Catherine Zeta-Jones
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Catherine Zeta-Jones, CBE is a Welsh actress. Born and raised in Swansea, Zeta-Jones aspired to a theatrical career from an early age. In her early teens, she played roles in the West End productions of the musicals Annie and Bugsy Malone. She studied musical theatre at the Arts Educational Schools, London, and made her adult stage breakthrough with a leading role in a 1987 production of 42nd Street. Her screen debut came in the unsuccessful French-Italian film 1001 Nights, and...
NationalityWelsh
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth25 September 1969
CitySwansea, Wales
I do a lot of swimming, both in the ocean and in the pool.
After Zorro, people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity.
I buy shoes sometimes and use them as bookends. They're too beautiful to wear.
Yes, I was in love with my husband at first sight and still am. We have the most solid relationship.
Being glamorous is about strength and confidence. It's black and white - dramatic. You have to be strong.
We recently had an extension built, to house a closet. It's like the Tardis - I go in there and never come out.
I get a bit gloomy when it's gloomy.
I don't have a trainer. Crazy, right? But I don't need anyone to motivate me. I love exercise, even things like the elliptical and stretching.
I find divorces repulsive. I will never get divorced, never.
I do think I'm lucky I met Michael. Not just Michael Douglas the actor and producer with two Oscars on the shelf, but Michael Douglas, the love of my life. I really do think it was meant to happen.
I grew up in a small, strictly-Catholic fishing village on the coast of Wales. The people there have a different attitude to life than those in Hollywood - people stick together more.
There are people who expect me to look the way I do on-screen, where I have a great director of photography and fantastic lighting. I'm sorry to disappoint people, but I don't look like that all the time - no actress does.
I'm obsessed with hula-hooping. I do it for 20 minutes a day. I don't use the old-fashioned hollow plastic kind we had when we were kids, but I discovered a new one at Danskin that's smaller and weighted.
Motherhood to me is something that I always wanted, but never quite knew how it was going to happen.