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Catherine Zeta-Jones (born September 25, 1969) is
an Academy Award-winning Wales|Welsh
actor|actress.
Born Catherine Jones in Swansea, West Glamorgan,
Wales, her name stems from two different
grandmothers; one grandmother is named Catherine,
while the other is "Zeta", named after a ship that
her great-grandfather sailed on. She was born to a
Welsh father and a mother of Irish Catholic
extraction and has two other brothers. Besides
English language|English she speaks Welsh
language|Welsh fluently. As a child, she had a
tracheotomy which left a scar. 

Zeta-Jones' stage career began in childhood. She
sang and danced her way to local stardom as a part
of a Catholic congregation's performing troupe
before she was ten years of age, and by 1987 she
was starring in Forty-Second Street as Peggy
Saywer 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 (a.k.a. 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 became really famous after
having leading roles in two movies: The Mask of
Zorro (1998) with Antonio Banderas and Entrapment
(movie)|Entrapment (1999) with Sean Connery.  It
is said that she gained the role in Zorro after
Steven Spielberg saw her performance in the
Lifetime Television event of Titanic, also
starring Tim Curry and Peter Gallagher. She won an
Academy Award for Academy Award for Best
Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress for the
movie Chicago (2002 movie)|Chicago in 2003.  

Apart from her acting career, Zeta-Jones is also
an advertising spokesman for the mobile phone
company T-Mobile. She is currently the global
spokeswoman for cosmetics giant, Elizabeth Arden. 

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

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

==External links==
* http://www.catherinezetajones.com/ Official
website
* imdb name | id=0001876 | name=Catherine
Zeta-Jones
*
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Catherine Zeta-Jones (born September 25, 1969) is
an Academy Award-winning Wales|Welsh
actor|actress.
Born Catherine Jones in Swansea, West Glamorgan,
Wales, her name stems from two different
grandmothers; one grandmother is named Catherine,
while the other is "Zeta", named after a ship that
her great-grandfather sailed on. She was born to a
Welsh father and a mother of Irish Catholic
extraction and has two other brothers. Besides
English language|English she speaks Welsh
language|Welsh fluently. As a child, she had a
tracheotomy which left a scar. 

Zeta-Jones' stage career began in childhood. She
sang and danced her way to local stardom as a part
of a Catholic congregation's performing troupe
before she was ten years of age, and by 1987 she
was starring in Forty-Second Street as Peggy
Saywer 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 (a.k.a. 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 became really famous after
having leading roles in two movies: The Mask of
Zorro (1998) with Antonio Banderas and Entrapment
(movie)|Entrapment (1999) with Sean Connery.  It
is said that she gained the role in Zorro after
Steven Spielberg saw her performance in the
Lifetime Television event of Titanic, also
starring Tim Curry and Peter Gallagher. She won an
Academy Award for Academy Award for Best
Supporting Actress|Best Supporting Actress for the
movie Chicago (2002 movie)|Chicago in 2003.  

Apart from her acting career, Zeta-Jones is also
an advertising spokesman for the mobile phone
company T-Mobile. She is currently the global
spokeswoman for cosmetics giant, Elizabeth Arden. 

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

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

==External links==
* http://www.catherinezetajones.com/ Official
website
* imdb name | id=0001876 | name=Catherine
Zeta-Jones
*
http://www.celebritypro.com/news/catherine_zeta_jo
nes Daily Catherine Zeta-Jones News