Angelina Jolie graced the red carpet at the Tony Awards on Sunday night with her 15-year-old daughter Vivienne by her side. They looked so glamorous twinning in teal for the event, representing their Broadway musical, The Outsiders, based on the famous 1967 S.E. Hinton novel.
Ahead of winning the top honor of the night for “Best Musical,” the Maleficent star was glowing on the red carpet. She wrote a stunning Versace strapless gown, per WWD, with a matching shawl and ruched fabric that was fitting for the theatre. Vivienne coordinated with her mom in a teal vest, pants, and matching bowtie with a white button-down shirt and black Converse. The duo was beaming in their sweet photos!
The musical, which also scored Jolie a Tony for producing, wouldn’t have come about without Vivienne’s interest. Last week, the Oscar winner told Deadline about how her daughter encouraged her to get involved with this adaption. “My daughter Viv loves theater. She appreciates all theater but she certainly knows what she feels close to and what she responds to,” Jolie said. She explained that Vivienne had seen a stage production of The Outsiders in La Jolla, California, “about five times” before she convinced her mom to come with her.
“Then she asked me to come see it with her, and I thought it was just a…you know, Danya [Taymor, director] speaks of how important it is to teenagers, how it was written by somebody who’s the age of my daughter, right?” Jolie continued. “So, really, as a mother, as a person, I was watching it, but I was really watching the effect it was having on my young daughter and what she was telling me about herself, and I was learning what about it was important to her and why it connected so deeply to her.”
The Eternals star went on, “So, it was a very different experience of understanding, of how this is having a significant effect on her as a young person right now, and she’s communicating something to me, and that is the power of this material, which was in really good shape even by then. And then I had the privilege of watching everyone work over this last year to make it into what it is, and Vivienne has been there the whole way.”
And as they worked together, with Vivienne serving as her mom’s production assistant, it became clear that the teen inherited her mom’s strong work ethic. “She’ll correct me. She’ll say, ‘Didn’t you read the memo? We have to do this. We have to go through this,’” Jolie told PEOPLE in April. “She’s been a really tough assistant. She takes it very, very seriously.”
Jolie shares daughter Vivienne and her twin brother Knox, 15, as well as kids Shiloh, 17, Zahara, 19, Pax, 20, and Maddox, 22, with estranged ex Brad Pitt. Many of the kids have rocky relationships with their dad, with Vivienne and Zahara publicly dropping “Pitt” from their last names and Shiloh legally dropping “Pitt” from her name.
Angelina Jolie is a mom of six — and the way she dotes on her kids is adorable!
