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Trivia
Birth name: Catherine Jones
Date of birth: 25 September 1969
Place of birth: Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales, UK
Height: 5' 8" (1.73 m)
Spouse: Michael Douglas (18 November 2000 - present) 2 children
Is a trained singer and dancer.
Her father was the manager of a candy
factory.
became engaged to Michael Douglas in Aspen,
Colorado [31 December 1999]
Chosen one of 1998's Most Beautiful People
by People Magazine.
Her first child with fiancé Michael
Douglas, a boy named Dylan Michael was born on 8th August about 6 p.m.
at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center near Beverly Hills. The baby weighed in
at 7 pounds and seven ounces and measured 21-1/2 inches.
Sister of David A. Jones, an executive at
Initial Entertainment group, the company that co-financed Traffic.
Named after her grandmothers: Catherine Fair
on her mother's side, and Zeta Jones on her fathers.
While Catherine and husband Michael Douglas
are not the same age, their birthdays are both on 25th of September
Daughter-in-law of Kirk Douglas and Diana
Douglas.
Stepmother of Cameron Douglas.
Sister-in-law of Joel Douglas, Eric Douglas
and Peter Douglas.
Her character in Traffic (2000) was changed
to a pregnant woman, because Zeta-Jones herself was pregnant at the time
with her son, Dylan.
Speaks Welsh fluently.
Measurements: 34C-25-36. (Source: Celebrity
Sleuth magazine)
Mother is Irish, father is Welsh.
She portrayed Palene, the beautiful Thracian
prophetess and woman of Spartacus, in Jeff Wayne's 1992 musical version
of "Spartacus." The role of Spartacus was played by her future
father-in-law, Kirk Douglas, in Stanley Kubrick's 1960 motion picture
Spartacus (1960).
In the June 1998 of Yahoo! internet
magazine, she was listed as the number one actress being searched on
Yahoo!
Gave birth to her first daughter, named
Carys Zeta Douglas, early Easter morning in New Jersey (April 20, 2003).
A traditional Welsh choir sang at her
wedding.
Her wedding ring includes a Celtic motif and
was bought in a Welsh town called Aberystwyth.
Hired as the spokeswoman for T-Mobile
cellular communications [2003]
As a child, she was exposed to a virus that
gave her breathing difficulties. This required a tracheotomy surgery,
which ultimately left a surgical scar on her neck.
Is an avid fan of musicals, paticularly the
ones she saw as a child: Mary Poppins (1964) and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
(1968).
Thursday December 11 2003 she was a Hostess,
together with husband Michael Douglas, at the 2003 annual Nobel Peace
Price Concert in Oslo Spectrum in Oslo, Norway.
Ocean's Twelve reunited her with previous
colleagues Steven Soderbergh, George
Clooney, Brad
Pitt, Julia
Roberts, and Don Cheadle.
She is a spokesperson for Elizabeth Arden
Cosmetics.
Was born in Swansea but grew up in the small
seaside town of Mumbles in Wales.
Her production company is named Milkwood
films, after a play called 'Under Milkwood' by Welsh writer Dylan
Thomas. She and Thomas share the same hometown in Wales, Swansea.
Her friend, singer Bonnie Tyler sang at her
wedding. Both Zeta-Jones and Tyler come from the same region of Wales.
She released the singles 'For All Time' in
1989, 'In the Arms of Love' and 'I Can't Help Myself' in 1995 and the
David Essex duet 'True Love Ways' which was her only chart single. It
appeared at #38 in the UK Top 75 singles chart in 1994
Ranked #50 on VH1's 100 Hottest Hotties
In addition to Michael Douglas, she also
shares a birthday with Will
Smith, Heather Locklear, Barbara Walters, Michael Madsen and the
late Christopher Reeve.
21 October 2004 - Filed lawsuit against the
Spice House, "Reno's Friendliest Topless Cabaret" for the
unauthorized use of her photo on its website.
On an awards show, she said, of doing her
role of "Velma Kelly" in the movie "Chicago", that
it was as exciting, but almost as painful, as giving birth to her son.
In 1992 the Columbia single 'For All Time'
peaked at #36 in the UK charts; In 1995 she spent a week on the UK chart
at #72 with 'In the Arms of Love'. |
