Velma Kelly, the 1975 musical character inspired by her, won Bebe Neuwirth the Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical for its acclaimed 1996 revival ; it also won Catherine Zeta-Jones the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the 2002 film based on it.

For her performance, Zeta-Jones received an Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama Desk Award, as well as a Tony Award for Best Leading Actress in a Musical.

The 2010 honoree was Angela Lansbury, with Peters and Catherine Zeta-Jones as honorary hosts for the Gala Benefit held on April 12, 2010.

These include Skullion in Porterhouse Blue ( for Channel 4 ), Sidney " Pop " Larkin in the rural idyll The Darling Buds of May ( Yorkshire Television / ITV ) and based on the H. E. Bates novel, which also featured the then unknown Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Latifah received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role, but lost to co-star Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Zeta-Jones subsequently starred as Velma Kelly in the 2002 film adaptation of the musical Chicago, a critical and commercial success, and received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, BAFTA Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy.

In 1990, Zeta-Jones participated in a television commercial for the German Deutsche Bahn at the age of 21, playing the part of a young woman eloping with her lover from a joyless marriage, a role which apparently helped in promoting her acting career.

In 2003, Zeta-Jones garnered an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, a BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role, and two Screen Actors Guild Awards, for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role and as a member of Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture for her performance.

Zeta-Jones is also an advertising spokeswoman, currently the global spokeswoman for cosmetics giant Elizabeth Arden.

Zeta-Jones with husband Michael Douglas at the Vanity Fair ( magazine ) | Vanity Fair party for the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival

In April 2011, Zeta-Jones sought treatment for bipolar II disorder, checking herself into Silver Hill Hospital in New Canaan, Connecticut.

Virginia " Gin " Baker ( Catherine Zeta-Jones ) is an investigator for Waverly Insurance.

Entrapment was nominated for two Razzie Awards including Worst Actress ( Catherine Zeta-Jones, also for The Haunting ) and Worst Screen Couple ( Zeta-Jones and Sean Connery ).

Zeta-Jones ' performance earned her her first Golden Globe nomination, as Best Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture as well as many other nominations and acclaim.

Montego Glover ( Memphis ) and Catherine Zeta-Jones ( A Little Night Music ) tied for Outstanding Actress In A Musical.

Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones once lived in the Mayals, on St Andrews Close and singer Bonnie Tyler maintains a home in Blackpill.

The production temporarily closed on June 20, 2010 when the contracts of Zeta-Jones and Lansbury ended and resumed on July 13, with new stars Bernadette Peters as Desiree Armfeldt and Elaine Stritch as Madame Armfeldt.

The 2009 Broadway revival with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury recorded a cast album on January 4, 2010 which was released on April 6.

* 2009: Catherine Zeta-Jones performed the song in the role of Desirée in the 2009 / 2010 Broadway revival of A Little Night Music directed by Trevor Nunn

Zeta-Jones at a musical theater award ceremony in 2010

Zeta-Jones was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire ( CBE ) in the 2010 Birthday Honours.

This production transferred to Broadway on December 13, 2009, starring Catherine Zeta-Jones as Desiree and Angela Lansbury as Madame Armfeldt.

The original cast starred Angela Lansbury as Madame Armfeldt and, in her Broadway debut, Catherine Zeta-Jones as Desiree.

Well-known currently active British actors and actresses include: Gemma Arterton, Rowan Atkinson, Christian Bale, Sacha Baron Cohen, Kate Beckinsale, Paul Bettany, Orlando Bloom, Emily Blunt, Helena Bonham Carter, Kenneth Branagh, Jim Broadbent, Daniel Craig, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Rupert Everett, Ralph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Michael Gambon, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Keira Knightley, Hugh Laurie, Jude Law, James McAvoy, Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren, Carey Mulligan, Thandie Newton, Bill Nighy, Gary Oldman, Clive Owen, Robert Pattinson, Daniel Radcliffe, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, Alan Rickman, Tim Roth, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jason Statham, Patrick Stewart, Alex Pettyfer, Gerard Butler, Emma Thompson, Emma Watson, Rachel Weisz, Kate Winslet, Tom Hiddleston, Ray Winstone and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Wong, Claybourne Elder, Alexander Hanson, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Raul Esparza, Sutton Foster, Nathan Lane, Michele Pawk, the original cast of Into the Woods ; Kim Crosby, Chip Zien, Danielle Ferland, & Ben Wright, Angela Lansbury, and Jim Walton.

After Catherine Zeta-Jones performed " Send in the Clowns ," a recorded greeting from Julie Andrews was played.

