Catherine Zeta-Jones

Catherine Zeta -Jones, CBE ( born September 25, 1969 in Swansea, Wales ) is a British actress and Academy Award winner.

Life

Zeta -Jones grew up in Wales Mumbles. Her father Dai Jones had a candy factory. She has two brothers, David Jones and Lyndon Jones, who works for her production company. As a child she suffered from a respiratory illness that made ​​a trachea require surgery; the intervention left a permanent scar.

Catherine Zeta -Jones, half- Irish, half- Welsh, felt called in childhood for show business. She danced and sang, among others, in a Catholic church. She starred in the theater productions of Annie and Bugsy Malone before she moved to London at 15 to become an actress. At 17 she got a supporting role in the West End production of the musical 42nd Street under happy circumstances. That you made ​​a breakthrough in the theater, at times she was eight times a week on stage.

1990 Zeta-Jones spent a year in France, the title role in the film Sheherazade - Playing with 1001 HP adventure. After her return, she turned on the television series The Darling Buds of May, the eldest daughter of a peasant family represents the series was a success and made them in England a star.

Meanwhile, she tried vehemently to advance their desire career as a singer and dancer. She released songs like For All Times (1992 ), In the Arms of Love and I Can not Help Myself ( 1995), which flopped all. Only the single True Love Ways (1994 ) as a duet with David Essex made ​​it to number 38 in the UK Top 75

Zeta -Jones is now focused on her acting career. This was followed by roles in the television series The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles as well as in the film, Christopher Columbus -. The discovery in 1992 by her appearance in the television production Titanic Hollywood took notice of them. Finally she succeeded with the starring role opposite Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins in the movie The Mask of Zorro on the big screen breakthrough. It was followed by other successful productions, including The Haunting, Traffic - power of the cartel and the movie musical Chicago. For the role of Velma Kelly in Chicago, she received the 2003 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In the role of Helena Ayala in Traffic pregnancy had to be built because Zeta -Jones was pregnant with her first son, Dylan Michael at this time. Catherine Zeta -Jones also operates successfully Advertising: In 2006, she was due to a two-year contract with T -Mobile over 16 million U.S. dollars, the highest paid advertising star world.

She also received for her performance in Chicago the British Academy Film Award, an award that means you as a native Welsh very much.

When she won the Oscar in 2003, Catherine Zeta -Jones was nine months pregnant. She sang live with Queen Latifah at the Kodak Theatre nominated for Best Movie Song Title I move on.

Catherine Zeta -Jones is the owner of the production company Milkwood Films.

Private

On 13 December 1999 she became engaged to the 25 year old actor Michael Douglas, whom she married on 18 November 2000. With him she has two children, son Dylan Michael ( * 2000 ) and daughter Carys Zeta (* 2003). Since the marriage, she is called a civil ceremony Catherine Zeta -Jones - Douglas. Because bipolar disorder in 2011, she went to a mental hospital; ago Michael Douglas was diagnosed with cancer, also her stepson Cameron were detected contacts with drug dealers.

German dubbing voice

Catherine Zeta Jones is predominantly spoken by the actress and voice actress Arianne Borbach.

Filmography

Awards (selection)

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