Angelina Jolie At 40: Her Life And Career In Pictures

Angelina Jolie with Ryan Phillipe in the 1998 film Playing By Heart

Angelina Jolie with Cate Blanchett in the 1999 film Pushing Tin

Angelina Jolie in a scene from the 2000 film Girl Interrupted, for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress

Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft in the 2001 film Tomb Raider

Angelina Jolie with her mother, Marcheline Bertrand, in 2001

Angelina Jolie during filming for the 2002 film Life Or Something Like It

Angelina Jolie has her shoulder blade tattooed with ancient Khmer script by Thai tatoo master Noo Kampai at Pathumthani province north of Bangkok, in 2003

Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie in the movie Mr & Mrs Smith

Starring in the 2006 film The Good Shepherd alongside Matt Damon

Angelina Jolie in the 2008 film Wanted

Angelina Jolie shares a laugh and traditional painted Easter eggs with Bosnian women Babic Lena and her unnamed sister during Jolie's visit as UNHCR Godwill Ambasador to the collective center in the eastern Bosnian town of Rogatica, in April 2010

Angelina Jolie and children Shiloh, Pax and Maddox

Angelina Jolie in Disney's Malificent

Husband and wife Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt attend the world premiere of Disney's Maleficent at the El Capitan Theatre on May 28 2014 in Hollywood

Dame Angelina: Jolie is presented with the Insignia of an Honorary Dame Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George by Queen Elizabeth II in the 1844 Room at Buckingham Palace, London, on October 10 2014

Honoree Angelina Jolie accepts the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award onstage during the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Governors Awards on November 16, 2013 in Hollywood, California.

Angelina Jolie arriving for the 84th Academy Awards at the Kodak Theatre, Los Angeles in February 2012

Angelina Jolie with two Chelsea Pensioners at the premiere of her film Unbroken in London, November 2014