Catherine Zeta Jones Biography

Catherine Zeta Jones is born from Welsh father and Irish mother. The name derives from the two greats-grandmother: a Catherine, the other Zeta, deriving in its turn from the name of a boat. Her career begins whe she was very young. She dances and sings in a company of catholic inspiration till the age of ten years. In 1987 she interprets Peggy Saywer in Forty-Second Street. Then follow very many other musical comedies of large succeeding and that made her a real celebrity to London. Catherine records a single one, For all Time, that happening collects also a sure one. She is the protagonist of the fortunate series tv English Darling Buds of May, but her cinematographic debut happens in France with Sheherazade of the French director Philippe de Broca. She also stars in The mask of Zorro (1998) with Antonio Banderas and Entrapment (1999) with Sean Connery.

Catherine Zeta Jones wins an oscar(best actress) in 2003 with Chicago . She was directed in a skillful way by Steven Spielberg in The Terminal (2004), but many consider her performance in Traffic (2001) of Steven Soderbergh the best performance of her career: she carried on the screen the dramatic vicissitude of Helena Ayala, wife of a boss of the drug that takes the commerce of the husband, ended in jail. She has been between the protagonists of the film Ocean's Twelve, (2004), still of Sodebergh; in the 2003 Coen siblings they have directed it in the irresistibile (and most sophisticated) comedy Before you spouse, then I ruin to you, while in 2005 it is returned to dress the cloth of Elena in The Legend of Zorro .

In 2007 Catherine stars in two film: No Reservations of Scott Hicks, in which she interprets a chef to the taken ones with an orphaned girl, and Death Defying Acts di Gillian Armstrong, on the last years of the life of the Houdini wizard (that it will be interpreted from Guy Pearce) .She has announced her withdrawal from the cinematographic scene. If she is to return, it will only be if the role will convince “me 110%” the beautiful one and good diva is likeably: it is in fact turning to New York City a directed independent film from Bart Freundlich, and in 2009 it will be the fatal Turner Wool in biopic the Stompanato.

Catherine is married from 2000 with the actor Michael Douglas, with which she has had two sons.

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