Catherine Zeta Jones Biography

Catherine Zeta Jones

Catherine Zeta-Jones (born September 25, 1969) is an Oscar-winning Welsh actress. Born Catherine Jones in Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales, Catherine Zeta Jones's name stems from those of Catherine Zeta Jones's grandmothers; one named Catherine, and the other Zeta, named after a ship which Catherine Zeta Jones's great-grandfather had sailed on. Catherine Zeta Jones was one of three children born to Patrick Jones, a Welsh candy factory worker and Dia Fair, who was of Irish Catholic extraction; Catherine was raised a Catholic. Besides English Catherine Zeta Jones speaks Welsh, Spanish and French fluently. As a child, Catherine Zeta Jones had a tracheotomy which left a scar.

Zeta-Jones' stage career began in childhood. Catherine Zeta Jones sang and danced Catherine Zeta Jones's way to local stardom as a part of a Catholic congregation's performing troupe before Catherine Zeta Jones was 10, and by 1987 Catherine Zeta Jones was starring in Forty-Second Street as Peggy Saywer in the West End. Once the show closed, Zeta-Jones travelled to France, where Catherine Zeta Jones received the lead role in French director Phillippe De Broca's 1001 Nights (a.k.a. Sheherazade), Catherine Zeta Jones's feature film debut.

Catherine Zeta Jones's exotic beauty, along with Catherine Zeta Jones's 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 Catherine Zeta Jones made Catherine Zeta Jones's name. Catherine Zeta Jones became famous outside Britain after leading roles in two movies, The Mask of Zorro (1998) with Antonio Banderas and Entrapment (1999) with Sean Connery. It is said that Catherine Zeta Jones gained the role in Zorro after Steven Spielberg saw Catherine Zeta Jones's performance in the Lifetime Television event of Titanic, also starring Tim Curry and Peter Gallagher.

Catherine Zeta Jones won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the movie Chicago in 2003. On October 22, 2005, Catherine Zeta Jones parodied this fact as guest host on the TV 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 Catherine Zeta Jones might be that night, "They Can't Take My Oscar Away."

Apart from Catherine Zeta Jones's acting career, Zeta-Jones is also an advertising spokeswoman for the mobile phone company T-Mobile. Catherine Zeta Jones is currently the global spokeswoman for cosmetics giant, Elizabeth Arden.

Zeta-Jones is married to actor Michael Douglas, with whom Catherine Zeta Jones has two children. Catherine Zeta Jones's son, Dylan Michael Douglas was born August 8, 2000. (Catherine Zeta Jones's American admirers like to think that Catherine Zeta Jones is named after Bob Dylan - a favourite of Douglas - while Catherine Zeta Jones's British admirers like to think that Dylan Thomas, also born in Swansea, was the inspiration, although Dylan is a reasonably common Welsh firstname). Catherine Zeta Jones's daughter, Carys Zeta Douglas was born April 20, 2003. Zeta-Jones has determined that Catherine Zeta Jones's children grow up aware of their Welsh heritage and has built a seaside dream home in Catherine Zeta Jones's hometown of Swansea.

Selected filmography

The Legend of Zorro (2005)
Ocean's Twelve (2004)
The Terminal (2004)
Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) (voice)
Chicago (2002)
America's Sweethearts (2001)
Traffic (2000)
High Fidelity (2000)
The Haunting (1999)
Entrapment (1999)
The Mask of Zorro (1998)
Titanic (1996) (miniseries)
The Phantom (1996)
Splitting Heirs (1993)
The Darling Buds of May (1991) (TV series)

Trivia

Has the same birthday as husband Michael Douglas. Douglas is 25 years Catherine Zeta Jones's senior.
For Catherine Zeta Jones's role in Chicago, Catherine Zeta Jones specifically requested a 1920s-style short bob haircut, so Catherine Zeta Jones's face could be seen and fans wouldn't doubt Catherine Zeta Jones did all Catherine Zeta Jones's dancing herself.

