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Catherine Zeta-Jones , Order of the British Empire|CBE , (; born Catherine Zeta Jones ; 25 September 1969) is a Welsh people|Welsh actress. She began her career on stage at an early age. After starring in a number of United Kingdom and United States television films and small roles in films, she came to prominence with roles in Hollywood movies such as the 1998 action film The Mask of Zorro and the 1999 crime thriller film Entrapment (film)|Entrapment . Her breakthrough role was in the 2000 film Traffic (2000 film)|Traffic , for which she earned her first Golden Globe Award nomination for Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture|Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture .

Zeta-Jones subsequently starred as Velma Kelly in the 2002 film adaptation of the musical Chicago (2002 film)|Chicago , a critical and commercial success, and received an Academy Award , BAFTA Award , a Screen Actors Guild Award and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy . Later, she appeared in the 2003 romantic comedy film Intolerable Cruelty and 2004 crime comedy film '' Ocean's Twelve . Zeta-Jones starred in the 2005 sequel of the 1998 film, The Legend of Zorro . She also starred in the 2008 biopic romantic thriller Death Defying Acts . In 2010, she won the Tony Award for Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical|Best Leading Actress in a Musical for her portrayal of Desiree in A Little Night Music ."", by BroadwayWorld, BroadwayWorld.com , 14 June 2010.

Early life

Zeta-Jones was born Catherine Zeta Jones in Swansea , Wales, to Patricia (née Fair), a seamstress of Irish descent, and David James Jones, a Welsh sweet factory owner.. Film Reference.com.Jones, Andy. . TNT's Roughcut. Reprinted. She was named after her grandmothers, Catherine Fair and Zeta Jones. Telegraph . The name Zeta is reportedly taken from the ship “Zeta” that was captained by her great-grandfather.

Jones was educated at Dumbarton House School , a co-educational independent school in Swansea, but left early to further her acting ambitions without obtaining O levels . While at Dumbarton, she once had her lunch money stolen by fellow pupil Rob Brydon . She then attended the independent The Arts Educational Schools in Chiswick , West London, for a full time three year course in musical theatre.

Career

Early work, 1986–1995

Zeta-Jones' stage career began in childhood. She often performed at friends and family functions and was part of local dance troupe the Hazel Johnson School of Dance which rehearsed at St Alban's Church, Treboeth . Zeta-Jones made her professional acting debut when she played the lead in Annie (musical)|Annie , a production at Swansea Grand Theatre . When she was 14, Mickey Dolenz cast her as Tallulah in Bugsy Malone . In 1986, at age 17 she had a part in the chorus of The Pajama Game at the Haymarket Theatre, Leicester starring Paul Jones (singer)|Paul Jones and Fiona Hendley . The show subsequently toured the UK and in 1987, she starred in 42nd Street (musical)|42nd Street as Peggy Sawyer at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane . She was cast in the leading role after both the actress playing Peggy Sawyer and her understudy fell ill. She also played Mae Jones in the Kurt Weill opera Street Scene (opera)|Street Scene with the English National Opera at the London Coliseum Theatre in 1989. After the show closed, she travelled to France where she played the lead role in French director Philippe de Broca 's Les 1001 Nuits , her feature film debut.

Her singing and dancing ability suggested a promising future but it was in a straight acting role as Mariette in the successful British television adaptation of H. E. Bates ' The Darling Buds of May that brought her to public attention and made her a British tabloid darling. 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 1992. It reached #36 in the UK charts. She went on to release the singles "In the Arms of Love", "I Can't Help Myself", and a duet with David Essex "True Love Ways", 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 .
In 1990, Zeta-Jones participated in a television commercial for the German Deutsche Bahn at the age of 21, playing the part of a young woman eloping with her lover from a joyless marriage, a role which apparently helped in promoting her acting career."", by Die Bunte, Bunte.de , 21 January 2011. She continued to find moderate success with a number of television projects, including The Return of the Native (1994) based on the The Return of the Native|novel of the same name and the mini-series Catherine the Great (television film)|Catherine the Great (1995). She also appeared in Splitting Heirs (1993), a comedy starring Eric Idle , Rick Moranis and John Cleese . In 1996, she was cast as the evil aviatrix Sala in the action film, The Phantom (1996 film)|The Phantom , based on the comic by Lee Falk . The following year, she co starred in the CBS mini-series Titanic (TV miniseries)|Titanic , which also starred Peter Gallagher , Tim Curry and George C. Scott .

Career success, 1998–2003

Steven Spielberg , who noted her performance in the mini-series Titanic , recommended her to Martin Campbell , the director of The Mask of Zorro . Zeta-Jones subsequently landed a lead role in the film, alongside compatriot Anthony Hopkins and Antonio Banderas . She learned dancing, riding, sword-fighting and took part in dialect classes to play her role as Elena. Commenting on her performance, Variety magazine|Variety noted, "Zeta-Jones is bewitchingly lovely as the center of everyone's attention, and she throws herself into the often physical demands of her role with impressive grace." She won the Blockbuster Entertainment Award|Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Female Newcomer and received an Empire Award nomination for Best British Actress and a Saturn Award nomination for Saturn Award for Best Actress|Best Actress .

