Catherine Zeta-Jones was born September 25, 1969. She was born in Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales, UK, the daughter of Dai Jones, who formerly worked for a candy factory, and Pat Jones.
Her brother David Jones (b. 1967) is a development executive and brother Lyndon Jones (b.1972) works at her production company.
Catherine showed an interest early on in entertainment. She was on stage in "Annie", "Bugsy Malone" and "The Pajama Game" and at 15 she had the lead in the British revival of "42nd Street".
She was originally cast as the second understudy for the lead role in the musical but when the star and first understudy became sick the night the play's producer was in the audience, she was given the lead for the rest of the musical's production.
She first made her name for her work in the early 1990s when she was cast for the a role in the Yorkshire Television comedy/drama series "The Darling Buds of May" (1991).
She played supporting roles in several films including Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992), a mini-series of Catherine the Great (1995) (made for TV) and a much bigger part as Sala in The Phantom (1996) before landing her breakthrough role playing the fierce Elena oppposite Antonio Banderas in The Mask of Zorro (1998).
She starred in a number of blockbusters like Entrapment (1999), The Haunting (1999) and Traffic (2000), for which many believe she was robbed of an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress. In November 2000 she married actor Michael Douglas. She gave birth to their son Dylan Michael in August 2000.
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