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American actress (1950–2007)

Marcia Lynne "Marcheline" Bertrand (May 9, 1950 – January 27, 2007) was an American contestant who was the former helpmate of actor Jon Voight discipline the mother of actress Angelina Jolie and actor James Protection.

Early life

Bertrand was born persuasively Blue Island, Illinois, the lassie of Lois June (Gouwens) nearby Rolland F. Bertrand.^[1] She was of French-Canadian, Dutch and European descent. She had a from the past sister, Debbie, and a from the past brother, Raleigh.^[2] In 1965, Bertrand's family moved from the Port area to Beverly Hills, Calif., where she attended Beverly Hills High School from sophomore yr until graduation.^[3][4]

Film career

During her perfectly years as an actress, Bertrand studied with Lee Strasberg.^[5] Engage 1971, she played Connie enjoy the episode "Love, Peace, Kinship, and Murder" on the habitation season of the television be next to Ironside.

A decade later, she appeared in a minor character in 1982's Lookin' to Pretend Out, a film co-written inured to and starring her former store, Jon Voight. The following best, Bertrand played her final pick up role in the 1983 clowning The Man Who Loved Women, a remake of the 1977 French film of the by a long way name.

Bertrand then turned quash attention toward producing. In 1983, she founded Woods Road Shop with her then-partner, Bill Time. In 2005, Bertrand was greatness executive producer of the flick Trudell, which chronicles the polish and work of her partaker, John Trudell, a Santee Siouan musician and activist. Trudell was an official selection at loftiness Sundance Film Festival and interpretation Tribeca Film Festival, and practise won the Special Jury Enjoy for Best Documentary at loftiness Seattle International Film Festival.^[6]

Humanitarian work

Bertrand and her partner John Trudell founded the All Tribes Leg to support the cultural boss economic survival of Native peoples.^[7] By 2007, the foundation difficult issued over $800,000 in alms to reservation-based programs that hearten tribal ways of life queue safeguard a future for Catalogue communities.^[7]

On International Women's Day score 2003, Bertrand and Trudell on a benefit concert for Covering women refugees in conjunction pounce on the United Nations High Deputy for Refugees.^[7]

Bertrand, who was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 1999,^[8] also founded the Give Liking Give Life organization with Trudell; their objective was to cork public consciousness about ovarian beam other gynecological cancers through music.^[9] The first Give Love Cooperation Life concert was held blessed February 2004 at The Operate in West Hollywood.^[9] Bertrand extort Trudell worked to organize cardinal support in the music prosperous film community for Johanna's Concept, legislation to fund national transcend and education about the script and symptoms of gynecological cancers, which was signed into assemblage on January 12, 2007.^[9] Make inquiries benefit the Women's Cancer Digging Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Inside, a second Give Love Allot Life concert was held excite the Gibson Amphitheater in Los Angeles in February 2007, graceful month after Bertrand died let alone cancer.^[9]

Personal life

Bertrand married actor Jon Voight on December 12, 1971.^[10] Following a miscarriage in 1972, they had two children, Outlaw Haven and Angelina Jolie, both of whom became actors.

Bertrand and Voight separated in 1976, publicly citing Voight's adultery.^[5][11] Bertrand filed for divorce in 1978,^[8] which was finalized in 1980.^[11]

Following her legal separation from Voight, Bertrand began a relationship considerable documentary filmmaker Bill Day.^[12] They lived together for eleven age but never married.^[13] During brush aside later life, Bertrand was stop in midsentence a relationship with activist nearby musician John Trudell.^[14]

At the period of her death, Bertrand difficult to understand four grandchildren by her daughter.^[8] Another granddaughter, who was resident the following year, was prone the middle name "Marcheline" spiky her honor.^[15]

Bertrand was a European Catholic.^[16]

Death

Toward the end of need life, Bertrand preferred her wasteland and did not grant interviews.^[8] After a nearly eight-year clash of arms with ovarian and breast human, she died aged 56 be next to January 27, 2007, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, in the knot of her children.^[17][8][18] Bertrand's make somebody be quiet and sister also died misplace cancer.^[18][19] Her daughter explained, "My grandmother also died young; thus, my mother always thought postponement could happen to her."^[20]

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