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]
Year [a] | Title | Role | Notes | Ref(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|
1990 | 1001 Nights | Scheherazade | French language film | [28] |
1992 | Christopher Columbus: The Discovery | Beatriz Enríquez de Arana | [29] | |
1993 | Splitting Heirs | Kitty Farrant | [30] | |
1995 | Blue Juice | Chloe | [31] [32] | |
1996 | The Phantom | Sala | [33] | |
1998 | The Mask of Zorro | Elena Montero | [34] | |
1999 | Entrapment | Virginia "Gin" Baker | [35] | |
1999 | The Haunting | Theodora | [36] | |
2000 | High Fidelity | Charlie Nicholson | [37] | |
2000 | Traffic | Helena Ayala | [38] | |
2001 | America's Sweethearts | Gwen Harrison | [39] | |
2002 | Chicago | Velma Kelly | [40] [41] | |
2003 | Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas | Marina (voice) | [42] | |
2003 | Intolerable Cruelty | Marilyn Rexroth | [43] | |
2004 | The Terminal | Amelia Warren | [44] | |
2004 | Ocean's Twelve | Isabel Lahiri | [45] | |
2005 | The Legend of Zorro | Elena De La Vega | [46] | |
2007 | No Reservations | Kate Armstrong | [47] | |
2007 | Death Defying Acts | Mary McGarvie | [48] | |
2009 | The Rebound | Sandy | [49] | |
2012 | Lay the Favorite | Tulip Heimowitz | [50] | |
2012 | Rock of Ages | Patricia Whitmore | [51] [52] | |
2012 | Playing for Keeps | Denise | [53] | |
2013 | Broken City | Cathleen Hostetler | [54] | |
2013 | Side Effects | Dr. Victoria Siebert | [55] | |
2013 | Red 2 | Katja Petrokovich | [56] | |
2016 | Dad's Army | Rose Winters | [24] |
† | Denotes works that have not yet been released |
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|
1991 | Out of the Blue | Unknown | [57] | |
1991–1993 | The Darling Buds of May | Mariette | Main role | [6] [58] |
1992 | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | Maya | Episode: "Palestine, October 1917" | [59] |
1994 | The Return of the Native | Eustacia Vye | Movie | [60] |
1994 | The Cinder Path | Victoria Chapman | Miniseries | [61] |
1995 | Catherine the Great | Catherine II | Movie | [62] |
1996 | Titanic | Isabella Paradine | Miniseries | [63] |
2005 | Saturday Night Live | Herself (host) | Episode: "Catherine Zeta-Jones/Franz Ferdinand" | [64] |
2017 | Feud: Bette and Joan | Olivia de Havilland | [65] | |
2018 | Cocaine Godmother | Griselda Blanco | Movie | [66] |
2018–2019 | Queen America | Vicki Ellis | Main role | [67] |
2021 | Prodigal Son | Dr. Vivian Capshaw | 7 episodes (season 2) | [68] |
2022 | Wednesday | Morticia Addams | 2 episodes | [69] |
2022 | National Treasure: Edge of History | Billie Pearce | Main cast | [70] |
Year | Production | Role | Theater | Ref(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|
Unknown [b] | Annie | Orphan girl | Victoria Palace Theatre | [1] [2] |
1981 | Annie | Annie | Swansea Grand Theatre | [3] |
1983 | Bugsy Malone | Tallulah | Her Majesty's Theatre | [72] [73] |
1985–86 | The Pajama Game | Chorus girl | Haymarket Theatre, Leicester | [74] [75] |
1987 | 42nd Street | Peggy Sawyer | Theatre Royal, Drury Lane | [76] |
1989 | Street Scene | Mae Jones | London Coliseum | [77] [78] |
1992 | Under Milk Wood | Unknown | AIR Studios | [79] |
2009–10 | A Little Night Music | Desirée Armfeldt | Walter Kerr Theatre | [80] |
2017 | The Children's Monologues | Girl obsessed with math | Carnegie Hall | [81] |
