Welsh actress Catherine Zeta-Jones CBE was born on September 25, 1969. She has won numerous honors, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Tony Award.
She is well known for her versatility. She received the CBE designation for her contributions to humanitarian causes and the film industry in 2010.
For her roles as a violent singer in the musical Chicago (2002) and a spiteful pregnant lady in the movie Traffic (2000), Zeta-Jones won the Oscar Award for Best Supporting Actress.
Throughout the majority of the decade, she appeared in high-profile movies like the black comedy Intolerable Cruelty (2003), the heist movie Ocean’s Twelve (2004), the comedy The Terminal (2004), and the romantic comedy No Reservations (2007).
She resumed acting during a period of reduced work after landing parts in smaller-budget films, and in 2009, she won a Tony Award for her performance as an aging actress in the Broadway production of A Little Night Music.
Why did Catherine Zeta-Jones stop acting?
Catherine Zeta-Jones was diagnosed with bipolar II disease and made only sporadic acting appearances in smaller-budget, less popular projects, choosing to prioritize her family and health instead.
In the romantic comedy The Rebound, she played a forty-year-old mother who is drawn to a younger man (Justin Bartha). The production was theatrically distributed in several countries in 2009–2010, however, due to financial issues with its distributor, The Film Development, it was not theatrically released in the United States.