In 1999, she co-starred with Sean Connery in the film Entrapment (film)|Entrapment , and alongside Liam Neeson and Lili Taylor in The Haunting (1999 film)|The Haunting . The following year, she starred in the critically acclaimed Traffic (2000 film)|Traffic with future husband Michael Douglas . Traffic earned praise from the press, with the critic for the Dallas Observer calling the movie "a remarkable achievement in filmmaking, a beautiful and brutal work". Zeta-Jones' performance earned her her first Golden Globe nomination, as Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture|Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture as well as many other nominations and acclaim.

She took the lead role of '' America's Sweethearts , a 2001 romantic comedy film which also starred Julia Roberts , Billy Crystal and John Cusack . The film received unfavorable reviews, with Los Angeles Weekly '' stating that the film "isn't just banal, it's aggressively, arrogantly banal." However, it was a hit at the box office grossing over $138& nbsp;million worldwide. Her character in the film was Gwen Harrison who is a film star.

In 2002, Zeta-Jones continued her momentum and played murderous vaudeville|vaudevillian Velma Kelly in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical Chicago (2002 movie)|Chicago . Her performance was well received by critics; Seattle Post-Intelligencer stated, "Zeta-Jones makes a wonderfully statuesque and bitchy saloon goddess." Slate (magazine)|Slate magazine also praised her performance, saying that she "has a smoldering confidence that takes your mind off her not – always – fluid dancing – although she's a perfectly fine hoofer, with majestic limbs and a commanding cleavage."

Chicago was a commercial success, grossing more than $306& nbsp;million worldwide, and received universal acclaim. In 2003, Zeta-Jones garnered an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress , a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role , and two Screen Actors Guild Awards , for Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role|Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role and as a member of Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture|Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for her performance. Also that year, she voiced Marina in the animated film Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas opposite Brad Pitt , as well as starring as serial divorcee Marilyn Rexroth in the black comedy Intolerable Cruelty with George Clooney .

2004–2009

In 2004, she played air hostess Amelia Warren in The Terminal as well as Europol agent Isabel Lahiri in '' Ocean's Twelve , the sequel to Ocean's Eleven (2001 film)|Ocean's Eleven . She and the cast members were nominated for the Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast . In 2005, she reprised her role as Elena in The Legend of Zorro , the sequel to The Mask of Zorro . The film received negative-mixed reviews; however, the critics acclaimed the individual performances of the actors, Banderas and Zeta-Jones. The Legend of Zorro grossed over $142 million worldwide.

In 2007, she starred opposite Aaron Eckhart and Abigail Breslin in the American romantic comedy drama No Reservations (film)|No Reservations , a remake of the German film Mostly Martha (film)|Mostly Martha , for which she received a People's Choice Award nomination. The film garnered mixed or average reviews but was successful commercially, grossing $92& nbsp;million worldwide. Claudia Puig of USA Today wrote that Zeta-Jones "shines as a character that finely balances off-putting reserve with sympathetic appeal."

In 2008, starred alongside Guy Pearce and Saoirse Ronan in Death Defying Acts , a biopic about legendary escapologist Harry Houdini at the height of his career in the 1920s. The film was well received by many critics; View London noted that "Zeta Jones also pulls off an extremely impressive Edinburgh accent and it's great to see her in a decent role for once." In 2009, Zeta-Jones starred in romantic comedy The Rebound , in which she played a 40-year old mother of two who falls in love with a younger man, played by Justin Bartha . The film was released in cinemas in several countries throughout 2009. The film is set to be released in the United States on 25 December 2010.

In August 2009, it was announced she would return to her musical roots and make her Broadway debut in the revival of A Little Night Music with Angela Lansbury , beginning December 2009. For her performance, Zeta-Jones received an Outer Critics Circle Award , Drama Desk Award , as well as a Tony Award for Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical|Best Leading Actress in a Musical .

Current and next projects

In 2012, she features in Lay the Favorite starring Bruce Willis , which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival . at 2012 Sundance Film Festival web site She will also appear in Playing the Field (film)|Playing the Field with Gerard Butler and Rock of Ages (2012 film)|Rock of Ages alongside Tom Cruise and Alec Baldwin . Her next projects include Broken City (film)|Broken City and Steven Soderbergh 's The Side Effects (film)|The Side Effects , being their third collaboration.

In the media

Dawn French and 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. ( Spartacus (1960 film)|Spartacus is a movie role memorably played by Zeta-Jones' Kirk Douglas|father-in-law ). Catherine Spartacus-Zeta-Douglas-Jones alternates between a strong Welsh accent and a strong American accent and uses Welsh-language phrases when she speaks.

