Angelina Jolie Trades Hollywood for Outback as She Spends Thanksgiving in Australia with Her Brood.

Angelina Jolie will be celebrating Thanksgiving in Australia.

The 38-year-old star is currently in Sydney with her six children, Maddox, 12, Pax, nine, Shiloh, seven, Zahara, eight, and five-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne – who she raises with fiancĂ© Brad Pitt – while she shoots new film Unbroken.

It is unclear whether Brad will join the rest of his family to mark the occasion – which falls on November 28 this year – Down Under, as he is currently hard at work on his new movie Fury in the UK.

Working hard: Angelina Jolie, seen here with twins Vivienne and Knox last week, will mark Thanksgiving in Australia with her six children

Angelina’s father Jon Voight is disappointed he won’t be able to spend the holiday with them but says they are all having a great time in Australia.

According to the New York Daily News Confidenti@l column, Jon told reporters at the Chelsea Piers’ Children of Chernobyl benefit: ‘My grandchildren are just terrific.

‘Angie’s working on her film and directing her film in Australia, so I won’t be able to see them this holiday.’

Taking the helm: Angelina was seen filming scenes from her new upcoming movie Unbroken in Pitt St CBD on in Sydney, Australia, last week

Multi-tasking: Angelina has certainly been kept busy with her filming commitments and looking after her children

 

The 74-year-old actor also revealed he was bursting with pride when his daughter won the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the Governors Awards in Los Angeles earlier this month.

It highlighted her work as the co-founder of the Prevent Sexual Violence Initiative and her involvement as a special envoy in the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

He said: ‘It’s a very high honour. I’m very proud of her.’

What about me? It remains to be seen whether Brad will be able to get some time off fro filming Fury in the UK to get to Australia for Thanksgiving with his family

Angelina has been keen to immerse her kids in local culture while in Australia and made sure her brood had the chance to taste traditional foods including kangaroo and witchetty grubs – an Aussie term for white moth larvae, a staple food of Aboriginal women and children.

A source previously said: ‘Whenever they are in new countries the kids have a rule about trying local food.’The tour guide took them to a specialist Aussie restaurant and they had a mix of kangaroo and emu on a pizza.’

Together again: Angelina, Brad and son Maddox attended the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Governors Awards on November 16th