- Name: Catherine Zeta-Jones
- Date of Birth: September 25, 1969
- Place of Birth: Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales
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Both exotic and classic, Wales-born actress Catherine Zeta-Jones began acting as a child. By ten she was part of the Catholic congregation's performing troupe, and by 18 she was performing professiona... read more
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  Zeta-Jones stage career began in childhood. She was a part of a Catholic congregation's performing troupe before she was 10. She also starred in a London production of Annie, among other productions, such as Bugsy Malone. By 1987 she was starring in 42nd Street as Peggy Sawyer in the West End. Once the show closed, Zeta-Jones travelled to France, where she received the lead role in French director Phillippe De Broca's 1001 Nights (also known as Sheherazade), her feature film debut.Her exotic beauty, along with her singing and dancing ability, suggested a promising future, but it was in a straight acting role, as Mariette in the successful television adaptation of H. E. Bates' The Darling Buds of May (1991), that she made her name. She briefly flirted with a musical career, having a part in Jeff Wayne's 1992 Spartacus. A single, "The Appian Way", featured her; it was released but failed to chart. She also starred in an episode of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, as well as having a role in Christopher Columbus: The Discovery. She continued to find moderate success with a number of television projects, namely, The Return of the Native and the mini-series Catherine the Great. She also starred in Splitting Heirs, a comedy starring Eric Idle, Rick Moranis and John Cleese. In 1996, she was cast as the evil aviatrix "Sala" in Paramount's big budget action film, The Phantom , based on the famous comic created by Lee Falk. Her character did her best to kill Billy Zane's Phantom, while simultaneously assisting bad guy Xander Drax (Treat Williams) in taking over the world with a weapon of doom. Jones starred in the CBS mini-series Titanic, which also starred Tim Curry and Peter Gallagher. Steven Spielberg, who noted her performance in the mini-series, recommended her to the director of an upcoming film, The Mask of Zorro. Jones landed a lead role in the film, alongside Antonio Banderas. The film contributed to boosting her profile. The following year she was the star of the film, Entrapment with Sean Connery. Later that year she also starred in The Haunting, alongside Liam Neeson and Lili Taylor. In 2000 she starred in Traffic with future husband Michael Douglas. The following year she starred in America's Sweethearts, with Julia Roberts, Billy Crystal and John Cusack. In 2003, she won an Academy Award or Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Velma Kelly in the 2002 film Chicago. Chicago also won the Academy Award for Best Film that year. On 22 October 2005, she referenced her award, as guest host on the television show Saturday Night Live, surrounded by four male dancers, mimicking the Bob Fosse-inspired Chicago-style dancing, suggesting in song that, no matter how bad she might be that night, "They Can't Take My Oscar Away". In 2003 she voiced a role in Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas, as well as starring in Intolerable Cruelty with George Clooney. In 2004 she was in The Terminal, as well as Ocean's Twelve, the sequel to Ocean's Eleven. In 2005 The Mask of Zorro returned to the big screen, with Catherine reprising her role as Elena in The Legend of Zorro. She stars in and produces the rugby-related comedy, Coming Out, which Welsh rugby star Gavin Henson will also be in. | |||||||||||
 Became engaged to Michael Douglas in Aspen, Colorado on 31st December 1999 Her first child with fiance Michael Douglas, a boy named Dylan Michael was born on 8th August about 6 p.m. at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre near Beverly Hills. The baby weighed in at 7 pounds and seven ounces and measured 21-1/2 inches.  In the early 1990s, she released a single and an album in the UK. Named after her grandmothers: Catherine Fair on her mother's side, and Zeta Jones on her fathers. Her character in Traffic (2000) was changed to a pregnant woman, because Zeta-Jones herself was pregnant at the time with her son, Dylan. Speaks Welsh fluently. Measurements: 34C-25-36. Mother is Irish, father is Welsh. The British press gave her the nickname "Catherine Zeta, The Maneater" due to her busy love life at the time. Catherine Zeta Jones portrayed Palene, the beautiful Thracian prophetess and woman of Spartacus, in Jeff Wayne's 1992 musical version of 'Spartacus'. The role of Spartacus was played by her future father-in-law, Kirk Douglas, in Stanley Kubrick's 1960 motion picture. In the June 1998 of Yahoo! internet magazine, Zeta-Jonas was listed as the number one actress being searched on Yahoo! The magazine titled here as the "Female Steve McQueen". Although she and Michael have decided not to have any more children, she once said she would have left him if he had not wanted to be a father. Is a trained singer and dancer. As an infant, she had a virus that hindered breathing. She has a tracheotomy scar from that time. Chosen one of 1998's Most Beautiful People by People Magazine.     |
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