List Of Roles And Awards Of Catherine Zeta-Jones
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Catherine Zeta-Jones is a Welsh actress. Her first stage appearance was at age nine as one of the orphan girls in a
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production of the musical '' Annie''. She also played the title role in another production of the musical at the
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in 1981. As a teenager, she played roles in the West End productions of '' Bugsy Malone'' and '' The Pajama Game'', following which she had her stage breakthrough with the lead role of a chorus girl turned star in a 1987 production of '' 42nd Street''. The French-Italian fantasy feature ''
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'' (1990) marked Zeta-Jones' film debut. She gained popularity in Britain with the role of a country girl in the television series '' The Darling Buds of May'' (1991–93)the most watched series in the country at that time. However, disillusioned at only being offered roles of the love interest, Zeta-Jones shifted base to Los Angeles. She achieved early success by playing roles that relied significantly on her sex appeal, in the action film '' The Mask of Zorro'' (1998) and the caper thriller ''
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'' (1999). The former earned her a
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nomination. Zeta-Jones' portrayal of a drug lord's wife in
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's '' Traffic'' (2000) gained her a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination. She then won an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing Velma Kelly in the musical '' Chicago'' (2002). As the highest-paid British actresses in Hollywood at the time, she took on the parts of a serial divorcée in '' Intolerable Cruelty'' (2003), a flight attendant in '' The Terminal'' (2004) and a Europol agent in '' Ocean's Twelve'' (2004). A sequel to ''The Mask of Zorro'', entitled '' The Legend of Zorro'' (2005), was a failure, following which Zeta-Jones played an ambitious chef in the romantic comedy '' No Reservations'' (2007). Zeta-Jones significantly decreased her workload in the late 2000s. She made her Broadway debut in 2009 with the role of an ageing actress in the musical '' A Little Night Music'', which won her the Tony Award for Best Actress. After a three-year absence from the screen, she had three film releases each in 2012 and 2013. None of her releases in 2012 performed well. This changed in 2013, when she played a mysterious psychiatrist in Soderbergh's critically acclaimed thriller '' Side Effects'' and a Russian agent in the action film '' Red 2''. After another three-year sabbatical, Zeta-Jones starred in the British film '' Dad's Army'' (2016), based on the television sitcom of the same name. In 2017, she returned to television by portraying the actress Olivia de Havilland in the anthology series ''
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''. She has since appeared in the television series ''
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'' (2021) and '' Wednesday'' (2022).


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