Trivia

Godparents of her daughter Angelina are Maximilian Schell and Jacqueline Bisset.

After her divorce from actor Jon Voight, she involved herself in Native American causes. Part Iroquois Indian, she and daughter Angelina Jolie started a foundation for Native American people.

Passed away on January 27, 2007 after an almost eight-year battle with ovarian cancer and breast cancer at age 56.

Had a younger brother and sister: Raleigh Bertrand and Debbie Martin (née Bertrand; 1952 - May 26, 2013, died from breast cancer at age 61).

Gave birth to her first child at age 23, a son, James Haven Voight, on May 11, 1973, and to her daughter, Angelina Jolie Voight, on June 4, 1975, at age 25. The children's father is her now ex-first husband, Jon Voight.

Oldest of three children in family of Rolland F. Bertrand (June 11, 1923 - April 8, 1985) and Lois June Bertrand (née Gouwens; February 4, 1928 - November 11, 1973, died from ovarian cancer at age 45).

She was the daughter of Lois June (Gouwens) and Rolland Francis Bertrand. Her paternal grandparents, George Bertrand and Marie-Louise Angélina Leduc, were of French-Canadian descent. Her maternal grandfather, Roy G. Gouwens, was of Dutch origin, and her maternal grandmother, Virginia Kasha, was of Polish descent. Marcheline also had a remote Huron ancestor, her maternal seven times great-grandmother, Catherine Anenontha, who was born, c. 1649, in Ancienne-Lorette, Quebec.

Grandmother to daughter Angelina Jolie's children, Maddox Jolie-Pitt (aka Maddox Chivan Jolie-Pitt), Zahara Jolie-Pitt (aka Zahara Marley Jolie-Pitt) and Shiloh Jolie-Pitt (aka Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt). She left $100,000 in trust for each at her death on January 27, 2007. Her twins Knox and Vivienne, fathered by Brad Pitt, and adopted child with Pitt, Pax, do not share in Bertrand's estate.

Former mother-in-law of Jonny Lee Miller and Billy Bob Thornton.

Was in a relationship with Bill Day from 1978 - 1989. She had a couple of miscarriages.

Ex-sister-in-law of Chip Taylor.

Sadly suffered a miscarriage in 1972.