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
As a kid http://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/galleries/x701/72126.jpg
She is mostly Welsh.
Bretons and Welsh share great part of their DNA with the Portuguese, Galician, and Nothern Spaniards, as well as with the Irish, like Colin Farrell for example
Welsh, Irish and Bretons are fairly close genetically but Portuguese, Galician and Northern Spanish while close to each other are not particularly close to Welsh, Irish and Bretons. Bretons share ancestry with British Isles populations due to migration from those parts to Brittany in the 5th Century. It is the reason why Breton is classified as an Insular Celtic language related to Welsh and Cornish.
Beautiful! She looks like she’s part Sami or Hun who allied and mix with the Sarmatian Scythian who settled in Wales with the Romans.
I thought she was a Latina or a Spaniard.
No she’s not. Welsh, english and scottish. We share the English and scottish ancestry.
She looks Mexican or part Indian fact.
What is Welsh? She looks Spanish or Portuguese and maybe a little bit Romani.
That’s what I was thinking.
She looks welsh to me.There are some dark welsh.