Catherine Zeta Jones was born in 1969 in Swansea, Wales.
His father worked in a candy factory and his mother was a dressmaker.
Being the second among three siblings, she received a Catholic education.
His training was characterized by handling several languages, in addition to English, Welsh, Spanish and French.
His current name has its origin in the union of the names of his grandmothers: Catherine Y Zeta.
It was in a theater company of a Catholic congregation where Catherine Zeta Jones As a very young girl, she took her first steps on stage singing and dancing.
He managed to get important roles in different musicals, until in 1990 he entered the world of cinema with the director Philippe Broca, with the movie “Arabian Nights“.
In 1991 he participated in the British series The Darling Buds of May, with which Catherine I was beginning to know success.
But it would not be until 1998 when this woman of exotic beauty would receive international recognition, when she had the opportunity to play a leading role alongside Antonio Banderas on “The mask of Zorro”.
Zeta Jones He acted throughout his career in different recognized films such as: “The ambush” next to Sean Connery, “The haunting”, “Traffic”, “The couple of the year” next to Julia Roberts, “Chicago”, “Intolerable cruelty”, “The terminal” from Steven Spielberg, “Ocean’s Twelve” Y “The legend of Zorro”.
It was in 2003, with the previously named movie, “Chicago”, that Catherine won a Oscar to Best Supporting Actress.
Married to the actor Michael Douglas since 2000 and with two children, Dylan michael douglas Y Carys Zeta Douglas,
Catherine Zeta Jones premiere “No reservations” Y “Death defying acts” in 2007.
Filmography:
- The legend of Zorro (2005)
- Ocean’s 12 (2004)
- The terminal (2004)
- Sinbad, the legend of the 7 seas (2003)
- Chicago (2003)
- Intolerable cruelty (2003)
- The couple of the year (2001)
- High Fidelity (2000)
- Traffic (2000)
- The trap (1999)
- The mask of Zorro (1998)
- The masked man (nineteen ninety six)
- Catherine the Great (nineteen ninety five)
- Found lives (1994)
- Newborn and already crowned (1993)
- Christopher Columbus: the discovery (1992)
- The bonfire of love