Catherine Zeta Zones

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Welsh movie star Catherine Zeta-Jones insists acting is merely a hobby for her - and would be able to cope if she never appeared on the big screen again. The Legend of Zorro actress, 37, who reportedly earned $8 million in 2002 for her role as Velma Kelly in Chicago, is aware her career may falter when she turns 40. I agree with her totally that there is a lot of things one can do even if you do not appear on screen ever again.

Ever since audiences saw the trailer for The Mask of Zorro, Catherine Zeta-Jones has been in the minds of all North American males. She's a classic beauty who has proven that she can do it all: comedy, action, drama, musicals, marriage, and motherhood. Besides being every red-blooded male's fantasy thanks to roles in The Mask of Zorro and Entrapment, Catherine is also an Top-list actress and Hollywood royalty, courtesy of her marriage to Michael Douglas.



As if her stunning beauty, sophisticated personality, and intelligence weren't enough, Catherine Zeta-Jones knows how to choose clothes that make her even more sensational. According to critics, she wore the most elegant and sexiest dress at the 1999 Oscars, and she is always included in entertainment and fashion magazines' "Best Dressed" lists.

Catherine Zeta-Jones is considered so beautiful that she was deemed unsuitable to play famed opera singer, Maria Callas, who became insecure about her own beauty. The producers decided that Catherine's confidence in her goddess-like looks wouldn't make her believable in such a role.

CATHERINE ZETA JONES has hit out at the 'size zero' culture in Hollywood - branding fellow stars' obsession with diets "scary". The Oscar-winning actress was recently criticised for her dramatic weight loss, some attributing her newly slender figure to the eating disorder anorexia.

But the 38-year-old Chicago star is disgusted by the notion. She says, "I think it's awful this competition in the U.S. between actresses who just had a baby to see who's first to get back to their normal weight. It's insane. I find this wave of super-skinny women scary."

Catherine Zeta-Jones is enjoying life with two kids – so how about having another?

"No," Zeta-Jones, whose offspring with husband Michael Douglas are son Dylan, 7, and daughter Carys, 4, tells the U.K.'s Tatler magazine for its September issue. "I'd love to but my life is so hectic. I'm very happy with one of each."

Having told PEOPLE last month that the best part of motherhood was hearing her kids say "Mama!," the Wales-born No Reservations star, 37, tells the British publication, "They're healthy, happy, funny ... so I'm done."

Married to Douglas since 2000, the Chicago Oscar winner recalls being young and single – and experiencing a not-particularly auspicious introduction to looking after babies.

Her intellect can't allow her to be a master chef or even a master of her own kitchen. Catherine Zeta-Jones is disappointed as she finds it impossible to master the art of boiling an egg. That would sound pretty daft to you and me. The Welsh actress plays a chef in new restaurant-based romantic comedy No Reservations, but insists she's not much use in the kitchen in real life.

She says, "You know, I still can't boil an egg. I never get it runny enough if I want it runny, and I never get it hard-boiled enough before it explodes.

"But I can make you (Italian dessert) tiramisu anytime you want. Cheese on toast is always good too."

This voluptuous Welsh beauty is one of the sexiest women in Hollywood. The scales of sexiness tilt in her favor due to her sharp persona complimented by her sultry, dark looks, a lilting accent, a figure to die for, and intelligence combine to make a desirable woman who is a walking entrapment of seductiveness.

Remember those scenes from Entrapment? When she is slithering under those laser lines? I am quite sure no one else could have carried out the scene oozing with oomph and desirability. The evening gowns she wears look as if have been custom tailored for her bringing out her curves and voluptousness. She surely looks fulsome and wholesome in those enticing gowns.

Catherine is friendly and unpretentious. Although she has issued a warning to those who might take advantage of her "niceness." Don't mess with her, or she'll bite your head off. Ouch!

She possesses a great intellect and isn't afraid to speak her mind. During an open-air interview to promote Intolerable Cruelty (2003), she compared some men to pot-bellied pigs. We promise to regard Catherine with the utmost respect and admiration. Especially admiration.

A great personality aside, Zeta-Jones is one hell of an actress: She can pull off comedy -- as shown from her performances in High Fidelity (2000) and Intolerable Cruelty -- and is equally adept in dramatic roles -- such as her work playing an international drug dealer's wife in Traffic (2000). And with the big-screen adaptation of Chicago (2002), we saw her talent as a singer and dancer. We wonder what else she's good at...

As humble as ever. That is what Catherine is. People call her with different names. She just laghs it off. She says that it is incorrect to call her a Diva as she is incredibly shy and is herself riddled with so many insecurities.

The Chicago actress happily married to Michael Douglas, 62 - has earned herself a name in Hollywood for being one of the more demanding stars in the industry, but the 37-year-old Welsh beauty believes it is all a big misunderstanding.

She says, "There is a much shyer quality to me that people don't usually see.

"I get perceived as 'Here comes the showgirl', when in fact I have my insecurities. I'm a lot more reserved than I let on."


Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones has laughed off reports claiming she is suffering from anorexia, insisting her slender figure is the result of healthy eating and plenty of exercise. The "Chicago" star, now 38, is baffled by the rumours of an eating disorder, and admits even her husband Michael Douglas was amused by the reports. She tells People.com, "Michael was laughing at me. He told me what (people had) said - that stories say I'm anorexic. Do I look anorexic? How could I ever, ever be anorexic? "I'm just working out and not chomping down what I usually chomp down." She truly is shocked by the kind of attention and time being given to the women's weight. She adds, "There are many women (who are) maybe a little fragile, and it becomes a huge issue."

