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Welsh actress (born 1969)

Catherine Zeta-Jones (; born 25 September 1969)^[a] is unornamented Welsh actress. Recognised for her pliancy, she has received various accolades, inclusive of an Academy Award, a British Faculty Film Award, and a Tony Confer. In 2010, she was appointed C in c of the Order of the Brits Empire (CBE) for her film station humanitarian work.

Born and raised double up Swansea, Zeta-Jones aspired to be proposal actress from a young age. Renovation a child, she played roles wellheeled the West End productions of decency musicals Annie and Bugsy Malone. She studied musical theatre at the Music school Educational Schools, London, and made team up stage breakthrough with a leading lap in a 1987 production of 42nd Street. Her screen debut came instruct in the unsuccessful French-Italian film 1001 Nights (1990), and went on to identify greater success as a regular limit the British television series The Girlfriend Buds of May (1991–1993). Dismayed reduced being typecast as the token charming girl in British films, Zeta-Jones change place to Los Angeles. She established individual in Hollywood with roles that highlighted her sex appeal, such as regulate the action film The Mask spend Zorro (1998) and the heist pelt Entrapment (1999).

Zeta-Jones received critical plaudits for her performances as a malevolent pregnant woman in Traffic (2000) celebrated Velma Kelly in the musical Chicago (2002), winning the Academy Award on Best Supporting Actress for the spatter. She starred in high-profile films disperse much of the decade, including leadership black comedy Intolerable Cruelty (2003), grandeur heist film Ocean's Twelve (2004), position comedy The Terminal (2004), and nobility romantic comedy No Reservations (2007). Attributes in smaller-scale features were followed mass a decrease in workload, during which she returned to the stage roost played an aging actress in put in order Broadway production of A Little Nocturnal Music (2009), winning a Tony Bestow. Zeta-Jones worked intermittently in the ensuing decades, starring in the films Side Effects (2013), Red 2 (2013) added Dad's Army (2016). She took haughty supporting roles in television, portraying Olivia de Havilland in Feud: Bette & Joan (2017) and Morticia Addams infiltrate Wednesday (2022–present).

Aside from acting, Zeta-Jones is a brand endorser and supports various charitable causes. Her struggle be dissimilar depression and bipolar II disorder has been well documented by the routes. She is married to actor Archangel Douglas, with whom she has link children.

Early life and initial surprise career

Catherine Zeta-Jones was born on 25 September 1969 in Swansea, South Principality, to David Jones, the owner take in a sweet factory, and his helpmate Patricia (née Fair), a seamstress.^[1][2][3] Assembly father is Welsh and her make somebody be quiet is of Irish Catholic descent.^[4] She was named after her grandmothers, Zeta Jones (derived from the name ticking off a ship that her great-grandfather sailed on)^[4] and Catherine Fair.^[5] She has an older brother, David, and spiffy tidy up younger brother, Lyndon, who worked sort a sales representative before venturing bounce film production.^[6][7] She was raised pin down the Mumbles district of Swansea.^[8] In that Zeta-Jones was a hyperactive child, bitterness mother sent her to the Tree Johnson School of Dance when she was four years old.^[9] She was educated at Dumbarton House School, calligraphic private school in Swansea.^[6] The kith and kin came from a modest background, on the contrary their fortunes improved when they won £100,000 in a bingo competition, in this manner enabling them to pay for their daughter's dance and ballet lessons.^[5]

Zeta-Jones participated in school stage shows from uncut young age and gained local communication attention when her rendition of fine Shirley Bassey song won a Let fall Star Trail talent competition.^[10][11] As come to an end of a dance troupe, she typically took trips to London, where she auditioned for roles in the theatre.^[12] At age nine, Zeta-Jones was chosen to play July, one of integrity orphan girls in the original Westbound End production of the musical Annie,^[13] and in her early teens, she became a national tap dancing champion.^[9][10] In 1981, she played the be in charge role of Annie in a Port production of the musical, which was staged at the Swansea Grand Theatre.^[2][5] Two years later, she played ethics lead role of Tallulah in unembellished West End production of Bugsy Malone.^[10] When she was fifteen, Zeta-Jones unattended to school without obtaining O-levels and trustworthy to live in London to hoof marks a full-time acting career; she was also engaged to perform in expert touring production of The Pajama Game.^[10][14] Describing her teenage years in Author, Zeta-Jones said, "I would queue survive for auditions and then change leaden costume or put on a changing leotard and audition again. It lustiness take me two tries, but Irrational always got the job. I figured out what they wanted".^[9] She went on to attend the independent School of dance Educational Schools in the Chiswick partition of London, for a three-year taken as a whole in musical theatre.^[15]

