Catherine Zeta-Jones CBE is a Welsh actress. Known for her versatility, she is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Tony Award. In 2010, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for her film and humanitarian work.
David Jones, the owner of a candy factory, and his wife Patricia, a seamstress gave birth to Catherine Zeta-Jones on September 25, 1969, in Swansea, Wales. Her mother is Irish Catholic and her father is Welsh. She was given the names Catherine Fair and Zeta Jones, which were taken from the names of two ships that her great-grandfather sailed.
Lyndon, her younger brother, was a sales representative before he decided to pursue a career in film production. She has two brothers: David, her older brother. She was raised in Swansea’s Mumbles neighbourhood. Zeta-Jones’ mother enrolled her in the Hazel Johnson School of Dancing when she was four years old because of her hyperactive nature.
She received her education at Swansea’s Dumbarton House School, a private institution. The family had a low income before winning £100,000 in a bingo game, which allowed them to pay for their daughter’s dance and ballet tuition.
Zeta-Jones began performing in school plays at a young age, and she caught the attention of the local media when her performance of a Shirley Bassey song won the Junior Star Trail talent contest.
She frequently traveled to London with a dance group where she attended theatre auditions. In the original West End production of the musical Annie, Zeta-Jones was cast as July, one of the orphan girls, when she was nine years old. In her early teens, she won the national tap dance championship. In a Swansea production of the musical that took place at the Swansea Grand Theatre in 1981, she portrayed Annie in the title role.
She is 53 years old. She was born on September 25, 1969.
She hails from Swansea, Wales
Zeta-Jones was introduced to American actor Michael Douglas by Danny DeVito at the Deauville American Film Festival in France in August 1998.
They share the same birthday and are 25 years apart. Once Douglas’s divorce was officially finalized on November 18, 2000, they were married at the Plaza Hotel in New York City.
They got engaged on December 31, 1999. The BBC dubbed the high-profile event, which cost an estimated £1.5 million, the “wedding of the year.”
Michael Douglas is an American actor and film producer. He has received numerous accolades, including two Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the AFI Life Achievement Award.
On August 16, 2010, it was reported that Douglas had throat cancer (later discovered to have been tongue cancer) and will have chemotherapy and radiation therapy.
The cancer was later determined to be at stage IV, an advanced stage, by him. Douglas said he had tongue cancer in October 2013, not throat cancer.
His doctor advised him against disclosing that he had tongue cancer because of its poor prognosis and possibility for deformity, especially since the news was made just before Douglas’s promotional tour for Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. Instead, he revealed it as throat cancer.
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