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Catherine Zeta-Jones CBE
Zeta-Jones at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival
Born	Catherine Zeta Jones (1969-09-25) 25 September 1969 (age 55) Swansea, Wales
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1981\u2013present
Works	Roles and awards
Spouse	\n Michael Douglas (m. 2000)
Children	2
Website	www.catherinezetajones.com $\"Edit$
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Catherine Zeta-Jones (/\u02c8zi\u02d0t\u0259/; born 25 September 1969)^[a] 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.\n

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\u20131993). 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).\n

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 Side Effects (2013), Red 2 (2013) and Dad's Army (2016). She took on supporting roles in television, portraying Olivia de Havilland in Feud: Bette & Joan (2017) and Morticia Addams in Wednesday (2022\u2013present).\n

Aside from acting, Zeta-Jones is a brand endorser and supports various charitable causes. Her struggle with depression and bipolar II disorder has been well documented by the media. She is married to actor Michael Douglas, with whom she has two children.\n

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\n Career history \n Accolades \n
Producer	\n One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) \n The China Syndrome (1979) \n Romancing the Stone (1984) \n The Jewel of the Nile (1985) \n Flatliners (1990) \n Made in America (1993) \n The Rainmaker (1997) \n One Night at McCool's (2001) \n It Runs in the Family (2003) \n The Sentinel (2006) \n Beyond the Reach (2014) \n Flatliners (2017) \n
Related	\n Bigstick Productions \n Further Films \n The Bryna Company \n
Family	\n Kirk Douglas (father) \n Diana Dill (mother) \n Anne Buydens (stepmother) \n Joel Douglas (brother) \n Peter Douglas (half-brother) \n Eric Douglas (half-brother) \n Brenda Vaccaro (partner) \n Catherine Zeta-Jones (second wife) \n Cameron Douglas (son) \n Thomas Melville Dill (maternal grandfather) \n Nicholas Bayard Dill (maternal uncle) \n

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Early life and initial stage career

Career

1990\u20131996: Screen debut and career struggles

1998\u20132000: Hollywood breakthrough and success

2001\u20132004: Established actress

2005\u20132010: Decrease in workload and return to the stage

2012\u20132016: Return to film

2017\u2013present: Television and streaming

Other ventures

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Personal life

Acting credits and awards

Notes

References

External links

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Talks

18 November, 2000