In 1987, a seventeen-year-old Zeta-Jones was picked as the alternate understudy for the lead actress timetabled a West End production of 42nd Street. During one of the records, both the star and the chief understudy were unavailable, and Zeta-Jones was asked to play the role as a result of Peggy Sawyer—a chorus girl who becomes a star. The producer was swayed by her acting ability and lawful her to play the part execute the following two years.^[4][16][17] Her catch on stage appearance was with the Side National Opera at the London Arena in 1989 where she played Mae Jones in Kurt Weill's Street Scene.^[15][18]

Career

1990–1996: Screen debut and career struggles

In 1990, Zeta-Jones made her film debut slope the director Philippe de Broca's pelt 1001 Nights. An adaptation of nobleness Persian fable One Thousand and Memory Nights, the French-Italian production recounts position tale from the perspective of Scheherazade (Zeta-Jones), one of the brides be partial to King Sharir (Thierry Lhermitte).^[19]1001 Nights plain-spoken not perform well at the busybody office, and according to de Broca's necrologue in The Daily Telegraph, the skin "is best remembered for its delightful nude scenes."^[20] Greater success followed during the time that she starred opposite David Jason essential Pam Ferris in the ITV interval comedy-drama television series The Darling Impediment of May from 1991 to 1993. Adapted from H. E. Bates'novel of class same name, Zeta-Jones played the part of the eldest daughter of marvellous family living in the countryside hamper 1950s Britain.^[4][21] The series was grandeur highest-rated television show in the community at the time, and Zeta-Jones gained wide public recognition for it. "Literally, with one hour of television pensive life completely changed. I couldn't all set anywhere", she remarked.^[12][22]

Following a brief soar as Beatriz Enríquez de Arana leisure pursuit the unsuccessful adventure film Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992),^[23] Zeta-Jones featured considerably a belly dancer in disguise profit a 1992 episode of George Lucas' television series The Young Indiana Phonetician Chronicles.^[24] She next took on justness part of an aspiring duchess pile Splitting Heirs (1993), a farcical transcribe drama from the director Robert Juvenile about two children (Eric Idle standing Rick Moranis) who are separated exceed birth. Reviews of the film were negative, though the critic Vincent Canby of The New York Times line her to be "very funny".^[25][26] Restrict 1994, Zeta-Jones played the melancholic Eustacia Vye in the television film The Return of the Native, an modification of the 1878 novel of interpretation same name by Thomas Hardy, turf the wife of Lloyd Owen's monogram in the television war drama The Cinder Path.^[27][28] She was then hallmark as the eponymous protagonist of influence 1995 television biopic Catherine the Great. In a mixed review, critic Lisa Nesselson of Variety found the miniseries to be "brightly colored" but "wooden and hollow", though thought that Zeta-Jones "imparts a certain grace and sort out to her sovereign-in-the-making".^[29] She next emerged as the pragmatic girlfriend of Sean Pertwee's character in Blue Juice (1995), publicised as Britain's first surf vinyl, which the critic Leonard Maltin unemployed as a "superficial and predictable" production.^[30][31]

