Angie is summarized as an “independent bundle of energy” by old family friend Charles Eastman, 79, who shot her 1997 photographs. The family can be seen in this picture celebrating the 4th brithday of her brother James Haven. When Jolie’s parents separated, her mother Marcheline Bertrand raised both Jolie and her brother James.

Jolie regularly used to watch movies with her mother Marcheline, who is said to have devoted her life to the kids, according to Charles Eastman. Jolie attributes her interest in acting because of watching movies with her mother.

However, she is said to have shared an estranged realtionship with her father Jon Voight and had also dropped the ‘Voight’ from her name. Charles Easton says about the photograph when Jolie, was 23 months old:

“She was kind of in the background that day, After all, who knew she was going to grow up to be Angelina Jolie?”

Source People Magazine