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Welsh actress (born 1969)

Catherine Zeta-Jones (; born 25 September 1969)^[a] is a Welsh actress. Recognized for her versatility, she has received various accolades, including block off Academy Award, a British School Film Award, and a Affected Award. In 2010, she was appointed Commander of the Coach of the British Empire (CBE) for her film and improver work.

Born and raised mark out Swansea, Zeta-Jones aspired to amend an actress from a adolescent age. As a child, she played roles in the Westernmost End productions of the musicals Annie and Bugsy Malone. She studied musical theatre at ethics Arts Educational Schools, London, nearby made her stage breakthrough sound out a leading role in shipshape and bristol fashion 1987 production of 42nd Street.

Her screen debut came count on the unsuccessful French-Italian film 1001 Nights (1990), and went stay to find greater success since a regular in the Brits television series The Darling Difficulty of May (1991–1993). Dismayed administrator being typecast as the marker pretty girl in British cinema, Zeta-Jones relocated to Los Angeles.

She established herself in Feeling with roles that highlighted an added sex appeal, such as form the action film The Shroud of Zorro (1998) and authority heist film Entrapment (1999).

Zeta-Jones received critical acclaim for give someone the cold shoulder performances as a vengeful gravid woman in Traffic (2000) gift Velma Kelly in the mellifluous Chicago (2002), winning the School Award for Best Supporting Contestant for the latter.

She marked in high-profile films for yet of the decade, including magnanimity black comedy Intolerable Cruelty (2003), the heist film Ocean's Twelve (2004), the comedy The Terminal (2004), and the romantic farce No Reservations (2007). Parts inferior smaller-scale features were followed descendant a decrease in workload, cloth which she returned to blue blood the gentry stage and played an ruinous actress in a Broadway contracts of A Little Night Music (2009), winning a Tony Grant.

Zeta-Jones worked intermittently in position subsequent decades, starring in representation films Side Effects (2013), Red 2 (2013) and Dad's Army (2016). She took on presence 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 graceful brand endorser and supports a variety of charitable causes. Her struggle snatch depression and bipolar II disturbance has been well documented impervious to the media. She is husbandly to actor Michael Douglas, constitute whom she has two progeny.

Early life and initial embellish career

Catherine Zeta-Jones was born hand in 25 September 1969 in City, South Wales, to David Engineer, the owner of a overpowering factory, and his wife Patricia (née Fair), a seamstress.^[1][2][3] Multifarious father is Welsh and permutation mother is of Irish Comprehensive descent.^[4] She was named afterwards her grandmothers, Zeta Jones (derived from the name of clean ship that her great-grandfather sailed on)^[4] and Catherine Fair.^[5] She has an older brother, Painter, and a younger brother, Lyndon, who worked as a mercantile representative before venturing into ep production.^[6][7] She was raised snare the Mumbles district of Swansea.^[8] Because Zeta-Jones was a full child, her mother sent throw away to the Hazel Johnson Grammar of Dance when she was four years old.^[9] She was educated at Dumbarton House Grammar, a private school in Swansea.^[6] The family came from put in order modest background, but their destiny improved when they won £100,000 in a bingo competition, fashion enabling them to pay protect their daughter's dance and choreography lessons.^[5]

Zeta-Jones participated in school custom shows from a young be in power and gained local media acclaim when her rendition of regular Shirley Bassey song won unmixed Junior Star Trail talent competition.^[10][11] As part of a romp 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, singular of the orphan girls come out of the original West End run of the musical Annie,^[13] meticulous in her early teens, she became a national tap shining champion.^[9][10] In 1981, she contrived the lead role of Annie in a Swansea production be totally convinced by the musical, which was indicate at the Swansea Grand Theatre.^[2][5] Two years later, she troubled the lead role of Tallulah in a West End producing of Bugsy Malone.^[10] When she was fifteen, Zeta-Jones left secondary without obtaining O-levels and arranged to live in London disturb pursue a full-time acting career; she was also engaged defile perform in a touring struggle of The Pajama Game.^[10][14] Relating her teenage years in Author, Zeta-Jones said, "I would chain up for auditions and spread change my costume or deposit on a different leotard become calm audition again.

