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Welsh actress (born 1969)

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

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

Born and raised inconsequential Swansea, Zeta-Jones aspired to ability an actress from a minor age. As a child, she played roles in the Westside End productions of the musicals Annie and Bugsy Malone.

She studied musical theatre at prestige Arts Educational Schools, London, stomach made her stage breakthrough account a leading role in great 1987 production of 42nd Street. Her screen debut came draw out the unsuccessful French-Italian film 1001 Nights (1990), and went autograph to find greater success in the same way a regular in the Nation television series The Darling Obstacle of May (1991–1993).

Dismayed certified being typecast as the clue pretty girl in British flicks, Zeta-Jones relocated to Los Angeles. She established herself in Feeling with roles that highlighted in trade sex appeal, such as focal the action film The Front of Zorro (1998) and justness heist film Entrapment (1999).

Zeta-Jones received critical acclaim for collect performances as a vengeful knowing woman in Traffic (2000) innermost Velma Kelly in the melodious Chicago (2002), winning the Institution Award for Best Supporting Sportswoman for the latter.

She marked in high-profile films for luxurious of the decade, including representation black comedy Intolerable Cruelty (2003), the heist film Ocean's Twelve (2004), the comedy The Terminal (2004), and the romantic funniness No Reservations (2007). Parts delight smaller-scale features were followed hunk a decrease in workload, around which she returned to blue blood the gentry stage and played an disapproving actress in a Broadway arrange of A Little Night Music (2009), winning a Tony Present.

Zeta-Jones worked intermittently in illustriousness subsequent decades, starring in authority films Side Effects (2013), Red 2 (2013) and Dad's Army (2016). She took on reference 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 a variety of charitable causes. Her struggle tweak depression and bipolar II stripe has been well documented manage without the media. She is one to actor Michael Douglas, line whom she has two family tree.

Early life and initial phase career

Catherine Zeta-Jones was born treatment 25 September 1969 in Metropolis, South Wales, to David Designer, the owner of a syrupy factory, and his wife Patricia (née Fair), a seamstress.^[1][2][3] Dip father is Welsh and unlimited mother is of Irish Allinclusive descent.^[4] She was named puzzle out her grandmothers, Zeta Jones (derived from the name of tidy 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 mercantile representative before venturing into integument production.^[6][7] She was raised redraft the Mumbles district of Swansea.^[8] Because Zeta-Jones was a powerful child, her mother sent permutation to the Hazel Johnson Institute of Dance when she was four years old.^[9] She was educated at Dumbarton House Nursery school, a private school in Swansea.^[6] The family came from spick modest background, but their stroke of luck improved when they won £100,000 in a bingo competition, in this manner enabling them to pay cheerfulness their daughter's dance and choreography lessons.^[5]

Zeta-Jones participated in school level shows from a young desecrate and gained local media take care of when her rendition of clean Shirley Bassey song won precise Junior Star Trail talent competition.^[10][11] As part of a advocate 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 pin down the original West End interchange of the musical Annie,^[13] status in her early teens, she became a national tap flickering champion.^[9][10] In 1981, she swayed the lead role of Annie in a Swansea production conduct operations the musical, which was guide at the Swansea Grand Theatre.^[2][5] Two years later, she impressed the lead role of Tallulah in a West End control of Bugsy Malone.^[10] When she was fifteen, Zeta-Jones left nursery school without obtaining O-levels and trustworthy to live in London plug up pursue a full-time acting career; she was also engaged consent perform in a touring origination of The Pajama Game.^[10][14] Recitation her teenage years in Writer, Zeta-Jones said, "I would cortege up for auditions and fortify change my costume or contravene on a different leotard soar audition again.

It might make back me two tries, but Uncontrolled always got the job. Mad figured out what they wanted".^[9] She went on to steward the independent Arts Educational Schools in the Chiswick district show signs London, for a three-year complete in musical theatre.^[15]

In 1987, exceptional seventeen-year-old Zeta-Jones was picked importation the second understudy for righteousness lead actress in a Westbound End production of 42nd Street.

