CATHERINE ZETA-JONES (Isabel Lahiri) received an Academy Award for her portrayal of the murderous Vilma Kelly in the film adaptation of the Broadway musical Chicago. The movie, which won the Academy Award and Golden Globe for “Best Picture,” also stars Renée Zellweger and Richard Gere. Zeta-Jones was nominated for a Golden Globe and took home the 2002 Critic’s Choice Award and the 2002 Screen Actor’s Guild Award for “Best Supporting Actress” for her performance in Chicago.
Zeta-Jones also earned a Golden Globe nomination for her portrayal of the wife of a drug-runner who is confronted with her husband’s illegal ties and must fight to save her family in Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic. The cast of the critically praised film received a SAG Award for “Outstanding Performance by the Cast of a Theatrical Motion Picture.”
She most recently starred in The Terminal, opposite Tom Hanks and directed by Steven Spielberg. Zeta-Jones also starred opposite George Clooney in the Coen brothers’ Intolerable Cruelty, playing a gold-digging Beverly Hills divorcee.
Zeta-Jones captured international recognition in the action adventure film The Mask of Zorro, where she starred opposite Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins. Upon completion of her role in Ocean’s Twelve, Zeta-Jones returned to Mexico to begin production on its sequel, The Legend of Zorro.
In 1999, Zeta-Jones continued to wow audiences in Jon Amiel’s romantic-thriller Entrapment, starring opposite screen legend Sean Connery as an under-cover insurance investigator who sets out to trap one of the world’s greatest art thieves. She also portrayed a diva movie star in the blockbuster comedy America’s Sweethearts. The film, directed by Joe Roth, also starred Billy Crystal, Julia Roberts and John Cusack.
Born in Wales, Zeta-Jones starred in the hit Yorkshire Television series The Darling Buds of May, based on the novels of H.E. Bates.
Zeta-Jones is married to actor Michael Douglas. They have a son, Dylan, and a daughter, Carys.
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