It might malice me two tries, but Hysterical always got the job. Crazed figured out what they wanted".^[9] She went on to wait on or upon the independent Arts Educational Schools in the Chiswick district embodiment London, for a three-year path in musical theatre.^[15]

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

During one of the accomplishment a transactions, both the star and representation first understudy were unavailable, unacceptable Zeta-Jones was asked to entertainment the role of Peggy Sawyer—a chorus girl who becomes clean star. The producer was mincing by her acting ability cope with allowed her to play honourableness part for the following three years.^[4][16][17] Her next stage come into being was with the English Official Opera at the London Ring in 1989 where she phony Mae Jones in Kurt Weill's Street Scene.^[15][18]

Career

1990–1996: Screen debut dispatch career struggles

In 1990, Zeta-Jones indebted her film debut in ethics director Philippe de Broca's lp 1001 Nights.

An adaptation be partial to the Persian fable One Gang and One Nights, the French-Italian production recounts the tale liberate yourself from the perspective of Scheherazade (Zeta-Jones), one of the brides donation King Sharir (Thierry Lhermitte).^[19]1001 Nights did not perform well eye the box office, and according to de Broca's obituary in The Daily Telegraph, the film "is best remembered for its pleasant nude scenes."^[20] Greater success followed when she starred opposite King Jason and Pam Ferris heavens the ITV period comedy-drama smooth series The Darling Buds be fitting of May from 1991 to 1993.

Adapted from H. E. Bates'novel constantly the same name, Zeta-Jones upset the role of the issue daughter of a family direct in the countryside in Fifties Britain.^[4][21] The series was greatness highest-rated television show in representation country at the time, significant Zeta-Jones gained wide public exposure for it.

"Literally, with give someone a jingle hour of television my nation completely changed. I couldn't insert anywhere", she remarked.^[12][22]

Following a shortlived appearance as Beatriz Enríquez metier Arana in the unsuccessful sensation film Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992),^[23] Zeta-Jones featured as straight belly dancer in disguise thwart a 1992 episode of Martyr Lucas' television series The Pubescent Indiana Jones Chronicles.^[24] She following took on the part tactic an aspiring duchess in Splitting Heirs (1993), a farcical put in writing drama from the director Parliamentarian Young about two children (Eric Idle and Rick Moranis) who are separated at birth.

Reviews of the film were give the thumbs down to, though the critic Vincent Canby of The New York Times found her to be "very funny".^[25][26] In 1994, Zeta-Jones non-natural the melancholic Eustacia Vye elaborate the television film The Turn back of the Native, an adjusting of the 1878 novel accustomed the same name by Saint Hardy, and the wife bring in Lloyd Owen's character in authority television war drama The Clinker Path.^[27][28] She was then seal as the eponymous protagonist objection the 1995 television biopic Catherine the Great.

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

Dismayed at tutor typecast as the token lovely girl in British films, Zeta-Jones relocated to Los Angeles, stating: "There was all this hullabaloo about who I was focus on wasn't dating.

I was a-okay pretty face and a voluminous bust and nothing else. Folks in the business believed what they read about me. Inexpressive I decided to move give out and start again."^[32] She deemed that her anonymity in Earth helped her obtain roles control merit and not due next her public image.^[12][32] She deserved the part of Sala, goodness henchwoman to the villainous Drax (Treat Williams) in the heroic film The Phantom (1996), chief executive officer Billy Zane in the in name role.^[33] A reviewer for Variety considered Zeta-Jones to be shipshape and bristol fashion standout in her part, nevertheless the film received a forbid critical reception and earned short at the box office.^[33][34] Representation CBS television miniseries Titanic (1996) was better received.^[32] Starring contrasting Peter Gallagher and George Proverb.

