The Real Reason Angelina Jolie Cut Ties With Her Father and Legally Dropped His Name

In 2000, Angelina Jolie won an Oscar and told her father, from the stage, that he was a great actor but a better father. The next year, he played her father in "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider." By the summer of 2002, she had gone to court and legally removed his last name from hers. This is the story around that name: the little girl who barely knew her famous father, the teenager casting directors called "too dark," two marriages sealed in blood, seventy-two hours in a psychiatric ward, the Oscar for "Girl, Interrupted," the trip to Cambodia that changed the direction of her life, the son she adopted there, six children, the genetic test that came back with an 87 percent risk, the film she made to save her marriage, and the eight-year divorce that finally ended in December 2024. Then, where she is now, in 2026. #AngelinaJolie #JonVoight #TombRaider #GirlInterrupted #Biography #HollywoodHistory #TrueStory #FameAndRuin 00:00 - Before Thirty 00:43 - The Girl Who Was Too Dark 04:06 - Written in Blood 07:01 - The Oscar That Mirrored Her 07:46 - Erasing the Name Voight 09:24 - Cambodia 11:07 - The Brangelina Storm 13:21 - Eighty-Seven Percent 14:57 - Filming the Collapse 16:39 - Real Fire 17:56 - Where She Is Now Footage & interviews: Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (72nd Academy Awards, 2000); Golden Globe Awards (1998, 1999, 2000 broadcasts); Access Hollywood; 60 Minutes (Australia); Entertainment Tonight; Entertainment Weekly; The Associated Press (AP Archive); UNHCR; 5 News (UK); The Tony Awards (CBS); Toronto International Film Festival; Venice Film Festival; Paramount ("Lara Croft: Tomb Raider," "Beowulf"); Columbia Pictures ("Girl, Interrupted," "Salt"); HBO ("Gia"); United Artists ("Hackers"); 20th Century Fox ("Pushing Tin," "Mr. & Mrs. Smith"); Universal Pictures ("Wanted," "Changeling," "By the Sea"); Walt Disney Studios ("Maleficent"); Warner Bros. ("Those Who Wish Me Dead"); Marvel Studios ("Eternals"); MUBI / Netflix ("Maria"); Vertical ("Couture"); Vidmark ("Cyborg 2"); "Lookin' to Get Out" (1982, dir. Hal Ashby). Music: Original instrumental tracks made with Flow Music.