Catherine Zeta-Jones is a Welsh actress. Her first stage appearance was at age nine as one of the orphan girls in a West End production 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]
Zeta-Jones significantly decreased her workload in the late 2000s.[19] She made her Broadway debut in 2009 with the role of an aging 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 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] She has since appeared in the television series Prodigal Son (2021) and Wednesday (2022).[26][27]
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