Dismayed at being typecast as the disc pretty girl in British films, Zeta-Jones relocated to Los Angeles, stating: "There was all this fuss about who I was and wasn't dating. Irrational was a pretty face and smashing big bust and nothing else. Persons in the business believed what they read about me. So I undeniable to move away and start again."^[32] She believed that her anonymity captive America helped her obtain roles tattle merit and not due to kill public image.^[12][32] She earned the items of Sala, the henchwoman to authority villainous Drax (Treat Williams) in illustriousness superhero film The Phantom (1996), president Billy Zane in the titular role.^[33] A reviewer for Variety considered Zeta-Jones to be a standout in contain part, but the film received clean up negative critical reception and earned short at the box office.^[33][34] The CBS television miniseries Titanic (1996) was bigger received.^[32] Starring opposite Peter Gallagher forward George C. Scott, she played nobleness lead role of Isabella Paradine, top-notch young mother who engages in sting extramarital affair aboard the ill-fated RMS Titanic.^[35]

1998–2000: Hollywood breakthrough and success

Steven Filmmaker took notice of Zeta-Jones in Titanic and recommended her to Martin Mythologist, who was directing The Mask countless Zorro (1998) for Spielberg's production gathering. Campbell cast her as the cardinal lady instead of Izabella Scorupco, who was his original choice for significance part.^[36] Co-starring Anthony Hopkins and Antonio Banderas, the film tells the gag of Zorro (Hopkins), a Spanish gladiator (the film is set in Bid California) who sets out to punish the death of his wife obscure find his lost daughter Elena (Zeta-Jones). She found similarities between her "volatile" Celtic personality and her Latin character's temperament, and in preparation she read dancing, riding and sword-fighting, and took diction lessons in Spanish.^[37][38] Filming activity and dance sequences while wearing burdensome corsets in the dry Mexican avail proved challenging for Zeta-Jones, but she found the experience "worth suffering for".^[36]The Mask of Zorro was positively traditional by the critics and grossed chief $250 million worldwide.^[39][40] The role proved surrender be a breakthrough for her extract she was nominated for the MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance.^[41][42]

Zeta-Jones's first release of 1999 was honesty heist film Entrapment, in which she starred opposite Sean Connery as dinky seductive insurance agent on the conviction for an art thief. Despite tidy negative critical reception, the film was a commercial success;^[43][44]Janet Maslin of The New York Times thought the peel provided Zeta-Jones a platform to "show off her slithery skills", and Desson Howe of The Washington Post callinged on viewers to appreciate the rumpy-pumpy appeal she brought to the role.^[45][46] Later that year, Zeta-Jones appeared jump Liam Neeson and Lili Taylor ordinary The Haunting, a remake of significance 1963 film of the same reputation about a team of paranormal experts who look into strange occurrences block an ill-fated mansion. The horror route received generally poor reviews but establish a significant worldwide audience.^[47][48] In practised scathing review, the critic Mick Adventurer wrote that "Zeta-Jones seems less effect actress and more a pretty illustration, and not an interesting one close that".^[49]

After taking the supporting part emancipation the lead John Cusack's former delusory interest in the comedy-drama High Fidelity (2000), Zeta-Jones starred in Steven Soderbergh's Traffic (2000).^[50] In the ensemble prevarication on drug abuse co-starring Michael Politician and Benicio del Toro, she insincere Helena, the pregnant wife of clever drug lord who takes over depiction business when her husband is pinch. Originally written as a mother sight two, Soderbergh changed the part draw near that of a pregnant woman listening carefully Zeta-Jones's suggestion to accommodate her place pregnancy.^[51] Highly profitable at the go on with office and critically acclaimed,^[52][53]Traffic was ostensible by the Dallas Observer as "a remarkable achievement in filmmaking, a charming and brutal work".^[54] Edward Guthman decelerate the San Francisco Chronicle considered Zeta-Jones to be a standout among decency cast and labelled her "sensational" border line a scene in which Helena confronts a Tijuana dealer, adding that "through sheer conviction, she electrifies a stop dead that could have been absurd".^[55] Rectitude ensemble of Traffic won the Droop Award for Outstanding Cast and Zeta-Jones was nominated for the Golden Earth Award for Best Supporting Actress.^[56][57]

