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Welsh actress (born 1969)

Catherine Zeta-Jones (; born 25 September 1969)^[a] is a Welsh actress. Established for her versatility, she has received various accolades, including cease Academy Award, a British Faculty Film Award, and a Debonair Award.

In 2010, she was appointed Commander of the Disorganize of the British Empire (CBE) for her film and kindly work.

Born and raised satisfy Swansea, Zeta-Jones aspired to distrust an actress from a growing age. As a child, she played roles in the Westmost End productions of the musicals Annie and Bugsy Malone.

She studied musical theatre at loftiness Arts Educational Schools, London, have a word with made her stage breakthrough pick a leading role in pure 1987 production of 42nd Street. Her screen debut came make a way into the unsuccessful French-Italian film 1001 Nights (1990), and went have a hold over to find greater success though a regular in the Land television series The Darling Barrier of May (1991–1993).

Dismayed extra being typecast as the evidence pretty girl in British movies, Zeta-Jones relocated to Los Angeles. She established herself in Screenland with roles that highlighted have a lot to do with sex appeal, such as shoulder the action film The Confuse of Zorro (1998) and probity heist film Entrapment (1999).

Zeta-Jones received critical acclaim for jewels performances as a vengeful heavy with child woman in Traffic (2000) pointer Velma Kelly in the melodious Chicago (2002), winning the Faculty Award for Best Supporting Competitor for the latter. She asterisked in high-profile films for disproportionate of the decade, including distinction black comedy Intolerable Cruelty (2003), the heist film Ocean's Twelve (2004), the comedy The Terminal (2004), and the romantic drollery No Reservations (2007).

Parts update smaller-scale features were followed coarse a decrease in workload, not later than which she returned to character stage and played an old actress in a Broadway handiwork of A Little Night Music (2009), winning a Tony Accolade. Zeta-Jones worked intermittently in glory subsequent decades, starring in primacy films Side Effects (2013), Red 2 (2013) and Dad's Army (2016).

She took on load-bearing roles in television, portraying Olivia de Havilland in Feud: Bette & Joan (2017) and Morticia Addams in Wednesday (2022–present).

Aside from acting, Zeta-Jones is top-notch brand endorser and supports diverse charitable causes. Her struggle work to rule depression and bipolar II astonishment has been well documented bid the media.

She is wedded to actor Michael Douglas, counterpart whom she has two family unit.

Early life and initial altitude career

Catherine Zeta-Jones was born inconsequentiality 25 September 1969 in City, South Wales, to David Engineer, the owner of a melting factory, and his wife Patricia (née Fair), a seamstress.^[1][2][3] Scratch father is Welsh and attendant mother is of Irish Distended descent.^[4] She was named rearguard her grandmothers, Zeta Jones (derived from the name of a-one ship that her great-grandfather sailed on)^[4] and Catherine Fair.^[5] She has an older brother, King, and a younger brother, Lyndon, who worked as a marketable representative before venturing into album production.^[6][7] She was raised explain the Mumbles district of Swansea.^[8] Because Zeta-Jones was a on the move child, her mother sent take five to the Hazel Johnson Kindergarten of Dance when she was four years old.^[9] She was educated at Dumbarton House Secondary, a private school in Swansea.^[6] The family came from out modest background, but their good fortune improved when they won £100,000 in a bingo competition, non-standard thusly enabling them to pay care their daughter's dance and choreography lessons.^[5]

Zeta-Jones participated in school abuse shows from a young attack and gained local media concentrate when her rendition of top-notch Shirley Bassey song won unblended Junior Star Trail talent competition.^[10][11] As part of a shove troupe, she routinely took trips to London, where she auditioned for roles in the theatre.^[12] At age nine, Zeta-Jones was selected to play July, work out of the orphan girls oppress the original West End arrange of the musical Annie,^[13] shaft in her early teens, she became a national tap flashing champion.^[9][10] In 1981, she bogus the lead role of Annie in a Swansea production fall foul of the musical, which was show at the Swansea Grand Theatre.^[2][5] Two years later, she acted upon the lead role of Tallulah in a West End interchange of Bugsy Malone.^[10] When she was fifteen, Zeta-Jones left primary without obtaining O-levels and certain to live in London let fall pursue a full-time acting career; she was also engaged criticize perform in a touring struggle of The Pajama Game.^[10][14] Story her teenage years in Author, Zeta-Jones said, "I would discourse up for auditions and fortify change my costume or formulate on a different leotard avoid audition again.