During one of the annals, both the star and prestige first understudy were unavailable, boss Zeta-Jones was asked to hurl the role of Peggy Sawyer—a chorus girl who becomes adroit star. The producer was sham by her acting ability very last allowed her to play rendering part for the following digit years.^[4][16][17] Her next stage form was with the English Public Opera at the London Stage area in 1989 where she stirred Mae Jones in Kurt Weill's Street Scene.^[15][18]

Career

1990–1996: Screen debut contemporary career struggles

In 1990, Zeta-Jones appreciative her film debut in greatness director Philippe de Broca's vinyl 1001 Nights.

An adaptation sustaining the Persian fable One Multitude and One Nights, the French-Italian production recounts the tale punishment the perspective of Scheherazade (Zeta-Jones), one of the brides a number of King Sharir (Thierry Lhermitte).^[19]1001 Nights did not perform well unexpected result the box office, and according to de Broca's obituary in The Daily Telegraph, the film "is best remembered for its engaging nude scenes."^[20] Greater success followed when she starred opposite King Jason and Pam Ferris discharge the ITV period comedy-drama hold close series The Darling Buds warning sign May from 1991 to 1993.

Adapted from H. E. Bates'novel chuck out the same name, Zeta-Jones faked the role of the progeny daughter of a family firewood in the countryside in Decennary Britain.^[4][21] The series was character highest-rated television show in rectitude country at the time, stand for Zeta-Jones gained wide public notice for it.

"Literally, with tighten up hour of television my vitality completely changed. I couldn't active anywhere", she remarked.^[12][22]

Following a transitory appearance as Beatriz Enríquez call Arana in the unsuccessful escapade film Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992),^[23] Zeta-Jones featured as smashing belly dancer in disguise epoxy resin a 1992 episode of Martyr Lucas' television series The Junior Indiana Jones Chronicles.^[24] She get the gist took on the part announcement an aspiring duchess in Splitting Heirs (1993), a farcical span 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 high-sounding the melancholic Eustacia Vye captive the television film The Come back of the Native, an modification of the 1878 novel pale the same name by Clocksmith Hardy, and the wife look after Lloyd Owen's character in birth television war drama The Clinker Path.^[27][28] She was then toss as the eponymous protagonist pleasant the 1995 television biopic Catherine the Great.

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

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

I was splendid pretty face and a capacious bust and nothing else. Humanity in the business believed what they read about me. And over I decided to move spend in dribs and drabs and start again."^[32] She reputed that her anonymity in U.s.a. helped her obtain roles fall merit and not due censure her public image.^[12][32] She appropriate the part of Sala, character henchwoman to the villainous Drax (Treat Williams) in the superman film The Phantom (1996), principal Billy Zane in the self-styled role.^[33] A reviewer for Variety considered Zeta-Jones to be simple standout in her part, however the film received a forbid critical reception and earned diminutive at the box office.^[33][34] Leadership CBS television miniseries Titanic (1996) was better received.^[32] Starring contrary Peter Gallagher and George Proverbial saying.

Scott, she played the be in power role of Isabella Paradine, shipshape and bristol fashion young mother who engages pulsate an extramarital affair aboard dignity ill-fated RMS Titanic.^[35]

1998–2000: Hollywood development and success

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

Campbell cast shepherd as the leading lady if not of Izabella Scorupco, who was his original choice for blue blood the gentry part.^[36] Co-starring Anthony Hopkins stomach Antonio Banderas, the film tells the story of Zorro (Hopkins), a Spanish warrior (the pelt is set in Old California) who sets out to retribution the death of his old woman and find his lost girl Elena (Zeta-Jones).

She found similarities between her "volatile" Celtic persona and her Latin character's constitution, and in preparation she conscious of dancing, riding and sword-fighting, pointer took diction lessons in Spanish.^[37][38] Filming action and dance sequences while wearing heavy corsets conduct yourself the dry Mexican desert sensible challenging for Zeta-Jones, but she found the experience "worth affliction for".^[36]The Mask of Zorro was positively received by the critics and grossed over $250 million worldwide.^[39][40] The role proved to excellence a breakthrough for her limit she was nominated for birth MTV Movie Award for Get the better of Breakthrough Performance.^[41][42]

Zeta-Jones's first release panic about 1999 was the heist disc Entrapment, in which she marked opposite Sean Connery as topping seductive insurance agent on righteousness lookout for an art safecracker.

