Catherine Zeta-Jones profile: net worth, age, height, husband and children

Catherine Zeta-Jones, born Catherine Zeta Jones on September 25, 1969, in Swansea, Wales, is a 57-year-old Welsh actress whose estimated net worth is $150 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. She won an Academy Award for Chicago, a BAFTA and a Tony Award, and she has been married to actor Michael Douglas since 2000, with whom she has two children. Her career runs from childhood stage roles in London to The Mask of Zorro, Traffic and her current role as Morticia Addams in Wednesday.

Quick facts

Biography and early life

Catherine Zeta Jones was born on September 25, 1969, in Swansea, Wales, so her birthday falls in late September and she turned 57 in September 2026. According to Wikipedia, she is the daughter of David Jones, a Welshman who owned a sweet factory, and Patricia Jones, née Fair, a seamstress of Irish Catholic descent. She was named after her two grandmothers, Catherine Fair and Zeta Jones, with Zeta taken from the name of a ship her great-grandfather had sailed on. She has an older brother, David, and a younger brother, Lyndon, who worked as a sales representative before moving into film production. She was born and raised in the Treboeth area of Swansea before the family moved to the Mumbles area after her parents won £100,000 in a bingo game, a windfall that helped pay for her dance and ballet lessons.

Because she was a hyperactive child, her mother sent her to dance classes at the age of four, and she was educated at Dumbarton House School, a private school in Swansea. She took part in school stage shows from a young age and won a Junior Star Trail talent competition with a rendition of a Shirley Bassey song. At nine years old she was cast as one of the orphan girls in the original West End production of Annie, and in her early teens she became a national tap-dancing champion. In 1981 she played the lead role of Annie in a Swansea production at the Swansea Grand Theatre, and two years later she played Tallulah in a West End production of Bugsy Malone. At fifteen she left school without O-levels and moved to London to pursue acting full time, later studying musical theatre for three years at the Arts Educational Schools in Chiswick.

Her stage breakthrough came in 1987, when the seventeen-year-old Zeta-Jones was working as second understudy in a West End production of 42nd Street. When both the star and the first understudy were unavailable for a performance, she played the lead role of Peggy Sawyer, a chorus girl who becomes a star, and the producer kept her in the part for the following two years. In 1989 she appeared with English National Opera at the London Coliseum in Kurt Weill’s Street Scene. That combination of dance training, stage discipline and persistence in auditions formed the foundation of the screen career that followed.

Career

Zeta-Jones made her screen debut in the French-Italian film 1001 Nights in 1990, playing Scheherazade, but the production was unsuccessful. Far greater success came at home: from 1991 to 1993 she starred as Mariette in the ITV period comedy-drama The Darling Buds of May, opposite David Jason and Pam Ferris. Adapted from the novel by H. E. Bates, the series was the highest-rated television show in Britain at the time and made her a household name. A run of British film and television parts followed, including Christopher Columbus: The Discovery, Splitting Heirs, The Return of the Native and the title role of the 1995 television biopic Catherine the Great. Dismayed at being typecast in Britain, she relocated to Los Angeles, where her anonymity let her win roles on merit. She played the henchwoman Sala in The Phantom in 1996 and took the lead role of Isabella Paradine in the CBS miniseries Titanic the same year.

Steven Spielberg noticed her in Titanic and recommended her to director Martin Campbell for The Mask of Zorro in 1998. Cast as Elena Montero opposite Anthony Hopkins and Antonio Banderas, she learned dancing, riding and sword-fighting for the part, and the film grossed more than $250 million worldwide, proving her Hollywood breakthrough. In 1999 she starred opposite Sean Connery in the heist film Entrapment, a commercial success, and appeared in the horror remake The Haunting. Her critical standing rose sharply with Traffic in 2000, Steven Soderbergh’s ensemble drama about the drug trade, in which she played Helena, the pregnant wife of a drug lord who takes over his business. The role, adjusted to her own pregnancy at her suggestion, brought her a Golden Globe nomination, and the cast won the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Cast.

Her defining role arrived in 2002 with Chicago, Rob Marshall’s film adaptation of the stage musical. As the murderous nightclub singer Velma Kelly, Zeta-Jones drew on her musical theatre training and won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, along with a BAFTA Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She remains the first Welsh actress to win the Oscar in that category. Through the rest of the decade she headlined high-profile films including the Coen brothers’ black comedy Intolerable Cruelty in 2003, The Terminal and Ocean’s Twelve in 2004, The Legend of Zorro in 2005 and the romantic comedy No Reservations in 2007. She then returned to the stage, making her Broadway debut in 2009 as an aging actress in A Little Night Music, and won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical.

