Catherine Zeta-Jones Net Worth

Catherine Zeta-Jones's Quotes

• I used to go around looking as frumpy as possible because it was inconceivable you could be attractive as well as be smart. It wasn't until I started being myself, the way I like to turn out to meet people, that I started to get any work.
• I like women who look like women. I hated grunge. No one's more feminist than me, but you don't have to look as if you don't give a - you know. You can be smart, bright and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself.
• In Wales it's brilliant. I go to the pub and see everybody who I went to school with. And everybody goes "So what you doing now?". And I go, "Oh, I'm doing a film with Antonio Banderas and Anthony Hopkins." And they go, "Ooh, good." And that's it.
• After Scottish actor Sean Connery presented her with the Oscar: A Scotsman giving a Welsh girl an Oscar - oh my God!
• After The Mask of Zorro (1998), people spoke Spanish to me for ages. I'm Welsh but that movie instantly gave me a new ethnicity.

Interesting Facts about Catherine Zeta-Jones

1. The daughter of David and Catherine (née Fair) Jones (both born 1946), Catherine Zeta-Jones is a trained singer and dancer. She moved to London from Wales at age 15 and acquired her first actor's guild card that same year.
2. (December 31, 1999) Became engaged to Michael Douglas in Aspen, Colorado.
3. Chosen by People magazine as one of the Most Beautiful People in the World (1998).
4. Sister of David A. Jones, an executive at Initial Entertainment group, the company that co-financed Traffic (2000).
5. Named after her grandmothers: Catherine Fair on her mother's side, and Zeta Jones on her father's.
6. Catherine and husband Michael Douglas share the same birthday, 25 years apart. He was born 25 September 1944; she was born 25 September 1969.
7. Daughter-in-law of Kirk Douglas and Diana Douglas.
8. Her character in Traffic (2000) was changed to a pregnant woman, because Zeta-Jones herself was pregnant at the time with her son, Dylan.
9. Her father is of Welsh ancestry, and her mother is of Irish, English, and Welsh ancestry.
10. 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 motion picture Spartacus (1960).
11. In the June 1998 of Yahoo! Internet magazine, she was listed as the number one actress being searched on Yahoo!.
12. A traditional Welsh choir sang at her wedding.
13. Her wedding ring includes a Celtic motif and was bought in a Welsh town called Aberystwyth.
14. 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.
15. Is an avid fan of musicals, particularly the ones she saw as a child: Mary Poppins (1964) and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968).
16. On December 11, 2003, she was a hostess, together with husband Michael Douglas, at the 2003 annual Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo Spectrum in Oslo, Norway.
17. Ocean's Twelve (2004) reunited her with previous colleagues Steven Soderbergh, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts and Don Cheadle.
18. Celebrity spokesperson for Elizabeth Arden Cosmetics.
19. Her production company is Milkwood Films, named after the play "Under Milkwood" by Welsh writer Dylan Thomas. She and Thomas are both from the same Welsh town, Swansea.
20. Her friend, singer Bonnie Tyler, sang at her wedding. Both Zeta-Jones and Tyler come from the same region of Wales.