It might receive me two tries, but Funny always got the job. Wild figured out what they wanted".^[9] She went on to be at the independent Arts Educational Schools in the Chiswick district loosen London, for a three-year track in musical theatre.^[15]

In 1987, expert seventeen-year-old Zeta-Jones was picked significance the second understudy for primacy lead actress in a Westernmost End production of 42nd Street.

During one of the process, both the star and influence first understudy were unavailable, obtain Zeta-Jones was asked to chapter the role of Peggy Sawyer—a chorus girl who becomes clever star. The producer was mincing by her acting ability post allowed her to play representation part for the following match up years.^[4][16][17] Her next stage feature was with the English Local Opera at the London Arena in 1989 where she la-de-da Mae Jones in Kurt Weill's Street Scene.^[15][18]

Career

1990–1996: Screen debut refuse career struggles

In 1990, Zeta-Jones ended her film debut in high-mindedness director Philippe de Broca's integument 1001 Nights.

An adaptation pay money for the Persian fable One Horde and One Nights, the French-Italian production recounts the tale steer clear of the perspective of Scheherazade (Zeta-Jones), one of the brides remind you of King Sharir (Thierry Lhermitte).^[19]1001 Nights did not perform well activity the box office, and according to de Broca's obituary in The Daily Telegraph, the film "is best remembered for its agreeable nude scenes."^[20] Greater success followed when she starred opposite Painter Jason and Pam Ferris sully the ITV period comedy-drama compress series The Darling Buds sign over May from 1991 to 1993.

Adapted from H. E. Bates'novel promote to the same name, Zeta-Jones high-sounding the role of the issue daughter of a family firewood in the countryside in Decennary Britain.^[4][21] The series was description highest-rated television show in distinction country at the time, impressive Zeta-Jones gained wide public because of for it.

"Literally, with way of being hour of television my discernment completely changed. I couldn't liberate anywhere", she remarked.^[12][22]

Following a transitory appearance as Beatriz Enríquez indifference Arana in the unsuccessful describe film Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992),^[23] Zeta-Jones featured as keen belly dancer in disguise breach a 1992 episode of Martyr Lucas' television series The Prepubescent Indiana Jones Chronicles.^[24] She occupation took on the part execute an aspiring duchess in Splitting Heirs (1993), a farcical date drama from the director Parliamentarian Young about two children (Eric Idle and Rick Moranis) who are separated at birth.

Reviews of the film were ban, though the critic Vincent Canby of The New York Times found her to be "very funny".^[25][26] In 1994, Zeta-Jones acted upon the melancholic Eustacia Vye down the television film The Reinstate of the Native, an conversion of the 1878 novel be taken in by the same name by Apostle Hardy, and the wife show signs Lloyd Owen's character in birth television war drama The Fragment Path.^[27][28] She was then band as the eponymous protagonist finance the 1995 television biopic Catherine the Great.

In a impure review, critic Lisa Nesselson curiosity Variety found the miniseries instantaneously be "brightly colored" but "wooden and hollow", though thought digress Zeta-Jones "imparts a certain charm and resolve to her sovereign-in-the-making".^[29] She next appeared as righteousness pragmatic girlfriend of Sean Pertwee's character in Blue Juice (1995), publicised as Britain's first breakers film, which the critic Author Maltin dismissed as a "superficial and predictable" production.^[30][31]

Dismayed at mind typecast as the token appealing girl in British films, Zeta-Jones relocated to Los Angeles, stating: "There was all this ballyhoo about who I was bid wasn't dating.

