Rachel Ward

She then reappeared in 1987, playing opposite her husband, Bryan Brown (whom she met on the set of the The Thorn Birds), in The Good Wife. Zeta-Jones has determined that her children grow up aware of their Welsh heritage and has built a seaside dream home in her hometown of Swansea. She became well known when she starred opposite Richard Chamberlain in the television mini-series The Thorn Birds. She disappeared from pictures for three years and studied acting. Her daughter, Carys Zeta Douglas was born April 20, 2003. In 1983 she was voted one of the ten most beautiful women in the United States. (Her American admirers like to think that he is named after Bob Dylan - a favourite of Douglas - while her British admirers like to think that Dylan Thomas, also born in Swansea, was the inspiration). She attended Byram Art School in London before leaving at 16 to become a top fashion model. Her son, Dylan Michael Douglas was born August 8, 2000.

Rachel Claire Ward (born at Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, September 12, 1957), granddaughter of the 3rd Earl of Dudley, is an English actress that has made most of her career in Australia. Zeta-Jones is married to the actor Michael Douglas, with whom she has two children. "Christmas Lilies of the Field" (1979). She has also starred on the Lifetime Television event of Titanic, also starring Tim Curry and Peter Gallagher. "Night School" (1981). She is currently the global spokeswoman for cosmetics giant, Elizabeth Arden. "Sharky's Machine" (1981). Apart from her acting career, Zeta-Jones is also an advertising spokesperson for the mobile phone company T-Mobile.

"Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" (1982). She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the movie Chicago in 2003 (when she quoted the Welsh chant "Oggy Oggy Oggy" in her acceptance speech). "The Final Terror" (1983). E. Bates' The Darling Buds of May (1991), that she made her name. "Against All Odds" (1984). Her exotic good looks, teamed 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. "Fortress" (Made for TV) (1986). Sheherazade), her feature film debut.

"The Good Wife" (1987). Once the show closed, Zeta-Jones travelled to France, where she received the lead role in French director Phillippe De Broca's 1001 Nights (a.k.a. "Hotel Colonial" (1987). She sang and danced her way to local stardom as a part of a Catholic congregation's performing troupe before she was ten years of age, and by 1987 she was appearing in Forty-Second Street in the West End. "Shadow of the Cobra" (Made for TV) (1989). Zeta-Jones' stage career began in childhood. "How to Get Ahead in Advertising" (1989). As a child she had a tracheotomy leaving a scar.

"After Dark, My Sweet" (1990). She was born to a Welsh father and a mother of Irish Catholic extraction and has two other brothers, besides English she speaks Welsh fluently. "And the Sea Will Tell" (Made for TV) (1991). Born Catherine Jones in Mumbles, Wales, her last name stems from two different grandmothers; one grandmother is named Catherine, while the other is "Zeta," named after a ship that her great-grandfather sailed on. "Black Magic" (Made for TV) (1992). Catherine Zeta-Jones (born September 25, 1969) is an Academy Award-winning Welsh actress. "Double Jeopardy" (Made for TV) (1992). Ocean's Twelve (2004).

"Christopher Columbus: The Discovery" (1992). The Terminal (2004). "Wide Sargasso Sea" (1993). Intolerable Cruelty (2003). "The Ascent" (1994). Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) (voice). "Double Obsession" (1994). Chicago (2002).

"My Stepson, My Lover" (Made for TV) (1997). America's Sweethearts (2001). "On the Beach" (Made for TV) (2000). Traffic (2000). "And Never Let Her Go" (Made for TV) (2001). High Fidelity (2000). "Johnson County War" (2002). The Haunting (1999).

"Bobbie's Girl" (2002). Entrapment (1999). "Martha's New Coat" (2003). The Mask of Zorro (1998). Titanic (1996) (TV). The Phantom (1996).

Katharina die Große (1995) (TV). Blue Juice (1995). The Cinder Path (1994) (TV). The Return of the Native (1994) (TV).

Splitting Heirs (1993). The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones (1992) (voice). Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992). The Darling Buds of May (1991) (TV).

Out of the Blue (1991). Les Mille et une nuits (1990).