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Catherine Zeta Jones BiographyCatherine Zeta-Jones was born and raised in the Welsh town of Swansea where her father ran the town confectionery and mother was a seamstress. Catherine showed an interest early on in entertainment. She sang and danced her way to local stardom before she was ten years-old, as a part of a Catholic congregation's performing troupe. Catherine Zeta-Jones debuted on the British stage, starring in the musical 42nd Street, but made a name for herself in the early '90s, when she starred in the Yorkshire Television comedy-drama series The Darling Buds of May. Based on a series of novels by H.E. Bates, the show was a smash hit and made Zeta-Jones one of the United Kingdom's most popular television actresses. At first Catherine bagged small roles in movies such as "The Phantom" and "Christopher Columbus: The Discovery", but her big break came when by chance, Steven Spielberg caught her performance in the 1996 miniseries "Titanic", and was impressed by her talent and beauty. He cast her in "The Mask of Zorro" (1998). Although Catherine was not known in the U.S. until her role in The Mask of Zorro, she was a well-known star in her native UK. Audiences probably wondered where this beauty popped up from, since they had never before heard of the Welsh star, who was often mistaken for Spanish. . Gaining increasing prominence through the 1990s with roles in such films as Entrapment (1999), The Haunting (1999) and Traffic (2000), Jones stunned audiences with an Oscar winning performance in the long-awaited Broadway adaptation Chicago (2002). 2004 was a busy year for Catherine Zeta-Jones: she's starred in Spielberg's The Terminal, as well as the sequel to Ocean's Eleven, Ocean's Twelve. She will also be reuniting with Banderas and Anthony Hopkins for another sequel, Zorro 2, set for a 2005 release.RankingsChosen one of 1998's Most Beautiful People by People Magazine. In the June 1998 of Yahoo! internet magazine, she was listed as the number one actress being searched on Yahoo! Ranked #50 on VH1's 100 Hottest Hotties. |
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