The Zorro Girl

Catherine Zeta-Jones was born on September 25, 1969. She is an Academy Award-winning Welsh actress based predominantly in the United States. Catherine Zeta Jones began her career on stage at an early age. She got an opportunity to star in a number of UK and US television films. Other than these she also landed small roles in films. She rose to prominence with roles in Hollywood movies such as The Phantom, The Mask of Zorro, and Entrapment in the late 1990s. Her protrayal of Velma Kelly in the 2002 film Chicago, won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Amazingly, she has been the first and only Welsh actress to get this award in this category. Zeta-Jones is married to Michael Douglas, with whom she shares her birthday. They have two children, both bearing Welsh names - Dylan (named after Dylan Thomas) and Carys.