Zeta-Jones is also parodied in the BBC's The Impressions Show with Culshaw and Stephenson by Debra Stephenson reading Beauty and the Beast also alternating between strong Welsh and American accents. Zeta is also mentioned in the song Hollywood (Marina and the Diamonds song)|Hollywood by Marina and the Diamonds in the line "Oh my God, you look just like Shakira no, no, you're Catherine Zeta, actually my name's Marina".

Zeta-Jones is also an advertising spokeswoman, currently the global spokeswoman for cosmetics giant Elizabeth Arden . She has appeared in numerous TV commercials for the phone company T-Mobile , and one for Alfa Romeo . She is also the spokeswoman for Di Modolo jewellery. Zeta-Jones was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2010 Birthday Honours .

Zeta-Jones has appeared on several magazine covers, including Allure (magazine)|Allure , '' Harper's Bazaar , W (magazine)|W , Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair , and Vogue (magazine)|Vogue ''. She was chosen one of "1998's Most Beautiful People" by People (magazine)|People magazine, she also was ranked number 68 in FHM 's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement, and was named number 82 in 2006. She was ranked number 50 on VH1 's "100 Hottest Hotties".

Personal life

Zeta-Jones met actor Michael Douglas , with whom she shares a birthday, and is exactly 25 years her senior, at the Deauville Film Festival in France in August 1998, after being introduced by Danny DeVito . They began dating in March 1999. Zeta-Jones claims that when they met, he used the line "I'd like to father your children.". The Sydney Morning Herald . 12 July 2007. They became engaged on 31 December 1999, and were married at the Plaza Hotel in New York City on 18 November 2000, just weeks after Douglas' divorce was finalized. A traditional Welsh choir ( Côr Cymraeg Rehoboth ) sang at their wedding. Her Welsh gold wedding ring includes a Celtic motif and was purchased in the Welsh town of Aberystwyth . They have two children. Their son, Dylan Michael Douglas (named after Dylan Thomas ), was born on 8 August 2000, with Zeta Jones' pregnancy incorporated into her role in Traffic (2000 film)|Traffic . Their daughter, Carys Zeta Douglas, was born on 20 April 2003.

Zeta-Jones has two brothers, David and Lyndon. Her younger brother, Lyndon Jones, is her personal manager and producer for Milkwood Films .

In 2004, Douglas and Zeta-Jones took legal action against stalker Dawnette Knight, who was accused of sending violent letters to the couple that contained graphic threats on Zeta-Jones' life. Testifying, Zeta-Jones said the threats left her so shaken she feared a nervous breakdown. from BBC News Wales Knight claimed she had been in love with Douglas and admitted to the offences, which took place between October 2003 and May 2004. She was sentenced to three years in prison.

In April 2011, Zeta-Jones sought treatment for bipolar II disorder , checking herself into Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan, Connecticut ., in Reuters.com, April 13, 2011.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1990	sortname>Les	Scheherazade	English: 1001 Nights
1991	sortname>The	Mariette
1992	Christopher Columbus: The Discovery	Beatriz
1993	Splitting Heirs	Kitty
1994	sortname>The	Victoria Chapmann
1994	sortname>The	Eustacia Vye
1995	Catherine the Great (1995 film)>Catherine the Great	Catherine II
1995	Blue Juice	Chloe
1996	sortname>The	Sala
1998	sortname>The	Eléna (De La Vega) Montero	ubl> Blockbuster Inc.
1999	Entrapment	Virginia Baker	ubl> Blockbuster Inc.
1999	sortname>The	Theo	ubl>Nominated — Blockbuster Inc.
2000	High Fidelity	Charlie Nicholson
2000	Traffic (2000 film)>Traffic	Helena Ayala	ubl> Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
2001	'' America's Sweethearts	Gwen Harrison
2002	Chicago	Velma Kelly	ubl> Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
2003	Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas	Marina	Voice role
2003	Intolerable Cruelty	Marylin Rexroth
2004	sortname>The	Amelia Warren
2004	'' Ocean's Twelve	Isabel Lahiri	Nominated — Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Cast
2005	sortname>The	Eléna (De La Vega) Montero	People's Choice Award for Favorite Female Action Star
2007	No Reservations	Kate Armstrong
2007	Death Defying Acts	Mary McGarvie
2009	sortname>The	Sandy
2012	Playing the Field	Denise	Post-production
2012	Lay the Favorite	Tulip Heimowitz	Post-production
2012	Rock of Ages	Patricia Whitmore	Post-production
2013	Broken City	Emily Barlow	Filming

Theatre Credits

Year	Show	Role	Awards and nominations
1981	Annie (musical)>Annie	Annie
1983	Bugsy Malone	Tallulah
1986	The Pajama Game	Chorus
1987	42nd Street	Peggy Sawyer
1989	Street Scene	Mae Jones
2009	A Little Night Music	Desiree Armfeldt	ubl> Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical

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