Catherine Zeta-Jones Profile, Age, Circle of relatives, Affairs, Wiki, Biography & Extra

Catherine Zeta-Jones was born September 25, 1969, is a Welsh actress. Born and raised in Swansea, Zeta-Jones aspired to be an actress from a young age. As a child, she played roles in West End productions of musicals Annie and Bugsy Malone. She studied musical theater at Arts Educational Schools in London and made her appearance on stage with a leading role in a 1987 production of 42nd Street. Her screen debut took place in the unsuccessful Franco-Italian film 1001 Nights (1990), and she continued to find more success as a regular on the British television series The Darling Buds of May (1991–1993 ). Appalled to have been interpreted as the pretty girl symbolic of British films, Zeta-Jones moved to Los Angeles.

Zeta-Jones established herself in Hollywood with roles that emphasized her sex appeal, as in the action movie The Mask of Zorro (1998) and the robbery film Entrapment (1999). She was acclaimed for her performances as a pregnant revenge in Traffic (2000) and a murderous singer in the musical Chicago (2002); for the latter, she won the Oscars and the BAFTA Awards for best supporting actress

Zeta-Jones has received several distinctions, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award and a Tony Award, and in 2010 was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her film and humanitarian activities . She supports various charities and causes, and is a famous celebrity endorsing brands. His fight against depression and bipolar II disorder has been well documented in the media. She is married to American actor Michael Douglas, with whom she has two children.

The success of the television series The Darling Buds of May (1991-1993) made Zeta-Jones a popular celebrity in Britain, and her personal life has since been reported in the media. His relationships in the early 1990s with television personality John Leslie, singer David Essex and pop star Mick Hucknall were widely reported in the British press. In the mid-1990s, she was briefly engaged to the Scottish actor Angus Macfadyen. In an interview with the Daily Mirror in 1995, she described her lifestyle: “I drink, I swear, I love sex”.

Zeta-Jones met actor Michael Douglas, with whom she shares her birthday and who is 25 years older, at the Deauville Festival in France in August 1998, after being presented by Danny DeVito. They got engaged on December 31, 1999 and married at the Plaza Hotel in New York on November 18, 2000 after the divorce from Douglas. The high-profile ceremony, which cost around £ 1.5 million, has been called the “wedding of the year” by the BBC.