Marcheline Bertrand
| Marcheline Bertrand | |
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Bertrand in 2001
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| Born |
Marcia Lynne Bertrand May 9, 1950 Blue Island, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | January 27, 2007 (aged 56) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Ovarian cancer, Breast cancer |
| Occupation | Actress, producer |
| Years active | 1971–2007 |
| Spouse(s) | Jon Voight (m. 1971; div. 1980) |
| Partner(s) |
Bill Day (1978–1989) John Trudell (–2007) |
| Children |
James Haven Angelina Jolie |
Marcia Lynne "Marcheline" Bertrand (May 9, 1950 – January 27, 2007) was an American actress and humanitarian worker. She was the former wife of actor Jon Voight and the mother of actors Angelina Jolie and James Haven.
Bertrand co-founded the All Tribes Foundation, to provide cultural and economic benefits to Native Americans, and the Give Love Give Life organization, to raise public awareness of women's cancers. She died of breast and ovarian cancer at the age of 56.
Born at St. Francis Hospital in Blue Island, Illinois, Bertrand was brought up in the nearby small town of Riverdale. Her parents were Lois June (née Gouwens; 1928–1973) and Rolland F. Bertrand (1923–1985). She had two younger siblings: a sister, Debbie, and a brother, Raleigh. In 1965, Bertrand's family moved from the Chicago area to Beverly Hills, California, where she attended Beverly Hills High School from sophomore year through graduation.
Bertrand's father was of French-Canadian descent, and her mother was of Dutch and German ancestry, with ancestors who had immigrated to the United States in the mid-19th century. Bertrand claimed to be of Iroquois ancestry through her father's line, although her only known Native American ancestor is a Huron woman born in 1649 in present-day Quebec. According to her daughter, Bertrand was often wrongly identified as a French actress because of her name; she said, "My mom is as far from French Parisian as you can get. She grew up in a bowling alley that my grandparents owned."
During her early years as an actress, Bertrand studied with Lee Strasberg. In 1971, she played Connie in the episode "Love, Peace, Brotherhood and Murder" on the fourth season of the television show Ironside. A decade later, she appeared in a minor role in 1982's Lookin' to Get Out, a film co-written by and starring her former husband, Jon Voight. The following year, Bertrand played her final film role in the 1983 comedy The Man Who Loved Women, a remake of the 1977 French film of the same name.
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