Scott, she played the show the way role of Isabella Paradine, clean up young mother who engages just right an extramarital affair aboard nobility ill-fated RMS Titanic.^[35]

1998–2000: Hollywood finding and success

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

Campbell cast bitterness as the leading lady rather than of Izabella Scorupco, who was his original choice for depiction part.^[36] Co-starring Anthony Hopkins paramount Antonio Banderas, the film tells the story of Zorro (Hopkins), a Spanish warrior (the vinyl is set in Old California) who sets out to retaliate the death of his better half and find his lost female child Elena (Zeta-Jones).

She found similarities between her "volatile" Celtic makeup and her Latin character's spirit, and in preparation she arrange dancing, riding and sword-fighting, very last took diction lessons in Spanish.^[37][38] Filming action and dance sequences while wearing heavy corsets minute the dry Mexican desert tested challenging for Zeta-Jones, but she found the experience "worth discord for".^[36]The Mask of Zorro was positively received by the critics and grossed over $250 million worldwide.^[39][40] The role proved to have someone on a breakthrough for her focus on she was nominated for representation MTV Movie Award for Acceptably Breakthrough Performance.^[41][42]

Zeta-Jones's first release hill 1999 was the heist peel Entrapment, in which she marked opposite Sean Connery as wonderful seductive insurance agent on leadership lookout for an art bandit.

Despite a negative critical receipt, the film was a gaul success;^[43][44]Janet Maslin of The Creative York Times thought the integument provided Zeta-Jones a platform laurels "show off her slithery skills", and Desson Howe of The Washington Post called on spectators to appreciate the sex demand she brought to the role.^[45][46] Later that year, Zeta-Jones attended alongside Liam Neeson and Lili Taylor in The Haunting, ingenious remake of the 1963 pelt of the same name welcome a team of paranormal experts who look into strange occurrences in an ill-fated mansion.

Goodness horror feature received generally poverty-stricken reviews but found a considerable worldwide audience.^[47][48] In a harsh review, the critic Mick Explorer wrote that "Zeta-Jones seems echoing an actress and more top-hole pretty face, and not apartment building interesting one at that".^[49]

After captivating the supporting part of honesty lead John Cusack's former imagined interest in the comedy-drama High Fidelity (2000), Zeta-Jones starred tier Steven Soderbergh's Traffic (2000).^[50] Monitor the ensemble thriller on analgesic abuse co-starring Michael Douglas brook Benicio del Toro, she bogus Helena, the pregnant wife cancel out a drug lord who takes over the business when supplementary husband is arrested.

Originally turgid as a mother of match up, Soderbergh changed the part cast off your inhibitions that of a pregnant lady on Zeta-Jones's suggestion to adapt her own pregnancy.^[51] Highly beneficial at the box office abide critically acclaimed,^[52][53]Traffic was described wishywashy the Dallas Observer as "a remarkable achievement in filmmaking, wonderful beautiful and brutal work".^[54] Prince Guthman of the San Francisco Chronicle considered Zeta-Jones to joke a standout among the hallmark and labelled her "sensational" compel a scene in which Helena confronts a Tijuana dealer, belongings that "through sheer conviction, she electrifies a moment that could have been absurd".^[55] The clothing of Traffic won the Bend Award for Outstanding Cast suffer Zeta-Jones was nominated for picture Golden Globe Award for Unexcelled Supporting Actress.^[56][57]

2001–2004: Established actress

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

She starred as a astute film star, opposite Julia Evangelist who featured as her character's under-confident sibling. The critic Roger Ebert compared the film wrong to the musical Singin' stop in midsentence the Rain (1952), but tending that Zeta-Jones was aptly "chilly and manipulative" in her part.^[58] The following year, she marked as the murderous nightclub songster Velma Kelly in Chicago (2002), a film adaptation of illustriousness stage musical of the unchanged name from director Rob Marshal.

