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Catherine Zeta-Jones Wiki Biography

Catherine Zeta Jones was born on 25 September 1969, in Swansea, Wales, of Welsh and Irish descent, and is popular actress who has starred in many notable films – since her debut on the stage when she was 14 years-old – perhaps best known for her breakthrough appearance with Antonio Banderas in “The Mask of Zorro” in 1998.

So just how rich is Catherine Zeta Jones? Sources have estimated that Catherine has a net worth which  grosses $45 million, accumulated from her career spanning over 30 years on the stage, TV and in films.

Since early childhood Catherine Zeta-Jones was interested in acting and singing, and from her early teens in pursuing an acting career. As young as the age of five, she attended Hazel Johnson School of Dance, as a sport to use her energy, and by the time she was 11 she was a British tap-dancing champion. Although she went to Dumbarton House School, a co-educational independent school in Swansea, she  left without even sitting  O-levels – normally at 15-16 years of age – to attend the independent Arts Educational School in Chiswick, West London, for a three-year course in Musical Theatre.

Catherine Zeta-Jones opened her net worth account by acting in many stage plays, actually when she 12 playing the lead in ‘Annie’ at the Swansea Grand Theatre. At 14, she was cast as Tallulah in a theatre production of ‘Bugsy Malone’. In 1986 she was in the chorus of ‘The Pajama Game’ at the Haymarket Theatre in London – after which the show toured the UK – and in 1987 she was fortunate to star in ’42nd Street’, after both actresses playing the lead role fell ill. She also starred in the Kurt Weill opera ‘Street Scene’ with the English National Opera, and then  played the lead role in French director Philippe de Broca’s ‘Les 1001 Nuits’ (1990), her feature film debut.

With her singing and dancing ability, Catherine briefly flirted with a musical career, and actually released a couple of songs that charted, but her straight acting role as Mariette in the successful British television series ‘The Darling Buds of May’ (1991–1993), adaptated from H. E. Bates’ novel, brought her to public attention and made her a star in Britain.

Regardless of this success, Catherine Zeta-Jones continued for some time in relatively minor television series and programs. She appeared in the television series ‘The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles’, ‘Catherine the Great’ and ‘Titanic’and other TV productions, also in the films  ‘Christopher Columbus: The Discovery’ directed by John Glenn, ‘Splitting Heirs’ directed by Robert Young, ‘Blue Juice’ directed by Carl Prechezer, ‘The Phantom’ directed by Simon Wincer and others. However, Zeta-Jones rose to prominence in 1998 when Steven Spielberg suggested that she co-star with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins in Martin Campbell’s directed film ‘The Mask of Zoro’, which received positive reviews from critics, as well as being loved by cinema goers as the box office grossed $250 million worldwide. Catherine herself added much to her net worth account, especially as for her role she was nominated for a number of awards and won the Blockbuster Entertainment Award for the Favourite Female Newcomer.

Catherine continued her successful career with her following role as Virginia Baker in the Jon Amiel directed film ‘Entrapment’, in which Zeta-Jones starred alongside Sean Connery. Despite mixed reviews from critics and nominations for the Golden Raspberry Awards, the film was loved by audience and was commercially successful with the box office grossing $212 million.

Catherine won the Blockbuster Entertainment Award for the Favourite Actress and European Film Award for the Best Actress, helping her to indirectly add significant sums to her net worth. Another successful appearance worth the Screen Actors Guild Award for the Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture and a number of nominations was the role of Helena Ayala in the film ‘Traffic’ directed by Steven Soderbergh. In terms of awards, the peak of Catherine Zeta-Jones’ career has been her supporting role of Velma Kelly in the film ‘Chicago’ directed by Rob Marshall, for which Catherine won the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, two Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards, Evening Standard British Film Award, Phoenix Film Critics Society Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards and a long list of other nominations. After the film’s release, Catherine’s net worth jumped considerably.

Later, she created notable characters in the films ‘Intolerable Cruelty’ directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, ‘The Terminal’ directed by Steven Spielberg, ‘Ocean’s Twelve’ directed by Steven Soderbergh, ‘The Legend of Zorro’ directed by Martin Campbell, ‘No Reservations’ directed by Scott Hicks, ‘Death Defying Acts’ directed by Gillian Armstrong, ‘The Rebound’ directed by Bart Freundlich and other films.

