Catherine Zeta Jones feet & legs
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 Zeta-Jones 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. At 14, Mickey Dolenz (of “The Monkees” fame) was visiting Wales and stopped by the Grand Theater to audition her 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.
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.
She continued to find moderate success with a number of television projects, including The Return of the Native (1994) and the mini-series Catherine the Great (1995). She also appeared in Splitting Heirs (1993), a comedy starring Eric Idle, Rick Moranis and John Cleese.
In 1996, she was cast as the evil aviatrix “Sala” in the action film, The Phantom , based on the comic created by Lee Falk. Her character did her best to kill Billy Zane’s Phantom, while assisting villain Xander Drax (Treat Williams) in taking over the world with a weapon of doom. The following year, she starred in the CBS mini-series Titanic, which also starred Tim Curry and Peter Gallagher. Steven Spielberg, who noted her performance in the mini-series, recommended her to Martin Campbell, the director of The Mask of Zorro. Zeta-Jones subsequently landed a lead role in the film, alongside fellow Welsh compatriot Anthony Hopkins and Antonio Banderas. The following year she co-starred with Sean Connery in the film Entrapment, and alongside Liam Neeson and Lili Taylor in The Haunting. In 2000, she starred in Traffic with future husband Michael Douglas. Her performance earned her first Golden Globe nomination, as Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture.
In 2003, Zeta-Jones won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Velma Kelly in the film Chicago. Chicago also won the Academy Award for Best Picture that year. On 22 October 2005, she referenced her award, as guest host on the television show Saturday Night Live, surrounded by four male dancers, mimicking the Bob Fosse-inspired Chicago-style dancing, suggesting in song that, no matter how bad she might be that night, “They Can’t Take My Oscar Away.” For her role in Chicago, she specifically requested a 1920s-style short bob wig, so her face could be seen and fans wouldn’t doubt she did all her dancing herself.
In 2003, she voiced Marina in Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas opposite Brad Pitt, as well as starring in Intolerable Cruelty with George Clooney. In 2004 she was in The Terminal, as well as Ocean’s Twelve, the sequel to Ocean’s Eleven. In 2005, she reprised her role as Elena in The Legend of Zorro, the sequel to The Mask of Zorro. In 2007, she starred in the romantic comedy No Reservations, a remake of the German film Mostly Martha. She stars in and produces the rugby union-related comedy, Coming Out. The film is produced by her company Milkwood Films.
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.
She continued to find moderate success with a number of television projects, including The Return of the Native (1994) and the mini-series Catherine the Great (1995). She also appeared in Splitting Heirs (1993), a comedy starring Eric Idle, Rick Moranis and John Cleese.
In 1996, she was cast as the evil aviatrix “Sala” in the action film, The Phantom , based on the comic created by Lee Falk. Her character did her best to kill Billy Zane’s Phantom, while assisting villain Xander Drax (Treat Williams) in taking over the world with a weapon of doom. The following year, she starred in the CBS mini-series Titanic, which also starred Tim Curry and Peter Gallagher. Steven Spielberg, who noted her performance in the mini-series, recommended her to Martin Campbell, the director of The Mask of Zorro. Zeta-Jones subsequently landed a lead role in the film, alongside fellow Welsh compatriot Anthony Hopkins and Antonio Banderas. The following year she co-starred with Sean Connery in the film Entrapment, and alongside Liam Neeson and Lili Taylor in The Haunting. In 2000, she starred in Traffic with future husband Michael Douglas. Her performance earned her first Golden Globe nomination, as Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture.
In 2003, Zeta-Jones won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Velma Kelly in the film Chicago. Chicago also won the Academy Award for Best Picture that year. On 22 October 2005, she referenced her award, as guest host on the television show Saturday Night Live, surrounded by four male dancers, mimicking the Bob Fosse-inspired Chicago-style dancing, suggesting in song that, no matter how bad she might be that night, “They Can’t Take My Oscar Away.” For her role in Chicago, she specifically requested a 1920s-style short bob wig, so her face could be seen and fans wouldn’t doubt she did all her dancing herself.
In 2003, she voiced Marina in Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas opposite Brad Pitt, as well as starring in Intolerable Cruelty with George Clooney. In 2004 she was in The Terminal, as well as Ocean’s Twelve, the sequel to Ocean’s Eleven. In 2005, she reprised her role as Elena in The Legend of Zorro, the sequel to The Mask of Zorro. In 2007, she starred in the romantic comedy No Reservations, a remake of the German film Mostly Martha. She stars in and produces the rugby union-related comedy, Coming Out. The film is produced by her company Milkwood Films.
89 Sex Appeal
A perfect mix of Welsh and Irish, Catherine Zeta-Jones has the right balance of sass and class that typifies the most alluring European actresses. Most sizzling in her roles in The Mask of Zorro and Entrapment — movies where she was unquestionably sexy without showing anything truly revealing — she was ranked by People on their Most Beautiful People In The World 2001 list and singled out by the likes of E! Online, VH1 and FHM for her high marks on the natural beauty scale. One outlet that is not on the list is Playboy, after Zeta-Jones shunned Hugh Hefner‘s efforts to woo her into his magazine. As she continues to drift away from sexy roles towards the realm of mature adult roles, Zeta-Jones maintains her appeal through an early bedtime, regular helpings of her prized smoked-salmon sandwiches and careful management of her fear of turkeys (no lie).
Zeta-Jones was previously engaged to fellow actor Angus Macfadyen, but she’s best known in relationship circles for her long marriage to Michael Douglas, whom she first met in 1998 at a French film festival. After a long courtship that included nine months without a single kiss between them, the two were married in 2000 and have proven to be a symbol of endurance in the face of regular Hollywood divorces and her husband’s recent cancer battle. In fact, the biggest threat to their marriage may have come from Dawnette Knight, a stalker who vowed to separate the two and repeatedly threatened Zeta-Jones’ life. Husband and wife have soldiered on, and while Zeta-Jones has spent the better part of her celebrity years joined at the hip with Douglas, many men would still be happy to share a glass of wine and an elegant soiree with her, if given the chance.
Zeta-Jones was previously engaged to fellow actor Angus Macfadyen, but she’s best known in relationship circles for her long marriage to Michael Douglas, whom she first met in 1998 at a French film festival. After a long courtship that included nine months without a single kiss between them, the two were married in 2000 and have proven to be a symbol of endurance in the face of regular Hollywood divorces and her husband’s recent cancer battle. In fact, the biggest threat to their marriage may have come from Dawnette Knight, a stalker who vowed to separate the two and repeatedly threatened Zeta-Jones’ life. Husband and wife have soldiered on, and while Zeta-Jones has spent the better part of her celebrity years joined at the hip with Douglas, many men would still be happy to share a glass of wine and an elegant soiree with her, if given the chance.
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Zeta Beta
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Treboeth, South Wales
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Breaks out into song at inappropriate times
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Actress, Spokesperson
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Musical Theater, Golf
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