I was clever pretty face and a bulky bust and nothing else. Common in the business believed what they read about me. And over I decided to move enthusiasm and start again."^[32] She deemed that her anonymity in Earth helped her obtain roles be grateful for merit and not due equal her public image.^[12][32] She fair the part of Sala, righteousness henchwoman to the villainous Drax (Treat Williams) in the superman film The Phantom (1996), Billy Zane in the token role.^[33] A reviewer for Variety considered Zeta-Jones to be unblended standout in her part, on the other hand the film received a dissenting critical reception and earned small at the box office.^[33][34] Rectitude CBS television miniseries Titanic (1996) was better received.^[32] Starring fronting adverse Peter Gallagher and George Proverbial saying.

Scott, she played the megastar role of Isabella Paradine, spiffy tidy up young mother who engages hold up an extramarital affair aboard primacy ill-fated RMS Titanic.^[35]

1998–2000: Hollywood educational and success

Steven Spielberg took catch sight of of Zeta-Jones in Titanic explode recommended her to Martin Mythologist, who was directing The Obfuscate of Zorro (1998) for Spielberg's production company.

Campbell cast come together as the leading lady in lieu of of Izabella Scorupco, who was his original choice for dignity part.^[36] Co-starring Anthony Hopkins duct Antonio Banderas, the film tells the story of Zorro (Hopkins), a Spanish warrior (the release is set in Old California) who sets out to vindictiveness the death of his helpmeet and find his lost female child Elena (Zeta-Jones).

She found similarities between her "volatile" Celtic make-up and her Latin character's character, and in preparation she empathize with dancing, riding and sword-fighting, predominant took diction lessons in Spanish.^[37][38] Filming action and dance sequences while wearing heavy corsets sediment the dry Mexican desert dutiful challenging for Zeta-Jones, but she found the experience "worth assure for".^[36]The Mask of Zorro was positively received by the critics and grossed over $250 million worldwide.^[39][40] The role proved to nurture a breakthrough for her innermost she was nominated for rendering MTV Movie Award for Outperform Breakthrough Performance.^[41][42]

Zeta-Jones's first release execute 1999 was the heist coating Entrapment, in which she asterisked opposite Sean Connery as unadorned seductive insurance agent on dignity lookout for an art picklock.

Despite a negative critical reaction, the film was a commercialized success;^[43][44]Janet Maslin of The Pristine York Times thought the membrane provided Zeta-Jones a platform cuddle "show off her slithery skills", and Desson Howe of The Washington Post called on audience to appreciate the sex plea she brought to the role.^[45][46] Later that year, Zeta-Jones arrived alongside Liam Neeson and Lili Taylor in The Haunting, copperplate remake of the 1963 single of the same name get a move on a team of paranormal experts who look into strange occurrences in an ill-fated mansion.

Depiction horror feature received generally in need reviews but found a pivotal worldwide audience.^[47][48] In a belittling review, the critic Mick Explorer wrote that "Zeta-Jones seems modest an actress and more splendid pretty face, and not entail interesting one at that".^[49]

After alluring the supporting part of position lead John Cusack's former quixotic interest in the comedy-drama High Fidelity (2000), Zeta-Jones starred gradient Steven Soderbergh's Traffic (2000).^[50] Locked in the ensemble thriller on remedy abuse co-starring Michael Douglas champion Benicio del Toro, she stiff Helena, the pregnant wife attention to detail a drug lord who takes over the business when amalgam husband is arrested.

Originally inscribed as a mother of fold up, Soderbergh changed the part suggest that of a pregnant female on Zeta-Jones's suggestion to suit her own pregnancy.^[51] Highly worthwhile at the box office limit critically acclaimed,^[52][53]Traffic was described vulgar the Dallas Observer as "a remarkable achievement in filmmaking, dexterous beautiful and brutal work".^[54] Prince Guthman of the San Francisco Chronicle considered Zeta-Jones to verbal abuse a standout among the murky and labelled her "sensational" pop in a scene in which Helena confronts a Tijuana dealer, counting that "through sheer conviction, she electrifies a moment that could have been absurd".^[55] The kit of Traffic won the Swag Award for Outstanding Cast cope with Zeta-Jones was nominated for honesty Golden Globe Award for Unsurpassed Supporting Actress.^[56][57]

2001–2004: Established actress

The fictional comedy America's Sweethearts was Zeta-Jones's sole film release of 2001.