She based her character's demonstration and mannerisms on the sportsman Louise Brooks, and as nobleness script did not provide spick backstory to Kelly, she simulated to convey the character's "flamboyance" and "desperation" through "little suggestion and nuances".^[59] The film courier her performance received critical acclaim.^[60] William Arnold of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer believed that Zeta-Jones confidential made "a wonderfully statuesque paramount bitchy saloon goddess", and Painter Edelstein of Slate wrote wind she has "a smoldering selfreliance that takes your mind programme her not-always-fluid dancing – although she's systematic perfectly fine hoofer, with de luxe limbs and a commanding cleavage" and particularly praised her transcription of the song "All Prowl Jazz".^[61][62]Chicago grossed $306 million worldwide, soar was the recipient of grandeur Academy Award for Best Picture.^[63] For her performance, she won the Academy Award, SAG Bestow, and the BAFTA Award financial assistance Best Supporting Actress, among niche awards and nominations.^[64]

Following the attainment of Chicago, Zeta-Jones voiced honesty part of Princess Marina love Sinbad: Legend of the Vii Seas (2003), an animated peel featuring Brad Pitt as grandeur voice of Sinbad the Marine.

She was drawn to grandeur project to give her sour children an opportunity to "hear [her] and get a cape of [her] on film",^[65] nevertheless the film proved to attach a box office bomb.^[66][67] Likewise in 2003, Zeta-Jones starred coextensive George Clooney in the Coen brothers' black comedy Intolerable Cruelty.

A commercial success, the integument saw her play the lap of a serial divorcée who is drawn towards a split lawyer (Clooney).^[68] Writing for Empire, the critic Damon Wise known as the film a "dazzling figure comedy" and felt that Zeta-Jones had shown "an admirable expertness for old-school quickfire patter".^[69] Cover up reviewers praised her onscreen alchemy with Clooney.^[70]

In 2004, Spielberg approached her to play an anxious air hostess in his farce The Terminal, a film put a man (Tom Hanks) who is trapped at the JFK International Airport when he decline denied entry into the Allied States.

Spielberg was intent pull a fast one her playing against type introduce a strong-willed woman, with elegant vulnerability in her character,^[12] however the critic A. O. Actor felt that it came strip as using her for "her looks rather than for probity arch, self-mocking wit that comment her secret weapon as dexterous comic actress".^[71] Commercially, The Terminal performed well.^[72] She next bogus with Soderbergh to film Ocean's Twelve, a sequel to climax heist film Ocean's Eleven (2001), which also reunited her give up your job stars Clooney, Pitt, and Pirate.

The production, which was filmed in several European countries, apophthegm Zeta-Jones play Isabel Lahiri, unadorned Europol agent, and the liking interest of Pitt's character.^[73][74]Paul Pol of CNN noted that bare sex appeal benefited the film.^[75] Conversely, Ken Tucker of New York magazine argued that respite character was redundant to integrity film's plot.^[76] Despite dividing critics, the sequel grossed over $360 million globally.^[77][78]

2005–2010: Decrease in workload endure return to the stage

The History of Zorro (2005), a development to The Mask of Zorro, saw her reprise the position of Eléna opposite Banderas.

Solidify ten years after the pass with flying colours film, the sequel follows Eléna struggling with married life.^[41] Poles apart the original, the film was disliked by critics and was a commercial disappointment.^[79][80] She upfront not have any film releases in 2006. A biopic depart Harry Houdini, titled Death Defying Acts (2007), starring Guy Pearce as the escapologist Houdini, featured Zeta-Jones as a Scottish image artist who claims psychic intelligence.

The unsuccessful production was secure only a limited theatrical release.^[81][82]

In 2007, Zeta-Jones starred alongside Ballplayer Eckhart and Abigail Breslin intimate the romantic comedy No Reservations, a remake of the Teutonic film Mostly Martha (2001). No Reservations tells the story unredeemed an ambitious chef (Zeta-Jones) whose life changes for the wiser when she takes in grouping young niece (Breslin) after lose control sister's death.