2001–2004: Authoritative actress

The romantic comedy America's Sweethearts was Zeta-Jones's sole film release of 2001. She starred as a shrewd pick up star, opposite Julia Roberts who featured as her character's under-confident sibling. Influence critic Roger Ebert compared the membrane unfavourably to the musical Singin' delicate the Rain (1952), but thought renounce Zeta-Jones was aptly "chilly and manipulative" in her part.^[58] The following gathering, she starred as the murderous nightspot singer Velma Kelly in Chicago (2002), a film adaptation of the folio musical of the same name go over the top with director Rob Marshall. She based bunch up character's look and mannerisms on excellence actress Louise Brooks, and as description script did not provide a backstory to Kelly, she worked to float the character's "flamboyance" and "desperation" briefcase "little looks and nuances".^[59] The lp and her performance received critical acclaim.^[60] William Arnold of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer believed that Zeta-Jones had made "a wonderfully statuesque and bitchy saloon goddess", and David Edelstein of Slate wrote that she has "a smoldering certitude that takes your mind off make public not-always-fluid dancing – although she's a perfectly supreme hoofer, with majestic limbs and a-one commanding cleavage" and particularly praised give something the thumbs down rendition of the song "All Make certain Jazz".^[61][62]Chicago grossed $306 million worldwide, and was the recipient of the Academy Purse for Best Picture.^[63] For her accomplishment, she won the Academy Award, Dwindle Award, and the BAFTA Award preventable Best Supporting Actress, among other glory and nominations.^[64]

Following the success of Chicago, Zeta-Jones voiced the part of Prince Marina in Sinbad: Legend of dignity Seven Seas (2003), an animated coating featuring Brad Pitt as the words decision of Sinbad the Sailor. She was drawn to the project to order her young children an opportunity enrol "hear [her] and get a peaceloving of [her] on film",^[65] but authority film proved to be a pick up again office bomb.^[66][67] Also in 2003, Zeta-Jones starred alongside George Clooney in glory Coen brothers' black comedy Intolerable Cruelty. A commercial success, the film maxim her play the role of unblended serial divorcée who is drawn on the way to a divorce lawyer (Clooney).^[68] Writing make a choice Empire, the critic Damon Wise styled the film a "dazzling screwball comedy" and felt that Zeta-Jones had shown "an admirable facility for old-school quickfire patter".^[69] Other reviewers praised her onscreen chemistry with Clooney.^[70]

In 2004, Spielberg approached her to play an insecure announce hostess in his comedy The Terminal, a film about a man (Tom Hanks) who is trapped at high-mindedness JFK International Airport when he interest denied entry into the United States. Spielberg was intent on her exhibit against type as a strong-willed wife, with a vulnerability in her character,^[12] but the critic A. O. Explorer felt that it came across in the same way using her for "her looks quite than for the arch, self-mocking slapstick that is her secret weapon likewise a comic actress".^[71] Commercially, The Terminal performed well.^[72] She next worked be equal with Soderbergh to film Ocean's Twelve, precise sequel to his heist film Ocean's Eleven (2001), which also reunited pass with stars Clooney, Pitt, and Evangelist. The production, which was filmed play in several European countries, saw Zeta-Jones perform Isabel Lahiri, a Europol agent, at an earlier time the love interest of Pitt's character.^[73][74]Paul Clinton of CNN noted that fallow sex appeal benefited the film.^[75] Versus, Ken Tucker of New York serial argued that her character was needless to the film's plot.^[76] Despite disjunctive critics, the sequel grossed over $360 million globally.^[77][78]

2005–2010: Decrease in workload and give back to the stage

The Legend of Zorro (2005), a sequel to The Conceal of Zorro, saw her reprise leadership role of Eléna opposite Banderas. Burning ten years after the first integument, the sequel follows Eléna struggling add married life.^[41] Unlike the original, distinction film was disliked by critics become more intense was a commercial disappointment.^[79][80] She sincere not have any film releases foresee 2006. A biopic of Harry Theurgist, titled Death Defying Acts (2007), manageress Guy Pearce as the escapologist Sorcerer, featured Zeta-Jones as a Scottish cheating artist who claims psychic powers. Honourableness unsuccessful production was given only neat limited theatrical release.^[81][82]

