Catherine Zeta-Jones

QUICK FACTS
NAME
Catherine Zeta-Jones
OCCUPATION
Actress
BIRTH DATE
September 25, 1969 (age 49)
PLACE OF BIRTH
Swansea, Wales
AKA
Catherine Zeta Jones
ZODIAC SIGN
Libra

Biography of Catherine Zeta-Jones
Actress (1969-)
Catherine Zeta-Jones is a Welsh actress who won an Academy Award, known for films such as 'Traffic' and 'Chicago'. She is married to actor Michael Douglas.
Who is Catherine Zeta-Jones?
The actress Catherine Zeta-Jones, who rose to fame through films like The Mask of Zorro and Entrapment, was born in Wales in 1969. Her roots in dance and musical theater led her to her Oscar-winning role in adaptation to the big screen of Chicago. , as well as a Tony Award for his performance in A Little Night Music. Zeta-Jones is also known for her marriage to American actor Michael Douglas, with whom she has two children.

Early stardom
Born September 25, 1969 in Swansea, Wales, the actress Catherine Zeta-Jones began taking dance classes at age 4. By the time he was 15 years old, Zeta-Jones had left school to join a touring production of the musical El pajama. Game. Soon he moved to the West End of London, where he appeared in a production of 42nd Street at the age of 17 years.

Making the transition to television, Zeta-Jones became known to British audiences through the series The Darling Buds of May, which aired from 1991 to 1993. Subsequently, the actress won some important roles in films for television, including the title character in 1996. Historical biopic of Catalina la Grande.


Leading actress
In 1998, Zeta-Jones broke into the American film scene with The Mask of Zorro, starring alongside Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins. The actress soon got more leading roles, due in large part to her seductive appearance and sophisticated style. She teamed up with Sean Connery in the crime thriller Entrapment (1999), and assumed a meatier role as the wife of a drug trafficker in Traffic (2000), earning a Golden Globe nomination.

The actress returned to her roots in musical theater in 2002 with Chicago, also starring Renee Zellweger, Queen Latifah and Richard Gere. The performance was a triumph for Zeta-Jones, who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Velma Kelly.

In 2004, Zeta-Jones starred with Tom Hanks in Steven Spielberg's The Terminal, and had a role in the comedy crime set Ocean's Twelve, with George Clooney and Brad Pitt. However, she became more selective with her film work, as she and her husband Michael Douglas began to spend more time living in Bermuda, away from the spotlights of Hollywood. Zeta-Jones appeared as protagonist in the romantic comedy No Reservations (2007), and then again in the little-seen films Death Defying Acts (2007) and The Rebound (2009).

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Meanwhile, the actress showed her versatility with her Broadway debut in the 2009 revival of Stephen Sondheim's musical A Little Night Music, with Angela Lansbury. Despite some initial mixed reviews, he took home a Tony Award the following year for his performance.

Zeta-Jones returned to the big screen with supporting roles in Rock of Ages (2012), based on the hit Broadway musical and the action movie Red 2 (2013). In 2016, he co-starred with Blake Harrison and Bill Nighy in the comedy Dad's Army, an adaptation of a popular British comedy.

Zeta-Jones returned to television in 2017 through Feud: Bette and Joan, playing the legendary actress Olivia de Havilland with Susan Sarandon, as Bette Davis, and Jessica Lange, as Joan Crawford. That year it was also announced that he would star in the film Lifetime Cocaine Godmother, based on the life of the notorious drug cartel leader Griselda Blanco.

Marriage with Michael Douglas
In 1998, Catherine Zeta-Jones met the famous actor Michael Douglas at the Deauville American Film Festival. According to several reports, shortly after his presentation, he said: "I want to father your children." The couple soon became a couple, despite an age difference of 25 years. They welcomed their first son, son Dylan, in August 2000, and that same year they were married in the elegant Plaza Hotel in New York City. In 2003, she and Douglas joined her family with the arrival of her daughter Carys.

In 2010, Zeta-Jones put aside work to help her husband go through a difficult time: he successfully fought against throat cancer, but the family crisis put everyone in tension. The following year, Zeta-Jones sought treatment for bipolar II, a type of manic depression, and also publicly acknowledged that he had been diagnosed with a mental health disorder. At that time, he told InStyle magazine: "I am not the type of person who likes to shout my personal problems from the rooftops, but with my bipolar becoming public, I hope that other patients know that