Título: Catherine Zeta-Jones
Seção: Early life and initial stage career
Background: Catherine Zeta-Jones, CBE (; born 25 September 1969) is a Welsh actress. Born and raised in Swansea, Zeta-Jones aspired to be an actress from a young age. As a child, she played roles in the West End productions of the musicals Annie and Bugsy Malone. She studied musical theatre at the Arts Educational Schools, London, and made her stage breakthrough with a leading role in a 1987 production of 42nd Street.

Conteúdo: Zeta-Jones was born in Swansea, Wales, on 25 September 1969 to David Jones, the owner of a sweet factory, and his wife Patricia (nee Fair), a seamstress. Her father is Welsh and her mother is of Irish Catholic descent. She was named after her grandmothers, Zeta Jones and Catherine Fair. She has an older brother, David, and a younger brother, Lyndon, who worked as a sales representative before venturing into film production. Zeta-Jones was raised in the suburban area of Mumbles. Because Zeta-Jones was a hyperactive child, her mother sent her to the Hazel Johnson School of Dance when she was four years old. She was educated at the Dumbarton House School, a private school in Swansea. The family came from a modest background, but their fortunes improved when they won PS100,000 in a bingo competition, allowing them to pay for Zeta-Jones' dance and ballet lessons. Zeta-Jones participated in school stage shows from a young age and gained local media attention when her rendition of a Shirley Bassey song won a Junior Star Trail talent competition. As part of a dance troupe, she routinely took trips to London, where she auditioned for roles in the theatre. At the age of nine, she was selected to play one of the orphan girls in a West End production of the musical 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 of the musical, which was staged at the Swansea Grand Theatre. Two years later, she p

user: Where was Jones born?

assistant: Zeta-Jones was born in Swansea, Wales,

user: When was she born?

assistant: on 25 September 1969

user: Who were her parents?

assistant: David Jones, the owner of a sweet factory, and his wife Patricia (nee Fair), a seamstress.

user: Does she have any siblings?

assistant: She has an older brother, David, and a younger brother, Lyndon,

user: Where did she go to school?

assistant: Dumbarton House School,

user: Did she go to college?

assistant: When she was 15, Zeta-Jones dropped out of school without obtaining O-levels and decided to live in London to pursue a full-time acting career;

user: What was her first acting role?

assistant: Zeta-Jones was asked to play the role of Peggy Sawyer--a chorus girl who becomes a star.

user: What character did she play?

assistant: CANNOTANSWER

user: What was her next role?

assistant: and Zeta-Jones was asked to play the role of Peggy Sawyer--a chorus girl who becomes a star.

user: What was the name of the play that she played this role in?

assistant: 42nd Street.

user: Was she in any other plays following 42nd street?

assistant: Her next stage appearance was with the English National Opera at the London Coliseum in 1989 where she played Mae Jones in Kurt Weill's Street Scene.