Catherine Zeta-Jones

Academy Award winner Catherine Zeta-Jones starred in Miramax’s film adaptation of the Broadway musical Chicago, in which she played the murderous Velma Kelly. The movie, which won the Academy Award and Golden Globe for “Best Picture,” also stars Renee Zellweger and Richard Gere. Zeta-Jones was nominated for a Golden Globe and took home the 2002 Critic’s Choice Award, the 2002 Screen Actor’s Guild Award for “Best Supporting Actress” and an Academy Award for “Best Actress in a Supporting role” for her performance.

In 2005 she starred in The Legend of Zorro the sequel to The Mask of Zorro. Zeta-Jones reprised her role as Elena de La Vega opposite Antonia Banderas as Zorro. She starred in Steven Sodergergh’s Ocean’s 12, the sequel to the hit Ocean’s 11. She was also seen in The Terminal, opposite Tom Hanks and directed by Steven Spielberg. Zeta-Jones also starred opposite George Clooney in the Coen brothers’ Intolerable Cruelty.

Zeta-Jones earned a Golden Globe nomination for her portrayal of the wife of a drug-runner who is confronted with her husband’s illegal ties and must fight to save her family in Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic. The cast of the critically praised film received a SAG Award for “Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Theatrical Motion Picture.”

She captured international recognition in the Columbia/Tri-Star action adventure film, The Mask of Zorro, where she starred opposite Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins. In 1999, Zeta-Jones continued to wow audiences in Jon Amiel’s romantic-thriller Entrapment, starring opposite screen legend Sean Connery as an under-cover insurance investigator who sets out to trap one of the world’s greatest art thieves. She also portrayed a diva movie star in Sony’s blockbuster comedy, America’s Sweethearts. The film, directed by Joe Roth, also starred Billy Crystal, Julia Roberts and John Cusack.

Born in Wales, Zeta-Jones starred in the hit Yorkshire Television series, “The Darling Buds of May,” based on the novels of H.E. Bates. Zeta-Jones is married to actor/producer Michael Douglas. They have a son, Dylan, and a daughter, Carys.

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