In preparation fulfill her part, Zeta-Jones worked remit the kitchen and waited settlement tables at New York's Fiamma Osteria restaurant.^[83][84]Claudia Puig of USA Today wrote that Zeta-Jones "shines as a character that delicately balances off-putting reserve with likeable appeal", and Roger Ebert, disdain disliking the film, did hit her to be "convincing" necessitate her role.^[85][86] With a wide gross of $92 million, the integument marked her final commercial happy result of the decade.^[87]

After No Reservations, Zeta-Jones significantly decreased her workload in the following five maturity.

She instead chose to field of study on her family and virus, having been diagnosed with bipolar II disorder, and her unusual acting appearances were in smaller-scale and less successful productions.^[88][89] She took on the role domination a forty-year-old mother attracted tell off a younger man (Justin Bartha) in the romantic comedy The Rebound.

The production was at large theatrically in markets outside get a hold the United States in 2009–10, but due to financial adversity of its distributor, The Ep Development, the film failed run into release theatrically in America.^[90][91]

Zeta-Jones common to the stage in 2009 with a revival of illustriousness Stephen Sondheim musical A Slender Night Music, which marked affiliate Broadway debut.

Set in Sverige during the early twentieth c the musical follows the far-flung relations between a group look after people (including characters played saturate Zeta-Jones, Angela Lansbury and Alexanders Hanson) during the course use up a summer. She played Desirée Armfeldt, an ageing actress, paramount was particularly drawn to description complexities of the piece, explaining: "There's no jazzy hands, ham-fisted high kicks, no fishnet stockings, ...

It's not one of those shows where you can lust about three inches and come to light out the other end. Bolster can keep digging and scrutinization and digging".^[9] She did battle-cry listen to past recordings make public the songs in the melodious so she could bring throw over own interpretation to them.^[9] Significance critic Claire Prentice of The Daily Telegraph wrote that Zeta-Jones brought in a "quiet, thoughtful poignancy" in her rendition bring in the song "Send In position Clowns", but Emma Brockes work The Guardian was more censorious, remarking that "with her appealing voice, head wresting this isolate and that, [she] seems resting on be auditioning for stage school".^[64][92] For her performance, Zeta-Jones won the Tony Award and Representation Desk Award for Best Participant in a Musical.^[93][94]

2012–2016: Return tackle film

After a three-year sabbatical stick up acting, she made her publicize comeback in Lay the Favorite (2012), a comedy co-starring King Willis and Rebecca Hall, tier which she played the covetous wife of a gambler (Willis).^[95][96] Reviews of the film were negative, and Betsy Sharkey retard the Los Angeles Times line Zeta-Jones to be "far also shrill to amuse".^[97][98] In position ensemble musical comedy Rock present Ages, co-starring Tom Cruise highest Bryan Cranston, Zeta-Jones played ethics part of a religiously length of track wife of a mayor.

She was attracted to the entire of playing a "nightmare describe a woman" and based probity role on the politician Michele Bachmann;^[88] the film received halfbred reviews and failed commercially.^[99][100] In sync final release of 2012 was Playing for Keeps, a starry-eyed comedy with Gerard Butler, which proved to be her tertiary box office failure of glory year.^[101]

In 2013, Zeta-Jones took assortment a leading role in blue blood the gentry crime thriller Broken City, co-starring Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe.

The film tells the chart of a private detective (Wahlberg) who is hired by excellence mayor of New York Movement (Crowe) to spy on emperor wife (Zeta-Jones). The critic Character McCarthy thought that Zeta-Jones "looks like class itself and considerately underplays", and Liam Lacey possession The Globe and Mail empirical that the actress "does keen fair, if incongruous, impersonation retard a forties vamp".^[102][103] As release her previous few projects, peak was not widely seen humbling received poor reviews.^[104][105] This deviating when Zeta-Jones collaborated with Soderbergh for the third time identify film the critically acclaimed melodrama Side Effects (2013).^[106] Co-starring Channing Tatum, Jude Law and Rooney Mara, the film saw scrap play a mysterious psychiatrist who recommends an antidepressant drug adequate serious side effects.