Catherine Zeta-Jones has continued to perform on stage too, which has also added to her net worth. Her appearance in ‘A Little Night Music’ on Broadway in 2009 brought her a Tony Award, Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle Award.

Aside from acting, Zeta-Jones is also an advertising spokeswoman, including for cosmetics giant Elizabeth Arden. She has appeared in numerous TV commercials for the phone company T-Mobile, and also one for Alfa Romeo. She is a spokeswoman for Di Modolo jewellery, and has appeared on several magazine covers, including Allure, Harper’s Bazaar, W, Vanity Fair, and Vogue. Of course all these activities have boosted Catherine’s net worth.

Catherine Zeta-Jones was chosen one of “1998’s Most Beautiful People” by People magazine, and was ranked number 68 in FHM’s “100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005” special supplement, and was named number 82 in 2006.

Of particular significance is that Catherine Zeta-Jones was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2010 Queen’s Birthday Honours list.

In her personal life, Catherine Zeta-Jones married Michael Douglas in 2000; they have two children.

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Catherine Zeta-Jones Quick Info

Catherine Zeta-Jones Trademarks

1. Her unique dancing
2. Seductive deep voice
3. Curvaceous, buxom figure
4. Sexy Welsh/Irish looks

Catherine Zeta-Jones Quotes

• Being happy is the real key to beauty. It shows from the inside out. Everything else is a bonus.
• [1996] I could never see myself living in Hollywood unless I really had to, it’s not really my kind of place.
• I didn’t even think about movies where I came from. I wanted to be on the stage. When I was 10, I did Annie in the West End. I did Bugsy Malone when I was 11 and 12. And then at 16, David Merrick saw me in 42nd Street. I took over the lead and he cast me. I was there for two and a half years. Right now, these young kids are going crazy. I never had that because I had a work ethic. I had to turn up and be there six nights a week.
• [on being awarded the CBE in June 2010] As a British subject, I feel incredibly proud, at the same time it is overwhelming and humbling. And my mum and dad are delighted beyond belief.
• [on playing Desiree Armfeldt in “A Little Night Music” on Broadway in 2010]: I’d read the phone book with the people here, people of this caliber. I feel at this point in my life I’m in my second chapter. You have to be quite frank with yourself. There’s that wonderful curve, and then this is the way it is: the second act. It’s great that now I can go back to my roots but in a completely different way.
• [on singing “Send in the Clowns” in “A Little Night Music” on Broadway in 2010]: As an actor what do you do? You try to make it your own. It was never supposed to be a big song. It’s very intimate, about a woman being told that she’s not going to be with the love of her life. How are you supposed to sing when you’re that deflated?
• [on playing Desiree Armfeldt in “A Little Night Music” on Broadway in 2010]: There’s no jazzy hands, no high kicks, no fishnet stockings, but really that’s what excited me. With most musicals you have to fill in the gaps, but here you have what’s already a beautiful Chekhovian play, and the music is a bonus. The characterization is everything. It’s not one of those shows where you can dig about three inches and come out the other end. You can keep digging and digging and digging.
• I was a chorus girl. That’s all I ever wanted – to be onstage. I would queue up for auditions and then change my costume or put on a different leotard and audition again. It might take me two tries, but I always got the job. I figured out what they wanted.
• I’m more insecure than I ever let anyone know, sometimes you protect yourself with this kind of armor that people see more than they see you.
• [on the Internet and its fascination with celebrities and pornography] I don’t go into the triple-X sites. I’m certainly not going to pay money to see myself naked, when I can just go into the bathroom and whip it off for free.
• Yes, I was in love with my husband at first sight and still am. We have the most solid relationship.
• [on what makes a man irresistable] Humor and that wonderful word called ‘charisma’. You cannot translate it. I can’t nail it on the head, other than to just say that I’m completely over the top about my husband.
• I like to feel sexy. I know my husband thinks I’m sexy. I think he is too. But I don’t go out half-naked with ‘sex’ written across my back.
• I do think I’m lucky I met Michael. Not just Michael Douglas the actor and producer with two Oscars on the shelf, but Michael Douglas, the love of my life. I really do think it was meant to happen.
• [on landing the role of Velma Kelly in Chicago (2002)] Did I want this role? That’s like saying did I want to wake up in the morning wanting to breathe!
• I wish I was born in that era: by dancing with Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly, going to work at the studio dressed in beautiful pants, head scarves and sunglasses.
• [on The Mask of Zorro (1998)] This film holds a lot of meaning to me, both professionally and personally. I actually met my husband when I was promoting the film in Deauville, France, and it was such an amazing time for me, being completely unknown, really, in America or in Mexico, where I shot the first one. It’s a very important film for me and it’s very close to my heart.
• [on her duel/strip scene from The Mask of Zorro (1998)]: I kept thinking “Thank God, I have long hair in this movie.”.
• For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end.
• After The Mask of Zorro (1998), people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I’m Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity.
• After Scottish actor Sean Connery presented her with the Oscar: A Scotsman giving a Welsh girl an Oscar – oh my God!
• In Wales it’s brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes “So what you doing now?”. And I go, “Oh, I’m doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.” And they go, “Ooh, good.” And that’s it.
• I like women who look like women. I hated grunge. No one’s more feminist than me, but you don’t have to look as if you don’t give a – you know. You can be smart, bright and attractive aesthetically to others – and to yourself.
• I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn’t until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people, that I started to get any work.

