Los Angeles: In her first film deal since going to Africa to give birth, Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie will co-star as a tiger in the upcoming children film Kung Fu Panda for DreamWorks Animation SKG, the studio said on Monday.
The Academy Award-winning actress will supply the voice of Tigress, a martial-arts master who helps train the title character, Po the Panda, played by actor Jack Black, in the ways of kung fu, DreamWorks said.
The all-star cast of the computer-animated comedy, due to hit theaters in May 2008, will also feature the voice talents of actors Jackie Chan, Lucy Liu, Dustin Hoffman and Ian McShane.
Jolie and Black last worked together voicing two of the lead characters, Lola and Lenny, in DreamWorks' 2004 hit underwater adventure Shark Tale.
Weeks after returning to Los Angeles from the African nation of Namibia, where she gave birth to her first biological child, daughter Shiloh Nouvel, with off-screen paramour Brad Pitt, Jolie is letting little grass grow under her feet.
Coming off the success of last year's action hit Mr & Mrs Smith, pairing her with Pitt, Jolie recently completed work on The Good Shepherd, which is to be released this year.
She is also working on the Robert Zemeckis-directed Beowulf due out next year.
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