A brief history of Brangelina

Jolie and Pittrecentlyplayed a troubled couple in By the Sea.

If art does, in fact, imitate life then it's hard not to search for signs of actual strife in the2015 drama about an unraveling married couplefollowing news that Angelina Joliehas filed for divorce from actor husband BradPitt.

The two met onset in2004.

Pitt and Jolieco-starred in theaction comedy Mr. and Mrs. Smith, in which they played married assassins who try to kill each other beforemaking up in the film'sdenouement,and officially became a couple in 2005.

Hollywood's 'first couple' got married in 2014.

Their marriage in France came after a two-year engagement andmonths of tabloid speculation about if, and where, the A-listers would tie the knot. Dubbed Hollywood's "first couple" their wedding was such a big deal that Madame Tussaud'scommemorated the event in wax.

• PHOTOGALLERY| A look at Hollywood's longtime power couple

They have six children.

Theiroff-screen life has been grist for the tabloids from the get-go and the family isoften photographed on the road together, kids in tow.

They havethree biological children together:Shiloh, Knox and Vivienne, and haveadopted three:Maddox, Zaharaand Pax.

Jolie and Pitt own a 17th-century chteau.

Chteau Miraval, rumoured to have cost the couple some $60 million US,is in the village of Correns, insouthern France.

Jolie isaspecial envoy for the United NationsRefugee Agency.

TheOscar-winning actress and director was, as recently as Sept.9,in a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan as part of her work with the UN. Jolie isalso achampion ofbreast and ovarian cancer researchandhad apreventive double mastectomy in 2013.

Pitt'shumanitarian work has been more muddled.

After Hurricane Katrina, Pitt started the Make it Right Foundation to build more than 100 homes in the hard-hit Lower Ninth Ward. The homes, some designed by famous architects, were criticized for looking out of place in the working-class neighbourhood and a portionbegan to unexpectedlyrotdue to use of defective materials.

Life before Brangelina

Pittwas previously married to actress JenniferAniston, whileJolie wasmarried to actor Billy Bob Thornton and, earlier, to Johnny Lee Miller.