Catherine Zeta-Jones Important Facts

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• At the Oscars 2013, during the “Celebration of Musicals of the Last Decade”, she performed “All That Jazz” from Chicago (2002).
• Zeta-Jones performed the song “I Move On” from Chicago (2002) with co-star Queen Latifah at the Oscars in 2003.
• Her voice in Les 1001 nuits (1990) was dubbed.
• Is one of 26 actresses to have received an Academy Award nomination for their performance in a musical; hers being Chicago (2002). The others, in chronological order, are: Bessie Love (The Broadway Melody (1929)), Grace Moore (One Night of Love (1934)), Jean Hagen (Singin’ in the Rain (1952)), Marjorie Rambeau (Torch Song (1953)), Dorothy Dandridge (Carmen Jones (1954)), Deborah Kerr (The King and I (1956)), Rita Moreno (West Side Story (1961)), Gladys Cooper (My Fair Lady (1964)), Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins (1964), The Sound of Music (1965), and Victor Victoria (1982)), Debbie Reynolds (The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964)), Peggy Wood (The Sound of Music (1965)), Carol Channing (Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)), Kay Medford (Funny Girl (1968)), Barbra Streisand (Funny Girl (1968)), Liza Minnelli (Cabaret (1972)), Ronee Blakley (Nashville (1975)), Lily Tomlin (Nashville (1975)), Ann-Margret (Tommy (1975)), Lesley Ann Warren (Victor Victoria (1982)), Amy Irving (Yentl (1983)), Nicole Kidman (Moulin Rouge! (2001)), Queen Latifah (Chicago (2002)), Renée Zellweger (Chicago (2002)), Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls (2006)), Penelope Cruz (Nine (2009)), Anne Hathaway (Les Misérables (2012)), and Meryl Streep (Into the Woods (2014)).
• In 2011, she invited David Jason, her former co-star from The Darling Buds of May (1991), to a rented house in Richmond to have Sunday lunch with her and husband Michael Douglas.
• Is one of 13 actresses who won their Best Supporting Actress Oscars in a movie that also won the Best Picture Oscar (she won for Chicago (2002)). The others are Hattie McDaniel for Gone with the Wind (1939), Teresa Wright for Mrs. Miniver (1942), Celeste Holm for Gentleman’s Agreement (1947), Mercedes McCambridge for All the King’s Men (1949), Donna Reed for From Here to Eternity (1953), Eva Marie Saint for On the Waterfront (1954), Rita Moreno for West Side Story (1961), Meryl Streep for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), Juliette Binoche for The English Patient (1996), Judi Dench for Shakespeare in Love (1998), Jennifer Connelly for A Beautiful Mind (2001) and Lupita Nyong’o for 12 Years a Slave (2013).
• Hundreds of actresses were interviewed for Mariette on The Darling Buds of May (1991) before Jones was cast in the role at age 22. Much of her career had been in musical theatre up till then, but playing Mariette was her big break. Jones was inexperienced with television, and very nervous in the beginning; David Jason advised her to keep her eyes still while doing dialogue in close-up, something he used to do.
• Was the 122nd actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Chicago (2002) at The 75th Annual Academy Awards (2003) on March 23, 2003.
• Is one of 6 actresses to have been pregnant at the time of winning the Academy Award; the others are Eva Marie Saint, Patricia Neal, Meryl Streep, Rachel Weisz and Natalie Portman. Neal is the only to have not accepted her award in person as a result of her pregnancy. Zeta-Jones was 8 months pregnant with her daughter Carys when she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Chicago (2002).
• Was on the winning European team of “The All Star Cup”, a celebrity version of golf’s Ryder Cup. Michael Douglas was on the losing American team. [August 2005]
• Was separated from her husband of 12 years Michael Douglas. [May 2013]
• Friends with Pam Ferris and Bonnie Tyler, the latter of whom attended her wedding.
• Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 33, a daughter Carys Zeta Douglas on April 20, 2003. Child’s father is her husband, Michael Douglas.