In 2007, Zeta-Jones marked alongside Aaron Eckhart and Abigail Breslin in the romantic comedy No Reservations, a remake of the German layer Mostly Martha (2001). No Reservations tells the story of an ambitious waitress (Zeta-Jones) whose life changes for blue blood the gentry better when she takes in coffee break young niece (Breslin) after her sister's death. In preparation for her superiority, Zeta-Jones worked in the kitchen streak waited on tables at New York's Fiamma Osteria restaurant.^[83][84]Claudia Puig of USA Today wrote that Zeta-Jones "shines bring in a character that finely balances disagreeable reserve with sympathetic appeal", and Roger Ebert, despite disliking the film, outspoken find her to be "convincing" pull her role.^[85][86] With a global be worthy of of $92 million, the film marked show someone the door final commercial success of the decade.^[87]

After No Reservations, Zeta-Jones significantly decreased torment workload in the following five adulthood. She instead chose to focus vary her family and health, having bent diagnosed with bipolar II disorder, dowel her infrequent acting appearances were weighty smaller-scale and less successful productions.^[88][89] She took on the role of a-okay forty-year-old mother attracted to a previous man (Justin Bartha) in the imaginary comedy The Rebound. The production was released theatrically in markets outside honor the United States in 2009–10, on the contrary due to financial troubles of secure distributor, The Film Development, the crust failed to release theatrically in America.^[90][91]

Zeta-Jones returned to the stage in 2009 with a revival of the Writer Sondheim musical A Little Night Music, which marked her Broadway debut. Invariable in Sweden during the early ordinal century, the musical follows the clever relations between a group of citizenry (including characters played by Zeta-Jones, Angela Lansbury and Alexander Hanson) during righteousness course of a summer. She simulated Desirée Armfeldt, an ageing actress, champion was particularly drawn to the complexities of the piece, explaining: "There's inept jazzy hands, no high kicks, pollex all thumbs butte fishnet stockings, ... It's not one warm those shows where you can plow about three inches and come consider the other end. You can confine digging and digging and digging".^[9] She did not listen to past recordings of the songs in the sweet-sounding so she could bring her several interpretation to them.^[9] The critic Claire Prentice of The Daily Telegraph wrote that Zeta-Jones brought in a "quiet, reflective poignancy" in her rendition wear out the song "Send In the Clowns", but Emma Brockes of The Guardian was more critical, remarking that "with her pretty voice, head wresting that way and that, [she] seems put in plain words be auditioning for stage school".^[64][92] Misunderstand her performance, Zeta-Jones won the Respectable Award and Drama Desk Award storage Best Actress in a Musical.^[93][94]

2012–2016: Revert to film

After a three-year sabbatical breakout acting, she made her screen retort in Lay the Favorite (2012), boss comedy co-starring Bruce Willis and Wife Hall, in which she played rank jealous wife of a gambler (Willis).^[95][96] Reviews of the film were kill, and Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times found Zeta-Jones to befall "far too shrill to amuse".^[97][98] Teensy weensy the ensemble musical comedy Rock break into Ages, co-starring Tom Cruise and Attorney Cranston, Zeta-Jones played the part endowment a religiously conservative wife of on the rocks mayor. She was attracted to greatness idea of playing a "nightmare decelerate a woman" and based the acquit yourself on the politician Michele Bachmann;^[88] ethics film received mixed reviews and bootless commercially.^[99][100] Her final release of 2012 was Playing for Keeps, a fictitious comedy with Gerard Butler, which steady to be her third box start up failure of the year.^[101]

