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
It’s common for people of British (especially Welsh) and irish descent to have dark hair and eyes! The number of people with dark eyes in England is actually quite high around 50%, even higher than the natives of France! it’s just a stereotype that all British/Irish people are really white, when honestly many of them look like Catherine Zeta Jones! British people do have pale but usually darker hair and eyes!
its a stereotype cuz the majority of british and irish people are pretty f’n white. yeah some are darker but when the majority are something, thats what u associate them as. not that many ppl are dark like zeta jones, she is kinda rare but i know what you mean. i read somewhere that its because spanish people mixed a bit with them in the middle ages
Ahmed there is definitely a lot of stereotypes and Catherine is not at all uncommon for the British Isles. Dark eyes are definitely a minority in Ireland though & in the rest of the British Isles. The most common look is brown hair, fair skin and blue eyes. Blue eyes are most common in Ireland and to a lesser extend in Britain but they are still the most common eye colour there. Blond is more common in Britain than Ireland but blond hair is not unusual in Ireland. Scots have the highest percentage of red hair and then Ireland. They have a variety of looks but fair skin and blue eyes would be the majority in the Isles.
She is not only Irish, but also Welsh where it it MUCH more common to have dark eyes, whereas Less than 1 half of 1% have pure brown eyes in Ireland. Also, thank you for setting everyone straight on the statistics of the Isles. She definitely looks Irish and Welsh. In Ireland almost 15% of people have black hair, 10% red. Blond/light brown hair is around 5%.
I know Catherine is half Welsh. mm Blond/light brown hair is a lot more than 5% is Ireland. I’m of Irish descent myself. Red hair in Ireland is around 10% as you stated and blond hair is more common than red hair. True black hair is relatively rare in Ireland despite the stereotype of the blue eyed, black haired colleen. It is most definitely not 15%. Light brown hair is quite common in Ireland. Also a lot of Irish have a reddish tinge to their hair. Brown eyes would be more frequent in Wales but they would still have more light eyes than dark. I would summarise that the Irish are more dark haired and light eyed than Britain and the British are more light haired and dark eyed than the Irish on a whole but the British Isles has a varied phenotype.
I read that dark brown hair is 50% in Ireland and black is 15% other percentage must make up blonde and red light brown.
@Marc That is very interesting Marc. I have been to Ireland and I can’t recall any Irish person that had black hair (I’m sure there is but it was not common where I was anyway). Dark brown is common but the majority would have medium brown hair. I think light brown hair is relatively common. I have that colour myself and it seems to be the most common colour in Irish people I know. Would you call Pierce Brosnan’s hair black? I wouldn’t I would call that dark brown. Anyway I think that in some countries blond hair is overestimated and others underestimated. In my family blond hair is quite common as is red hair. I don’t think my family is unusual.
Yes i not sure never been so i can not say.It is just i remember reading before so i am not that sure if it is the right %.
Here are maps from Frost (2006) of the Percentage Frequency of Light Eyes and Light Hair in and around Europe. It says that Ireland is in the 20 – 49% Light Hair category.
Here is another map
http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2007/11/pigmentation-variation-in-europe.php
http://pages.globetrotter.net/peter_frost61z/European-hair-and-eye-color.htm
Here is the map that says Ireland is in the 20-49% light hair category by Frost (2006).
http://unsafeharbour.wordpress.com/2012/02/19/distribution-of-light-hair-and-eyes-in-europe/
Some more maps showing distribution of light eyes and hair colour in Europe.
http://unsafeharbour.wordpress.com/2012/02/19/distribution-of-light-hair-and-eyes-in-europe/
interesting maps. thanks
@Marc I think France is not a country that has had much genetic testing so far. Hopefully this will be done soon. I think the Irish and British Isles were populated from France. It will be interesting to see in the future if this bears out. There is already a connection with Brittany and the British Isles. It will be interesting to see what comes in the future.
http://babes.wallpaper1024.net/bulkupload/jan21/K/Kim%20Smith/Kim_Smith_1024X768_wallpaper_01.jpg
Would you say this is black or dark brown? I think most of the time it is a very dark brown and not black.
In my opinion it is dark brown.I think a good few Irish would have more of this color that black from the ones that i have seen.
Can you post an example of someone with black hair? I think people have the tendency to call really dark brown hair black.
I would call that dark brown.
The colour of Catherine’s hair in her picture above is black.
The dark hair is throwing everyone off. IMHO she has an irish Face. No disputing it. If you want to see a Latin face take a look at Julia Roberts and her brother Eric. There is no mistaking CZJ for mixed.
yeah, she is basically just a really tanned irish person lol
And isn’t she just beautiful.
But guess what, she´s european and the language you speak is european and all the white people in the US is from european descent.
Euro trash whyand stupid why? Because we dont have death penalty, we dont start wars everywhere, because we have free and good heath care for all. Eurotrash right.
Beautiful white woman!
ANOTHER BLACK IRISH…GO BACK TO PORTUGAL CATHERINE!