Catherine Zeta-Jones
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Name: Catherine Zeta-Jones
Birth Name: Catherine Jones
Birthdate: Sept. 25, 1969
Birthplace: Swansea, Wales, U.K.
Beautiful and ambitious, Zeta-Jones was a performer all throughout her youth, becoming one of the United Kingdom's top stars with a lead role in the early-'90s hit dramedy series The Darling Buds of May. In 1998, she landed her breakout role as Elena in The Mask of Zorro opposite Antonio Banderas. Having traditionally dated older men, Zeta-Jones married Michael Douglas, 25 years her senior, in 2000. And two years later she surprised most everyone by coming out as a singing-dancing chanteuse in Chicago, for which she won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar.
1. She had a tracheotomy as a child that left her with a scar on her neck.
2. One of her friends is singer Bonnie Tyler ("Total Eclipse of the Heart"), also from Wales.
3. Zeta-Jones once drove her car into a lamppost trying to avoid the British paparazzi.
4. She's the daughter of a Welsh candy-factory manager father and an Irish seamstress mother.
5. Zeta was the first name of her paternal grandmother.
"When I go to a function, it's business, a performance, so often I like to be different characters … Sophia Loren in Dolce & Gabbana … a marquesa in Versace. I tell Dylan, 'Mommy can't read you bedtime stories tonight.'"
— Harper's Bazaar, 2003
Husband: Michael Douglas, actor, born Sept. 25, 1944, married Nov. 18, 2000
Son: Dylan, born Aug. 8, 2000
Daughter: Carys, born April 20, 2003
2003: Academy Award: Best Supporting Actress, Chicago; Golden Globe nomination: Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy), Chicago
2001: Golden Globe nomination: Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture (Drama), Traffic
No Reservations - (2007) - Actor
The Legend of Zorro - (2005) - Actor
Mona Lisa Smile/America's Sweethearts - (2005) - Actor
The Terminal - (2004) - Actor
Ocean's Twelve - (2004) - Actor
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