 5, 2001, successful Battambang, Cambodia. 

After surviving successful an orphanage for 7 months, Jolie adopted him aft becoming enamoured with the state portion filming Lara Croft: Tomb Raider the erstwhile year. At the clip of Maddox’s adoption, Jolie was inactive joined to histrion Billy Bob Thornton, but she decided to follow him connected her own. 

Jolie was initially tense astir motherhood, penning successful Time that she “never thought” she could beryllium a parent due to the fact that of her unstable childhood. "I retrieve the determination to go a parent. It wasn’t hard to love. It wasn’t hard to dedicate myself to idiosyncratic and thing greater than my life,” she wrote. “What was hard was knowing that from present connected I needed to beryllium the 1 to marque definite everything was okay.”

Jolie told Vanity Fair she felt an instant transportation with Maddox astatine the orphanage. She said she “cried and cried” aft seeing him lying successful a container suspended from the ceiling.

Jolie and Thornton divided up a fewer months aft bringing Maddox to the States. Jolie raised Maddox arsenic a azygous genitor until she started dating Pitt successful 2004. The pursuing year, Pitt began the process of adopting Maddox too. 

Despite being portion of 1 of the world’s astir high-profile families Maddox has maintained a comparatively backstage life. His archetypal reddish carpet quality was astatine the 2004 Venice Film Festival for his mum’s movie Shark Tale, wherever his celebrated faux hawk hairdo stole the show. His adjacent existent nationalist outing was successful 2009 erstwhile helium attended the premiere of Invictus. 

Aged 13 successful 2015, helium worked arsenic a trainee successful Jolie’s movie By The Sea. Two years later, helium was credited arsenic an enforcement shaper for her Netflix movie First They Killed My Father successful 2017, based connected a publication astir the Cambodian genocide by the Khmer Rouge regime. Jolie aboriginal explained that she took Maddox connected the movie to assistance him larn "about who helium is" and go "that overmuch much connected to his country”.

"He goes backmost and distant [to Cambodia] a lot, but this would beryllium implicit 4 months of conscionable being successful the country, truly reading, listening, learning and absorbing each things astir his civilization and state [including] the very, precise acheronian parts," she told People. 

Maddox is reportedly estranged from his adoptive begetter Pitt. He testified against Pitt successful tribunal aft Jolie made allegations of maltreatment against him during a backstage pitchy incidental successful September 2016. A root told US weekly: “Maddox has already fixed grounds arsenic an big successful the ongoing custody quality and it wasn’t precise flattering toward Brad.”

In 2019, Maddox near the US to survey biochemistry astatine Yonsei University successful Seoul, South Korea. While dropping her eldest off, Jolie admitted to having an “embarrass-your-children disfigured cry” arsenic she said goodbye. 

Jolie adopted Zahara from Hawassa, Ethiopia, erstwhile she was conscionable 7 months old, portion connected a sojourn with Maddox successful 2005. Her then-boyfriend Pitt accompanied her connected her 2nd travel to the state to marque the adoption official. 

Following successful her mother’s footsteps, Zahara has a keen oculus for fashion. When she was 14, she collaborated with jeweller Robert Procop to make the Zahara Collection jewellery line, with the proceeds going to LA’s House of Ruth Shelters. This provides a transitional location for women and children successful need.

Jolie has been outspoken astir raising her girl to beryllium arrogant of her Ethiopian heritage.

"My girl is from Ethiopia, 1 of my children … And I person learned truthful overmuch from her," she said during a Time 100 Talk successful 2020. "She is my family, but she is an bonzer African pistillate and her transportation to her country, her continent, is her ain and it’s thing I lone basal backmost successful awe of."

Jolie adjacent took Zahara to conscionable the archetypal pistillate president of Ethiopia, Sahle-Work Zewde, successful 2019. They discussed education, play poverty, Ethiopian past and culture, and Jolie’s efforts to dainty tuberculosis.

Zahara besides seems to person inherited her mother’s penchant for philanthropy. In 2021, the brace discussed the Violence Against Women Act with politicians successful the US. In December 2022, she joined her parent connected a sojourn to Washington DC, wherever they met lawmakers to advocator the extortion of transgression victims. 

In an interrogation with Vanity Fair, Jolie described her eldest daughter, whom she calls “Zaz”, arsenic the “rock” of the family.

In the summertime of 2022, Zahara began her acquisition astatine Spelman College, an HBCU (historically achromatic colleges and universities). Last year, she joined the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority, the archetypal historically achromatic sorority.

When the 18-year-old Spelman undergraduate declared herself astatine the sorority induction ceremony, she reportedly shouted “Zahara Marley Jolie,” notably not including her father’s past name, according to a video obtained by Essence.

Born successful Swakopmund, Namibia, successful May 2006, Shiloh is Jolie and Pitt’s archetypal biologic child. 

When she was born, section Namibian politician Samuel Nuuyoma called the commencement “an honour for our country”, saying that the “delightful news” of a babe is “something precise peculiar successful our African tradition”.

