Catherine Zeta-Jones

[LizzyF]

Catherine Zeta-Jones, Apr 29, 2010



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[LizzyF]

Catherine Zeta-Jones, May 01, 2010



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Catherine Zeta Jones, Apr 24, 2010



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[meanced]

^Cute beret.

 

[Versace-Goddess]

Love the red bag.

 

[Emilee]

Catherine Zeta Jones 2010-05-08 - makes her way to the theatre on Broadway - Celebrity-Paradise.com

 

[Versace-Goddess]

She looks really like an old lady. And she´s only 40.

 

[Boomer]

Wanted: Old Lady who looks like CZJ- apply in person- Chateau Boomer...

 

[Gleam]

I think she looks lovely in the recent pics (minus the silly beret)... Matronly, maybe, but she's not exactly a spring chicken either. Looks great in my opinion.

 

[gimmethatbag]

I love the red purse from #902. So fab.

 

[RoseMary]

Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michael Douglas & their kids out in New York City - May 9, 2010 (tlfan.to).

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[Versace-Goddess]

Is that really fur coat again, in May?

 

[Eleonorah]

I love her red Valentino bag!

 

[tigerrouge]

So many new images - here she is at a charity event in New York (dailymail.co.uk

 

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The Daily Mail ran an article in its Weekend TV supplement, looking at Catherine's career (dailymail.co.uk

1967: Catherine Zeta-Jones was born on 25 September 1969 in Swansea, South Wales. Her father, Dai, managed a sweet factory and her Irish mother, Pat, was a seamstress. 'I had a big cone head. I looked like I was squeezed out of the eye of a needle,' she says. 'My dad threatened to divorce my mum because I looked like a frog.'

Her talent showed early and she was soon performing with an amateur troupe. 'Growing up, I wanted to be in musical comedy - all I wanted to do was be on stage. That was my dream.'

1980: At nine, Catherine won the lead role in the stage musical Annie. 'I loved it,' she said. 'I loved everything about it.'

By the time she was 13, she'd won a talent contest at Butlins, was a tap-dancing champion and had starred in productions of Bugsy Malone and Annie. At 15, she moved to London to study at the Arts Educational School. 'I always knew what I wanted to do - go to London, rent a flat, study and start auditioning,' she says.

1989: Appearing in the chorus of the West End show 42nd Street, Catherine had a stroke of luck when the lead and the understudy were struck down by illness, and she took the star role of Peggy Sawyer. That night, the show's producer saw her on stage and gave her the lead full time.

1990: Catherine's elder brother, David, is VP of a film company, while her younger brother, Lyndon, works for her production company and is her manager.

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Continued... (same source)

1991: Catherine made her name with TV viewers as Mariette in The Darling Buds Of May. But even as she basked in her success, Catherine was set on a career in movies. When filming for the last series of Buds ended in 1993, she packed her bags and set off for Hollywood.

1992: Catherine flirted with a solo singing career with the help of Jeff Wayne, best known for the 1970s hit War Of The Worlds. She released three singles, including a duet with David Essex, which didn't do any better than number 38 in the charts.

1993: Catherine believes she was a late starter when it came to boyfriends: 'I never had a boyfriend until I was 19. I wasn't interested really. 'It was like, "Oh boys, yuck!" I was very focused and blinkered in a way.'

Then, in the early 1990s, she dated Simply Red's Mick Hucknall and actor Angus Macfadyen, and had a high-profile two-year relationship with TV presenter John Leslie.

1994: Having played several lead roles in such TV movies as The Cinder Path, Catherine still didn't find it easy making her big break in the US: 'It was very humbling for me, coming to LA and having to start again.'

Then came a TV version of Titanic, which was seen by Steven Spielberg. As executive producer of The Mask Of Zorro, he recommended Catherine to the film's director.

