Catherine Zeta-Jones
Zeta-Jones in 2005, 360b / Shutterstock.com
Birth Name: Catherine Zeta Jones
Place of Birth: Swansea, Glamorganshire, Wales
Date of Birth: 25 September, 1969
Ethnicity: Welsh, smaller amounts of Irish and English
Catherine Zeta-Jones is a Welsh actress. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Chicago (2002). Her roles also include the films The Mask of Zorro, Entrapment, The Haunting, Traffic, Intolerable Cruelty, Ocean’s Twelve, No Reservations, and Side Effects, and television’s Catherine the Great, among other works.
Her father is of Welsh descent. Her mother is of Welsh, English, and Irish ancestry. She is married to American actor Michael Douglas, with whom she has two children.
Catherine’s paternal grandfather was named Bertram G. Jones (whose parents’ surnames were Jones and Johns). Bertram was born in Swansea, Glamorganshire, Wales.
Catherine’s paternal grandmother was named Zeta Davies (whose parents’ surnames were Davies and Morgan). Catherine’s grandmother Zeta was born in Swansea.
Catherine’s maternal grandfather was William Edgar Fair (the son of Ernest George Fair and Edith Margaret Williams). William was born in Swansea. Ernest was born in Swansea, to English parents, from Devon, William Fair and Agnes Pugsley, with Agnes at least being from Barnstaple. Edith was the daughter of James Williams and Ruth Lewis.
Catherine’s maternal grandmother is named Kathleen/Catherine O’Callaghan. Catherine was born in Swansea.
Catherine is sometimes described on the internet as being of Greek ancestry. This is not accurate.
Source: Genealogy of Catherine Zeta-Jones – https://www.geni.com
Interesting fact she has bipolar 2 disorder!
Not having blond hair and blue eyes doesn’t make a European less European than a person with blond hair and blue eyes. Catherine Zeta-Jones isn’t necessarily more “mixed” than a blond person.
Blond hair and blue eyes simply developed in Northeastern Europe around ten thousand years ago. In fact, you can be blond haired and be more mixed than a dark haired person. Brown and black hair are the standard hair colors and Europe. Natural blond hair is not that common outside of Northern and Eastern Europe. Outside of those areas, the hair is probably dyed.
It doesn’t make any difference if Catherine Z-J is part this or that. I don’t care. Blond hair and blue eyes is not the “standard” European look, it is a fairly new variety of European look.
@Natural blond hair is not that common outside of Northern and Eastern Europe@
No! You’re wrong Marie! there’s just a fashion or mainstream to pain blond in these parts of Europe,especially in Eastern Europe.if You see blondhaired easterneuropean hookers very often,it doesn’t mean that this natural colour of theyr hair.In fact maybe 3 or 4 percent of natural blondies from there.There’s not less blondies in North-West of Europe…..maybe even more,than in Eastern
@Blond hair and blue eyes simply developed in Notheastern around ten thousand years ago@
It’s also negative.Scientists mark MIXED population in all parts of Europe during all neolithic period
@Marc:well it is very common with melasian blacks.Also you mixed,how do you mean?Because if your saying white,that mutation happen only 6k years ago
i mean skulls with brachecephalic,dolichocephalic and even negroid feautures from one and the same archeological sites at all regiones of Europe,what date from the period 10-3000 BC,so the theory that Northeastern Europe is the homeland for blondies is a speculation and fib
@Marc
Ok I understand you now
Yeah Europe had different groups or should I say species at that time(modern man,cromag etc).Also your right pale skin only came about 6000yrs ago.Also there was a great flood in Northern Europe,and all those skeletal remains they founded that date over 10,000yrs,were not of white people;even thou that’s what were taught
Characteristics don’t always match the “race” of a person. I’ve seen a full blooded asian with naturally curly hair. :)
Catherine also part English. http://blamegrandma.blogspot.com/2010/06/how-welsh-is-catherine-zeta-jones.html
my sister tells me i look like catherine zeta jones alot, but im anglo-german,asian,african.I look slightly eurasian im mostly mistaken as turkish.When i googled turkish girls the first page had this image below the turkish girl looks exactly like zeta jones.
http://img1.eyefetch.com/Portfolio%5Cceyhun%5C21725.jpg
Zeta jones most certanly has mongolian/asian ancestry.
That is Catherine Zeta Jones . . .
And as far as I know, there are not many Asians in Wales, and they certainly were never invaded by Mongolians.
@anonymous:you know you don’t have to invade to get certain bloodlines;at least not in the way your thinking
She does look part Asian or Mongolian. I don’t understand why some people are so belligerent or reluctant about it. I mean, it’s pretty obvious.
if Zeta Jones of mongolian origin…… i’m Michael Douglas
@Marc:just because you don’t see traits,doesn’t mean the bloodline is not there.I mean do you actually have any hard evidence she doesn’t?Or is it just your opinion?
Of course i don’t know if Zeta-J.has mongolian,african or someone else bloodlines thousands yeras ago.We can verify ancestors til just XIX or XVIII century maxima.Do You know some Asians in her family tree?
@Marc
No I don’t know any mongo or recent African heritage,I just was saying it was possible.Also we really can’t verify anything,people in the past as well as now lie about their ethnicity all the time.Look at Larry David,thinking he was just Jewish,someone in his family lied.I’m also just saying that these bloodlines are not thousands of years old,they are pretty recent;like within your time frame
It is not obvious that she is part Asian. o_O How is it obvious? Most people think the woman looks Spanish or Italian. So no, it is not obvious. Personally, I do not think she looks part Asian. I saw pictures of her when she was younger, and she looks very Black Irish, like many of the others who are ethnically so.
Except not really, because the whole ‘Black Irish’ thing is bull.
Then, Paul, what do you call the Irish with dark phenotypes? I mean, people call them ‘Black Irish’ . . . so I don’t know. Why do you think it is bull? Do you not like the name?
I call them Irish.
(: I like that answer.
@Anonymous Black Irish is an American term. It most probably started due to people wanting to explain some African or Native American blood in the US. Another example is Black Dutch. In Ireland a person who has dark hair and eyes wouldn’t be considered foreign. Native Irish range from blond to brunet and have all the different eye colours. You get people like Colin Farrell and Ronan Keating all Irish.
Mongolian???ahahahahah ridicolous!!!
Black hair, fair skin and hazel eyes are very common in Wales and Ireland.
…..and in all other parts of Europe generally
My sister thinks everyone in Europe has blonde hair, blue eyes, and skin as white as snow.
:)