List of roles and awards of Catherine Zeta-Jones


is a Welsh actress who, as of 2019, has appeared in 27 films, 11 television productions and 9 theatre productions. Her first stage appearance was at age nine as one of the orphan girls in a West End production of the musical Annie. She also played the title role in another production of the musical at the Swansea Grand Theatre 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 1001 Nights 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 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 and the caper thriller Entrapment. The former earned her a Saturn Award for Best Actress nomination. Zeta-Jones' portrayal of a drug lord's wife in Steven Soderbergh's Traffic 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. As the highest-paid British actresses in Hollywood at the time, she took on the parts of a serial divorcée in Intolerable Cruelty, a flight attendant in The Terminal and a Europol agent in Ocean's Twelve. A sequel to The Mask of Zorro, entitled The Legend of Zorro, was a failure, following which Zeta-Jones played an ambitious chef in the romantic comedy No Reservations.
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 financially successful action film Red 2. After another three-year sabbatical, Zeta-Jones starred in the British film Dad's Army, 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 Feud.

Film

Television

Stage

Awards and nominations

YearAssociationCategoryFilmResult
1999Blockbuster Entertainment AwardsFavorite Female Newcomer
1999Saturn AwardsBest Actress
1999MTV Movie AwardsBest Breakthrough Performance
1999MTV Movie AwardsBest Fight
1999European Film AwardsBest Actress – People's ChoiceEntrapment
2000Golden Raspberry AwardsWorst ActressEntrapment/
The Haunting
2000Blockbuster Entertainment AwardsFavorite Actress – ActionEntrapment
2000Blockbuster Entertainment AwardsFavorite Actress – Horror
2001Screen Actors GuildOutstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion PictureTraffic
2001Golden Globe AwardsBest Supporting Actress – Motion PictureTraffic
2001Blockbuster Entertainment AwardsFavorite Supporting Actress – DramaTraffic
2001Chicago Film Critics AssociationBest Supporting ActressTraffic
2001Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics AssociationBest Supporting ActressTraffic
2002Empire AwardsBest British ActressTraffic
2002Boston Society of Film CriticsBest Supporting ActressChicago
2003Academy AwardsBest Supporting ActressChicago
2003British Academy Film AwardsBest Actress in a Supporting RoleChicago
2003Critics' Choice Movie AwardsBest Acting EnsembleChicago
2003Critics' Choice Movie AwardsBest Supporting ActressChicago
2003Evening Standard British Film AwardsBest ActressChicago
2003Screen Actors GuildOutstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion PictureChicago
2003Screen Actors GuildOutstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting RoleChicago
2003Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics AssociationBest Supporting ActressChicago
2003Golden Globe AwardsBest Actress – Motion Picture Musical or ComedyChicago
2003Online Film Critics SocietyBest Supporting ActressChicago
2005Critics' Choice Movie AwardsBest Acting EnsembleOcean's Twelve
2005Hasty Pudding TheatricalsWoman of the Year
2006People's Choice AwardsFavorite Female Action Star
2007Alliance of Women Film JournalistsActress Most in Need Of A New Agent
2010Outer Critics Circle AwardsOutstanding Actress in a Musical
2010Drama Desk AwardsOutstanding Actress in a Musical
2010Tony AwardsBest Actress in a Musical
2019Women's Image AwardsActress Made For Television Movie / Mini-Series

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