Jolie cast as Tigress in 'Kung Fu Panda'

Jolie will voice the character Tigress in 'Kung Fu Panda'.

Angelina Jolie will portray a martial-arts master in the computer-animated comedy Kung Fu Panda.

The movie, which will reunite Jolie and Jack Black, her 2004 Shark Tale co-star, is slated for release in 2008.

Jolie's high-kicking character, Tigress, helps to train Po, a slacker panda voiced by Black, in the art of kung fu.

Po, a waiter in a noodle restaurant, must get into shape when he is revealed to be the "Chosen One" to save ancient China from powerful foes.

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, to be released this year, and is working on the Robert Zemeckis-directed Beowulf, due out next year.