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
I thought she was Italian or Spanish.
she is very dark, but I believe she is irish and Welsh,because her parents looks much more white than her.
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2010/06/13/article-1286353-0A02D4FD000005DC-755_468x594.jpg
She is Irish and Welsh get over it people!
I have to disagree, I think Catherine Zeta Jones does look of Welsh descent. Welsh/ Irish people are descendants of Celts, who were known for having very dark hair and sometimes dark skin. It is not uncommon to find the Mediterranean look in Wales, not only because of the influx of Italian immigration, but there is evidence to prove that the celts in south Wales are descendants of the Silures tribe, who were in fact from Northern Spain. I myself am Welsh with Welsh ancestry and have an olive complexion, this is not uncommon here. You only have to look at the likes of Tom Jones, Kelly Jones, Ryan Giggs and Gavin Henson, to name a few to realise that dark hair, eyes and skin are not unusual in Wales.
that wasn’t the celts that had dark hair buddy, it was the indigenous Bretosn that mixed with ancient Celtic settlers from central Europe
Forget of this obsolescent theory that celts came to England from Central Europe in La Tene period!
Proto-celtic (neolithic) settlers arrived to North-Western Europe from south at 2500 BC or even earler!
Go a little deeper and you will find African ancestry
True! My mum is 3/4 Irish, 1/4 Scottish and had pitch black hair, brown eyes and olive skin. She even looked the double of Catherine Zeta Jones when she was young. Same eye shape too (can’t see the lids).
Your correct Kayleigh. Celts were nomdiac people. I’m a little of Scottish descent. They can have dark hair and olive skin. There were Iberiancelts in Spain & Portugual. They lived in a lot of places, even alway to Turkey. The Celts moved out from their original homeland in western France & southern Germany & into western & southeastern Europe. They also settled in northern Italy & the plains of central Anatolia. The name ” Celt” dates from the sixth centry B.C. when Greek sources used the term to denote tribes living around the Danube & Rhone rivers. People in France have a Celtic ancestry.
Loads of Welsh, Irish and western English (Cornwall) people have this colouring. I do myself! My grandmother was even darker. I’ve traced my family a few 100 years–no one outside the British Isles/Ireland at all. The earliest people in these areas came from Iberia and northern France thousands of years ago, and there has been very little genetic input into the more remote areas since.
I always thought that she and Sean Connery had Black Irish ancestry (a phenotype with origins coming from those who migrated to Ireland from the Iberian Peninsula thousands of years ago.) Geneticists have found that most of the DNA of those indigenous to the British Isles came from the Iberian Peninsula at the end of the last major ice age. No single later invasion (with perhaps the exception of the huge influx of forreign peoples which has occured since the 1960’s) has contributed more than 5%.