Gwyneth Paltrow marks her Hollywood comeback with a glamorous new look

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The former industry darling has marked return with a glamorous covershoot for American magazine W.

Her tousled mother-on-the-run hair was replaced by a sleek blonde mane and her usually alabaster, make-up free look was given a rather dramatic bronze and polish for the cover.

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Who's that girl? Gwyneth Paltrow is set to return to the silver screen

Aside from a few minor roles, Paltrow has largely focused on looking after Apple, 3, and son Moses, 1, the two children she has with her Coldplay husband Chris Martin.

The 34-year-old is now looking to reclaim her leading lady status, with a major silver screen role in Iron Man, where she stars as the girlfriend of a superhero played by Robert Downey Jr.

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Family ties: Gwyneth with her husband Chris Martin and two children Apple and Moses

She told W magazine: "It's been a long time since I've done a big part in a movie, and I'm very excited."

"Robert called me and said, 'Don't you want to be in a movie that people see?' And he's right."

Paltrow, who is still recovering from recent knee surgery hasn't ruled out having more children.

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Love song: the actress says she and her rocker husband are considering adoption

"I have a dream version where I think, maybe in four years I'll have two in a row really quickly again - how fabulous to have a whole bunch of them! But then at that point, when everyone's potty-trained and sleeping through the night, are you really going to go back?"

She adds: "My husband really wants to adopt. So I don't know; I'm sort of open for anything."

Earth mother: the actress, at Glastonbury in 2005, stepped away from the glamour of Hollywood to raise her two children