Catherine Zeta-Jones
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
She is extremely beautiful. I remember that my aunt once said “ She´s very exotic. She looks English, Chinese and Spanish at the same time ´´.
She looks like a Filipino Mestiza.
just because she has hazel eyes and brown hair doesn’t mean she’s of Mediterranean descent, i’ll agree she does have a latin look to her she even looks abit like marina diamandis from marina and the diamonds and she’s half welsh and half greek. But there are a lot of british and irish who have that Mediterranean look with the darker features.
Maybe she makes herself more “exotic” as she is. She can be
a mother of Kaulitz “sisters” (Tokyo Hotel). Sun bed, make-up,
hair coloration.
they omitted about her Spanish ancestry
Nah, Follers is correct because she is a welsh, and has none whatsoever. Also, that is only for heritage, not her ethnicity. Her ethnicity is English/Welsh
hahaha you british people are so hilarious you try so hard to make youre country northern eurpean look a likee but the majority of you have brown hair and brown eyes want some examples okay…russel brand,john lennon,george harrison,colin firth,colin farrell,george best(bot irish wich is the same thing)ahaha it seems the world know is knowing the truth you insignificant nordic-mediterranean island ahaha
What British people are you talking about? Most people on this site would be American. Most British and Irish people are not into this sort of stuff at all. Whether someone had brown eyes and dark hair wouldn’t even register and if you are genuinely European you would know that every population in Europe has people with brown eyes and dark hair. The majority of people in the British Isles though are blue eyed and medium brown haired but there are plenty of blonds and some red heads as well. Don’t be talking rubbish.
Anyway why the agro. What’s the big deal about having brown eyes and dark hair? You seem to have some issues with the British?
yes, she prob has ‘Spanish’ ancestry…from about 6000 years ago, like most of us in the British Isles (esp. the so-called celtic areas.)
I have colouring just a tiny bit lighter than hers and am of 100% British Isles/Ireland ancestry…traced to 1590 on one line and dna tested.
It’s called a tan and dark hair. Just look at katharine mcphee…
Before:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hugo971/4491379455/lightbox/
After:
http://cdn02.cdn.justjared.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/gomez-citizen/selena-gomez-katharine-mcphee-global-citizen-festival-14.jpg
Dunno, but McPhee looks sorta Italian/exotic in her before pic too (you can tell when someone blonde looks ‘unnatural’). Tori Spelling also looks unnaturally blonde.
In her after pic she looks quite perfected to her natural look – dark hair, olive skin.
Gwen Stefani, while the whole blonde thing suits her, is probably a natural brunette.
Zeta-Jones is either bronzing or ‘exotic-fying’ herself or she probably does have Spanish or Italian roots. I think she is naturally olive.
“Zeta-Jones is either bronzing or ‘exotic-fying’ herself or she probably does have Spanish or Italian roots.”
Plenty of Welsh people are quite, quite, dark, and she is 3/4 Welsh. Wales may be almost as dark as Spain or Italy.
True, Welsh people are dark – always known that. But don’t you think the dark ones (Bale, Connery, Tom Jones) would probably have Southern European roots (perhaps a recent ancestor from Italy/Greece)?
Christian Bale? He was just born in Wales, but his parents weren’t Welsh. Tom Jones is 1/4 Welsh and 3/4 English.
I don’t think they have any (recent) Southern European ancestors (and if they have distant ones, so do most of the rest of British people). Most of their genealogy is pretty well traced. And being 1/64th Italian wouldn’t change their appearance. People who are 1/16th Italian look like Taylor Swift, for example (…who is 1/16th Italian).