Angelina Jolie�s mother Marcheline Bertand has died after battling cancer for over seven years at the weekend.

The 56 year old actress passed away at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles on Saturday Jolie said in a statement to the Associated Press.

Jolie and Brad Pitt as well as her brother James Haven were at her bedside when she died.

A private funeral is being planned and the family have asked well wishers to make a donation to the Women�s Cancer Research Institute at Cedars-Sinai.