List of roles and awards of Catherine Zeta-Jones

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]

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 Actress nomination.^[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 Actress nomination.^[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 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]