Sunday, October 28, 2007

CATHERINE ZETA-JONES BIOGRAPHY



PROFILE
Name: Catherine Zeta Jones
Birth Name: Catherine Jones
Height: 5' 7½
Sex: F
Nationality: British
Birth Date: September 25, 1969
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)

BIOGRAPHY
Catherine began acting at age 11, playing in a production of Annie and at 13 she starred in a West End production of the musical Bugsy Malone. When Catherine was 16 she took over the lead in David Merrick's 42nd Street. Her first regular television role came in the nostalgic British TV series The Darling Buds of May.

While the U.S. audience was unaware of her work, Catherine was rapidly becoming a star in the UK. In fact, with the popularity of The Darling, Catherine became a mega-star in the UK. Coupled with her role in the four-hour television docu-drama Titanic, Catherine got some attention in the United States. Most importantly, she was noticed by Steven Spielberg, who recommended Catherine for the female lead The Mask of Zorro. She followed up this strong Hollywood debut (which this is now considered despite her appearance in 1986's The Phantom) with the equally successful Entrapment with Sean Connery.Now it seems like everyone knows who Catherine Zeta-Jones is, and will for a good long while if her box-office is any indicator.

FILMOGRAPHY
2007 Coming Out
2007 Death Defying Acts
2007 No Reservations
2006 Tony Bennett: An American Classic
2005 The Legend of Zorro
2004 Ocean's Twelve
2004 The Terminal
2003 Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas
2003 Intolerable Cruelty
2002 Chicago
2001 America's Sweethearts
2000 High Fidelity
2000 Traffic
1999 Entrapment
1999 The Haunting
1998 The Mask of Zorro
1996 Titanic
1996 The Phantom
1995 Catherine the Great
1995 Blue Juice
1994 The Return of the Native
1994 Catherine Cookson's The Cinder Path
1993 Splitting Heirs
1992 Christopher Columbus: The Discovery
1991 The Darling Buds of May: Stranger at the Gates
1991 The Darling Buds of May: A Season of Heavenly Gifts
1991 The Darling Buds of May [TV Series]
1991 The Darling Buds of May: When the Green Woods Laugh
1991 The Darling Buds of May: Oh! to Be in England
1991 The Darling Buds of May: A Breath of French Air
1990 Les 1001 Nuits

AWARDS
Academy
2002 Best Supporting Actress Chicago

Broadcast Film Critics Association
2003 Best Supporting Actress Chicago
2002 Best Supporting Actress Chicago

European Film Academy
1999 Best European Actress- People's Choice Award Entrapment

Golden Globe
2002 Best Actress - Musical or Comedy Chicago
2000 Best Supporting Actress Traffic

Screen Actors Guild
2002 Best Supporting Actress Chicago