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.

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, including podcaster Dylan Douglas.

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

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260 Responses

  1. ysla says:

    The history of the people is complex!! Don’t forget that the Roman made the conquest of Wales in the medieval time!!! there probably have mix between Roman and saxon or Other people!!!… genes remain! There is nothing surprising finally that some British have the air more Latin than Germanic.

  2. anakaren says:

    she looks like a latina!!! totally

    • me says:

      she can pass for mestiza

      • me says:

        but she looks very mediterranean

        • victoria says:

          I’m British and Irish and i’m dark featured like her and i’m not Mediterranean or Latin :) just cos someone has dark features or is bronzed doesn’t mean they are Mediterranean lol

          • FLASHP01NT says:

            It’s clear, from her appearance, that Catherine Zeta-Jones is genetically related to the southern European immigration that occurred, into whales, between 1830 and 1890. Therefore she, likely, has a large amount of Spanish R1b-S116, which would explain why she looks so Spanish.

            Note: Northern Spanish/Italian admixture is gaulish (i.e. “italo-celtic”), which is still white. Much confusion occurs due to the genetic dissimilarity between northern and southern Spain/Italy, which is haplogroup i2 and J; these are not white.

          • Urimnak says:

            @FLASHP01NT again don’t tell things you don’t know and stop to compare the spaniards to us Italians we’re two races apart they are related only to our Southerns because centuries ago Northern Spaniards invaded and ruled our South for a very long time so and too much to make it their second home like South Spain it’s the second home for Arabs.

  3. levangelista36 says:

    chris coleman is from swansea, wales like catherine and has a welsh/irish background like her as well

    http://www.sabotagetimes.com/wp-content/uploads/chriscolemanG3003_468x541.jpeg

    http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00508/Chris_Coleman_508561a.jpg

    there’s also gavin henson

    http://static.unrealitytv.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/gavin-henson.jpg

    http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Sport/Pix/pictures/2010/9/9/1284053895504/Gavin-Henson-006.jpg

    and tom jones

    http://greenobles.com/data_images/tom-jones/tom-jones-03.jpg

    and pippa middleton

    http://www.usmagazine.com/uploads/assets/celebrities/29329-pippa-middleton/1304006350_bio-pippa-402.jpg

    and i don’t think you guys have ever seen colin farrell’s sister, claudine

    http://images.teamsugar.com/files/upl1/4/49504/37_2008/colin.jpg

    http://www.showbiz.ie/photos/2008-02-claudine-farrell.jpg

    http://www.showbiz.ie/images/stars2/farrell_sister-04.jpg

    and cheryl cole, originally cheryl tweedy, who is supposed to be irish and scottish

    http://imstars.aufeminin.com/stars/fan/cheryl-cole/cheryl-cole-20081008-461731.jpg

    also her band mates kimberley walsh and nadine coyle

    as well as russell brand, kit harington, frankie sandford, etc. etc.

    and irish people are supposed to be the palest in the world but they do have brown to black hair more often than not

    what i’m saying is that there are “exotic” people of every ethnicity. some of you over think it

  4. Valaina says:

    I thought she had spanish in her

  5. GeorgeJeanPierre says:

    i thought she was spanish

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