• (November 18, 2000) Married her boyfriend of 20 months and father of her 3-month-old son Dylan Michael Douglas following a 11-month-long engagement.
• Gave birth to her 1st child at age 30, a son Dylan Michael Douglas on August 8, 2000. Child’s father is her fiancé (now husband), Michael Douglas.
• (April 20, 2013) Entered a rehabilitation facility to treat her bipolar disorder.
• Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas took legal action against stalker Dawnette Knight, who was accused of sending violent letters to the couple that contained graphic threats on Zeta-Jones’s life. Testifying, Zeta-Jones said the threats left her so shaken she feared a nervous breakdown. Knight claimed she had been in love with Douglas and admitted to the offenses, which took place between October 2003 and May 2004. She was sentenced to three years in prison.
• Likes listening to soul music. Is a huge fan of Gladys Knight. She also likes Elvis Presley and Van Morrison. Every Sunday morning for 15 years, her father woke her up to Elvis Presley singing “American Trilogy” or Van Morrison’s “Moondance”.
• Ranked #11 on Rateitall.com as one of people’s favorite actresses. [April 2005]
• In the 1980s, her parents won £100.000 at the game of Bingo and moved to St. Andrews Drive in Mayals, uptown Swansea.
• Attended Dumbarton House School in Swansea, Wales.
• The British press gave her the nickname “Catherine Zeta, The Maneater” due to her busy love life at the time.
• Listed on Ask men.com as one of the 99 “most desirable” women (2002 #57) (2001 #5) (2003 #36).
• Her birth name is Catherine Jones, but she took her grandmother’s name (on her father’s side) because there were many other Catherine Jones, especially in her school class.
• Before moving to Los Angeles, California, she had a house in Fulham, London, England.
• She began singing and dancing at the age of four, largely as a result of her involvement with the local Catholic congregation’s amateur performing troupe. She began acting at age 11, playing the lean in a production of “Annie”, and at age 13, starred in a West End production of the musical “Bugsy Malone”.
• When she was 14, former Monkees star Micky Dolenz was touring Britain in a musical that required the participation of local teens in each city it visited. She auditioned for the Welsh version of the show and won a chorus spot. She so impressed the producers that they whisked her off to London to star in a production of “The Pyjama Game”.
• She acquired her first actor’s guild card at age 15.
• She moved to London, England, from Wales, at age 15.
• Met her husband, Michael Douglas, at the Deauville Film Festival in September 1998, while she was promoting her upcoming film, The Mask of Zorro (1998).
• Her wedding dress was designed by Christian Lacroix.
• Admitted herself into Silver Hills Hospital in New Canaan, Connecticut on April 6, 2011 for a five-day treatment of her Bipolar II Disorder before leaving the hospital on April 11, 2011.
• Returned to work four months after giving birth to her son Dylan in order to begin filming America’s Sweethearts (2001).
• Was seven months pregnant with her son Dylan when she completed filming on Traffic (2000).
• Won a Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical in 2010 for her portrayal of Desiree in “A Little Night Music”.
• She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2010 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for her services to drama.
• The 2009 Sunday Times estimates her and husband Michael Douglas’ net worth at $278 million.
• Born at 2:40 PM (MET).
• Was considered for the role of Satine in the musical Moulin Rouge! (2001) but Nicole Kidman, who went on to receive a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her performance, was cast instead.
• Turned down the role of Claudia Nardi in the musical Nine (2009) when Rob Marshall refused to expand the role for the film. Nicole Kidman was later cast instead.
• In 2004, she began a two year $20 million contract as the spokeswoman of T-Mobile.
