Natalie Wood

. 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. 1980:. Her daughter, Carys Zeta Douglas was born April 20, 2003. 1971:. (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). 1970:. Her son, Dylan Michael Douglas was born August 8, 2000.

1968:. Zeta-Jones is married to the actor Michael Douglas, with whom she has two children. 1967:. She has also starred on the Lifetime Television event of Titanic, also starring Tim Curry and Peter Gallagher. 1966:. She is currently the global spokeswoman for cosmetics giant, Elizabeth Arden. 1965:. Apart from her acting career, Zeta-Jones is also an advertising spokesperson for the mobile phone company T-Mobile.

1964:. 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). 1963:. E. Bates' The Darling Buds of May (1991), that she made her name. 1962:. 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. 1961:. Sheherazade), her feature film debut.

1960:. 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. 1959:. 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. 1958:. Zeta-Jones' stage career began in childhood. 1957:. As a child she had a tracheotomy leaving a scar.

1956:. 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.
. 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. She is buried in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery. Catherine Zeta-Jones (born September 25, 1969) is an Academy Award-winning Welsh actress. The exact circumstances of her death remain the subject of much speculation. Ocean's Twelve (2004).

She was in the middle of filming of the movie Brainstorm and preparing to make her stage debut in a Los Angeles production of Anastasia, opposite Dame Wendy Hiller, when she drowned in a 1981 overnight accident while their yacht was anchored at Catalina Island, off the coast near Los Angeles at the age of only 43. The Terminal (2004). Her two marriages to actor Robert Wagner, conducted in the public eye, were stormy; but they were once more reconciled at the time of her death. Intolerable Cruelty (2003). During these years, which were the best of her career as an adult actress, she was a real Hollywood star, and was compared favorably with Elizabeth Taylor. Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) (voice). Having a nice voice, she was supposed to sing all her songs; however, in the end she was dubbed by professional singer Marni Nixon, which was to her a great disappointment. Chicago (2002).

Another of her great films was the musical by Leonard Bernstein, West Side Story, in which she played the leading character Maria. America's Sweethearts (2001). By the time she was 28, she was already a three-time Oscar nominee, winning Academy Award nominations for Rebel Without a Cause, Splendor in the Grass and Love With the Proper Stranger. Traffic (2000). A well-known child star, she was one of the relatively few who made the transition to adult stardom. High Fidelity (2000). Soon her parents changed their surname to Gurdin, and at the age of 4 she was billed as Natasha Gurdin. The Haunting (1999).

She was born in San Francisco, California as the daughter of Russian immigrants. Entrapment (1999). She was the sister of the also famous actress Lana Wood. The Mask of Zorro (1998). Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko (July 20, 1938 - November 29, 1981), better known as Natalie Wood, was an American film actress. Titanic (1996) (TV). C.H.U.D. (1983). The Phantom (1996).

The Last Married Couple in America (1980). Katharina die Große (1995) (TV). Willie and Phil (1980). Blue Juice (1995). Corvette Summer (1979). The Cinder Path (1994) (TV). Peeper (1975). The Return of the Native (1994) (TV).

The Candidate (1972). Splitting Heirs (1993). Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice (1969). The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones (1992) (voice). This Property is Condemned (1966). Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992). The Great Race (1965). The Darling Buds of May (1991) (TV).

Sex and the Single Girl (1964). Out of the Blue (1991). Love with the Proper Stranger (1963). Les Mille et une nuits (1990). Gypsy (1962). Splendor in the Grass (1961).

West Side Story (1961). All the Fine Young Cannibals (1960). The Searchers (1956). Rebel Without a Cause (1955).

Muir (1947). The Ghost and Mrs. Miracle on 34th Street (1947). Golden Globe Award - From Here to Eternity (1979) (mini) - Best TV Actress: Drama (won!).