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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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^ Fulton, Rick (1 July 1999). "The Frog Princess" . Daily Record . Archived from the original on 4 May 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2016 .
^ 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 .
^ Film Review: Special . Visual Imagination Limited. 2000. p. 57. Archived from the original on 2017-03-01.
^ "Catherine Zeta Jones biography" . BBC . 14 June 2010. Archived from the original on 26 September 2009. Retrieved 5 April 2016 .
^ "Face of the Day: Catherine Zeta Jones" . The Herald . 20 June 2000. Archived from the original on 18 April 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2016 .
^ 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.
^ "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 .
^ 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 .
^ Dougharty, Margot (August 1998). Exposure . p. 42. ISSN 1522-9149 . Archived from the original on 2017-02-17.
^ 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 .
^ 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 .
^ 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 .
^ Simpson, Richard (16 January 2002). "Hollywood's most wanted" . London Evening Standard . Archived from the original on 9 October 2016. Retrieved 10 April 2016 .
^ 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 .
^ "The Legend of Zorro" . Metacritic . Archived from the original on 13 January 2011. Retrieved 9 December 2010 .
^ "The Legend of Zorro (2005)" . Box Office Mojo . Archived from the original on 5 September 2015. Retrieved 14 August 2015 .
^ 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 .
^ McQuoid, Debbie. "Just call me Cath" . Stylist . Archived from the original on 23 July 2015. Retrieved 14 August 2015 .
^ "Catherine Zeta Jones wins Tony Award" . BBC. 14 June 2010. Archived from the original on 8 April 2011. Retrieved 28 January 2011 .
^ "Catherine Zeta-Jones" . Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 9 April 2016 .
^ "Side Effects (2013)" . Rotten Tomatoes . Archived from the original on 22 August 2015. Retrieved 14 August 2015 .
^ "Red 2 (2013)" . Box Office Mojo. 17 October 2013. Archived from the original on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 14 August 2015 .
^ Bray, Catherine (27 January 2016). "Film Review: 'Dad's Army' " . Variety . Archived from the original on 29 March 2016. Retrieved 7 April 2016 .
^ 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 .
^ Andreeva, Nellie (2021-01-06). "Catherine Zeta-Jones Joins Fox's 'Prodigal Son' As A Lead For Season 2" . Deadline . Retrieved 2022-02-13 .
^ Odman, Sydney (2022-11-18). "Jenna Ortega, 'Wednesday' Cast on Working With "Visionary" Director Tim Burton" . The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 2022-11-19 .