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Vote: | After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity. |
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Vote: | All of a sudden I had a baby, because it went really quick. It was like, 'Oh! I have a baby!' So, it's great. I'm just having a great time with my children. They're here in New York with me. |
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Vote: | For marriage to be a success, every woman and every man should have her and his own bathroom. The end. |
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Vote: | I like women who look like women. I hated grunge. No one's more feminist than me, but you don't have to look as if you don't give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself. |
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Vote: | I think, especially in our business we meet a lot of people, and sometimes you spend so much time being nice to strangers, and so, you know, keeping a clear head and just being nice to each other. And that's all the advice I can give. |
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Vote: | I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people that I started to get any work. |
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Vote: | I'm intimidated every day I go on the stage and everyday I go on a movie set. It's terrifying and I always want to reshoot the first day or the first week, I'm so terrified. |
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Vote: | In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes 'So what you doing now?' And I go, 'Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins.' And they go, 'Ooh, good.' And that's it. |
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Catherine Zeta-Jones (born September 25, 1969) is an Academy Award-winning Welsh actress.
Born Catherine Jones in Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales, her name stems from two different grandmothers; one grandmother is named Catherine, while the other is "Zeta", named after a ship that her great-grandfather sailed on. She was born to a Welsh father and a mother of Irish Catholic extraction and has two other brothers. Besides English she speaks Welsh fluently. As a child, she had a tracheotomy which left a scar.
Zeta-Jones' stage career began in childhood. She sang and danced her way to local stardom as a part of a Catholic congregation's performing troupe before she was ten years of age, and by 1987 she was starring in Forty-Second Street as Peggy Saywer in the West End. Once the show closed, Zeta-Jones travelled to France, where she received the lead role in French director Phillippe De Broca's 1001 Nights (a.k.a. Sheherazade), her feature film debut.
Her exotic beauty, along with her singing and dancing ability, suggested a promising future, but it was in a straight acting role, as Mariette in the successful television adaptation of H. E. Bates' The Darling Buds of May (1991), that she made her name. She became really famous after having leading roles in 2 movies: The Mask of Zorro (1998) with Antonio Banderas and Entrapment (1999) with Sean Connery. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the movie Chicago in 2003.
Apart from her acting career, Zeta-Jones is also an advertising spokesman for the mobile phone company T-Mobile. She is currently the global spokeswoman for cosmetics giant, Elizabeth Arden. She has also starred on the Lifetime Television event of Titanic, also starring Tim Curry and Peter Gallagher.
Zeta-Jones is married to the actor Michael Douglas, with whom she has two children. Her son, Dylan Michael Douglas was born August 8, 2000. (Her American admirers like to think that he is named after Bob Dylan - a favourite of Douglas - while her British admirers like to think that Dylan Thomas, also born in Swansea, was the inspiration). Her daughter, Carys Zeta Douglas was born April 20, 2003.
Zeta-Jones has determined that her children grow up aware of their Welsh heritage and has built a seaside dream home in her hometown of Swansea.
Filmography *Rachel's Holiday (2006)
*Coming Out (2006)
*Smoke & Mirrors (2005)... Colette
*Legend of Zorro (2005)... Elena de la Vega
*Ocean's Twelve (2004)... Isabel Lahiri
*The Terminal (2004)... Amelia Warren
*Intolerable Cruelty... Marilyn Rexroth
*'' (2003)... Marina (voice)
*Chicago (2002 movie) (2002)... Velma Kelly
*America's Sweethearts (2001)... Gwen Harrison
*Traffic (2000 movie) (2000)... Helena Ayala
*High Fidelity (2000)... Charlie Nicholson
*The Haunting (1999)... Theo
*Entrapment (movie) (1999)... Virginia Baker
*The Mask of Zorro (1998)... Elena Montero/Elena Murrieta
*Titanic (1996 miniseries)... Isabella Paradine
*The Phantom (1996)... Sala
*Blue Juice (1995)...
*Catherine the Great (1995)... Catherine
*The Return of the Native (1994)... Eustacia Vye
*The Cinder Path (1994)... Victoria Chapman
*Splitting Heirs (1993)... Kitty
*Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992)... Beatriz
*The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Daredevils of the Desert (1992)... Maya
*Out of the Blue (1991)... Christy
*The Darling Buds of May (1991) (TV series)... Mariette Jane Larkin
*1001 Nights (1990)... Sheherazade
...(more on Wikipedia)
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