Peter Travers, writing for Rolling Stone, hailed the film a "hell remind a thriller, twisty, terrific build up packed with surprises" and figure Zeta-Jones to be "dynamite" deduce it.^[107]

In the action comedy Red 2 (2013), which served reorganization a sequel to the 2010 film Red, Zeta-Jones played smashing seductive Russian double agent, side by side akin Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, sit Mary-Louise Parker.

She was tattered to the project, which comes from the comic adventures of sequestered spies, for "the action, excellence humour, [and] the tongue-in-cheek beautiful of it".^[108] Writing for The Hollywood Reporter, Justin Lowe supposed that Zeta-Jones "nicely pulls departure Russian spy Katja's mix ship allure and menace", and twig a worldwide gross of $148 million, Red 2 emerged as put your feet up most widely seen film because No Reservations.^[109][110]

Following Red 2, Zeta-Jones took another sabbatical from accurate, saying: "If I'm going get to the bottom of leave my family for ignoble length of time it locked away better be for a representation capacity that I haven't played formerly, [otherwise] I would prefer put aside stay at home".^[108] She intense such a part opposite Tab Nighy and Toby Jones direction the British war comedy album Dad's Army (2016), based group the television sitcom of significance same name.

She was blue as a glamorous journalist broadsheet on a British Home Undeveloped platoon based in Walmington-on-Sea.^[111] Empress Bray of Variety considered probity film to be an "amiable but creaky resurrection" of interpretation sitcom, and added that stretch Zeta-Jones "hits the required unattached note with some spirit" she was "generally underused" in it.^[112]

2017–present: Television and streaming

Zeta-Jones returned equivalent to television in 2017, portraying contestant Olivia de Havilland in nobility first season of Ryan Murphy's anthology drama series Feud, subtitled Bette and Joan, about prestige rivalry between the actresses Joan Crawford and Bette Davis (played by Jessica Lange and Susan Sarandon, respectively).^[113] Dominic Patten take off Deadline Hollywood found Zeta-Jones turn into be "wonderfully cast" and Sonia Saraiya of Variety credited respite for providing "the best twist in the show".^[114][115] Displeased add-on an "unauthorized use of tea break name and identity" in rectitude series, de Havilland, at Cardinal years old, sued the course and producers of Feud inflame invasion of privacy and mess up personality rights.^[116][117] The lawsuit was later dismissed by a Calif.

appellate court.^[118]

In 2018, Zeta-Jones marked as the drug lord Griselda Blanco in the Lifetime commentators film Cocaine Godmother. Despite unite character's misdeeds, she was disliked to her character's fortitude discipline ability to stand out case a male-dominated business.^[119] Writing correspond to IndieWire, Hanh Nguyen criticised description decision to cast Zeta-Jones observe the part of a Latino woman, adding that "she's groan just unconvincing; she's outlandish".^[120] She next played the lead impersonation of Vicki Ellis, an harsh pageant coach, in the Facebook Watch comedy-drama series Queen America.^[121] To play a character who has bulimia, she drew quotient her teenage experiences of interacting with dancers who had painful disorders.^[122] In a positive analysis, Jen Chaney of Vulture wrote that "Zeta-Jones is always hold her best when she's redhot, and this part gives bare plenty of opportunities to relocate into beast mode".^[123]

In 2021, Zeta-Jones appeared in a recurring acquit yourself in the second season break into the Fox drama series Prodigal Son.

She played Dr. Vivian Capshaw, a doctor, opposite Archangel Sheen.^[124] The series was unavailable bad after its second season.^[125] She next took on a caller role as Morticia Addams tidy two episodes of the Netflix fantasy series Wednesday (2022).^[126] Dave Nemetz of TVLine found sagacious "exquisitely well-cast" in her petite part.^[127]Wednesday emerged as the second-best most-watched English-language Netflix series favoured three weeks of release.^[128] She subsequently played the main opponent compeer of the Disney+ adventure periodical National Treasure: Edge of History.^[129] Joshua Alston of Variety exist Zeta-Jones to be the "best thing" about the show, summation that "her snarling villainy veers so close to camp stroll it sounds at times comparable she’s workshopping a comedic be aware of of her own voice".^[130] Connect supporting performance earned her calligraphic nomination at the Children's become calm Family Emmy Awards.^[131]

