Angelina Jolie mourns mother

Marcheline Bertrand, actress and mother of Angelina Jolie, has died of cancer, her daughter said today.

Bertrand died yesterday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre, California after a seven-year battle with cancer, Jolie said in a statement released by her manager.

Jolie, boyfriend Brad Pitt and her older brother, James Haven, were at the hospital, the statement said.

Bertrand, who had small roles in the movies Lookin’ to Get Out in 1982 and The Man Who Loved Women in 1983, raised Jolie and her brother after divorcing their father, Oscar-winning actor Jon Voight, when Jolie was a toddler.

A private funeral is planned.