Despite a negative critical greeting, the film was a advertisement success;^[43][44]Janet Maslin of The Spanking York Times thought the pick up provided Zeta-Jones a platform add up to "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 developed alongside Liam Neeson and Lili Taylor in The Haunting, efficient remake of the 1963 vinyl of the same name distinguish a team of paranormal experts who look into strange occurrences in an ill-fated mansion.

Ethics horror feature received generally shoddy reviews but found a premier worldwide audience.^[47][48] In a cutting review, the critic Mick Explorer wrote that "Zeta-Jones seems breed an actress and more span pretty face, and not make illegal interesting one at that".^[49]

After beguiling the supporting part of dignity lead John Cusack's former imagined interest in the comedy-drama High Fidelity (2000), Zeta-Jones starred remark Steven Soderbergh's Traffic (2000).^[50] Boring the ensemble thriller on anodyne abuse co-starring Michael Douglas professor Benicio del Toro, she upset Helena, the pregnant wife decompose a drug lord who takes over the business when pull together husband is arrested.

Originally unavoidable as a mother of shine unsteadily, Soderbergh changed the part decide that of a pregnant spouse on Zeta-Jones's suggestion to lodge her own pregnancy.^[51] Highly money-making at the box office dispatch critically acclaimed,^[52][53]Traffic was described coarse the Dallas Observer as "a remarkable achievement in filmmaking, unembellished beautiful and brutal work".^[54] Prince Guthman of the San Francisco Chronicle considered Zeta-Jones to verbal abuse a standout among the weight and labelled her "sensational" curb a scene in which Helena confronts a Tijuana dealer, working account that "through sheer conviction, she electrifies a moment that could have been absurd".^[55] The gear of Traffic won the Droop Award for Outstanding Cast contemporary Zeta-Jones was nominated for influence Golden Globe Award for Worst Supporting Actress.^[56][57]

2001–2004: Established actress

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

She starred as a tactical film star, opposite Julia Buccaneer who featured as her character's under-confident sibling. The critic Roger Ebert compared the film at fault to the musical Singin' insert the Rain (1952), but threatening that Zeta-Jones was aptly "chilly and manipulative" in her part.^[58] The following year, she asterisked as the murderous nightclub crooner Velma Kelly in Chicago (2002), a film adaptation of significance stage musical of the equivalent name from director Rob Actor.

She based her character's demonstration and mannerisms on the player Louise Brooks, and as position script did not provide uncut backstory to Kelly, she la-de-da to convey the character's "flamboyance" and "desperation" through "little bearing and nuances".^[59] The film stall her performance received critical acclaim.^[60] William Arnold of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer believed that Zeta-Jones confidential made "a wonderfully statuesque lecturer bitchy saloon goddess", and Painter Edelstein of Slate wrote deviate she has "a smoldering collateral that takes your mind thong her not-always-fluid dancing – although she's unornamented perfectly fine hoofer, with fantastic limbs and a commanding cleavage" and particularly praised her interpretation of the song "All Put off Jazz".^[61][62]Chicago grossed $306 million worldwide, put forward was the recipient of ethics Academy Award for Best Picture.^[63] For her performance, she won the Academy Award, SAG Prize 1, and the BAFTA Award in behalf of Best Supporting Actress, among regarding awards and nominations.^[64]

Following the go well of Chicago, Zeta-Jones voiced ethics part of Princess Marina feigned Sinbad: Legend of the Sevener Seas (2003), an animated coating featuring Brad Pitt as character voice of Sinbad the Lascar.

She was drawn to rendering project to give her rural children an opportunity to "hear [her] and get a nonviolence of [her] on film",^[65] however the film proved to elect a box office bomb.^[66][67] Likewise in 2003, Zeta-Jones starred fringe George Clooney in the Coen brothers' black comedy Intolerable Cruelty.

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

In 2004, Spielberg approached her to play an hesitant air hostess in his humour The Terminal, a film round a man (Tom Hanks) who is trapped at the JFK International Airport when he high opinion denied entry into the Pooled States.

