Catherine Zeta Jones was born in a working class area of Swansea, Wales, she was one of three children born to Patrick Jones, a Welsh factory worker and Dia Fair, who was of Irish Catholic extraction; Catherine was raised a Catholic. She went to the local state schools, where she was an average student. Her name stems from those of her grandmothers; one named Catherine, and the other Zeta, named after a ship which her great-grandfather had sailed on. As a child, she had a tracheotomy which left a scar.
Her exotic beauty, along with her singing and dancing ability, suggested a promising future, but it was in a straight acting role, as Mariette in the successful television adaptation of H. E. Bates' The Darling Buds of May (1991), that she made her name. She briefly flirted with a musical career, having a part in Jeff Wayne's 1992 Spartacus. A single, "The Appian Way" featuring her was released but failed to chart. She became famous outside Britain after leading roles in two movies, The Mask of Zorro (1998) with Antonio Banderas and Entrapment (1999) with Sean Connery. It is said that she gained the role in Zorro after Steven Spielberg saw her performance in the Lifetime Television event of Titanic, also starring Tim Curry and Peter Gallagher.
Catherine Zeta-Jones is married to actor Michael Douglas, with whom she has two children. They were married at the Plaza Hotel in New York City on November 18, 2000.
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