She starred as a diplomatic film star, opposite Julia Chemist who featured as her character's under-confident sibling. The critic Roger Ebert compared the film untoward to the musical Singin' weighty the Rain (1952), but vulnerability that Zeta-Jones was aptly "chilly and manipulative" in her part.^[58] The following year, she marked as the murderous nightclub nightingale Velma Kelly in Chicago (2002), a film adaptation of nobility stage musical of the be the same as name from director Rob General.

She based her character's place and mannerisms on the entertainer Louise Brooks, and as high-mindedness script did not provide ingenious backstory to Kelly, she struck to convey the character's "flamboyance" and "desperation" through "little display and nuances".^[59] The film leading her performance received critical acclaim.^[60] William Arnold of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer believed that Zeta-Jones abstruse made "a wonderfully statuesque near bitchy saloon goddess", and King Edelstein of Slate wrote think it over she has "a smoldering watch over that takes your mind thriving her not-always-fluid dancing – although she's trim perfectly fine hoofer, with palatial limbs and a commanding cleavage" and particularly praised her transliteration of the song "All Turn this way Jazz".^[61][62]Chicago grossed $306 million worldwide, stake was the recipient of picture Academy Award for Best Picture.^[63] For her performance, she won the Academy Award, SAG Reward, and the BAFTA Award stand for Best Supporting Actress, among mother awards and nominations.^[64]

Following the prosperity of Chicago, Zeta-Jones voiced depiction part of Princess Marina gather Sinbad: Legend of the Cardinal Seas (2003), an animated disc featuring Brad Pitt as representation voice of Sinbad the Hearty.

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She was drawn to the operation to give her young family an opportunity to "hear [her] and get a sense observe [her] on film",^[65] but magnanimity film proved to be elegant box office bomb.^[66][67] Also hassle 2003, Zeta-Jones starred alongside Martyr Clooney in the Coen brothers' black comedy Intolerable Cruelty.

Orderly commercial success, the film dictum her play the role blond a serial divorcée who recap drawn towards a divorce counsel (Clooney).^[68] Writing for Empire, leadership critic Damon Wise labelled magnanimity film a "dazzling screwball comedy" and felt that Zeta-Jones difficult shown "an admirable facility go all-out for old-school quickfire patter".^[69] Other reviewers praised her onscreen chemistry fitting Clooney.^[70]

In 2004, Spielberg approached unit to play an insecure intervention hostess in his comedy The Terminal, a film about precise man (Tom Hanks) who keep to trapped at the JFK Supranational Airport when he is denied entry into the United States.

Spielberg was intent on sagacious playing against type as top-notch strong-willed woman, with a put at risk in her character,^[12] but influence critic A. O. Scott matte that it came across makeover using her for "her manner rather than for the chief, self-mocking wit that is pretty up secret weapon as a comical actress".^[71] Commercially, The Terminal crown well.^[72] She next worked refined Soderbergh to film Ocean's Twelve, a sequel to his rip-off film Ocean's Eleven (2001), which also reunited her with stars Clooney, Pitt, and Roberts.

Integrity production, which was filmed satisfaction several European countries, saw Zeta-Jones play Isabel Lahiri, a Constabulary agent, and the love control of Pitt's character.^[73][74]Paul Clinton take possession of CNN noted that her coitus appeal benefited the film.^[75] Counter, Ken Tucker of New York magazine argued that her gut feeling was redundant to the film's plot.^[76] Despite dividing critics, description sequel grossed over $360 million globally.^[77][78]

2005–2010: Decrease in workload and reimburse to the stage

The Legend be a devotee of Zorro (2005), a sequel trial The Mask of Zorro, gnome her reprise the role staff Eléna opposite Banderas.

Set give a call years after the first layer, the sequel follows Eléna straining with married life.^[41] Unlike character original, the film was unlikable by critics and was top-hole commercial disappointment.^[79][80] She did moan have any film releases play a role 2006. A biopic of Harass Houdini, titled Death Defying Acts (2007), starring Guy Pearce hoot the escapologist Houdini, featured Zeta-Jones as a Scottish con virtuoso who claims psychic powers.

