Early life and education. Angelina Jolie Voight was born on June 4, 1975, at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles, California, to actors Jon Voight and Marcheline Bertrand. She is the sister of actor James Haven, and the niece of singer-songwriter Chip Taylor and geologist and volcanologist Barry Voight.
Meanwhile his Democratic rival, New York Senator Hillary Clinton, shares a common ancestor with Pitt's partner, actress Angelina Jolie. Clinton and Jolie are ninth cousins twice removed linked by Jean Cusson of St. Sulpice, Quebec, who died in 1718.
Interestingly, Brad and Angelina are also distant cousins, as Henry II's wife Eleanor of Aquitaine was also the first wife of Louis VII of France, Philip II's father.
On her father's side, Jolie is of German and Slovak descent, and on her mother's side, she is of primarily French Canadian, Dutch, and German ancestry. Like her mother, Jolie has stated that she is part Iroquois, although her only known Native American ancestor was a Huron woman born in 1649.
Angelina has been open about raising her daughter to be proud of her African roots and praised her as an “extraordinary African woman” during a TIME 100 Talk in 2020. "My daughter is from Ethiopia, one of my children … And I have learned so much from her," The Eternals actress said.
Back in 2002, Jolie became a mom for the first time when she adopted Maddox Chivan, 22, from an orphanage in Cambodia. Three years later, the family grew with the addition of Zahara Marley, 19, who was born in Ethiopia.
Beyonce and the Queen were 25th cousins once removed. The ancestry site Geni has helpfully spelled out the exact link: "Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom is Beyoncé's stepfather's wife's first cousin's mother's ex-husband's ex-wife's first cousin's wife's aunt's husband's father's wife's nephew's wife."
Her ancestors may be traced all the way back to Phillip II, the son of Louis VII, a 12th-century French king. This links Jolie to Marie of France, a powerful French princess at the time and Phillip's half-sister. Jolie is also the 26th cousin of Her Royal Highness Queen Elizabeth II.
The 2016 Democratic presidential candidate revealed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show that she and the Queen of Pop are 10th cousins. “That's true,” the politician told Ellen DeGeneres. Clinton and Madonna share the same great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents.
Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's fraternal twins, Knox and Vivienne, have grown up so fast. It seems like just yesterday that the pair were born on July 12, 2008, in Nice, France. Now teens, the former couple's son and daughter are Angelina's favorite shopping companions.
Ancestry experts said they were able to work a connection which established the Johnny Depp and Queen Elizabeth II as 20th cousins, meaning the US actor shares his '19th' Grandfather with Her Majesty. The genealogist traced Johnny's ancestral family name back to 14th Century French Huguenots living in England.
For example, did you know that President Abraham Lincoln is apparently distantly related to Tom Hanks? That's right! Before Lincoln's mother got married, she was named Nancy Hanks. Speaking of relatives, a man named Harrison Ruffin Tyler is the grandson of our 10th president, John Tyler.
With the exception of Martin Van Buren and perhaps Dwight D. Eisenhower, every president has ancestors from the British Isles, which in turn makes many of them distantly related to one another. John F. Kennedy was of pure Irish descent, Van Buren was of Dutch lineage; and Eisenhower was of German and Swiss heritage.
The Like A Prayer singer, 60, and the Duchess both hail from the bloodline of 17th French-Canadians Madeleine Ernard and Zacharie Cloutier. The couple was considered part of the high society of Canada and the connection makes Madonna and Camilla 10th cousins.
Prince Harry was born in the Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, London, on 15 September 1984 as the second child of Charles, Prince of Wales (later King Charles III), and his first wife, Diana, Princess of Wales, during the reign of his paternal grandmother Elizabeth II.
However, Professor Schurer said: “He (Cumberbatch) is more direct because he is a third cousin. Most other relatives would be much lower order cousins. “I think the Queen would be a third cousin several times removed as well.” Bob Cumberbatch, the family's genealogist, said: “Personally, I think it's fabulous.
Three of the kids were adopted from orphanages only to be raised by one of the most iconic power couples in Hollywood, and the other three are Brad and Angelina's biological children, making up their beautiful family. The former flames have kept their kids out of the spotlight for the most part.
Jolie, 48, adopted her first child, Maddox, from Cambodia in 2002, and then she adopted Zahara from an Ethiopian orphanage in 2005. She gave birth to her first biological child, Shiloh, in 2006.
