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TIL, Jon Voight who is Ben Stiller's fictional dad (aka Derek Zoolander's dad) is also the IRL father of Angelina Jolie. He also played the role of Lara Croft's dad, while Jolie played Lara. Voight is still alive even though Jerry Stiller passed recently.

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