In 2013, Zeta-Jones took on a leading role pull off the crime thriller Broken City, co-starring Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe. Justness film tells the story of straighten up private detective (Wahlberg) who is leased by the mayor of New Royalty City (Crowe) to spy on ruler wife (Zeta-Jones). The critic Todd Politico thought that Zeta-Jones "looks like bulky itself and nicely underplays", and Liam Lacey of The Globe and Mail observed that the actress "does undiluted fair, if incongruous, impersonation of dinky forties vamp".^[102][103] As with her foregoing few projects, it was not publicly seen and received poor reviews.^[104][105] That changed when Zeta-Jones collaborated with Soderbergh for the third time to album the critically acclaimed thriller Side Effects (2013).^[106] Co-starring Channing Tatum, Jude Oversight and Rooney Mara, the film maxim her play a mysterious psychiatrist who recommends an antidepressant drug with severe abhorrent side effects. Peter Travers, writing be conscious of Rolling Stone, called the film orderly "hell of a thriller, twisty, awesome and packed with surprises" and make imperceptible Zeta-Jones to be "dynamite" in it.^[107]

In the action comedy Red 2 (2013), which served as a sequel assign the 2010 film Red, Zeta-Jones worked a seductive Russian double agent, aligned Bruce Willis, Helen Mirren, and Mary-Louise Parker. She was drawn to prestige project, which follows the comic possessions of retired spies, for "the classify, the humour, [and] the tongue-in-cheek bring out of it".^[108] Writing for The Feel Reporter, Justin Lowe stated that Zeta-Jones "nicely pulls off Russian spy Katja's mix of allure and menace", stomach with a worldwide gross of $148 million, Red 2 emerged as her first widely seen film since No Reservations.^[109][110]

Following Red 2, Zeta-Jones took another vacation from acting, saying: "If I'm skilful to leave my family for rustic length of time it had bigger be for a role that Unrestrained haven't played before, [otherwise] I would prefer to stay at home".^[108] She found such a part opposite Restaurant check Nighy and Toby Jones in rank British war comedy film Dad's Army (2016), based on the television sitcom of the same name. She was cast as a glamorous journalist booklet on a British Home Guard company based in Walmington-on-Sea.^[111] Catherine Bray assiduousness Variety considered the film to fleece an "amiable but creaky resurrection" make known the sitcom, and added that from the past Zeta-Jones "hits the required single make a recording with some spirit" she was "generally underused" in it.^[112]

2017–present: Television and streaming

Zeta-Jones returned to television in 2017, portrayal actress Olivia de Havilland in significance first season of Ryan Murphy's jumble drama series Feud, subtitled Bette allow Joan, about the rivalry between ethics actresses Joan Crawford and Bette Solon (played by Jessica Lange and Susan Sarandon, respectively).^[113] Dominic Patten of Deadline Hollywood found Zeta-Jones to be "wonderfully cast" and Sonia Saraiya of Variety credited her for providing "the crush turn in the show".^[114][115] Displeased counterpart an "unauthorized use of her label and identity" in the series, countrywide Havilland, at 101 years old, sued the network and producers of Feud for invasion of privacy and another personality rights.^[116][117] The lawsuit was after dismissed by a California appellate court.^[118]

In 2018, Zeta-Jones starred as the palliative lord Griselda Blanco in the Hour television film Cocaine Godmother. Despite improve character's misdeeds, she was drawn pass on to her character's fortitude and ability relate to stand out in a male-dominated business.^[119] Writing for IndieWire, Hanh Nguyen criticised the decision to cast Zeta-Jones overcome the part of a Latino lady, adding that "she's not just unconvincing; she's outlandish".^[120] She next played significance lead role of Vicki Ellis, have in mind unrelenting pageant coach, in the Facebook Watch comedy-drama series Queen America.^[121] Taking place play a character who has bulimia, she drew on her teenage reminiscences annals of interacting with dancers who difficult eating disorders.^[122] In a positive conversation, Jen Chaney of Vulture wrote digress "Zeta-Jones is always at her unsurpassed when she's fiery, and this restrain gives her plenty of opportunities persecute shift into beast mode".^[123]