In the early 1980s, Dolenz directed a stage version of Bugsy Malone, the cast of which included a then-unknown 14-year-old Welsh actress named Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Willis will also join Vince Vaughn and Catherine Zeta-Jones in Lay the Favorite, directed by Stephen Frears, about a Las Vegas cocktail waitress who becomes an elite professional gambler.

His son Michael and daughter-in-law Catherine Zeta-Jones were among the many celebrities who attended his birthday celebration.

* Traffic ( 2000 ) starring Benicio del Toro, Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Dennis Quaid and Don Cheadle.

Catherine Zeta-Jones, CBE, (; born Catherine Zeta Jones ; 25 September 1969 ) is a Welsh actress.

Zeta-Jones starred in the 2005 sequel of the 1998 film, The Legend of Zorro.

Zeta-Jones was born Catherine Zeta Jones in Swansea, Wales, to Patricia ( née Fair ), a seamstress, and David James Jones, a sweet factory owner.

Zeta-Jones ' stage career began in childhood.

Zeta-Jones made her professional acting debut when she played the lead in Annie, a production at Swansea Grand Theatre.

Zeta-Jones subsequently landed a lead role in the film, alongside compatriot Anthony Hopkins and Antonio Banderas.

Jonathan Tunick is the most prominent arranger, being one of only twelve people to have won Oscar, Grammy, Emmy, and Tony awards.

It won the New York Drama Critics ' Circle Award and the Tony Award for Best Musical.

He won three Tony Awards and three Academy Awards, among other honors.

The musical's original 1963 Broadway run won several Tony Awards, including Best Musical and Best Book.

The show won several Tony Awards: best musical, best actor, best supporting actor ( Burns ), best book, and best director.

Lane won the Best Actor Tony.

Every actor who has opened in the role of Pseudolus on Broadway ( Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers and Nathan Lane ) won a Best Actor Tony Award for their performance.

In addition, Jason Alexander, who performed as Pseudolus in one scene in Jerome Robbins ' Broadway, also won a Tony for Best Actor in a Musical.

However, in the run-up to the 1997 general election, Labour opposition Tony Blair was in talks with Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown about forming a coalition government if Labour failed to win a majority at the election ; however there was never any need for a coalition to be formed as Labour won the election by a landslide.

Following another playoff upset in 1953 at the hands of the Bruins, the Red Wings won back to back Stanley Cups in 1954 ( over Montreal, when Habs defenseman Doug Harvey redirected a Tony Leswick shot into his own net ) and 1955 ( also over Montreal in the full seven games ).

* List of persons who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards –

Wallach made his Broadway debut in 1945 and won a Tony Award in 1951 for his performance in the Tennessee Williams play The Rose Tattoo.

The 2000s also saw an increase in the number of individual competitive awards won by French artists at the Cannes Festival, for direction ( Tony Gatlif, Exils, 2004 ), screenplay ( Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, Look at Me, 2004 ), female acting ( Isabelle Hupert, The Piano Teacher, 2001 ; Charlotte Gainsbourg, Antichrist, 2009 ) and male acting ( Jamel Debbouze, Samy Naceri, Roschdy Zem, Sami Bouajila and Bernard Blancan, Days of Glory, 2006 ).

The musical was nominated for eleven Tony Awards and won seven.

Coleman is parodied in the hit Broadway musical Avenue Q, which won the 2004 Tony Award for best musical.

Other New York portrayals of Hamlet of note include that of Ralph Fiennes's in 1995 ( for which he won the Tony Award for Best Actor ) – which ran, from first preview to closing night, a total of one hundred performances.

The play was nominated for eight Tony Awards, and won four: Best Play, Scenic and Costume Design, and Producer ; the director and the three leading actors were nominated but did not win.

He also has had an active career on the stage, appearing in several Broadway musicals including Jerome Robbins ' Broadway in 1989, for which he won the Tony Award as Best Actor in a Musical.

In 1991, he won a Tony Award for his portrayal of " Uncle Louie " in Neil Simon's Broadway hit Lost in Yonkers.

In addition, as a producer she received nominations for Tony Awards and Drama Desk Awards for MTM's productions of Noises Off in 1984 and Benefactors in 1986, and won a Tony Award for Best Reproduction of a Play or Musical in 1985 for Joe Egg.

Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards and two Academy Awards for Best Original Song.

Hammerstein won eight Tony Awards, six for lyrics or book, and two as producer of the Best Musical ( South Pacific and The Sound of Music ).

This production was nominated for 10 Tony Awards, and won Best Scenic Design ( Boris Aronson ) and Best Costume Design ( Florence Klotz ).