Catherine Zeta-Jones, Actress, - Biography
Height: 5 foot 7 & a half (1.71 M)
Weight:,
128 lbs.
born September 25, 1969, Treboeth, Swansea, Wales
Catherine Zeta-Jones is an Academy Award-winning Welsh actress who began her career on stage at an early age. After starring in a number of television films & small roles in films, she came to prominence with roles in films such as The Phantom, The Mask of Zorro, & Entrapment in the late 1990s.
She is married to Michael
Douglas, with whom she starred in the 2000 film Traffic. She won an Academy Award
for Best Supporting Actress for portraying Velma Kelly in Chicago.
Born Catherine
Jones, in Treboeth, a working-class area of Swansea, West Glamorgan in South Wales.
She is the middle of three children born to Dai Jones, a Welsh sweet factory owner,
& Patricia Fair who is Irish & from a Roman Catholic family.
Her father's cousin is married to singer Bonnie Tyler, who is also from Swansea. Her uncle owns Swansea's Škoda car dealership as well as Llanelli A.F.C. football club. Her name stems from those of her grandmothers — her maternal grandmother, Katherine Fair, & her paternal grandmother, Zeta Jones.
After her parents won £100,000 at bingo in the 1980s, they moved to St. Andrews Drive in Mayals, an upper class area of Swansea. She attended the moderately-priced private school, Dumbarton House in Swansea where she was apparently an average student. Comedian & actor Rob Brydon also went there.
She left school early to further
her acting ambitions without obtaining O levels & went on to attend The Arts
Educational Schools in Chiswick for a full-time three year course in musical theatre.
Zeta-Jones'
stage career began in childhood. She often performed at friends & family functions
when she was younger. She was a part of a Catholic congregation's performing troupe
before she was 10. She also starred in a London production of Annie, as well as
a version of 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 looks, along with her singing & 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 (1991-93), that she made her name. She briefly flirted with a musical career, beginning with a part in the 1992 album: Jeff Wayne's Musical Version Of Spartacus, from which the single "For All Time" was released in 1989. It failed to chart. She went on to release the singles "In the Arms of Love", "I Can't Help Myself", & a duet with David Essex, "True Love Ways". The Duet was her only chart single, reaching #38 in the UK singles chart in 1994. She also starred in an episode of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, as well as in Christopher Columbus: The Discovery.
Playing Elena Montero in The Mask of Zorro was Zeta-Jones' first leading role.She
continued to find moderate success with a number of television projects, including
The Return of the Native (1994) & the mini-series Catherine the Great (1995).
She also appeared in Splitting Heirs (1993), a comedy starring Eric Idle, Rick
Moranis & John Cleese.
In 1996, she was cast as the evil aviatrix "Sala" in the action film, The Phantom , based on the comic created by Lee Falk. Her character did her best to kill Billy Zane's Phantom, while assisting villain Xander Drax (Treat Williams) in taking over the world with a weapon of doom.
The following year, she starred in the CBS mini-series Titanic, which also starred Tim Curry & Peter Gallagher. Steven Spielberg, who noted her performance in the mini-series, recommended her to Martin Campbell, the director of The Mask of Zorro. Zeta-Jones subsequently landed a lead role in the film, alongside Antonio Banderas. The following year she co-starred with Sean Connery in the film Entrapment, & alongside Liam Neeson & Lili Taylor in The Haunting. In 2000 she starred in Traffic with future husband Michael Douglas.
Catherine Zeta-Jones
in her Academy Award winning role as Velma Kelly in Chicago.In 2003, she won an
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Velma Kelly in
the film Chicago. Chicago also won the Academy Award for Best Picture 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". For her role in Chicago,
she specifically requested a 1920s-style short bob haircut, so her face could
be seen & fans wouldn't doubt she did all her dancing herself.
In 2003 she voiced Marina 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 she reprised her role as Elena in The Legend of Zorro, the sequel to The Mask of Zorro. She stars in & produces the rugby-related comedy, Coming Out. The film is produced by her company Milkwood Films.
Personal life Zeta-Jones is married to actor
Michael Douglas, with whom she has two children. She has the same birthday as
her husband, although he is 25 years her senior. They were married at the Plaza
Hotel in New York City on 18 November 2000. A traditional Welsh choir sang at
her wedding; her wedding ring includes a Celtic motif & was bought in the
Welsh town of Aberystwyth. Their son, Dylan Michael Douglas, was born 8 August
2000. Their daughter, Carys Zeta Douglas, was born April 20, 2003. While pregnant
with Carys, photos were published of Zeta-Jones smoking cigarettes on a private
balcony; afterwards, she became the target of anti-smoking & child health
& welfare groups due to her behaviour.
Zeta-Jones has decided that her children will grow up aware of their Welsh heritage & has built a seaside home for her parents in her hometown of Swansea. She wants her children to know the Welsh language.
Her elder brother, David A. Jones (also known as Cameron Jones), is Vice President of the film company, Initial Entertainment. He was an executive producer of Gangs of New York. Her younger brother, Lyndon Jones, is her personal manager & producer for Milkwood Films. Catherine's parents recently moved from their Mayals property to a £2 million cliff top home two miles away, paid for by their daughter.
Apart from her acting career, Zeta-Jones is also an advertising spokeswoman. In 2003, she became spokeswoman for the mobile phone company T-Mobile. However, in September 2006, T-Mobile dropped Zeta-Jones for a more “man on the street” advertising campaign. She is currently the global spokeswoman for cosmetics giant Elizabeth Arden.
Popular culture
Dawn French as Catherine Spartacus-Zeta-Douglas-JonesDawn French & Jennifer
Saunders parodied Zeta-Jones as a vacuous über-celebrity named Catherine
Spartacus-Zeta-Douglas-Jones on their show French & Saunders in the series
Back With a Vengeance. Catherine Spartacus-Zeta-Douglas-Jones alternates between
a strong Welsh accent & a strong American accent & uses Welsh-language
phrases when she speaks.
Here are some pictures of Catherine Zeta-Jones,
not spelt Katherine Zeta-Jones or Catherine ZetaJones
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