Angelina Jolie has confirmed she is retiring from acting to concentrate on writing and directing. I’ve never loved being in front of the camera, Jolie said in an interview with Du Jour magazine.

Jolie is currently promoting her new film, Unbroken, about Olympic runner and US airman Louis Zamperini, who spent 47 days living on a raft after a plane crash and survived two years as a Japanese prisoner of war.

Jolie said earlier this year that that her appearance as Cleopatra in an impending biopic of the Egyptian queen could be her final acting role.

Olie said earlier this year that that her appearance as Cleopatra in an impending biopic of the Egyptian queen could be her final acting role.

Jolie, who met Zamperini shortly before his death at the age of 97 last year, fought to make the film, the rights of which were sold to Universal Pictures more than 50 years ago.

(AW: Arun Kumar)