Catherine Zeta-Jones was born on September 25, 1969 in Swansea, Wales. She left school early to focus on acting. She went to The Arts Educational Schools in West London. She played the lead in a stage version of Annie and at age 14 she was cast in a production of Bugsy Malone. She kept doing stage plays.
She made her film debut in 1990 in Les 1001 Nuits. Her role in the British TV series The Darling Buds of May brought her to public attention. Zeta-Jones even tried her hand at music and released various singles. It took some years before she had her big breakthrough. When Steven Spielberg saw her performance in the mini-series Titanic he suggested her to the director of The Mask of Zorro, Martin Campbell. She has since starred in various movies including Etrapment, The Haunting, Traffic and America’s Sweethearts, The Terminal, Ocean’s Twelve and Side Effects. She won an Oscar for best supporting actress in Chicago.
What’s your favorite Catherine Zeta-Jones role?
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I absolutely adored her when I was younger – so many good roles and so much appeal to her! My favourite is Intolerable Cruelty, no doubt. Ah. It’s still amazing. Nice post!
Yeah, even though I have only seen that movie once I remember quite liking it. Thanks Elina.
I’m often quite mixed about her as an actress as she sometimes tries to hard in some of the movies she’s done and some of them were very bad like the bloody awful “Rock of Ages” where she looked awkward and stiff in that film.
Yet, I like her work with Steven Soderbergh as “Traffic” I think is her best role.
Even though I have seen her in quite a few movies she never really stood out, although she is pretty solid.
The two Zorro movies are still my favorites. Hard for me to believe she’s just about the same age as my son.
I really can not remember a thing about those two Zorro movies!
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