Despite her parent hoping that her children would not not besides go actors (“I would truly similar they bash thing else,” she told Elle magazine), Shiloh's archetypal portion came erstwhile she was conscionable 2 years old. She and her dada appeared successful The Curious Case of Benjamin Button successful 2008. Six years later, she was offered the portion of a young Aurora successful her mother's 2014 movie Maleficent. However, she rejected the role, and her younger sister Vivienne took it instead.

"I asked Shiloh astir being Aurora, and she laughed successful my face," Jolie told Elle. "She said she'd beryllium a horned creature." Shiloh went connected to dependable Shuai Shuai successful Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016).

Shiloh has a passionateness for different performing benignant – dance. She has practised astatine an elite creation workplace successful LA but her begetter has said helium doesn't cognize wherever Shiloh got her talent. In an interrogation with E!, helium called himself "Mr. Two Left Feet". 

Jolie has said that increasing up, Shiloh thought she was "one of the brothers”. She has been progressive successful her manner choices, which Jolie has supported. “I deliberation she is fascinating, the choices she is making,” Jolie told Reuters successful 2010.

“I would ne'er beryllium the benignant of genitor to unit idiosyncratic to beryllium thing they are not. I deliberation that is conscionable atrocious parenting,” she said. “Children should beryllium allowed to explicit themselves successful immoderate mode they privation without anybody judging them due to the fact that it is an important portion of their growth.”

“Society ever has thing to larn erstwhile it comes to the mode we justice each other, statement each other. We person acold to go.”

Pax Thien Jolie-Pitt was calved connected November 29, 2003 successful Pham Quang Sang, Vietnam.

His biologic parent battled addiction and abandoned him erstwhile helium was lone 2 days aged aft discovering helium had liver problems. When Jolie adopted Pax successful 2007, helium became the 4th Jolie-Pitt kid astatine the property of three. Jolie adopted him by herself owed to Vietnamese laws that marque it hard for unmarried couples to adopt, but Pitt formally adopted him the pursuing year. 

His sanction means “peaceful sky”, with Pax being the Latin connection for bid and Thien meaning entity successful Vietnamese. 

After bringing Pax backmost to the US, Jolie told People helium was a “tough, singular small person”.

She said: “He spent 3 1/2 years of his beingness successful 1 place, successful 1 room, successful this 1 small robust furniture with 20 different kids, and having nary prime for himself to bash things, having nary freedom. 

“And suddenly, present helium is successful a precise escaped concern with caller brothers and sisters and a ma and dad. He's learning English and he's truthful loving and he's chaotic and escaped 'cause helium abruptly has state truthful he's a small chaotic and crazy.”

In 2011, the Jolie-Pitt household returned to Vietnam to research Pax's location state earlier his eighth birthday.

While Pax has enjoyed a beingness mostly retired of the spotlight, helium has dabbled successful the show arts. He voiced the quality of Yoo connected Kung Fu Panda 3 and was a acceptable lensman connected Jolie's movie First They Killed My Father successful August 2022.

Discussing moving with Pax and Maddox connected assorted movie sets, Jolie told People: “We enactment good together. When a movie unit is astatine its best, it feels similar a large family, truthful it felt natural.”

Pax graduated from a prestigious LA backstage schoolhouse successful 2021 but did not be the ceremonial arsenic helium did not privation to marque a “circus” of the event, the Sun reported.

An insider told Us Weekly that Pax’s narration with his begetter was fraught and they were not speaking.

In 2008, Jolie and Pitt announced they were expecting different summation to the household erstwhile Jolie appeared astatine the Independent Spirit Awards displaying a disposable babe bump. On July 12, Jolie gave commencement to twins Knox Léon and Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt successful Nice, France. Knox arrived a fewer minutes earlier his sister, weighing 5.3 lbs. Later, it was disclosed that the lad was named successful honour of Pitt's grandfather, Hal Knox Hillhouse.

After returning from the hospital, the mates described their household arsenic "busy" and credited their older children for helping them look aft their younger siblings.

Jolie told People that Shiloh and Zahara were excited astir selecting outfits for the twins and often helped "changing and holding them". Jolie said that, arsenic a toddler, Knox exhibited qualities reminiscent of his father.

He is reportedly into martial arts and was pictured attending a people successful 2021.

Knox’s twin, Vivienne, was calved connected July 12, 2008. 

So far, Vivienne has not been camera shy, making her movie debut alongside her parent successful Maleficent arsenic a young Princess Aurora

"We deliberation it’s amusive for our kids to person cameos and articulation america connected set, but not to beryllium actors," Jolie told Entertainment Weekly. "That’s not our goal, for Brad and I, astatine all.

"But the different three- and four-year-old [performers] wouldn’t travel adjacent me. It had to beryllium a kid that liked maine and wasn’t acrophobic of my horns and my eyes and my claws. So it had to beryllium Viv."

Vivienne served arsenic her mother's unpaid adjunct connected Jolie's upcoming Broadway adaption of Francis Ford Coppola's 1983 movie The Outsiders.

"Viv reminds maine of my parent successful that she isn’t focused connected being the centre of attraction but successful being a enactment to different creatives," Jolie said. "She’s precise thoughtful and superior astir theatre and moving hard to champion recognize however to contribute."

Outside of her show arts career, Vivienne is astatine schoolhouse and looks aft her favored rabbits.