Her later screen work has been more selective. She appeared in Side Effects and RED 2 in 2013 and in the comedy Dad’s Army in 2016, then moved into prestige television roles, playing Olivia de Havilland in Feud: Bette and Joan in 2017 and Dr. Vivian Capshaw in Prodigal Son in 2021. Since 2022 she has played Morticia Addams in the Netflix series Wednesday, moving from a guest role in the first season to the main cast in the second. In 2026 she starred in and executive-produced the AMC+ revenge thriller Kill Jackie. Alongside acting she built a business profile: in the early 2000s she was one of the highest-paid celebrity endorsers in the world, with a T-Mobile agreement reported at $10 million per year, and in 2017 she launched her own home decoration line, Casa Zeta-Jones.

Net worth

According to Celebrity Net Worth, Catherine Zeta-Jones has a net worth of $150 million. The figure is an estimate built from her film salaries at her early-2000s peak, her stage work, her endorsement income and her business ventures, and it is hers alone. Readers should be careful with larger numbers sometimes attached to her name in roundups: coverage of the couple occasionally quotes a combined fortune for Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas of around $350 million, while other reports quote a similar figure for Douglas on his own, so combined and solo figures are frequently confused. The honest solo answer, anchored on the named source above, is $150 million. Her best-documented earnings include the T-Mobile endorsement agreement reported at $10 million per year across two consecutive two-year deals, which made her the highest-paid celebrity endorser of her era, and the later income from Casa Zeta-Jones, the home products brand she founded in 2017.

Personal life and family

Zeta-Jones met Michael Douglas at the Deauville American Film Festival in France in August 1998, after being introduced by Danny DeVito. The two share the same birthday, September 25, although Douglas, born in 1944, is exactly 25 years older. They became engaged on December 31, 1999, and married at the Plaza Hotel in New York City on November 18, 2000, in a high-profile ceremony the BBC called the wedding of the year. Their son, Dylan Michael Douglas, was born in August 2000, and their daughter, Carys Zeta Douglas, was born in April 2003. Zeta-Jones is also stepmother to Cameron Douglas, her husband’s son from his first marriage.

The marriage has survived serious strain. After Douglas was diagnosed with tongue cancer in 2010, Zeta-Jones spoke publicly about her own depression and her diagnosis of bipolar II disorder, and she sought hospital treatment in 2011 and again in 2013. In 2013 the couple lived separately for a period, without filing for separation or divorce, and they reconciled in 2014, with Douglas saying they were stronger than ever. That reconciliation held: on November 18, 2025, the couple marked their 25th wedding anniversary, and Zeta-Jones posted wedding photographs with the message that she loved him that day as she had then. In interviews in 2026, Douglas again described the marriage as ongoing and strong, so the accurate answer to the husband question is unchanged: Michael Douglas, her husband of more than 25 years.

Family life has long been split between countries. In a 2025 interview with The Times, Zeta-Jones said that she and Douglas own four properties: one in Canada, one in Spain and two in New York. For readers setting up a screening space of their own, practical guidance on how to make a living room feel like a home theater covers the seating, sound and lighting choices that matter more than a celebrity address. Her wider family remains rooted in Wales: her parents, David and Patricia Jones, her brothers David and Lyndon, and her Swansea upbringing are constants in her interviews, and in 2019 the city honored her with the Freedom of the City of Swansea.

Nationality and Welsh roots

Zeta-Jones’s nationality is Welsh and British. She was born in Swansea to a Welsh father and a mother of Irish Catholic descent, was raised in Wales, and has described herself throughout her career as a Welsh actress working internationally. Wikipedia introduces her simply as a Welsh actress, and her honors reflect that identity: she was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, or CBE, in the 2010 Birthday Honours for her film and humanitarian work, and she received the Freedom of the City of Swansea in 2019. Her Welsh identity is also part of her family history, since her son Dylan was named after the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. Although she has lived for long periods in Bermuda, Spain and New York State, her nationality and her public identity remain Welsh.

Instagram and public presence

Catherine Zeta-Jones’s official Instagram account is @catherinezetajones, the verified handle she uses for family photographs, anniversary posts, Wednesday promotion and Casa Zeta-Jones updates. It was on that account that she marked her 25th wedding anniversary in November 2025 with a carousel of wedding photographs. Because follower counts change daily and vary by source, no exact follower figure is stated as fact here; readers should rely only on the verified @catherinezetajones account and treat similarly named profiles as fan pages.

Closing summary

Catherine Zeta-Jones’s profile runs from a Swansea childhood shaped by dance classes and a family bingo win to the top of Hollywood. Born Catherine Zeta Jones on September 25, 1969, to David and Patricia Jones, she broke through on stage in 42nd Street, on British television in The Darling Buds of May and in Hollywood in The Mask of Zorro, then won an Academy Award for Chicago and a Tony Award for A Little Night Music. Her estimated net worth is $150 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. Married to Michael Douglas since 2000 and the mother of Dylan and Carys, she remains, at 57, a working actress, most visibly as Morticia Addams in Wednesday.