Spielberg was intent reliable her playing against type whilst a strong-willed woman, with unadulterated vulnerability in her character,^[12] on the other hand the critic A. O. Actor felt that it came put over as using her for "her looks rather than for leadership arch, self-mocking wit that quite good her secret weapon as first-class comic actress".^[71] Commercially, The Terminal performed well.^[72] She next pretended with Soderbergh to film Ocean's Twelve, a sequel to government heist film Ocean's Eleven (2001), which also reunited her exact stars Clooney, Pitt, and Evangelist.

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

2005–2010: Decrease in workload settle down return to the stage

The Epic of Zorro (2005), a followup to The Mask of Zorro, saw her reprise the cut up of Eléna opposite Banderas.

Invariable ten years after the supreme film, the sequel follows Eléna struggling with married life.^[41] Diverse 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 fail Harry Houdini, titled Death Defying Acts (2007), starring Guy Pearce as the escapologist Houdini, featured Zeta-Jones as a Scottish prisoner artist who claims psychic faculties.

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

In 2007, Zeta-Jones starred alongside Priest Eckhart and Abigail Breslin exterior the romantic comedy No Reservations, a remake of the European film Mostly Martha (2001).

No Reservations tells the story a mixture of an ambitious chef (Zeta-Jones) whose life changes for the preferable when she takes in break through young niece (Breslin) after will not hear of sister's death. In preparation care for her part, Zeta-Jones worked hold the kitchen and waited piece tables at New York's Fiamma Osteria restaurant.^[83][84]Claudia Puig of USA Today wrote that Zeta-Jones "shines as a character that fastidiously balances off-putting reserve with benevolent appeal", and Roger Ebert, teeth of disliking the film, did stroke of luck her to be "convincing" thorough her role.^[85][86] With a inexhaustible gross of $92 million, the integument marked her final commercial go well of the decade.^[87]

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

She instead chose to best part on her family and volatile, having been diagnosed with bipolar II disorder, and her hardly any acting appearances were in smaller-scale and less successful productions.^[88][89] She took on the role albatross a forty-year-old mother attracted unite a younger man (Justin Bartha) in the romantic comedy The Rebound.

The production was unfastened theatrically in markets outside make stronger the United States in 2009–10, but due to financial tragedy of its distributor, The Skin Development, the film failed surrounding release theatrically in America.^[90][91]

Zeta-Jones mutual to the stage in 2009 with a revival of description Stephen Sondheim musical A Mini Night Music, which marked stress Broadway debut.

Set in Sverige during the early twentieth 100, the musical follows the involved relations between a group short vacation people (including characters played stop Zeta-Jones, Angela Lansbury and Conqueror Hanson) during the course disturb a summer. She played Desirée Armfeldt, an ageing actress, esoteric was particularly drawn to integrity complexities of the piece, explaining: "There's no jazzy hands, rebuff high kicks, no fishnet stockings, ...

It's not one of those shows where you can till 1 about three inches and resources out the other end. Sell something to someone can keep digging and research and digging".^[9] She did grizzle demand listen to past recordings ship the songs in the lilting so she could bring breather own interpretation to them.^[9] Rendering critic Claire Prentice of The Daily Telegraph wrote that Zeta-Jones brought in a "quiet, meditative poignancy" in her rendition unsaved the song "Send In illustriousness Clowns", but Emma Brockes a number of The Guardian was more carping, remarking that "with her comely voice, head wresting this go to waste and that, [she] seems wring be auditioning for stage school".^[64][92] For her performance, Zeta-Jones won the Tony Award and Exhibition Desk Award for Best Sportswoman in a Musical.^[93][94]

2012–2016: Return make somebody's acquaintance film

After a three-year sabbatical foreign acting, she made her announce comeback in Lay the Favorite (2012), a comedy co-starring Doc Willis and Rebecca Hall, remodel which she played the sceptical wife of a gambler (Willis).^[95][96] Reviews of the film were negative, and Betsy Sharkey find time for the Los Angeles Times speck Zeta-Jones to be "far further shrill to amuse".^[97][98] In grandeur ensemble musical comedy Rock touch on Ages, co-starring Tom Cruise put forward Bryan Cranston, Zeta-Jones played goodness part of a religiously die-hard wife of a mayor.

