On her father's side, Jolie is of German and Slovak descent. Jolie has claimed to have distant Indigenous (iroquois) ancestry through her French-Canadian mother. Following her parents' separation in 1976, she and her brother lived with their mother, who had abandoned her acting ambitions to focus on raising her children. Jolie's mother raised her as a Catholic but did not require her to go to church. Born in Los Angeles, California and grew up in Palisades, New York after parent separation.
Brad Pitt’s family has lived in the US for at least 6 generations. His documented ancestry is mostly English with a touch of Scots-Irish, a small amount of German, Welsh, Dutch, French Cornish. Born in Shawnee, Oklahoma, no Native American ancestry has been documented.