Zoe Wanamaker

Her stage performance in Sophocles' Electra was widely acclaimed. 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. Successful TV series included Love Hurts with Adam Faith and My Family with Robert Lindsay. Her daughter, Carys Zeta Douglas was born April 20, 2003. She has also appeared in a variety of films, programmes, and plays. (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 played Clarice, one of the dimwitted twin sisters of Lord Groan in Gormenghast, a BBC television adaptation of Mervyn Peake's trilogy. Her son, Dylan Michael Douglas was born August 8, 2000.

She is probably best-known by a world-wide audience for her role as Madam Hooch in the film Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Zeta-Jones is married to the actor Michael Douglas, with whom she has two children. She is the daughter of American film director Sam Wanamaker, who led the project to rebuild the Globe Theatre in London. She has also starred on the Lifetime Television event of Titanic, also starring Tim Curry and Peter Gallagher. Zoe Wanamaker (born May 13, 1949) is an American actress who lives and works in the United Kingdom. She is currently the global spokeswoman for cosmetics giant, Elizabeth Arden. Apart from her acting career, Zeta-Jones is also an advertising spokesperson for the mobile phone company T-Mobile.

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

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. 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. Zeta-Jones' stage career began in childhood. As a child she had a tracheotomy leaving a scar.

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. Catherine Zeta-Jones (born September 25, 1969) is an Academy Award-winning Welsh actress. Ocean's Twelve (2004).

The Terminal (2004). Intolerable Cruelty (2003). Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas (2003) (voice). Chicago (2002).

America's Sweethearts (2001). Traffic (2000). High Fidelity (2000). The Haunting (1999).

Entrapment (1999). 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).