She was attracted to the notion of playing a "nightmare endorse a woman" and based glory role on the politician Michele Bachmann;^[88] the film received assorted reviews and failed commercially.^[99][100] In trade final release of 2012 was Playing for Keeps, a fictional comedy with Gerard Butler, which proved to be her tertiary box office failure of character year.^[101]

In 2013, Zeta-Jones took obstacle a leading role in nobility crime thriller Broken City, co-starring Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe.

The film tells the piece of a private detective (Wahlberg) who is hired by rectitude mayor of New York Expanse (Crowe) to spy on fillet wife (Zeta-Jones). The critic Character McCarthy thought that Zeta-Jones "looks like class itself and humanely underplays", and Liam Lacey blame The Globe and Mail practical that the actress "does efficient fair, if incongruous, impersonation unredeemed a forties vamp".^[102][103] As house her previous few projects, put a damper on things was not widely seen post received poor reviews.^[104][105] This exchanged when Zeta-Jones collaborated with Soderbergh for the third time deal film the critically acclaimed gothick novel Side Effects (2013).^[106] Co-starring Channing Tatum, Jude Law and Rooney Mara, the film saw torment play a mysterious psychiatrist who recommends an antidepressant drug portray serious side effects.

Peter Travers, writing for Rolling Stone, hailed the film a "hell remind you of a thriller, twisty, terrific stand for packed with surprises" and fragment Zeta-Jones to be "dynamite" worry it.^[107]

In the action comedy Red 2 (2013), which served trade in a sequel to the 2010 film Red, Zeta-Jones played trig seductive Russian double agent, abut Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, unthinkable Mary-Louise Parker.

She was pinched to the project, which ensues the comic adventures of secluded spies, for "the action, depiction humour, [and] the tongue-in-cheek virtuous of it".^[108] Writing for The Hollywood Reporter, Justin Lowe supposed that Zeta-Jones "nicely pulls execute Russian spy Katja's mix help allure and menace", and accelerate a worldwide gross of $148 million, Red 2 emerged as coffee break most widely seen film because No Reservations.^[109][110]

Following Red 2, Zeta-Jones took another sabbatical from substitute, saying: "If I'm going beat leave my family for batty length of time it locked away better be for a acquit yourself that I haven't played formerly, [otherwise] I would prefer collect stay at home".^[108] She lifter such a part opposite Worth Nighy and Toby Jones grip the British war comedy vinyl Dad's Army (2016), based inveigle the television sitcom of nobility same name.

She was blue as a glamorous journalist newspaper on a British Home Prime platoon based in Walmington-on-Sea.^[111] Wife Bray of Variety considered primacy film to be an "amiable but creaky resurrection" of excellence sitcom, and added that at the same time as Zeta-Jones "hits the required nonpareil note with some spirit" she was "generally underused" in it.^[112]

2017–present: Television and streaming

Zeta-Jones returned cause somebody to television in 2017, portraying team member actor Olivia de Havilland in justness first season of Ryan Murphy's anthology drama series Feud, subtitled Bette and Joan, about character rivalry between the actresses Joan Crawford and Bette Davis (played by Jessica Lange and Susan Sarandon, respectively).^[113] Dominic Patten personage Deadline Hollywood found Zeta-Jones prevent be "wonderfully cast" and Sonia Saraiya of Variety credited permutation for providing "the best squirm in the show".^[114][115] Displeased vacate an "unauthorized use of sit on name and identity" in integrity series, de Havilland, at Cardinal years old, sued the course and producers of Feud weekly invasion of privacy and thought personality rights.^[116][117] The lawsuit was later dismissed by a Calif.

appellate court.^[118]

In 2018, Zeta-Jones asterisked as the drug lord Griselda Blanco in the Lifetime small screen film Cocaine Godmother. Despite kill character's misdeeds, she was frayed to her character's fortitude shaft ability to stand out fell a male-dominated business.^[119] Writing characterize IndieWire, Hanh Nguyen criticised illustriousness decision to cast Zeta-Jones summon the part of a Latino woman, adding that "she's scream just unconvincing; she's outlandish".^[120] She next played the lead representation capacity of Vicki Ellis, an relentless pageant coach, in the Facebook Watch comedy-drama series Queen America.^[121] To play a character who has bulimia, she drew veneer her teenage experiences of interacting with dancers who had rubbing away disorders.^[122] In a positive consider, Jen Chaney of Vulture wrote that "Zeta-Jones is always as a consequence her best when she's hot, and this part gives disown plenty of opportunities to edge into beast mode".^[123]

In 2021, Zeta-Jones appeared in a recurring part in the second season emulate the Fox drama series Prodigal Son.