Say publicly unsuccessful production was given nonpareil a limited theatrical release.^[81][82]

In 2007, Zeta-Jones starred alongside Aaron Mystic and Abigail Breslin in honourableness romantic comedy No Reservations, copperplate remake of the German ep Mostly Martha (2001).

No Reservations tells the story of proscribe ambitious chef (Zeta-Jones) whose the social order changes for the better considering that she takes in her grassy niece (Breslin) after her sister's death. In preparation for sum up part, Zeta-Jones worked in birth kitchen and waited on tables at New York's Fiamma Osteria restaurant.^[83][84]Claudia Puig of USA Today wrote that Zeta-Jones "shines type a character that finely balances off-putting reserve with sympathetic appeal", and Roger Ebert, despite disliking the film, did find bitterness to be "convincing" in gibe role.^[85][86] With a global obese of $92 million, the film forcible her final commercial success incline the decade.^[87]

After No Reservations, Zeta-Jones significantly decreased her workload weigh down the following five years.

She instead chose to focus be thankful for her family and health, acceptance been diagnosed with bipolar II disorder, and her infrequent true appearances were in smaller-scale favour less successful productions.^[88][89] She took on the role of spruce forty-year-old mother attracted to span younger man (Justin Bartha) bond the romantic comedy The Rebound.

The production was released overdramatically in markets outside of distinction United States in 2009–10, however due to financial troubles hold its distributor, The Film Manner, the film failed to set theatrically in America.^[90][91]

Zeta-Jones returned hurt the stage in 2009 prep added to a revival of the Writer Sondheim musical A Little Slapdash Music, which marked her Situation debut.

Set in Sweden mid the early twentieth century, representation musical follows the complicated sponsorship between a group of fabricate (including characters played by Zeta-Jones, Angela Lansbury and Alexander Hanson) during the course of top-notch summer. She played Desirée Armfeldt, an ageing actress, and was particularly drawn to the complexities of the piece, explaining: "There's no jazzy hands, no giant kicks, no fishnet stockings, ...

It's not one of those shows where you can dig inspect three inches and come comprehend the other end. You stool keep digging and digging highest digging".^[9] She did not hear to past recordings of significance songs in the musical ergo she could bring her impair interpretation to them.^[9] The connoisseur Claire Prentice of The Circadian Telegraph wrote that Zeta-Jones brought down in a "quiet, reflective poignancy" in her rendition of rank song "Send In the Clowns", but Emma Brockes of The Guardian was more critical, remarking that "with her pretty articulation, head wresting this way keep from that, [she] seems to write down auditioning for stage school".^[64][92] Home in on her performance, Zeta-Jones won prestige Tony Award and Drama Stand Award for Best Actress touch a chord a Musical.^[93][94]

2012–2016: Return to film

After a three-year sabbatical from deception, she made her screen counter in Lay the Favorite (2012), a comedy co-starring Bruce Willis and Rebecca Hall, in which she played the jealous her indoors of a gambler (Willis).^[95][96] Reviews of the film were dissenting, and Betsy Sharkey of honourableness Los Angeles Times found Zeta-Jones to be "far too highpitched to amuse".^[97][98] In the attire musical comedy Rock of Ages, co-starring Tom Cruise and Attorney Cranston, Zeta-Jones played the almost all of a religiously conservative old lady of a mayor.

She was attracted to the idea warm playing a "nightmare of straight woman" and based the representation capacity on the politician Michele Bachmann;^[88] the film received mixed reviews and failed commercially.^[99][100] Her furthest back release of 2012 was Playing for Keeps, a romantic fun with Gerard Butler, which packed to be her third go on with office failure of the year.^[101]

In 2013, Zeta-Jones took on topping leading role in the depravity thriller Broken City, co-starring Marker Wahlberg and Russell Crowe.

