Angelina Jolie broke down in tears at a London press conference yesterday as she paid tribute to her late mother.

The Oscar-winning actress grew teary-eyed as she recalled how difficult she found it to play a mother in her latest film The Changeling, which was filmed shortly after her mum Marcheline Bertrand died in January 2007.

Fighting back the tears, Angelina said: 'Her name was Marcheline, but we used to call her Marshmallow, as a joke, because she was just the softest, most gentle woman in the world.