Her Welsh and exotic looks, along with her singing and dancing ability, suggested a promising future, but it was in a straight acting role, as Mariette in the successful British television adaptation of H. E. Bates' The Darling Buds of May, that made her name. She briefly flirted with a musical career, beginning with a part in the 1992 album: Jeff Wayne's Musical Version Of Spartacus, from which the single "For All Time" was released in 1989. It failed to chart. She went on to release the singles "In the Arms of Love", "I Can't Help Myself", and a duet with David Essex, "True Love Ways". The duet was her only chart single, reaching #38 in the UK singles chart in 1994. She also starred in an episode of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles, as well as in Christopher Columbus: The Discovery.

Welsh movie star insists acting is merely a hobby for her - and would be able to cope if she never appeared on the big screen again.

The Legend of Zorro actress, 37, who reportedly earned $8 million (£4 million) in 2002 for her role as Velma Kelly in Chicago, is aware her career may falter when she turns 40.

She says, "Everything I do with my acting is a bonus. It's like a hobby. I'm not one of those people who are so self-centred that they just have to do it.

"I do the best I can with my work and when I hit 40, maybe things won't change. If (my career) falters, that's fine by me. I just think it's good I'm aware of the possibility of that."

The actress, who lives in Bermuda with her husband of six years (Nov00) Michael Douglas, divides her time between the family home, holidays and her charity work.

She adds, "I'm very philanthropic and I like investing. I love that part of my life."


Zeta-Jones' stage career began in childhood. She often performed at friends and family functions when she was younger. She was a part of a Catholic congregation's performing troupe before she was 10. During this time Catherine made her professional acting debut when she played the lead in Annie, a production at Swansea's Grand Theater. She also starred in a version of Bugsy Malone. When Catherine was 14, Mickey Dolenz (of "The Monkees" fame) was visiting Wales and stopped by the Grand Theater to audition Catherine for The Pyjama Game. He was so impressed with her performance that she was offered the opportunity to join his show for the rest of the tour. By 1987 Zeta-Jones was starring in 42nd Street as Peggy Sawyer in the West End. Once the show closed, the actress travelled to France, where she received the lead role in French director Philippe de Broca's 1001 Nights (also known as Sheherazade), her feature film debut.


Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones' young children are unaware that their father is an Oscar-winning actor. Why so? It seems their mother and Michael Douglas' wife Catherine Zeta-Jones has banned their kids from watching his adult-orientated movies.

The Mask Of Zorro beauty refuses to let her son Dylan, seven, and daughter Carys, four, see Douglas' work on films like Fatal Attraction and Basic Instinct but is more than happy to show them her own movies and that of their grandfather Kirk Douglas because they are more suitable for family viewing.

She says, "They've seen (Kirk's film) 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea, so they know about their grandfather. And they've seen me in Zorro and in Sinbad, the animated movie, which they are rather charmingly convinced I cut my hair for.

"But they're young, so I'm not having them seeing Michael's films with Glenn Close and Sharon Stone just yet!"

Zeta-Jones was raised Catholic. After her parents won £100,000 at bingo in the 1980s, they moved to St. Andrews Drive in Mayals, an upper class area of Swansea. Zeta-Jones attended Dumbarton House School in Swansea. Welsh comedian and actor Rob Brydon also went there. She left school early to further her acting ambitions without obtaining O levels and went on to attend The Arts Educational Schools in Chiswick for a full-time three year course in musical theatre


Surprisingly, even though she is welsh, she does not sound welsh enough. This she found out when making a documentary. Catherine Zeta-Jones had to perfect her old accent for a new mountain climbing documentary after producers told her she didn't sound Welsh enough.Sounds funny.

A Mountain to Climb producer John Morgan felt the Oscar winner had developed too much of a Hollywood tone and asked her to chat to her father over the phone in an effort to regain the accent she grew with in Swansea.

Morgan says, "When I met her she was making a film where she had an American accent, so you could here it in her voice. We made sure that when we went to record her she had the full Welsh treatment.

"We encouraged her to talk to her dad on the phone too. The end result sounds wonderful."

Morgan's new movie, which is narrated by Zeta-Jones, follows a charity celebrity hike up Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro by Welsh celebrities.


Zeta-Jones, the middle of three children, was born Catherine Zeta Jones in Swansea, a maritime city located on the southern coast of Wales and the hometown of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. Her mother, Patricia, was an Irish seamstress, and her father, David "Dai" Jones, was a Welsh sweet factory owner. Her father's cousin is married to singer Bonnie Tyler, who is also from Swansea, Wales. Her uncle owns Swansea's Škoda car dealership as well as Llanelli A.F.C. football club. Her name stems from those of her grandmothers — her maternal grandmother, Katherine Fair, and her paternal grandmother, Zeta Jones. The name "Zeta" originated from a ship that Catherine's great-grandfather used to captain out of Swansea Bay


Catherine Zeta-Jones was born on September 25, 1969. She is an Academy Award-winning Welsh actress based predominantly in the United States. Catherine Zeta Jones began her career on stage at an early age. She got an opportunity to star in a number of UK and US television films. Other than these she also landed small roles in films. She rose to prominence with roles in Hollywood movies such as The Phantom, The Mask of Zorro, and Entrapment in the late 1990s. Her protrayal of Velma Kelly in the 2002 film Chicago, won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Amazingly, she has been the first and only Welsh actress to get this award in this category. Zeta-Jones is married to Michael Douglas, with whom she shares her birthday. They have two children, both bearing Welsh names - Dylan (named after Dylan Thomas) and Carys


Catherine Zeta-Jones was announced as the new face of high-end jewelry line Di MODOLO. I think this lady stands out as a person who simulates all the great virtues of a beautiful woman of out times, she just doesn’t have a pretty face but also the grace and attitude to match her looks. And unlike other celebs it looks like all natural beauty to me. Catherine has beautiful curves that she’s not afraid to flaunt and a beautiful face to go with it. .