Having fallen successful emotion with the state of Cambodia portion filming 2001's Tomb Raider, Angelina Jolie paid a sojourn to an orphanage successful the provincial municipality of Battambang successful the hopes of uncovering her archetypal child.

Walking through, "I didn’t consciousness a transportation with immoderate of them," she aboriginal told Vanity Fair, until she saw Maddox—born Aug. 5, 2001—lying successful a container suspended from the ceiling. Feeling that enslaved successful an instant, she said, "I cried and cried." 

Though the then-26-year-old adopted her eldest lad arsenic a azygous mother, aft she began dating aboriginal hubby Brad Pitt, helium started the process to follow him arsenic well. 

Thanks to an involvement successful his mom's work, erstwhile Angelina directed 2017's First They Killed My Father, the movie adaptation of her person Loung Ung's publication astir the Cambodian genocide by the Khmer Rouge regime, Maddox signed connected arsenic enforcement producer. “I was trying to assistance wherever I could,”" helium told People of the role. As for his boss, aka mom, she's "fun, funny, and casual to enactment with,” helium said. "She’s a wonder."

After studying biochemistry astatine South Korea's Yonsei University (a prime his ma said she "could not beryllium happier about"), Maddox attended a authorities meal astatine the White House successful April 2023 erstwhile President Joe Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden hosted South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and First Lady Kim Keon Hee.

Born connected Nov. 29, 2003, "He spent three-and-a-half 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," Angelina told MSN successful 2007 of Pax's aboriginal years successful an orphange extracurricular Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Living with Maddox and sisters Zahara and Shiloh, "suddenly, present helium is successful a precise escaped concern with caller brothers and sisters and a ma and dad," Angelina continued. "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. But what a tough, singular small person."

With an involvement successful the household business, Pax voiced the quality Yoo successful Angelina's animated 2016 movie Kung Fu Panda 3 and served arsenic acceptable lensman connected First They Killed My Father earlier attending the 2018 Golden Globes with his mom. 

He besides helped decorate Atelier Jolie, a originative manner corporate and alteration institution Angelina opened successful NYC, and worked successful the adjunct manager section connected the Italian acceptable of her upcoming movie Without Blood.

As Angelina told People of moving with some Pax and Maddox, "When a movie unit is astatine its best, it feels similar a large family, truthful it felt natural."

Then-3-year-old Maddox accompanied Angelina to the Hawassa, Ethiopia orphanage wherever she met eldest girl Zahara, calved Jan. 8, 2005. "Mad loves her," the histrion later told Anderson Cooper. "When Z came location she was older, she was 7 months old, truthful for Mad it’s similar having this tiny favored helium tin conscionable clasp and look at."

Like her siblings, Zahara has expressed involvement successful each facets of her mother's work, attending reddish carpets, launching her charitable Zahara Collection jewelry enactment successful collaboration with jeweler Robert Procop successful 2019 and making trips to Syrian exile camps arsenic portion of her mom's efforts with the UNHCR.  

In August 2022, Angelina grew affectional portion dropping Zahara off astatine Atlanta's Spelman College ("I haven't started crying yet so…hopefully I tin clasp it together," she shared successful an Instagram video), aboriginal returning for the HBCU's homecoming festivities. 

Zahara—who joined the school's Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority successful 2023—has besides accompanied the histrion connected respective trips to Washington, D.C. She was by Angelina's broadside erstwhile she gave a tearful speech promoting the renewal of the Violence Against Women Act successful February 2022 and a twelvemonth aboriginal erstwhile they met with lawmakers to advocator for the transition of the Justice for All Reauthorization Act of 2022.

Months aft announcing her pregnancy, Angelina and Brad welcomed Shiloh astatine Cottage Hospital successful Swakopmund, Namibia connected May 27, 2006. "Shi’s truthful afloat of airy and love, she’s conscionable a small honey, and very, precise funny," Angelina said successful her MSN interview. "I deliberation I’m recognizing immoderate of myself successful that one—she’s going to beryllium a small spot of trouble!"

Making her reddish carpet debut astatine the Unbroken premiere successful 2014, Shiloh went connected to look astatine events for Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, The Breadwinner and Dumbo, the 2018 National Board of Review Awards Gala and the 2021 Eternals reddish carpet, wherever she wore Mom's Dior gown.

"I'm like, 'Oh my god, deterioration it and deterioration it amended than me!" Angelina told E!'s Daily Pop of encouraging her kids to raid her closet. "And instrumentality it, and it's your turn, anything.' I'm that mom."

In summation to showing involvement in Angelina's humanitarian efforts, Shiloh seems to person taken a fewer steps into the amusement industry, spending clip astatine L.A.'s Millennium Dance Complex. 

On her 18th day successful 2024, the teen submitted a petition astatine a Los Angeles Court to region the hyphenated "Pitt" portion of her surname to beryllium known arsenic Shiloh Nouvel Jolie. A root adjacent to the substance told E! News Shiloh had hired her ain lawyer and paid for it connected her own. 

Debuting her babe bump astatine the 2008 Independent Spirit Awards, Angelina aboriginal gave commencement to Knox and past his duplicate sister Vivienne successful Nice, France, connected July 12, 2008. Settling successful astatine their Château Miraval, “It is chaos, but we are managing it and having a fantastic time,” Angelina told People soon after, adding that Shiloh and Zahara liked to take the twins' apparel "and assistance alteration and clasp them."

Named for Brad's grandfather, Hal Knox Hillhouse, Angelina noted that “Knox is simply a batch similar Brad, emotionally and physically." And, indeed, the brace did carnivore a striking resemblance portion attending the 2015 British motorcycle Grand Prix.

Like older siblings Pax, Zahara and Shiloh, Knox took connected a tiny role successful 2016's Kung Fu Panda 3, voicing the portion of Ku Ku. "They were benignant of shy," Jolie told ET. "They don't truly privation to beryllium actors, but I didn't privation them to miss the opportunity. They came in, and they had a batch of amusive with it."

Knox's younger-by-a-minute fraternal duplicate "reminds maine of my parent successful that she isn't focused connected being the halfway of attraction but successful being a enactment to different creatives," Angelina told E! News successful a statement, referring to her precocious ma Marcheline Bertrand. "She's precise thoughtful and superior astir theatre and moving hard to champion recognize however to contribute."

Though she nailed her role as the younger version of Elle Fanning's Aurora successful 2014's Maleficent ("I was really shocked that she was doing truthful good she went backmost and deed her mark! It's frightening," Angelina said astatine the time), the precocious schooler has since gravitated toward behind-the-scenes roles. 

Angelina said that Vivienne was the 1 to promote her to assistance bring an adaptation of Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 movie The Outsiders to Broadway, truthful the teen ended up serving arsenic a unpaid assistant to her shaper ma connected the Tony winner. 

“She’ll close me," Angelina told People of Vivienne, who's credited successful the playbill arsenic Vivienne Jolie. "She'll say, 'Didn't you work the memo? We person to bash this, we person to spell done this,' ” Jolie said. “She’s been a truly pugnacious assistant. She takes it very, precise seriously.”