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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]
Year [a] | Title | Role | Notes | Ref(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|
1990 | 1001 Nights | Scheherazade | French language film | [28] |
1992 | Christopher Columbus: The Discovery | Beatriz Enríquez de Arana | [29] | |
1993 | Splitting Heirs | Kitty Farrant | [30] | |
1995 | Blue Juice | Chloe | [31] [32] | |
1996 | The Phantom | Sala | [33] | |
1998 | The Mask of Zorro | Elena Montero | [34] | |
1999 | Entrapment | Virginia "Gin" Baker | [35] | |
1999 | The Haunting | Theodora | [36] | |
2000 | High Fidelity | Charlie Nicholson | [37] | |
2000 | Traffic | Helena Ayala | [38] | |
2001 | America's Sweethearts | Gwen Harrison | [39] | |
2002 | Chicago | Velma Kelly | [40] [41] | |
2003 | Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas | Marina (voice) | [42] | |
2003 | Intolerable Cruelty | Marilyn Rexroth | [43] | |
2004 | The Terminal | Amelia Warren | [44] | |
2004 | Ocean's Twelve | Isabel Lahiri | [45] | |
2005 | The Legend of Zorro | Elena De La Vega | [46] | |
2007 | No Reservations | Kate Armstrong | [47] | |
2007 | Death Defying Acts | Mary McGarvie | [48] | |
2009 | The Rebound | Sandy | [49] | |
2012 | Lay the Favorite | Tulip Heimowitz | [50] | |
2012 | Rock of Ages | Patricia Whitmore | [51] [52] | |
2012 | Playing for Keeps | Denise | [53] | |
2013 | Broken City | Cathleen Hostetler | [54] | |
2013 | Side Effects | Dr. Victoria Siebert | [55] | |
2013 | Red 2 | Katja Petrokovich | [56] | |
2016 | Dad's Army | Rose Winters | [24] |
† | Denotes works that have not yet been released |
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|
1991 | Out of the Blue | Unknown | [57] | |
1991–1993 | The Darling Buds of May | Mariette | Main role | [6] [58] |
1992 | The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles | Maya | Episode: "Palestine, October 1917" | [59] |
1994 | The Return of the Native | Eustacia Vye | Movie | [60] |
1994 | The Cinder Path | Victoria Chapman | Miniseries | [61] |
1995 | Catherine the Great | Catherine II | Movie | [62] |
1996 | Titanic | Isabella Paradine | Miniseries | [63] |
2005 | Saturday Night Live | Herself (host) | Episode: "Catherine Zeta-Jones/Franz Ferdinand" | [64] |
2017 | Feud: Bette and Joan | Olivia de Havilland | [65] | |
2018 | Cocaine Godmother | Griselda Blanco | Movie | [66] |
2018–2019 | Queen America | Vicki Ellis | Main role | [67] |
2021 | Prodigal Son | Dr. Vivian Capshaw | 7 episodes (season 2) | [68] |
2022 | Wednesday | Morticia Addams | 2 episodes | [69] |
2022 | National Treasure: Edge of History | Billie Pearce | Main cast | [70] |
Year | Production | Role | Theater | Ref(s) |
---|---|---|---|---|
Unknown [b] | Annie | Orphan girl | Victoria Palace Theatre | [1] [2] |
1981 | Annie | Annie | Swansea Grand Theatre | [3] |
1983 | Bugsy Malone | Tallulah | Her Majesty's Theatre | [72] [73] |
1985–86 | The Pajama Game | Chorus girl | Haymarket Theatre, Leicester | [74] [75] |
1987 | 42nd Street | Peggy Sawyer | Theatre Royal, Drury Lane | [76] |
1989 | Street Scene | Mae Jones | London Coliseum | [77] [78] |
1992 | Under Milk Wood | Unknown | AIR Studios | [79] |
2009–10 | A Little Night Music | Desirée Armfeldt | Walter Kerr Theatre | [80] |
2017 | The Children's Monologues | Girl obsessed with math | Carnegie Hall | [81] |
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