Calm after the storm: Angelina Jolie and eldest child Maddox, 13, depart JFK Airport after powerful United Nations speech on Syrian refugee crisis

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Published on Wednesday, 30 November -0001 00:00

Written by Daily Mail

         Angelina Jolie let her feelings be known about the plight of Syrian refugees at the United Nations Security Council Meeting on Friday.A day later, the 39-year-old actress was back in traveling mode with her eldest child Maddox as they were spotted together catching a flight in New York City.Angelina downplayed her presence in a simple all-black ensemble as they arrived at JFK International Airport. The Maleficent star wore a black jacket over a black blouse along with black skinny jeans and black shoes.Angelina had her black hair pulled back into a ponytail and also donned black sunglasses.Maddox, 13, kept it casual wearing a black T-shirt of the deathcore band Whitechapel along with tan trousers and black sneakers.The eldest of Angelina's six children also wore a black cap and had his earplugs at the ready.Angelina pleaded with world powers on Friday to help the millions of Syrian refugees and sharply criticised the U.N. Security Council for being paralyzed by its division over Syria's four-year conflict.Jolie briefed the council as special envoy for the UN on refugee issues.  'We cannot look at Syria, and the evil that has arisen from the ashes of indecision, and think this is not the lowest point in the world's inability to protect and defend the innocent,' she told the UN.Angelina adopted Maddox in 2002 from an orphanage in Cambodia.
        She and husband Brad Pitt, 51, have six children including Maddox; 11-year-old Pax; 10-year-old Zahara; Shiloh, eight; and six-year-old twins Knox and Vivienne. Maddox apparently has become a hardcore music fan as he's previously worn T-shirts of the Misfits punk bank and the heavy metal band Slipknot. Brad earlier this month was filming his new movie The Big Short in New Orleans.He is starring in the film alongside Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling and Steve Carell.The film is an adaptation of the Michael Lewis book The Big Short: Inside The Doomsday Machine about the key players in the build-up of the housing and credit bubble that led to the 2008 global financial crisis.Brad also is a producer of the film after previously co-producing the 2011 sports biopic Moneyball based on a 2003 book written by Lewis.Angelina wrote, directed and co-stars in the upcoming movie By The Sea that also stars husband Brad.The romantic drama is due out later this year.

source : Daily Mail