List of roles and awards of Catherine Zeta-Jones

Catherine Zeta-Jones is a Welsh actress who, as of 2018, has appeared in 27 films, 10 television productions and 9 theatre productions. Her first stage appearance was at the age of nine as one of the orphan girls in a West Endproduction of the musical Annie.[1][2] She also played the title role in another production of the musical at the Swansea Grand Theatre in 1981.[3] 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.[4]

The French-Italian fantasy feature 1001 Nights (1990) marked Zeta-Jones' film debut.[5] 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.[6][7] However, disillusioned at only being offered roles of the love interest, Zeta-Jones shifted base to Los Angeles.[8][9] 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 Entrapment(1999).[1][10] The former earned her a Saturn Award for Best Actressnomination.[11] Zeta-Jones' portrayal of a drug lord's wife in Steven Soderbergh's Traffic (2000) gained her a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actressnomination.[12] She then won an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress for playing Velma Kelly in the musical Chicago (2002).[13] As the highest-paid British actresses in Hollywood at the time,[14] 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).[9][15] A sequel to The Mask of Zorro, entitled The Legend of Zorro (2005), was a failure,[16][17]following which Zeta-Jones played an ambitious chef in the romantic comedy No Reservations (2007).[18]

Zeta-Jones significantly decreased her workload in the late 2000s.[19] 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.[1][20] 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.[21] This changed in 2013, when she played a mysterious psychiatrist in Soderbergh's critically acclaimed thriller Side Effects and a Russian agent in the financially successful action film Red 2.[22][23] 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.[24] In 2017, she returned to television by portraying the actress Olivia de Havilland in the anthology series Feud.[25]