Angelina Jolie beams with pride next to son Knox in rare public outing

Angelina Jolie has stepped out in style in a rare public outing with her son Knox.

Arriving arm-in-arm with Knox, 16, at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 15th Annual Governors Awards red carpet in Los Angeles on Sunday (November 17), Jolie, 49, beamed with pride.

Knox, one of six children Jolie shares Brad Pitt and twin brother to Vivienne, revealed a significant growth spurt during the performance, appearing taller than his famous mother, who wore high heels to the event.

The couple posed for photographs on the ceremony’s red carpet as Jolie, dressed in a floor-length gold gown paired with a statement silver necklace and drop earrings, kept an arm around her son and looked over to smile at him at one point as he stood. comfortable in front of the cameras.

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Knox’s return to the red carpet comes more than three years since his last appearance, which was in October 2021, when his siblings Maddox, 23, Zahara, 19, Shiloh, 18, and Vivienne, attended the London premiere of Jolie’s Marvel film . Eternal. (Pax, 20, was absent from the premiere at the time.)

Knox matched his mother’s glamorous attire on his latest red carpet outing, wearing a sleek buzz cut and a black tuxedo.

The couple’s date night comes after Jolie recently revealed that her children are unlikely to follow in her and their father’s acting footsteps. “No, I think they are particularly shy, very private people,” Jolie shared E! News at the AFI premiere of her new film Maria on October 26. “They will be private.”

Although the children’s professional ambitions may steer them away from the limelight, many of them have proven to be an enduring support for Jolie’s film career. Maddox, Pax and Zahara stepped out with Jolie at the New York Film Festival in September as Maria shown at the event.

“It has meant everything,” Jolie shared Additional at the time as they reflected on her children’s support. “Before you get into these things, you’re just as nervous. They just said, ‘Whatever, Mom, good luck and we know how hard you work and we love you.’ You know, you just have that moment where the people who are with you tell you, succeed or fail, they care about you.”

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While on-screen pursuits may be unlikely, Jolie’s two oldest children served behind the scenes Mariaassistant director Pablo Larrain when he worked on the film, which charts the opera singer’s life Maria Callas.

“Mad and Pax were on this one doing AD (assistant directing) work,” Jolie shared The Hollywood Reporter in August. “They have done that quite a few times, and I think that is good for them. Pax usually does stills and he’s brought in and Pablo was wonderful and recognized that he was good at it.”

Vivenne has also joined her mother on various projects and helped Jolie produce The outsiders on Broadway, which premiered in April, and acts as a young version of Elle Fanning‘s Aurora in Jolie’s 2014 film Maleficent.

As for Knox, the teenager voiced a small role in the 2016s Kung Fu Panda 3who plays the character of Ku Ku, while his mother voiced Tigress in the film.