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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]
† | Denotes works that have not yet been released |
Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref(s) |
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1991 | The Play on One | Chirsty | Episode: "Out of the Blue" | [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] |
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 | 6 episodes | [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–present | Wednesday | Morticia Addams | 2 episodes | [69] |
2022–2023 | National Treasure: Edge of History | Billie Pearce | Main cast | [70] |
Year | Production | Role | Theater | Ref(s) |
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Unknown[lower-alpha 2] | 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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