Biography of Catherine Zeta-Jones

Date of Birth : 25 September 1969, Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales, UK.
Birth Name : Catherine Jones.
Nickname : Cathy, Cath.
Height : 5' 6½" (1.69 m).
Measurements : 34C-25-36. (Source: Celebrity Sleuth magazine).

Biography
Catherine Zeta-Jones was born on 25 September 1969, in Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales, UK, the daughter of Dai Jones, who formerly worked for a candy factory, and Pat Jones. Her brother David Jones (b. 1967) is a development executive and brother Lyndon Jones (b.1972) works at her production company. Catherine showed an interest early on in entertainment. She starred on stage in "Annie", "Bugsy Malone" and "The Pajama Game". At 15 she had the lead in the British revival of "42nd Street". She was originally cast as the second understudy for the lead role in the musical but when the star and first understudy became sick the night the play's producer was in the audience, she was given the lead for the rest of the musical's production. She first made a name for herself in the early 1990s when she starred in the Yorkshire Television comedy/drama series "The Darling Buds of May" (1991). The show was a smash hit and made her one of the United Kingdom's most popular television actresses. She subsequently played supporting roles in several films including Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (1992), the miniseries Catherine the Great (1995) (TV) and a larger part as the seductive Sala in The Phantom (1996) before landing her breakthrough role playing the fiery Elena opposite Anthony Hopkins and Antonio Banderas in The Mask of Zorro (1998). She starred in many big-budget blockbusters like Entrapment (1999), The Haunting (1999) and Traffic (2000), for which many believed she was robbed of an Oscar nomination for best supporting actress.
On 18 November 2000, he was married to actor Michael Douglas. From her marriage to Michael Douglas was blessed with 2 children.
Her first child was a boy named Dylan Michael was born on 8 August 2000 about 6 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. Baby weighed in at 7 pounds and seven ounces and measured 21-1/2 inches.
Her second child was a girl named Carys Zeta Douglas, was born early Easter morning in New Jersey on 20 April 2003.
Catherine and husband Michael Douglas share the same birthday, 25 years apart. He was born 25 September 1944; she was born 25 September 1969.
Thursday December 11 2003 she was a hostess, together with husband Michael Douglas, at the 2003 annual Nobel Peace Price Concert in Oslo Spectrum in Oslo, Norway.
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.
Chosen one of 1998's Most Beautiful People by People Magazine.
Ranked #50 on VH1's 100 Hottest Hotties.
In 2005, ranked as #68 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement.
In 2006, Named #82 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006" supplement.

( references f rom IMDb ).