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Catherine Zeta Jones

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Full name: Catherine Zeta Jones
Birth Name: Catherine Jones
Height: 5' 7½
Nationality: British
Birth Date: September 25, 1969, Treboeth, Swansea,
Birth Place: Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales, UK
Profession: Actress
Husband/Wife: Michael Douglas (actor, born on September 25, 1944; married on November 18, 2000; 1 son)

Relationship:

  • Mick Hucknall (musician)
  • Jon Peters (producer)
  • Angus MacFadyen (actor)
  • John Leslie (actor)

Father: Dai Jones (Welsh; runs a candy factory)

Mother: Pat Jones (Irish; a seamstress)

Brother: Lyndon Jones (born in 1972), David A. Jones (an executive at Initial Entertainment group; born in 1967)

Grand Mother: Kathleen Fair (died in June 2001)

Son: Dylan Michael Douglas (born on August 8, 2000 at 5:52 pm; father: Michael Douglas)

Daughter: Carys Zeta Douglas (born on April 21, 2003; father: Michael Douglas)

Claim to fame: as Elena Montero in The Mask of Zorro (1998)

Age: 37

Catherine zeta Jones’s Personal life:

This actress's nearly gave up her career at the time when she made up her mind to change priorities and instead concentrate on raising a family with Douglas. She barely took up any projects and her silver screen outward show grew distinctly not as much frequent. At the same time she gave birth to a baby girl named Carys Zeta Douglas in April of 2003. After a point she continued to appear in irregular commercials, and the paparazzi often kept her in lime light!

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Catherine zeta Jones’s Professional life:

There were big screen roles that without a doubt put Zeta-Jones on the map. Movies such mask of Zorro where America was enthralled by the actress' magnetism, appeal and beauty that she revealed. She began to be offered better and better roles in American film. Films like Entrapment, The Haunting, and High Fidelity, got her popularity before she could jump to high-flying role of a white-collar drug kingpin's wife in 2000, in Steven Soderbergh's treatise on the drug war, Traffic.

Her act was remarkable, inspiring to critics and audiences, many of whom felt that she very well deserved an Oscar nomination right there. Catherine's major break came upon her return to England in 1991, when she had already gained immense popularity on the British television series “The Darling Buds of May”

Notable roles:

  • Mariette in the Darling Buds of May
  • Elena in the Mask of Zorro
  • Virginia Baker in Entrapment
  • Velma Kelly in Chicago
  • Amelia Warren in the Terminal

Catherine zeta Jones’s childhood and start of career:

She began acting as a child as early as the age of ten. At that time she was an important part of the Catholic congregation's performing troupe, and by 18 she was performing professionally in the West End. That show provided her the needed break where she was noticed by the French director Philippe de Broca. After watching her work he offered her the lead in his film Les 1001 Nuits in 1989.

"After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity."

-Catherine Zeta-Jone





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