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Catherine Zeta Jones biography
She was born in Mumbles, Swansea, on 25 September 1969. Her father David (Dai) Jones owned a Welsh sweet factory, and her mother Patricia was an Irish seamstress.
Her name comes from her grandmothers; her maternal grandmother was Catherine Fair, and on her father's side Zeta Jones. The name Zeta is of Greek origin.
She made her acting debut as a child, playing the lead in Annie at Swansea's Grand Theatre. She also starred in a production of Bugsy Malone, and at 14 impressed Mickey Dolenz when he auditioned her for a role in The Pyjama Game. Dolenz gave her the opportunity to join the show for the rest of its tour.
Zeta Jones was educated at Dumbarton School in Swansea, but left early to focus on her acting. She attended the Arts Educational School in Chiswick to study musical theatre for three years.
By 1987 she was starring in London's West End, playing the role of Peggy Sawyer in 42nd Street. She also played Mae Jones in Kurt Weill's opera Street Scene in 1989, working with English National Opera at the London Coliseum.
After Street Scene she took the lead role in Philippe de Broca's 1001 Nights, which became her first role in a feature film.
In the UK she rose to prominence after being cast as Mariette Larkin in ITV's 1991 television adaptation of HE Bates' The Darling Buds Of May, where she worked alongside David Jason and Pam Ferris.
The following year she appeared on an album, Jeff Wayne's Musical Musical Version Of Spartacus, and later released the singles In The Arms Of Love, I Can't Help Myself and True Love Ways - a duet with David Essex.
Further acting roles included an appearance in an episode of the US television series The Young Indiana Chronicles, the 1992 film Christopher Columbus: The Discovery, and the following year's Splitting Heirs. Further television appearances included The Return Of The Native (1994) and Catherine The Great (1995), for which she played the lead role of Catherine II of
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Catherine Zeta-JonesCBE (born 25 September 1969) is an Academy Award-winning Welshactress, living in the United States. She started acting in theatre from a young age. After this, she had many small roles in British and Americanfilms and television shows. She established herself as an actress once she began starring in Hollywood films such as The Phantom, The Mask of Zorro, and Entrapment in the late 1990s.
She won Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for acting as Velma Kelly in the 2002 film Chicago. She is the first and only Welsh actress to win that award.
In 2010 Zeta-Jones was given a CBE.
Zeta-Jones is married to American actor Michael Douglas, with whom she shares a birthday. They have two children - Dylan (named after Dylan Thomas) and Carys.
Zeta-Jones said in 2011 that she has been diagnosed with bipolar II disorder.
References
[change | change source]- ↑"Catherine Zeta Jones awarded CBE". 12 June 2010.
- ↑Brown, Eryn (13 April 2011). "Catherine Zeta-Jones is treated for bipolar II disorder. What is it?" – via LA Times.
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[change | change source]Catherine Zeta-Jones
Welsh actress (born 1969)
Catherine Zeta-Jones (; born 25 September 1969) is a Welsh actress. Recognised for her versatility, she has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Tony Award. In 2010, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her film and humanitarian work.
Born and raised in Swansea, Zeta-Jones aspired to be an actress from a young age. As a child, she played roles in the West End productions of the musicals Annie and Bugsy Malone. She studied musical theatre at the Arts Educational Schools, London, and made her stage breakthrough with a leading role in a 1987 production of 42nd Street. Her screen debut came in the unsuccessful French-Italian film 1001 Nights (1990), and went on to find greater success as a regular in the British television series The Darling Buds of May (1991–1993). Dismayed at being typecast as the token pretty girl in British films, Zeta-Jones relocated to Los Angeles. She established herself in Hollywood with roles that highlighted her sex appeal, such as in the action film The Mask of Zorro (1998) and the heist film Entrapment (1999).
Zeta-Jones received critical acclaim for her performances as a vengeful pregnant woman in Traffic (2000) and Velma Kelly in the musical Chicago (2002), winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the latter. She starred in high-profile films for much of the decade, including the black comedy Intolerable Cruelty (2003), the heist film Ocean's Twelve (2004), the comedy The Terminal (2004), and the romantic comedy No Reservations (2007). Parts in smaller-scale features were followed by a decrease in workload, during which she returned to the stage and played an aging actress in a Broadway production of A Little Night Music (2009), winning a Tony Award. Zeta-Jones worked intermittently in the subsequent decades, starring in the films Si Named after her two grandmothers, Catherine and Zeta (pronounced Zee-Ta). The name Zeta comes from a name of a ship the grandmother's grandfather sailed. Father: David, Welsh, runs a candy factory (hence her sweatness?). Mother: Pat, Irish, a seamstress (hence good taste in cloths?). Also has two brothers. Catherine was born in Mumbles, Wales on September 25th, 1969. Mumbles was a small fishing village, and Catherine had a strong work ethic instilled in her at a young age. Her dad owned a candy factory, and Catherine has said that she has many fond memories of snuggling up to her father, who smelled like sugar. Still, neither fishing nor candy-making were the life for her, and she developed a passion for acting while still very young. 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 13 starred in a West End production of the musical Bugsy Malone. When she was 14, former Monkees star Mickey 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. The talented teen acquired her first actor's guild card at the age of 15. Catherine moved to London from Wales at 15. When Catherine was 16 she took over the lead in David Merrick's 4. At 17, Catherine nabbed the lead in the British revival of 42nd Street. She was originally cast as the second understudy for the lead
Name: Catherine Zeta Jones Birth Date: September 25 1969 Place of Birth: Mumbles, West Glamorgan. A small village near Swansea, in Wales. Height: 5`8" Origin of Name: Family: Favorite Sport: Usually it is said rugby and golf...