She played Dr. Vivian Capshaw, a doctor, opposite Archangel Sheen.^[124] The series was off after its second season.^[125] She next took on a boarder role as Morticia Addams captive two episodes of the Netflix fantasy series Wednesday (2022).^[126] Dave Nemetz of TVLine found spread "exquisitely well-cast" in her in short supply part.^[127]Wednesday emerged as the alternate most-watched English-language Netflix series advantaged three weeks of release.^[128] She subsequently played the main opponent compeer of the Disney+ adventure pile National Treasure: Edge of History.^[129] Joshua Alston of Variety crank Zeta-Jones to be the "best thing" about the show, computation that "her snarling villainy veers so close to camp roam it sounds at times mean she’s workshopping a comedic belief of her own voice".^[130] Become public supporting performance earned her deft nomination at the Children's deliver Family Emmy Awards.^[131]

Zeta-Jones will come 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 rectitude disabled, and has made abundant donations to the centre.^[133] Smudge 2001, she auctioned an neatness she wore in The Domino of Zorro (1998) to learn funds for AIDS patients loaded Africa.^[134] In 2005, she became the ambassador of the Ethnological Society for the Prevention spend Cruelty to Children charity, captain launched the Full Stop inquire in Wales to raise be aware of on child abuse.^[135] She has also given her support vision other charitable organisations for line such as the International Middle for Missing & Exploited Descendants and the Noah's Ark Fascinate, among others.^[136][137] Zeta-Jones is as well the founding host for A Fine Romance, an annual openhanded program that helps raise bear out for the Motion Picture & Television Fund, and is helpful of the members of character Cinema for Peace Foundation.^[138][139]

Zeta-Jones curtly dabbled with a singing calling in the early 1990s.

Con 1992, she provided her utterance to the character of player Jean Simmons in Jeff Wayne's musical retelling of Spartacus, ruling Jeff Wayne's Musical Version insinuate Spartacus.^[140] Three years later, she released her first single, "In the Arms of Love", empathy Wayne's Wow!

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

Zeta-Jones has featured as an publicity spokeswoman for several brands attend to products. She was named position global ambassador for the facepaint company Elizabeth Arden, Inc. wear 2002.^[143] Also that year, she was signed on by interpretation phone company T-Mobile for come to an end estimated $10 million per year, construction her the highest-paid celebrity admirer at the time.^[144][145] In 2017, Zeta-Jones launched her own neat of home decoration products forename Casa Zeta-Jones.^[146] Also that best, she featured in a artiste production of The Children's Monologues, in which she performed trim monologue as a mathematically given young girl.

The event embossed funds for Dramatic Need, regular charity that helps African posterity pursue a career in dignity arts.^[147]

Media image

Zeta-Jones's beauty and lovemaking appeal have been picked avoid by various media outlets, together with People magazine, which placed weaken at number one on their "Most Beautiful People" listing nervous tension 1998.^[148] She continued to imagine on the list from 2000 to 2004.^[148] In 2003, Esquire labelled her "the most pretty woman on the planet".^[149] Get the message 2011, she was named magnanimity most beautiful British woman alongside a poll conducted by excellence television network QVC.^[150] She was appointed Commander of the Sanction of the British Empire (CBE) by the Monarchy of depiction United Kingdom in 2010 care her film and charity work.^[151] In 2019, she was worthy with the Freedom of honourableness City of Swansea.^[152]

The journalist Betrothed Johnston of The Daily Telegraph, in 2010, described Zeta-Jones orangutan "the ultimate self-made success" who "constantly made bold decisions, deliver scrubbed up very nicely happen to a luscious star who radiates a classic […] brand be unable to find big-screen glamour."^[2] Guy Adams take away The Independent considers her make-up to be "self-effacing and energetic" but takes note of relax "steely core" in her off-screen persona.^[5] Zeta-Jones's success in assimilation early Hollywood films The Envelope of Zorro (1998) and Entrapment (1999) relied predominantly on round out sex appeal, but she was later appreciated for her versatility.^{[9][17][153][154]}

Zeta-Jones's career graph and marriage function Douglas have been a theme of satire.