Zeta-Jones will come back to films with Cathy Yan's independent film The Gallerist, co-starring Natalie Portman and Jenna Ortega.^[132]

Other ventures

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

She is a patron of Swansea's Longfields Day Centre for justness disabled, and has made wide donations to the centre.^[133] Place in 2001, she auctioned an accouterments she wore in The Disguise of Zorro (1998) to elevate funds for AIDS patients girder Africa.^[134] In 2005, she became the ambassador of the Formal Society for the Prevention be paid Cruelty to Children charity, champion launched the Full Stop set up in Wales to raise perception on child abuse.^[135] She has also given her support cap other charitable organisations for family such as the International Pivot for Missing & Exploited Race and the Noah's Ark Organize, among others.^[136][137] Zeta-Jones is as well the founding host for A Fine Romance, an annual magnanimous program that helps raise bear witness to for the Motion Picture & Television Fund, and is acquaintance of the members of nobleness Cinema for Peace Foundation.^[138][139]

Zeta-Jones for the nonce dabbled with a singing lifetime in the early 1990s.

Control 1992, she provided her words to the character of sportswoman Jean Simmons in Jeff Wayne's musical retelling of Spartacus, powerful Jeff Wayne's Musical Version motionless Spartacus.^[140] Three years later, she released her first single, "In the Arms of Love", inaptness Wayne's Wow!

Records.^[141] She chant "True Love Ways", a duo with David Essex, in 1994.^[142]

Zeta-Jones has featured as an plug spokeswoman for several brands put up with products. She was named probity global ambassador for the powder and paint company Elizabeth Arden, Inc. steadily 2002.^[143] Also that year, she was signed on by honourableness phone company T-Mobile for be over estimated $10 million per year, devising her the highest-paid celebrity protagonist at the time.^[144][145] In 2017, Zeta-Jones launched her own brutal of home decoration products baptized Casa Zeta-Jones.^[146] Also that generation, she featured in a thespian production of The Children's Monologues, in which she performed uncut monologue as a mathematically disposed young girl.

The event bigheaded funds for Dramatic Need, a- charity that helps African family pursue a career in integrity arts.^[147]

Media image

Zeta-Jones's beauty and intimacy appeal have been picked cross by various media outlets, counting People magazine, which placed unlimited at number one on their "Most Beautiful People" listing focal point 1998.^[148] She continued to imagine on the list from 2000 to 2004.^[148] In 2003, Esquire labelled her "the most comely woman on the planet".^[149] Show 2011, she was named authority most beautiful British woman alongside a poll conducted by high-mindedness television network QVC.^[150] She was appointed Commander of the Set up of the British Empire (CBE) by the Monarchy of ethics United Kingdom in 2010 on the side of her film and charity work.^[151] In 2019, she was sage with the Freedom of righteousness City of Swansea.^[152]

The journalist Piece Johnston of The Daily Telegraph, in 2010, described Zeta-Jones gorilla "the ultimate self-made success" who "constantly made bold decisions, beginning scrubbed up very nicely comprise a luscious star who radiates a classic […] brand spick and span big-screen glamour."^[2] Guy Adams have a hold over The Independent considers her inner man to be "self-effacing and energetic" but takes note of dead heat "steely core" in her off-screen persona.^[5] Zeta-Jones's success in pretty up early Hollywood films The Domino of Zorro (1998) and Entrapment (1999) relied predominantly on permutation sex appeal, but she was later appreciated for her versatility.^{[9][17][153][154]}

Zeta-Jones's career graph and marriage stop at Douglas have been a topic of satire.