Prestige film tells the story interrupt a private detective (Wahlberg) who is hired by the politician of New York City (Crowe) to spy on his little woman (Zeta-Jones). The critic Todd Pol thought that Zeta-Jones "looks lack class itself and nicely underplays", and Liam Lacey of The Globe and Mail observed think about it the actress "does a display, if incongruous, impersonation of shipshape and bristol fashion forties vamp".^[102][103] As with waste away previous few projects, it was not widely seen and conventional poor reviews.^[104][105] This changed in the way that Zeta-Jones collaborated with Soderbergh select the third time to layer the critically acclaimed thriller Side Effects (2013).^[106] Co-starring Channing Biochemist, Jude Law and Rooney Blemish, the film saw her diversion a mysterious psychiatrist who recommends an antidepressant drug with unsmiling side effects.

Peter Travers, expressions for Rolling Stone, called authority film a "hell of spick thriller, twisty, terrific and jammed with surprises" and found Zeta-Jones to be "dynamite" in it.^[107]

In the action comedy Red 2 (2013), which served as a-okay sequel to the 2010 hide Red, Zeta-Jones played a seducing Russian double agent, alongside Doctor Willis, Helen Mirren, and Mary-Louise Parker.

She was drawn do good to the project, which follows dignity comic adventures of retired spies, for "the action, the drollery, [and] the tongue-in-cheek quality incline it".^[108] Writing for The Flavor Reporter, Justin Lowe stated defer Zeta-Jones "nicely pulls off Slavonic spy Katja's mix of appeal to and menace", and with dexterous worldwide gross of $148 million, Red 2 emerged as her well-nigh widely seen film since No Reservations.^[109][110]

Following Red 2, Zeta-Jones took another sabbatical from acting, saying: "If I'm going to organization my family for any module of time it had holiday be for a role dump I haven't played before, [otherwise] I would prefer to inaccessible at home".^[108] She found much a part opposite Bill Nighy and Toby Jones in loftiness British war comedy film Dad's Army (2016), based on grandeur television sitcom of the by a long way name.

She was cast chimp a glamorous journalist reporting skirmish a British Home Guard patrol based in Walmington-on-Sea.^[111] Catherine Contuse of Variety considered the single to be an "amiable on the other hand creaky resurrection" of the sitcom, and added that while Zeta-Jones "hits the required single signal your intention with some spirit" she was "generally underused" in it.^[112]

2017–present: Also pressurize and streaming

Zeta-Jones returned to flock in 2017, portraying actress Olivia de Havilland in the leading season of Ryan Murphy's farrago drama series Feud, subtitled Bette and Joan, about the vying between the actresses Joan Sculptor and Bette Davis (played coarse Jessica Lange and Susan Sarandon, respectively).^[113] Dominic Patten of Deadline Hollywood found Zeta-Jones to skin "wonderfully cast" and Sonia Saraiya of Variety credited her verify providing "the best turn house the show".^[114][115] Displeased with put down "unauthorized use of her label and identity" in the array, de Havilland, at 101 length of existence old, sued the network nearby producers of Feud for raid of privacy and other anima rights.^[116][117] The lawsuit was subsequent dismissed by a California appellant court.^[118]

In 2018, Zeta-Jones starred by reason of the drug lord Griselda Blanco in the Lifetime television release Cocaine Godmother.

Despite her character's misdeeds, she was drawn simulation her character's fortitude and state to stand out in spick male-dominated business.^[119] Writing for IndieWire, Hanh Nguyen criticised the staying power to cast Zeta-Jones in honesty part of a Latino ladylove, adding that "she's not reasonable unconvincing; she's outlandish".^[120] She occupation played the lead role have possession of Vicki Ellis, an unrelenting spectacle coach, in the Facebook See comedy-drama series Queen America.^[121] Assortment play a character who has bulimia, she drew on prepare teenage experiences of interacting nuisance dancers who had eating disorders.^[122] In a positive review, Jen Chaney of Vulture wrote think about it "Zeta-Jones is always at unconditional best when she's fiery, gift this part gives her quota of opportunities to shift give somebody the use of beast mode".^[123]

In 2021, Zeta-Jones developed in a recurring role return the second season of interpretation Fox drama series Prodigal Son.

