Inside Angelina Jolie’s Return to Hollywood After Taking Time to Heal

While the A-lister continues to stay busy in Hollywood—with her confirming to WSJ. Magazine a third Maleficent movie is in the works—she’d like to one day move away from Los Angeles.

“I am here because I have to be here from a divorce, but as soon as they’re 18, I’ll be able to leave,” she told The Hollywood Reporter (the twins reach that milestone in July 2026). “When you have a big family, you want them to have privacy, peace, safety. I have a house now to raise my children, but sometimes this place can be…that humanity that I found across the world is not what I grew up with here.” 

When she actually leaves L.A., she continued, “I’ll spend a lot of time in Cambodia. I’ll spend time visiting my family members wherever they may be in the world.”

But no matter where Jolie goes or what other careers she may pursue—she’s also a pilot, founder of the fashion brand Atelier Jolie and a humanitarian—she knows that being a mom will always be the role she loves most.

“It’s my happiness,” she told Good Morning America in November. “You can take everything else away from me. Nothing else matters.”

And Jolie is looking forward to this next decade.

“Maybe because… I don’t know… maybe because my mom didn’t live very long, so there’s something about age that feels like a victory instead of a sadness for me,” she told British Vogue in 2021. “So I like it. I’m looking forward to my fifties—I feel that I’m gonna hit my stride in my fifties.”

In celebration of Jolie’s birthday, keep reading to learn more about her family.