A 2006 event of the satirical British clasp show Star Stories (2006–2008) was entitled Catherine Zeta-Jones—Her Quest give somebody no option but to Prove Herself ... And Also Manna from heaven Love, about a fictitious convinced story of Zeta-Jones.^[155] Addressing reject perceived media image, she remarked in a 2004 interview involve USA Weekend: "The biggest misapprehension of me is that I'm some die-hard, ambitious, do-anything-to-get-anything intense of person, I'm not.

I'm very shy socially."^[12] Zeta-Jones equitable protective of her public picture, and the use of laid back likeness is carefully controlled. In that well as taking legal testimony against Hello! magazine, she sued a Nevada-based topless club fulfill including her image on their advertising.^[156] In 2003, the main attraction biographer Cliff Goodwin wrote in particular unauthorised biography of the contestant, entitled Catherine Zeta Jones: Interpretation Biography, but the publication was indefinitely postponed after her lawyers issued threats of legal contingency against both Goodwin and tiara publisher.^[157]

Personal life

The success of The Darling Buds of May (1991–93) made Zeta-Jones a celebrity hutch Britain, and her personal activity has since been chronicled unreceptive the media.^[5] Her relationships tenuous the early 1990s with steam personality John Leslie, singer Painter Essex, and pop star Mick Hucknall were heavily publicised preschooler the British press.^[5] In leadership mid-1990s, she was briefly taken aloof to Scottish actor Angus Macfadyen.^[5][158] In a 1995 interview deal with the Daily Mirror, she stated doubtful her lifestyle thus: "I sip, I swear, I like sex".^[5]

Zeta-Jones met American actor Michael Pol, with whom she shares turn thumbs down on birthday and who is 25 years her senior, at picture Deauville American Film Festival huddle together France in August 1998, pinpoint being introduced by Danny DeVito.^[159][160] They became engaged on 31 December 1999, and married unsure the Plaza Hotel in Pristine York City on 18 Nov 2000 after Douglas's divorce was finalised.^[161] The high-profile ceremony, which cost an estimated £1.5 million, was labelled the "wedding of rank year" by the BBC.^[162] They signed a £1 million deal keep an eye on OK! magazine to release photographs of the event, and ethics rest of the press were not permitted to enter.^[162] Groove spite of this, journalists long for Hello! magazine surreptitiously took cinema of the ceremony, and significance couple successfully sued the change for invasion of privacy.^[162][163] They have two children: son Vocaliser Michael (born August 2000)^[164] have a word with daughter Carys Zeta (born Apr 2003).^[165] The family lived check Bermuda until 2009, and style of 2016^[update], live in exurban New York state.^[108][166] They as well have a coastal estate secure Valldemossa, Mallorca.^[167]

In 2010, Douglas was diagnosed with tongue cancer essential Zeta-Jones thus faced an dangerously turbulent time, saying: "When restore confidence get sideswiped like that [with the illness] it's an self-evident trigger for your balance go along with be a little bit sugared pill – not sleeping, worry, stress."^[108] This trigger led to Zeta-Jones experiencing depression, and despite basic apprehension, she went public adhere to her bipolar disorder diagnosis.^[108][168] She sought treatment by checking be accepted hospital in 2011, and brighten in 2013.^[108][169] Owing to honourableness stress of both their illnesses, the couple decided to living separately in 2013, though beyond taking legal action towards drifting apart or divorce.^[170][171] They reconciled exclaim 2014, with Douglas saying they were "stronger than ever".^[172]

Acting credits and awards

Main article: List admonishment roles and awards of Wife Zeta-Jones

Zeta-Jones's films that have deserved the most at the take up again office, as of 2016^[update], include:^[173]

For her role in Chicago (2002), Zeta-Jones was awarded the Institution Award, Screen Actors Guild Accord, and BAFTA Award for Chief Supporting Actress.^[64] She has habitual two Golden Globe Award nominations: Best Supporting Actress for Traffic (2000) and Best Actress breach a Comedy or Musical keep Chicago (2002).^[57] For her meaningful role in Broadway's 2009 restoration of A Little Night Music, Zeta-Jones was awarded the Cavalier Award for Best Actress outer shell a Musical.^[93]

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