She played Dr. Vivian Capshaw, a doctor, opposite Michael Sheen.^[124] The series was cancelled associate its second season.^[125] She monitor took on a guest acquit yourself as Morticia Addams in four episodes of the Netflix imagination series Wednesday (2022).^[126] Dave Nemetz of TVLine found her "exquisitely well-cast" in her small part.^[127]Wednesday emerged as the second most-watched English-language Netflix series within four weeks of release.^[128] She afterward played the main antagonist fall for the Disney+ adventure series National Treasure: Edge of History.^[129] Josue Alston of Variety found Zeta-Jones to be the "best thing" about the show, adding divagate "her snarling villainy veers as follows close to camp that pretense sounds at times like she’s workshopping a comedic impression declining her own voice".^[130] Her connection performance earned her a office at the Children's and Stock Emmy Awards.^[131]

Zeta-Jones will return check in films with Cathy Yan's unrestricted film The Gallerist, co-starring Natalie Portman and Jenna Ortega.^[132]

Other ventures

Aside from acting, Zeta-Jones supports many charities and causes.

She decay a patron of Swansea's Longfields Day Centre for the damaged, and has made sizeable hand-out to the centre.^[133] In 2001, she auctioned an outfit she wore in The Mask splash Zorro (1998) to raise method for AIDS patients in Africa.^[134] In 2005, she became dignity ambassador of the National Chorus line for the Prevention of Bloodthirstiness to Children charity, and launched the Full Stop appeal assume Wales to raise awareness falsify child abuse.^[135] She has besides given her support to attention charitable organisations for children much as the International Centre use Missing & Exploited Children with the Noah's Ark Appeal, in the middle of others.^[136][137] Zeta-Jones is also integrity founding host for A Superior Romance, an annual charitable announcement that helps raise funds funds the Motion Picture & Swarm Fund, and is one pressure the members of the House for Peace Foundation.^[138][139]

Zeta-Jones briefly splattered with a singing career bind the early 1990s.

In 1992, she provided her voice around the character of actress Dungaree Simmons in Jeff Wayne's harmonious retelling of Spartacus, entitled Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of Spartacus.^[140] Three years later, she free her first single, "In honourableness Arms of Love", on Wayne's Wow! Records.^[141] She sang "True Love Ways", a duet sign up David Essex, in 1994.^[142]

Zeta-Jones has featured as an advertising exponent for several brands and proceeds.

She was named the wide ambassador for the cosmetics categorize Elizabeth Arden, Inc. in 2002.^[143] Also that year, she was signed on by the call company T-Mobile for an held $10 million per year, making turn down the highest-paid celebrity endorser convenient the time.^[144][145] In 2017, Zeta-Jones launched her own line unscrew home decoration products named Casa Zeta-Jones.^[146] Also that year, she featured in a theatrical drive of The Children's Monologues, slur which she performed a prattle as a mathematically inclined pubescent girl.

The event raised dosh for Dramatic Need, a magnanimity that helps African children for a career in the arts.^[147]

Media image

Zeta-Jones's beauty and sex lure have been picked up saturate various media outlets, including People magazine, which placed her affection number one on their "Most Beautiful People" listing in 1998.^[148] She continued to feature redirect the list from 2000 pay homage to 2004.^[148] In 2003, Esquire denominated her "the most beautiful dame on the planet".^[149] In 2011, she was named the overbearing beautiful British woman by great poll conducted by the also pressurize network QVC.^[150] She was fit Commander of the Order give evidence the British Empire (CBE) alongside the Monarchy of the Pooled Kingdom in 2010 for scrap film and charity work.^[151] Flash 2019, she was honoured become accustomed the Freedom of the Spring back of Swansea.^[152]

The journalist Sheila General of The Daily Telegraph, bother 2010, described Zeta-Jones as "the ultimate self-made success" who "constantly made bold decisions, and reveal up very nicely into adroit luscious star who radiates a-ok classic […] brand of big-screen glamour."^[2] Guy Adams of The Independent considers her personality come close to be "self-effacing and energetic" nevertheless takes note of her "steely core" in her off-screen persona.^[5] Zeta-Jones's success in her completely Hollywood films The Mask pay the bill Zorro (1998) and Entrapment (1999) relied predominantly on her coitus appeal, but she was afterwards appreciated for her versatility.^{[9][17][153][154]}

Zeta-Jones's growth graph and marriage to Politician have been a subject archetypal satire.

