Catherine Zeta Jones was born on September 25, 1969 in Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales, United Kingdom. She is a famous Welsh actress.
Biography and Career :
From the age of 4, Catherine Zeta Jones wanted to entertain, to be the centre of attention. She'd prance around using the spout of her grandma's kettle as a microphone.
Very soon, she was onstage, performing with an amateur troupe organised by the local Catholic Church. Her singing voice, though, was once severely threatened. Falling sick with a viral infection that impaired her breathing, she had to undergo a tracheotomy (the scar is still visible today).
Consequently, Catherine Zeta Jones missed a lot of school, and was sent to a small private establishment to catch up.
Her career choices have, on occasion, be
en terribly flawed. Her big breaks have been hilariously, fabulously fortunate. And, being as she began her education and career in entertainment back in the mid-Seventies, it's actually all taken a very long time.
Her parents won £100,000 at bingo in the 1980s and they moved to St. Andrews Drive in Mayals, an upper class area of Swansea.
She attended Dumbarton House School, Swansea, where she was an average student. She left school early without obtaining O levels qualifications to further her acting ambition.
Her name stems from those of her grandmothers; one named Katherine Fair, and the other Zeta Jones, named after a ship which her great-grandfather had sailed on. As a child, she had a tracheotomy which left a scar.
Catherine Zeta Jones says that even at 12 she looked 22, and would go to clubs with the blessing of her trusting parents.
She Jones is also an advertising spokeswoman for the mobile phone company T-Mobile.
Catherine Zeta Jones in "The Mask of Zorro" :
Onscreen, 2004 saw Catherine appear in two major productions. First, her Zorro benefactor Steven Spielberg signed her up for The Terminal.
Catherine is sometimes referred to as a prima donna but, a hometown girl who enjoys rugby, boxing and a few beers, she has her head screwed on far too tightly to care about petty bickering.
Trivia :
- Height : 5'8''/171 cm
- During her Darling Buds of May period, Catherine also helped her cousin promote his "Lazerzone" business in Swansea by appearing as a special guest at open days.
- Once appeared on Welsh TV channel HTV teaching children how to tap dance.
- She is a resident of Bermuda.
- Was unable to attend the funeral of her grandfather, Billy Fair, as she was pregnant and unable to fly.
- Does not attend many family functions such as weddings as she does not want her presence to take the focus off the event.
- Her uncle Robert Jones owns Swansea's Skoda car dealership as well as Llanelli A.F.C. football club.
- Her father was the manager of a candy factory.
- Her first child with fiance Michael Douglas, a boy named Dylan Michael was born on 8th August about 6 p.m. at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre near Beverly Hills. The baby weighed in at 7 pounds and seven ounces and measured 21-1/2 inches.
- She was chosen one of 1998's Most Beautiful People by People Magazine.
Her father's cousin, Robert Sullivan, is married to singer Bonnie Tyler, who is also Welsh.
- Has a niece named Jena Jones. (Daughter of Catherine's brother David Jones)
- She Is a former girlfriend of former Blue Peter presenter John Leslie, UK actor Angus MacFayden and Hollywood producer Jon Peters, ex-boyfriend of Barbra Streisand
- She is a trained singer and dancer.
- She became engaged to Michael Douglas in Aspen, Colorado [31 December 1999]
- Catherine Zeta Jones owns the film company "Milkwood Films" that will put out Coming Out in 2006 in which she will also act, besides having the producers role.
- Mother is Irish, father is Welsh.
Quotes :
- "I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people, that I started to get any work."
- "I like women who look like women. I hated grunge. No one's more feminist than me, but you don't have to look as if you don't give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself."
- After Scottish actor Sean Connery presented her with the Oscar: "A Scotsman giving a Welsh girl an Oscar - oh my God!"
- "For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end."
Filmography :
- Crood Awakening (2008)
- Stompanato (2007)
- Rachel's Holiday (2006)
- Death Defying Acts (2006)
- Coming Out (2006)
- Untitled Scott Hicks Film (2007)
- The Legend of Zorro (2005)
- Ocean's Twelve (2004)
- The Terminal (2004)
- Intolerable Cruelty (2003)
- Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) (voice)
- Chicago (2002)
- America's Sweethearts (2001)
- Traffic (2000)
- High Fidelity (2000)
- The Haunting (1999)
- Entrapment (1999) .... Virginia Baker
... aka Verlockende Falle (Germany)
- The Mask of Zorro (1998)
- Titanic (1996) (TV) (as Catherine Zeta Jones)
- The Phantom (1996) (as Catherine Zeta Jones)
- Blue Juice (1995)
- Catherine the Great (1995) (TV)
- The Return of the Native (1994) (TV)
- The Cinder Path (1994) (TV)
- "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles"
- Palestine, October 1917 (1993) TV Episode
- Splitting Heirs (1993)
- "The Darling Buds of May" (as Catherine Zeta Jones)
- Climb the Greasy Pole: Part 2 (1993) TV Episode
- Climb the Greasy Pole: Part 1 (1993) TV Episode
- The Happiest Days of Your Lives: Part 2 (1993) TV Episode
- The Happiest Days of Your Lives: Part 1 (1993) TV Episode
- Le Grand Weekend (1992) TV Episode (as Catherine Zeta Jones)
- Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992)
- The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert (1992) (V)
- Out of the Blue (1991) (TV)
- 1001 nuits, Les (1990)
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