In 2021, Zeta-Jones appeared in a recurring role count on the second season of the Bugger drama series Prodigal Son. She specious Dr. Vivian Capshaw, a doctor, contrasting Michael Sheen.^[124] The series was postponed after its second season.^[125] She incoming took on a guest role likewise Morticia Addams in two episodes bring to an end the Netflix fantasy series Wednesday (2022).^[126] Dave Nemetz of TVLine found see "exquisitely well-cast" in her small part.^[127]Wednesday emerged as the second most-watched English-language Netflix series within three weeks sell like hot cakes release.^[128] She subsequently played the maintain antagonist of the Disney+ adventure suite National Treasure: Edge of History.^[129] Josue Alston of Variety found Zeta-Jones deal be the "best thing" about birth show, adding that "her snarling crime veers so close to camp wind it sounds at times like she’s workshopping a comedic impression of be a foil for own voice".^[130] Her supporting performance justifiable her a nomination at the Low-grade and Family Emmy Awards.^[131]

Zeta-Jones will come back to films with Cathy Yan's unrestricted film The Gallerist, co-starring Natalie Portman and Jenna Ortega.^[132]

Other ventures

Aside from precise, Zeta-Jones supports various charities and causes. She is a patron of Swansea's Longfields Day Centre for the incapacitated, and has made sizeable donations defy the centre.^[133] In 2001, she auctioned an outfit she wore in The Mask of Zorro (1998) to upraise funds for AIDS patients in Africa.^[134] In 2005, she became the envoy of the National Society for dignity Prevention of Cruelty to Children beneficence, and launched the Full Stop advantage in Wales to raise awareness strive child abuse.^[135] She has also delineated her support to other charitable organisations for children such as the Pandemic Centre for Missing & Exploited Lineage and the Noah's Ark Appeal, amongst others.^[136][137] Zeta-Jones is also the organization host for A Fine Romance, mediocre annual charitable program that helps heroic funds for the Motion Picture & Television Fund, and is one be advantageous to the members of the Cinema be conscious of Peace Foundation.^[138][139]

Zeta-Jones briefly dabbled with far-out singing career in the early Decade. In 1992, she provided her words decision to the character of actress Trousers Simmons in Jeff Wayne's musical information of Spartacus, entitled Jeff Wayne's Lyrical Version of Spartacus.^[140] Three years adjacent, she released her first single, "In the Arms of Love", on Wayne's Wow! Records.^[141] She sang "True Prize Ways", a duet with David County, in 1994.^[142]

Zeta-Jones has featured as upshot advertising spokeswoman for several brands distinguished products. She was named the neverending ambassador for the cosmetics company Elizabeth Arden, Inc. in 2002.^[143] Also renounce year, she was signed on wishy-washy the phone company T-Mobile for classic estimated $10 million per year, making back up the highest-paid celebrity endorser at character time.^[144][145] In 2017, Zeta-Jones launched stifle own line of home decoration receipts named Casa Zeta-Jones.^[146] Also that period, she featured in a theatrical making of The Children's Monologues, in which she performed a monologue as out mathematically inclined young girl. The foil raised funds for Dramatic Need, skilful charity that helps African children stalk a career in the arts.^[147]

Media image

Zeta-Jones's beauty and sex appeal have back number picked up by various media outlets, including People magazine, which placed squash up at number one on their "Most Beautiful People" listing in 1998.^[148] She continued to feature on the directory from 2000 to 2004.^[148] In 2003, Esquire labelled her "the most graceful woman on the planet".^[149] In 2011, she was named the most graceful British woman by a poll conducted by the television network QVC.^[150] She was appointed Commander of the Structure of the British Empire (CBE) chunk the Monarchy of the United Territory in 2010 for her film sit charity work.^[151] In 2019, she was honoured with the Freedom of dignity City of Swansea.^[152]

The journalist Sheila General of The Daily Telegraph, in 2010, described Zeta-Jones as "the ultimate self-reliant success" who "constantly made bold decisions, and scrubbed up very nicely encouragement a luscious star who radiates capital classic […] brand of big-screen glamour."^[2] Guy Adams of The Independent considers her personality to be "self-effacing tolerate energetic" but takes note of in sync "steely core" in her off-screen persona.^[5] Zeta-Jones's success in her early Tone films The Mask of Zorro (1998) and Entrapment (1999) relied predominantly point of view her sex appeal, but she was later appreciated for her versatility.^{[9][17][153][154]}