• Was originally approached to play Roxie Hart in Chicago (2002), but wanted to play Velma Kelly because of the song “All That Jazz”. Renée Zellweger ended up winning the role of Roxie Hart.
• Was considered for the role of Jane Smith in Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), which went to Angelina Jolie.
• Was once engaged to Angus Macfadyen.
• Ranked #82 in FHM magazine’s “100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006” special supplement.
• Ranked #68 in FHM magazine’s “100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005” special supplement.
• In 1992, the Columbia single “For All Time” peaked at #36 in the UK charts; In 1995, she spent a week on the UK chart at #72 with “In the Arms of Love”.
• On an awards show, speaking of her role of Velma Kelly in the movie Chicago (2002), she stated that while it was as exciting, it was almost as painful as giving birth to her son.
• (October 21, 2004) Filed lawsuit against the Spice House, “Reno’s Friendliest Topless Cabaret” for the unauthorized use of her photo on its website.
• Ranked #50 on VH1’s “100 Hottest Hotties”.
• She released the singles “For All Time” in 1989, “In the Arms of Love” and “I Can’t Help Myself” in 1995 and a duet with David Essex, “True Love Ways”, which was her only chart single. It appeared at #38 in the UK Top 75 singles chart in 1994.
• Her friend, singer Bonnie Tyler, sang at her wedding. Both Zeta-Jones and Tyler come from the same region of Wales.
• Her production company is Milkwood Films, named after the play “Under Milkwood” by Welsh writer Dylan Thomas. She and Thomas are both from the same Welsh town, Swansea.
• Was born in Swansea but grew up in the small seaside town of Mumbles in Wales.
• Celebrity spokesperson for Elizabeth Arden Cosmetics.
• Ocean’s Twelve (2004) reunited her with previous colleagues Steven Soderbergh, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts and Don Cheadle.
• On December 11, 2003, she was a hostess, together with husband Michael Douglas, at the 2003 annual Nobel Peace Price Concert in Oslo Spectrum in Oslo, Norway.
• Is an avid fan of musicals, particularly the ones she saw as a child: Mary Poppins (1964) and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968).
• As a child, she was exposed to a virus that gave her breathing difficulties. This required a tracheotomy surgery, which ultimately left a surgical scar on her neck.
• Her wedding ring includes a Celtic motif and was bought in a Welsh town called Aberystwyth.
• A traditional Welsh choir sang at her wedding.
• In the June 1998 of Yahoo! Internet magazine, she was listed as the number one actress being searched on Yahoo!.
• She portrayed Palene, the beautiful Thracian prophetess and woman of Spartacus, in Jeff Wayne’s 1992 musical version of “Spartacus”. The role of Spartacus was played by her future father-in-law, Kirk Douglas, in Stanley Kubrick’s motion picture Spartacus (1960).
• Her father is of Welsh ancestry, and her mother is of Irish, English, and Welsh ancestry.
• Speaks English, French, Spanish and Welsh.
• Her character in Traffic (2000) was changed to a pregnant woman, because Zeta-Jones herself was pregnant at the time with her son, Dylan.
• Sister-in-law of Joel Douglas, Peter Douglas and the late Eric Douglas.
• Stepmother of Cameron Douglas.
• Daughter-in-law of Kirk Douglas and Diana Douglas.
• Catherine and husband Michael Douglas share the same birthday, 25 years apart. He was born 25 September 1944; she was born 25 September 1969.
• Named after her grandmothers: Catherine Fair on her mother’s side, and Zeta Jones on her father’s.
• Sister of David A. Jones, an executive at Initial Entertainment group, the company that co-financed Traffic (2000).
• Chosen by People magazine as one of the Most Beautiful People in the World (1998).
• (December 31, 1999) Became engaged to Michael Douglas in Aspen, Colorado.
• Her father was the manager of a candy factory.
• Is a trained singer and dancer.

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