List of roles and awards of Catherine Zeta-Jones

Zeta-Jones at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival

Catherine Zeta-Jones is a Welsh actress. Her first stage appearance was at age nine as one of the orphan girls in a West End production of the musical Annie.[1][2] She also played the title role in another production of the musical at the Swansea Grand Theatre in 1981.[3] As a teenager, she played roles in the West End productions of Bugsy Malone and The Pajama Game, following which she had her stage breakthrough with the lead role of a chorus girl turned star in a 1987 production of 42nd Street.[4]

The French-Italian fantasy feature 1001 Nights (1990) marked Zeta-Jones' film debut.[5] She gained popularity in Britain with the role of a country girl in the television series The Darling Buds of May (1991–93)—the most watched series in the country at that time.[6][7] However, disillusioned at only being offered roles of the love interest, Zeta-Jones shifted base to Los Angeles.[8][9] She achieved early success by playing roles that relied significantly on her sex appeal, in the action film The Mask of Zorro (1998) and the caper thriller Entrapment (1999).[1][10] The former earned her a Saturn Award for Best Actress nomination.[11] Zeta-Jones' portrayal of a drug lord's wife in Steven Soderbergh's Traffic (2000) gained her a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination.[12] She then won an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing Velma Kelly in the musical Chicago (2002).[13] As the highest-paid British actresses in Hollywood at the time,[14] she took on the parts of a serial divorcée in Intolerable Cruelty (2003), a flight attendant in The Terminal (2004) and a Europol agent in Ocean's Twelve (2004).[9][15] A sequel to The Mask of Zorro, entitled The Legend of Zorro (2005), was a failure,[16][17] following which Zeta-Jones played an ambitious chef in the romantic comedy No Reservations (2007).[18]

Zeta-Jones significantly decreased her workload in the late 2000s.[19] She made her Broadway debut in 2009 with the role of an aging actress in the musical A Little Night Music, which won her the Tony Award for Best Actress.[1][20] After a three-year absence from the screen, she had three film releases each in 2012 and 2013. None of her releases in 2012 performed well.[21] This changed in 2013, when she played a mysterious psychiatrist in Soderbergh's critically acclaimed thriller Side Effects and a Russian agent in the action film Red 2.[22][23] After another three-year sabbatical, Zeta-Jones starred in the British film Dad's Army (2016), based on the television sitcom of the same name.[24] In 2017, she returned to television by portraying the actress Olivia de Havilland in the anthology series Feud.[25] She has since appeared in the television series Prodigal Son (2021) and Wednesday (2022).[26][27]

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  2. ^ Fulton, Rick (1 July 1999). "The Frog Princess". Daily Record. Archived from the original on 4 May 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  3. ^ Adams, Guy (16 April 2011). "Catherine Zeta-Jones: Darling bud with a steely core". The Independent. Archived from the original on 20 April 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  4. ^ Film Review: Special. Visual Imagination Limited. 2000. p. 57. Archived from the original on 2017-03-01.
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  6. ^ "Face of the Day: Catherine Zeta Jones". The Herald. 20 June 2000. Archived from the original on 18 April 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  7. ^ Butzel, Marsha; Ana Lopez (January 1994). Mediating the National. Taylor & Francis. p. 33. ISBN 978-3-7186-0570-5. Archived from the original on 2017-03-01.
  8. ^ "Catherine Zeta Jones Interview: I Used to Be Just a Pretty Face with a Big Bust Now I Fight for Roles with Nicole Kidman". Daily Mirror. 12 December 1998. Archived from the original on 4 May 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  9. ^ a b Johnston, Sheila (12 June 2010). "Catherine Zeta-Jones: the evergreen girl of the valleys". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 2 January 2014. Retrieved 7 February 2013.
  10. ^ Dougharty, Margot (August 1998). Exposure. p. 42. ISSN 1522-9149. Archived from the original on 2017-02-17. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  11. ^ Rice, Andrew (9 June 1999). "Sci-Fi Saturnalia in La-La Land". Wired. Archived from the original on 20 April 2016. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
  12. ^ Yamato, Jen (1 October 2014). "Catherine Zeta-Jones To Play 'Cocaine Godmother' Griselda Blanco". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on 2 April 2016. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
  13. ^ Brocks, Emma (14 December 2009). "Singing and acting, but not at the same time – Zeta-Jones falters on Broadway". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2 August 2015. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  14. ^ Simpson, Richard (16 January 2002). "Hollywood's most wanted". London Evening Standard. Archived from the original on 9 October 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2016.
  15. ^ O'Sullivan, Michael (10 October 2003). "Cruel? Yes. Intolerable? No". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 22 August 2015. Retrieved 11 April 2016.
    Scott, A. O. (18 June 2004). "Wild hogs". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 19 April 2016. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
    Susman, Gary (11 February 2004). "Zeta-Jones completes the cast of Ocean's Twelve". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on 10 October 2016. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  16. ^ "The Legend of Zorro". Metacritic. Archived from the original on 13 January 2011. Retrieved 9 December 2010.
  17. ^ "The Legend of Zorro (2005)". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on 5 September 2015. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  18. ^ Freydkin, Donna (18 July 2007). "Catherine Zeta-Jones makes 'No Reservations'". USA Today. Archived from the original on 23 April 2016. Retrieved 8 April 2016.
  19. ^ McQuoid, Debbie. "Just call me Cath". Stylist. Archived from the original on 23 July 2015. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  20. ^ "Catherine Zeta Jones wins Tony Award". BBC. 14 June 2010. Archived from the original on 8 April 2011. Retrieved 28 January 2011.
  21. ^ "Catherine Zeta-Jones". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 9 April 2016.
  22. ^ "Side Effects (2013)". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on 22 August 2015. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  23. ^ "Red 2 (2013)". Box Office Mojo. 17 October 2013. Archived from the original on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 14 August 2015.
  24. ^ Bray, Catherine (27 January 2016). "Film Review: 'Dad's Army'". Variety. Archived from the original on 29 March 2016. Retrieved 7 April 2016.
  25. ^ Patten, Dominic (25 February 2017). "'Feud: Bette & Joan' Review: Jessica Lange & Susan Sarandon Kill In H'wood War Story". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on 25 February 2017. Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  26. ^ Andreeva, Nellie (2021-01-06). "Catherine Zeta-Jones Joins Fox's 'Prodigal Son' As A Lead For Season 2". Deadline. Retrieved 2022-02-13.
  27. ^ Odman, Sydney (2022-11-18). "Jenna Ortega, 'Wednesday' Cast on Working With "Visionary" Director Tim Burton". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2022-11-19.