She is the mother of six children, a United Nations Special Envoy and Oscar winning actress.

But now, a long lost photo shoot is serving as a timely reminder of Angelina Jolie’s wilder days of youth.

Taken back in 1995 when she was just 20-years-old and on the cusp of fame, the set of shots show Angelina vamping it up for the camera in a feathered jacket and short black mini dress.

In those days, the star was a little fuller in the face but still possessed enviably slender legs and a svelte physique.

More tellingly, she displays the charisma and allure which helped catapult her to fame, pulling an array of faces, grabbing her cleavage and pouting provocatively at the camera.

The photos were taken by Los Angeles photographer Marcel Indik in October 1995 shortly after the release of Angelina’s film Hackers where she met first husband Jonny Lee MIller. 

‘I’ll never forget, the way she posed, the way she moved in front of the lens, I knew she was special,’ says Indik.

‘Her body language and facial expression were in tune. She was fearless, fun, no attitude, just there to create amazing, legendary images.’

Some of the images, shot on slide film, were published in a 1997 magazine article – but the majority of the snaps have remained unreleased until now.

Following the release of Hackers, Angelina married Trainspotting star Miller in March 1996, typing the knot in a white shirt with the groom’s name written in blood on the back. But the couple separated with their divorce finalised in 1999.

Angelina, who is currently promoting her new film Maleficent – a Sleeping Beauty re-imagining – cuts a dramatically more demure figure on the cover of this month’s Elle magazine.

In an accompanying interview, she refers to her wild youth as misinterpreted, with famous antics including kissing her brother James Haven on the Oscars red carpet back in 2000 and carrying ex-husband Billy Bob Thornton’s blood around her neck.

‘In fact it wasn’t a need to be destructive or rebellious – it’s that need to find a full voice, to push open the walls around you,’ she tells the magazine.

The daughter of actor Jon Voight and late actress and model Marcheline Bertrand added: ‘As a young, curious person you want to be free. And as you start to feel that you are being corralled into a certain life, you kind of push against it.

‘It may come out very strange, it may be interpreted wrong, but you’re trying to find out who you are.’

As a child born into the world of Hollywood, Angelina learned early on to live life to the fullest.

‘I realised that very young – that a life where you don’t live to your full potential, or you don’t experiment, or you’re afraid, or you hesitate, or there are things you know you should do but you just don’t get around to them, is a life that I’d be miserable living,’ she revealed.

‘And the only way to feel that I’m on the right path is just to be true to myself, whatever that may be, and that tends to come with stepping out of something that’s maybe safe or traditional,’ she said.

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