Jolie to play mother in new flick

Angelina Jolie is to play her late mother in a new film.

The Oscar-winning actress - who revealed last week she had undergone a double mastectomy after discovering she carried the BRCA1 gene, which meant she had an 87 per cent chance of contracting breast cancer and a 50 per cent chance of suffering from ovarian cancer - will portray Marcheline Bertrand, who died of cancer in 2007 aged 56, in the movie, which will be made by her partner Brad Pitt's Plan B production company.