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Movies Catherine Zeta Jones has stared in:

Catherine Zeta Jones has stared in 8MM

Catherine Zeta Jones has stared in America's Sweethearts

Catherine Zeta Jones has stared in Being John Malkovich

Catherine Zeta Jones has stared in Best in Show

Catherine Zeta Jones has stared in Dancer in the Dark

Catherine Zeta Jones has stared in Dancing at Lughnasa

Catherine Zeta Jones has stared in East-West

Catherine Zeta Jones has stared in Entrapment

Catherine Zeta Jones has stared in Fat Girl

Catherine Zeta Jones has stared in Full Frontal

Catherine Zeta Jones has stared in High Fidelity

Catherine Zeta Jones has stared in Home Fries

Catherine Zeta Jones has stared in Lovely and Amazing

Catherine Zeta Jones has stared in Pay It Forward

Catherine Zeta Jones has stared in Place Vendôme

Catherine Zeta Jones has stared in Pola X

Catherine Zeta Jones has stared in Romance

Catherine Zeta Jones has stared in Shadow of the Vampire

Catherine Zeta Jones has stared in Simone

Catherine Zeta Jones has stared in The Cell

Catherine Zeta Jones has stared in The Haunting

Catherine Zeta Jones has stared in The House on Haunted Hill

Catherine Zeta Jones has stared in The King is Alive

Catherine Zeta Jones has stared in The Musketeer

Catherine Zeta Jones has stared in The Omega Code

Catherine Zeta Jones has stared in The Powerpuff Girls Movie

Catherine Zeta Jones has stared in The Tailor of Panama

Catherine Zeta Jones has stared in The Thomas Crown Affair

Catherine Zeta Jones has stared in Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas

Some Films Catherine Zeta Jones has stared in:

Catherine Zeta Jones has stared in America's Sweethearts

Catherine Zeta Jones has stared in Entrapment

Catherine Zeta Jones has stared in High Fidelity

Catherine Zeta Jones has stared in The Haunting

Catherine Zeta Jones has stared in The House on Haunted Hill

Catherine Zeta Jones has stared in Traffic

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Catherine Zeta Jones News

Catherine Zeta-Jones in mourning over granny's death (Daily Mirror)

Catherine Zeta-Jones was last night mourning the death of her grandma, Zeta Jones.

Catherine Zeta Jones's Grandmother Passes (TheCelebrityCafe.com)

Catherine Zeta Jones's grandmother, from whom the actress received her unusual name, has died at the age of 91.

Catherine Zeta-Jones heartbroken after namesake grandmother dies at 91 (Daily Mail)

Oscar-winning Hollywood star Catherine Zeta-Jones is expected to fly back to Wales today, following the death of her grandmother.

Catherine Zeta Jones - Zeta-jones Mourns Death Of Gran (ContactMusic)

CATHERINE ZETA-JONES is in mourning after the death of her beloved grandmother. Zeta Jones, who the actress was named after, passed away at her daughter Valerie's home in ...

Catherine Zeta-Jones mourns her grandmother (icWales)

Catherine Zeta Jones was today mourning the death of her namesake grandmother.

Catherine Zeta-Jones? grandmother has died (The Arizona Republic)

The ?Legend of Zorro? actress has been left devastated by the death of her beloved grandma, Zeta Jones, who died on Wednesday morning.

Catherine Zeta-Jones? beloved nan dies at 91 (icWales)

HOLLYWOOD star Catherine Zeta-Jones is expected to fly back to Wales today, following the death of her beloved grandmother Zeta Jones.

Catherine Zeta-Jones Mourns the Loss of Her Grandmother (TheCelebrityCafe.com)

Zeta-Jones very close with grandmother who shared her name.

Catherine Zeta Jones mourns grandmother's death (Leeds Today)

CATHERINE Zeta Jones was today mourning the death of her namesake grandmother. (14/08/2008 15:20:13)

Zeta Jones' grandmother dies (BBC News)

The grandmother of Catherine Zeta Jones, after whom she was named, has died in Swansea aged 91.

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