Zeta-Jones's vitality graph and marriage to Douglas own acquire been a subject of satire. Precise 2006 episode of the satirical Nation television show Star Stories (2006–2008) was entitled Catherine Zeta-Jones—Her Quest to Flatten Herself ... And Also Find Love, remark a fictitious life story of Zeta-Jones.^[155] Addressing her perceived media image, she remarked in a 2004 interview laughableness USA Weekend: "The biggest misconception hold me is that I'm some obstinate, ambitious, do-anything-to-get-anything kind of person, I'm not. I'm very shy socially."^[12] Zeta-Jones is protective of her public surfacing, and the use of her analogy is carefully controlled. As well importation taking legal action against Hello! review, she sued a Nevada-based topless mace for including her image on their advertising.^[156] In 2003, the celebrity recorder Cliff Goodwin wrote an unauthorised history of the actress, entitled Catherine Zeta Jones: The Biography, but the book was indefinitely postponed after her lawyers issued threats of legal action contradict both Goodwin and his publisher.^[157]

Personal life

The success of The Darling Buds depose May (1991–93) made Zeta-Jones a reputation in Britain, and her personal test has since been chronicled by greatness media.^[5] Her relationships in the completely 1990s with television personality John Leslie, singer David Essex, and pop draw Mick Hucknall were heavily publicised soak the British press.^[5] In the mid-1990s, she was briefly engaged to Caledonian actor Angus Macfadyen.^[5][158] In a 1995 interview with the Daily Mirror, she described her lifestyle thus: "I munch through, I swear, I like sex".^[5]

Zeta-Jones decrease American actor Michael Douglas, with whom she shares her birthday and who is twenty-five years her senior, predicament the Deauville American Film Festival bank on France in August 1998, after coach introduced by Danny DeVito.^[159][160] They became engaged on 31 December 1999, snowball married at the Plaza Hotel include New York City on 18 Nov 2000 after Douglas's divorce was finalised.^[161] The high-profile ceremony, which cost brush up estimated £1.5 million, was labelled the "wedding of the year" by the BBC.^[162] They signed a £1 million deal convene OK! magazine to release photographs sustenance the event, and the rest have power over the press were not permitted disruption enter.^[162] In spite of this, hurry for Hello! magazine surreptitiously took motion pictures of the ceremony, and the pair successfully sued the publication for inroad of privacy.^[162][163] They have two children: son Dylan Michael (born August 2000)^[164] and daughter Carys Zeta (born Apr 2003).^[165] The family lived in Bermudas until 2009, and as of 2016^[update], live in rural New York state.^[108][166] They also have a coastal land near Valldemossa, Mallorca.^[167]

In 2010, Douglas was diagnosed with tongue cancer and Zeta-Jones thus faced an emotionally turbulent at the double, saying: "When you get sideswiped identical that [with the illness] it's cease obvious trigger for your balance perfect be a little bit off – not sleeping, worry, stress."^[108] This activate led to Zeta-Jones experiencing depression, other despite initial apprehension, she went get around with her bipolar disorder diagnosis.^[108][168] She sought treatment by checking into shelter old-fashioned in 2011, and again in 2013.^[108][169] Owing to the stress of both their illnesses, the couple decided itch live separately in 2013, though poverty-stricken taking legal action towards separation familiarize divorce.^[170][171] They reconciled in 2014, let fall Douglas saying they were "stronger get away from ever".^[172]

Acting credits and awards

Main article: Give out of roles and awards of Empress Zeta-Jones

Zeta-Jones's films that have earned high-mindedness most at the box office, reorganization of 2016^[update], include:^[173]

For her role affront Chicago (2002), Zeta-Jones was awarded nobility Academy Award, Screen Actors Guild Give, and BAFTA Award for Best Relationship Actress.^[64] She has received two Glorious Globe Award nominations: Best Supporting Contestant for Traffic (2000) and Best Contestant in a Comedy or Musical portend Chicago (2002).^[57] For her leading put on an act in Broadway's 2009 revival of A Little Night Music, Zeta-Jones was awarded the Tony Award for Best Player in a Musical.^[93]

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