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

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

As she arrived arm in arm with Knox, 16, on the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences red carpet for the 15th annual Governors Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday, November 17, Jolie, 49, beamed with pride.

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

The couple posed for photos on the ceremony’s red carpet as Jolie, wearing a floor-length gold dress paired with a statement silver necklace and earrings, kept an arm around her son and at one point watched him stand up . 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 . Eternals. (Pax, 20, was absent from the premiere at the time.)

Knox matched his mother’s glamorous attire during his more recent red carpet outing, with a sleek, hemmed 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 footsteps. “No, I think they are mainly shy and very closed people,” Jolie said E! News at the AFI premiere of her new film Mary on October 26. “They want to be private.”

While the children’s professional ambitions may keep them out of the spotlight, many of them have been a continued support for Jolie’s film career. Maddox, Pax and Zahara stepped out with Jolie at the New York Film Festival in September Mary shown at the event.

“It meant everything,” Jolie said Extra as she reflected on her children’s support. “Before you get into these things, you’re just as nervous. They just said, ‘Whatever happens, 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 whether they succeed or fail, they care about you.

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While on-screen chases may be unlikely, Jolie’s two eldest children served behind the scenes Marydeputy director Pablo Larrain while working on the film, which charts the opera singer’s life Maria Callas.

“Mad and Pax were here working on AD [assistant directing] work,” Jolie said The Hollywood Reporter in August. “They’ve done that a few times and I think it’s good for them. Pax tends to do stills and he gets brought in, and Pablo was great and realized he was good at it.

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

As for Knox, the teen had a small role in 2016 Kung Fu Panda 3in which he played the character Ku Ku, while his mother voiced Tigress in the film.