Jennifer Garner is back to kick some butts in 'Peppermint'

Jennifer Garner arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of Peppermint. Photo: AP

Sydney Bristow is the reason Jennifer Garner became a superstar – that was the name of the sexy, shape-shifting spy she played on the hit television series Alias from 2001 to 2006.

But after graduating to big-screen action on the superhero flicks Daredevil (2003) and Elektra (2005), the actress put her butt-kicking career on ice – in large part because she married her Daredevil co-star Ben Affleck in 2005 and became a full-time mother to their three children, born between 2005 and 2012. The two have since divorced.