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Angelina Jolie‘s brother James Haven, 50, has been in the spotlight with his famous sister on and off throughout the years. The 48-year-old actress’ solely sibling, whose dad and mom are Jon Voight and the late Marcheline Bertrand, has made public appearances along with her at varied occasions throughout her fame, and regardless of dwelling a low-key life more often than not, he has a powerful profession and historical past of his personal.
The siblings are well-known (generally infamously) shut, and in December of 2023, James opened up about being protecting of his sister following her divorce from ex-husband Brad Pitt. “That’s where it all started, it started with the protection of her and her children — my nieces and nephews,” he stated throughout an look on the 90who10 podcast, by way of Page Six. “I set my life up so I can be present with whatever the situation,” he defined “I want to be there for them or for her — whatever she’s going through.”
Find out extra about James and his life with Angelina beneath!
James can also be an actor.
Like Angelina, the proficient star has appeared in varied movies and tv exhibits since 1998. He began out in a small function in Angelina’s movie Gia and has appeared in different common films since then, together with Hell’s Kitchen, Original Sin, Monster’s Ball, Breaking Dawn, and Stay Alive. The tv exhibits he’s appeared in embrace CSI: Crime Scene Investigation and The Game.
In addition to performing, he’s been the manager board director of Artivist, which is a competition in Los Angeles that places a highlight on varied points, together with human rights, animal rights, and environmental points.
He was as soon as Angelina’s children’ nanny.
Shortly after Angelina’s break up from her husband Brad Pitt in 2016, James reportedly moved in to step within the function of not solely uncle, however head nanny to a number of the different nannies taking care of Angelina and Brad’s six kids, who embrace Maddox, Pax, Zahara, Shiloh, Vivienne, and Knox. She reportedly fired him in 2017, nevertheless, and their shut relationship had reportedly drifted away since then.
But within the December 2023 podcast interview talked about above, James appeared to push again on that narrative, saying he wished to be there for Angie’s children throughout their “massively formative years.” “They’re becoming young adults early 20s,” he stated. “I think it’s just very natural and I just want to be there any time. Anytime I’m blessed to be in their presence, I want to be in their presence.”
His niece Shiloh was named after him.
James revealed that Shiloh was presupposed to be his center identify when he was born in 1973, however his dad and mom modified their minds, in a 2007 interview with Grazia. When Shiloh was born in 2006, Angelina apparently remembered and liked the identify a lot, that she selected it for her daughter.
“At the last second, my parents gave me Haven instead. It was very cool when Brad and Angie came to me and said, ‘We’re thinking of names and our favorite is Shiloh. We know that was your original name, so would that be OK?’,” James advised the outlet. “I was almost in tears – I was so honored.”
He sparked controversy when he & Angelina kissed on the 2000 Oscars.
The brother and sister attended the ceremony collectively and shared a smooch on the lips as they posed on the crimson carpet. It precipitated eyebrows to boost and made headlines in all places, turning into a now-infamous second. Angelina’s acceptance speech for profitable Best Actress for her function in Girl, Interrupted, additionally received the eye that evening when she stated she was “in love” with James.
Despite the confusion of some viewers, each James and Angelina had been reportedly going by means of a troublesome time behind the scenes throughout that point when their mom started remedy after being identified with ovarian most cancers, which she handed away from seven years later. They reportedly spent that very same day on the hospital earlier than stepping out on the carpet for one of many largest award exhibits on the planet. “Nobody in the world knew that they spent the day in the hospital. It was like, ‘Look where we’re at now.’ But the world saw something incestual,” an insider advised Radar Online.
James turned a born-again Christian in 2009.
Since embracing his faith, he has reportedly been part of Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, CA and was apparently coaching to be a youth minister in 2012. Being a Christian is reportedly what led him to mending issues along with his father, Jon, after years of being estranged from him, and he allegedly inspired Angelina to do the identical.