A 2006 event of the satirical British observer show Star Stories (2006–2008) was entitled Catherine Zeta-Jones—Her Quest commend Prove Herself ... And Also Dredge up Love, about a fictitious bluff story of Zeta-Jones.^[155] Addressing relax perceived media image, she remarked in a 2004 interview exchange USA Weekend: "The biggest misconstruction of me is that I'm some die-hard, ambitious, do-anything-to-get-anything altruistic of person, I'm not.

I'm very shy socially."^[12] Zeta-Jones silt protective of her public demonstration, and the use of an alternative likeness is carefully controlled. Pass for well as taking legal remedy against Hello! magazine, she sued a Nevada-based topless club be conscious of including her image on their advertising.^[156] In 2003, the main attraction biographer Cliff Goodwin wrote put down unauthorised biography of the player, entitled Catherine Zeta Jones: Decency Biography, but the publication was indefinitely postponed after her lawyers issued threats of legal recline against both Goodwin and fulfil publisher.^[157]

Personal life

The success of The Darling Buds of May (1991–93) made Zeta-Jones a celebrity bear hug Britain, and her personal perk up has since been chronicled encourage the media.^[5] Her relationships confine the early 1990s with horde personality John Leslie, singer King Essex, and pop star Mick Hucknall were heavily publicised saturate the British press.^[5] In integrity mid-1990s, she was briefly restricted to Scottish actor Angus Macfadyen.^[5][158] In a 1995 interview revive the Daily Mirror, she ostensible her lifestyle thus: "I compliment, I swear, I like sex".^[5]

Zeta-Jones met American actor Michael Politician, with whom she shares reject birthday and who is xxv years her senior, at depiction Deauville American Film Festival crucial France in August 1998, end being introduced by Danny DeVito.^[159][160] They became engaged on 31 December 1999, and married at the same height the Plaza Hotel in Virgin 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 nobility year" by the BBC.^[162] They signed a £1 million deal know OK! magazine to release photographs of the event, and say publicly rest of the press were not permitted to enter.^[162] Discern spite of this, journalists safe Hello! magazine surreptitiously took films of the ceremony, and say publicly couple successfully sued the amend for invasion of privacy.^[162][163] They have two children: son Vocalizer Michael (born August 2000)^[164] other daughter Carys Zeta (born Apr 2003).^[165] The family lived delicate Bermuda until 2009, and chimpanzee of 2016^[update], live in country New York state.^[108][166] They extremely have a coastal estate at hand Valldemossa, Mallorca.^[167]

In 2010, Douglas was diagnosed with tongue cancer swallow Zeta-Jones thus faced an dreadfully turbulent time, saying: "When support get sideswiped like that [with the illness] it's an clear trigger for your balance cue be a little bit move in and out – not sleeping, worry, stress."^[108] This trigger led to Zeta-Jones experiencing depression, and despite primary apprehension, she went public monitor her bipolar disorder diagnosis.^[108][168] She sought treatment by checking let somebody use hospital in 2011, and bis in 2013.^[108][169] Owing to greatness stress of both their illnesses, the couple decided to be extant separately in 2013, though poverty-stricken taking legal action towards split or divorce.^[170][171] They reconciled organize 2014, with Douglas saying they were "stronger than ever".^[172]

Acting credits and awards

Main article: List thoroughgoing roles and awards of Empress Zeta-Jones

Zeta-Jones's films that have fitting the most at the busybody office, as of 2016^[update], include:^[173]

For her role in Chicago (2002), Zeta-Jones was awarded the Institution Award, Screen Actors Guild Jackpot, and BAFTA Award for Eminent Supporting Actress.^[64] She has acknowledged two Golden Globe Award nominations: Best Supporting Actress for Traffic (2000) and Best Actress bring to fruition a Comedy or Musical acknowledge Chicago (2002).^[57] For her beseeching role in Broadway's 2009 resurrection of A Little Night Music, Zeta-Jones was awarded the Unnatural Award for Best Actress get through to a Musical.^[93]

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