Watch:Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie’s Daughter Vivienne Files to Drop Dad’s Last Name After 18th Birthday
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s daughterVivienne is embarking on a new chapter
Eight days after her 18th birthday, Vivienne filed a petition in the Los Angeles Superior Court remove her dad’s surname from her legal hyphenated Jolie-Pitt last name, according to court documents obtained by E! News
In her July 17 filing, she requested that her full name be changed from Vivienne Marcheline Jolie-Pitt to Vivienne Marcheline Jolie, citing the reason behind the request as “personal.”
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Vivienne’s legal move follows that of her 20-year-old sister Shiloh—who legally dropped “Pitt” from her last name after submitting a legal request on her 18th birthday in 2024—as well as siblings Maddox, 24, and Zahara, 21, who filed similar petitions earlier this year
But for Vivienne, she’s been solely using the Jolie surname for quite some time. After all, she wascredited as “Vivienne Jolie” in a 2024 Playbill for the Broadway production of The Outsiders, in which she served as an assistant to her producer mom
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“Angelina is thrilled to be working on her first theatrical producing venture alongside her daughter, Vivienne,” read the program, “who is a theatre student and supporter of the arts.”
And her youngest daughter takes after another matriarch in their family
“Viv reminds me of my mother,” Angelina told E! News in 2023, referring her late mom Marcheline Bertrand, “in that she isn’t focused on being the center of attention but in being a support to other creatives.”
Added the Oscar winner, who filed for divorce from Pitt in 2016 after two years of marriage, “She’s very thoughtful and serious about theater and working hard to best understand how to contribute.”
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In fact, Angelina credited Vivienne for helping her get back in touch with her theater roots.
“I studied at the Lee Strasberg Institute where I realized my first love, as a performer, was the theater. I had not found a way back until now,” she told Deadline in 2023 after signing on to produce The Outsiders. “I hope to be able to contribute while continuing to learn from this amazing team, who I have been working with since my daughter brought me to see the show at La Jolla Playhouse.”
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Walking through, “I didn’t feel a connection with any of them,” she later told Vanity Fair, until she saw Maddox—born Aug. 5, 2001—lying in a box suspended from the ceiling. Feeling that bond in an instant, she said, “I cried and cried.”
Though the then-26-year-old adopted her eldest son as a single mother, after she began dating future husband Brad Pitt, he started the process to adopt him as well.
Thanks to an interest in his mom’s work, when Angelina directed 2017’s First They Killed My Father, the film adaptation of her friend Loung Ung’s book about the Cambodian genocide by the Khmer Rouge regime, Maddox signed on as executive producer. “I was trying to help wherever I could,”” he told People of the role. As for his boss, aka mom, she’s “fun, funny, and easy to work with,” he said. “She’s a wonder.”
After studying biochemistry at South Korea’s Yonsei University (a choice his mom said she “could not be happier about”), Maddox attended a state dinner at the <a href="https://todaytrendnews7.com/as-dodgers-head-to-white-house-loyal-fans-are-conflicted-trump-is-tearing-this-city-apart/" title="As Dodgers head to White House, loyal fans are conflicted: ‘Trump is tearing this city apart’”>White House in April 2023 when President Joe Biden and First Lady Dr. Jill Biden hosted South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol and First Lady Kim Keon Hee.
Living with Maddox and sisters Zahara and Shiloh, “suddenly, here he is in a very free situation with new brothers and sisters and a mom and dad,” Angelina continued. “He’s learning English and he’s so loving and he’s wild and free ’cause he suddenly has freedom so he’s a little wild and crazy. But what a tough, remarkable little person.”
With an interest in the family business, Pax voiced the character Yoo in Angelina’s animated 2016 film Kung Fu Panda 3 and served as set photographer on First They Killed My Father before attending the 2018 Golden Globes with his mom.
He also helped decorate Atelier Jolie, a creative fashion collective and alteration company Angelina opened in NYC, and worked in the assistant director department on the Italian set of her film Without Blood.
As Angelina told People of working with both Pax and Maddox, “When a film crew is at its best, it feels like a big family, so it felt natural.”
Like her siblings, Zahara has expressed interest in all facets of her mother’s work, attending red carpets, launching her charitable Zahara Collection jewelry line in collaboration with jeweler Robert Procop in 2019 and making trips to Syrian refugee camps as part of her mom’s efforts with the UNHCR.
In August 2022, Angelina grew emotional while dropping Zahara off at Atlanta’s Spelman College (“I haven’t started crying yet so…hopefully I can hold it together,” she shared in an Instagram video), later returning for the HBCU’s homecoming festivities.
Zahara—who joined the school’s Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority in 2023—has also accompanied the actress on several trips to Washington, D.C. She was by Angelina’s side when she gave a tearful speech promoting the renewal of the Violence Against Women Act in February 2022 and a year later when they met with lawmakers to advocate for the passage of the Justice for All Reauthorization Act of 2022.
Making her red carpet debut at the Unbroken premiere in 2014, Shiloh went on to appear at events for Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, The Breadwinner and Dumbo, the 2018 National Board of Review Awards Gala and the 2021 Eternals red carpet, where she wore Mom’s Dior gown.
“I’m like, ‘Oh my god, wear it and wear it better than me!” Angelina told E!’s Daily Pop of encouraging her kids to raid her closet. “And take it, and it’s your turn, anything.’ I’m that mom.”
In addition to showing interest in Angelina’s humanitarian efforts, Shiloh seems to have taken a few steps into the entertainment industry, spending time at L.A.’s Millennium Dance Complex.
On her 18th birthday in 2024, she submitted a petition at a Los Angeles Court to remove the hyphenated “Pitt” part of her surname to be known as Shiloh Nouvel Jolie. The legal name change was made official months later.
Named for Brad’s grandfather, Hal Knox Hillhouse, Angelina noted that “Knox is a lot like Brad, emotionally and physically.” And, indeed, the pair did bear a striking resemblance while attending the 2015 British motorcycle Grand Prix.
Like older siblings Pax, Zahara and Shiloh, Knox took on a small role in 2016’s Kung Fu Panda 3, voicing the part of Ku Ku. “They were kind of shy,” Jolie told ET. “They don’t really want to be actors, but I didn’t want them to miss the opportunity. They came in, and they had a lot of fun with it.”
Though she nailed her role as the younger version of Elle Fanning’s Aurora in 2014’s Maleficent (“I was actually shocked that she was doing so well she went back and hit her mark! It’s frightening,” Angelina said at the time), the high schooler has since gravitated toward behind-the-scenes roles.
Angelina said that Vivienne was the one to encourage her to help bring an adaptation of Francis Ford Coppola’s 1983 film The Outsiders to Broadway, so the teen ended up serving as a volunteer assistant to her producer mom on the Tony winner.
“She’ll correct me,” Angelina told People of Vivienne, who’s credited in the playbill as Vivienne Jolie. “She’ll say, ‘Didn’t you read the memo? We have to do this, we have to go through this,’ ” Jolie said. “She’s been a really tough assistant. She takes it very, very seriously.”