 

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Continued... (same source)

1998: In Zorro, starring Antonio Banderas, Catherine was scintillating as Elena, the feisty long-lost daughter of Anthony Hopkins' aged Zorro. She says, 'I love this character so much. We pushed the comedy and the action, and I just had a ball. I forgot about the corset, the skirt, the two petticoats, the hair, the make-up and the boots.'

1999: After seeing Catherine in Zorro, Michael Douglas was love struck and arranged a meeting. The following year was momentous: she gave birth to their son, Dylan, married Douglas three months later and also starred in Traffic with him.

2002: When Catherine was offered the part of murderous vaudevillian, Velma Kelly, in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical Chicago, she said, 'Did I want this role? That's like saying did I want to wake up in the morning wanting to breathe.'

2003: Catherine won her only Academy Award - Best Supporting Actress - for her role in Chicago. Heavily pregnant with her second child, Carys, she said, 'My hormones are way too out of control to be dealing with this.'

2007: Of her marriage, Catherine says, 'I do think I'm lucky I met Michael.' Although they have two children she says, 'I'd love to have more, but my life is so hectic. I'm very happy with them. They're healthy, happy, funny... so I'm done.'

In the same year she starred in No Reservations and Death Defying Acts.

2010: Last year, Catherine returned to her musical roots and made her Broadway debut in Trevor Nunn's revival of A Little Night Music with Angela Lansbury, in which she plays Lansbury's daughter, Desiree. 'There's no jazzy hands, no high kicks, no fishnet stockings, but really that's what excited me.'

 

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In a newspaper interview at the weekend (walesonline.co.uk

SHE may be an Oscar-winning screen siren – but Catherine Zeta Jones has admitted to having to having the same insecurities about her looks as any woman.

The 40 year old said in an interview she did not think she was “aesthetically beautiful” and highlighted the number of flaws she thought she had. “I have a broken nose,” she said. “I had a tracheotomy when I was a kid. I have broken capillaries and I’m always asking my husband ‘do I look fat in this dress? Can you see that spot on my face?’”

The Swansea-born star insisted that, far from her glamorous Hollywood image, she was actually something of a “home bird”. She said: “Actually I’m very shy socially. I get perceived sometimes like ‘ta da! Here comes the showgirl’ but I’m a lot more reserved and quiet than I let on.”

She said she was “crazy in love” with her husband, Michael Douglas, 25 years her senior and made it clear neither of them cared about the age difference. She said: “The age difference is kind of fantastic. I am crazy in love with my husband. The biggest misconception of me is that I’m some diehard, ambitious, do-anything-get-anything kind of person.”

She highlighted the fact she was still “a British citizen” and made many visits to her £2m home at Limeslade, Mumbles, over looking the beauty spot of Bracelet Bay.

Although she has had little time off recently, playing twice a day in the Broadway revival of the musical A Little Night Music, when she did have holiday time she loved being at her Bermuda home with Douglas and their children Dylan, nine, and Carys, seven, she said.

“All the things you used to worry about go on the back burner when you have children,” she said. “It gives me such joy to be around them and to see them grow. When Dylan came along it just blew my mind that a complete little stranger would fill me with this overwhelming desire to nurture and protect him.

“I would like as many as I can pop out. Michael said to me he would have two and then we would have to negotiate on the third. Me? I would have as many children as I possibly could.”

Meanwhile... (metro.co.uk

Catherine Zeta Jones wins award

Catherine Zeta Jones has won a prestigious acting award for her Broadway theatre role. The Welsh actress, who stars in A Little Night Music, and Montego Glover, who features in Memphis, tied for the Oustanding Actress In A Musical gong at the Outer Critics Circle Awards.

 

[Boomer]

^ Poor, ugly girl!! I went out (too briefly) with a Ford model a ways back, who was stunning and had all of these same insecurities- I though she was kidding at first...I guess we're all unsure of ourselves to some extent...

 

[NakedIfIWantTo]

She has an amazing voice! I was so mesmerized by it when she sang.