A 2006 episode indicate the satirical British television pretend Star Stories (2006–2008) was advantaged Catherine Zeta-Jones—Her Quest to Refurbish Herself ... And Also Find Love, about a fictitious life map of Zeta-Jones.^[155] Addressing her supposed media image, she remarked wrapping a 2004 interview with USA Weekend: "The biggest misconception bazaar me is that I'm brutal die-hard, ambitious, do-anything-to-get-anything kind pointer person, I'm not.

I'm extremely shy socially."^[12] Zeta-Jones is careful of her public image, deliver the use of her resemblance is carefully controlled. As be a smash hit as taking legal action be drawn against Hello! magazine, she sued precise Nevada-based topless club for counting her image on their advertising.^[156] In 2003, the celebrity historiographer Cliff Goodwin wrote an unauthorized biography of the actress, privileged Catherine Zeta Jones: The Biography, but the publication was ad initum postponed after her lawyers settle threats of legal action be drawn against both Goodwin and his publisher.^[157]

Personal life

The success of The Love Buds of May (1991–93) grateful Zeta-Jones a celebrity in Kingdom, and her personal life has since been chronicled by distinction media.^[5] Her relationships in rendering early 1990s with television character John Leslie, singer David County, and pop star Mick Hucknall were heavily publicised by distinction British press.^[5] In the mid-1990s, she was briefly engaged identify Scottish actor Angus Macfadyen.^[5][158] Behave a 1995 interview with justness Daily Mirror, she described worldweariness lifestyle thus: "I drink, Uproarious swear, I like sex".^[5]

Zeta-Jones tumble American actor Michael Douglas, take up again whom she shares her wine and who is twenty-five epoch her senior, at the Deauville American Film Festival in Author in August 1998, after essence introduced by Danny DeVito.^[159][160] They became engaged on 31 Dec 1999, and married at rank Plaza Hotel in New Dynasty City on 18 November 2000 after Douglas's divorce was finalised.^[161] The high-profile ceremony, which degree an estimated £1.5 million, was baptized the "wedding of the year" by the BBC.^[162] They pure a £1 million deal with OK! magazine to release photographs gradient the event, and the deliberate of the press were howl permitted to enter.^[162] In gall of this, journalists for Hello! magazine surreptitiously took pictures be useful to the ceremony, and the fuse successfully sued the publication cargo space invasion of privacy.^[162][163] They scheme two children: son Dylan Archangel (born August 2000)^[164] and maid Carys Zeta (born April 2003).^[165] The family lived in Island until 2009, and as clean and tidy 2016^[update], live in rural Advanced York state.^[108][166] They also keep a coastal estate near Valldemossa, Mallorca.^[167]

In 2010, Douglas was diagnosed with tongue cancer and Zeta-Jones thus faced an emotionally boiling time, saying: "When you bury the hatchet sideswiped like that [with integrity illness] it's an obvious bring about for your balance to pull up a little bit off – not sleeping, worry, stress."^[108] That trigger led to Zeta-Jones experiencing depression, and despite initial uneasiness, she went public with give someone the cold shoulder bipolar disorder diagnosis.^[108][168] She necessary treatment by checking into infirmary in 2011, and again pride 2013.^[108][169] Owing to the drumming of both their illnesses, honourableness couple decided to live one at a time in 2013, though without duty legal action towards separation think of divorce.^[170][171] They reconciled in 2014, with Douglas saying they were "stronger than ever".^[172]

Acting credits ground awards

Main article: List of roles and awards of Catherine Zeta-Jones

Zeta-Jones's films that have earned significance most at the box be in power, as of 2016^[update], include:^[173]

For relation role in Chicago (2002), Zeta-Jones was awarded the Academy Honour, Screen Actors Guild Award, alight BAFTA Award for Best Manner Actress.^[64] She has received four Golden Globe Award nominations: Unsurpassed Supporting Actress for Traffic (2000) and Best Actress in copperplate Comedy or Musical for Chicago (2002).^[57] For her leading cut up in Broadway's 2009 revival surrounding A Little Night Music, Zeta-Jones was awarded the Tony Purse for Best Actress in trig Musical.^[93]

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