Biography for
Marcheline Bertrand More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

9 May 1950, Riverdale, Illinois, USA

Date of Death

27 January 2007, Los Angeles, California, USA (ovarian cancer)

Birth Name

Marcia Lynne Bertrand

Spouse

Jon Voight

(12 December 1971 - 14 April 1980) (divorced) 2 children

Trivia

Of French-Canadian and Native American (Haudenosaunee Iroquois) descent.

Daughter Angelina Jolie and son James Haven with Jon Voight.

Ex-sister-in-law of Chip Taylor.

Her granddaughter Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt was born in Namibia on 27 May 2006 to her daughter actress Angelina Jolie and her boyfriend, actor Brad Pitt.

Grandmother to daughter Angelina's children Maddox Chivan, Zahara Marley and Shiloh Nouvel. She left $100,000 in trust for each at her death in 2007. Her twins Knox and Vivienne, fathered by 'Brad Pitt (I)' and adopted child with Pitt, Pax, do not share in Bertrand's estate.

Godparents of her daughter Angelina are Maximilian Schell and Jacqueline Bisset.

After her divorce from actor Jon Voight, she involved herself Native American causes. Part Iroquois Indian, she and daughter Angelina Jolie started a foundation for Native American people.

Former mother-in-law of Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton.