Michael Douglas’ Wife: Who Catherine Zeta-Jones Is

Michael Douglas’s career and public profile

Michael Douglas is an American actor, film producer and activist, born in 1944. He is the elder son of Kirk Douglas and Diana Douglas and became publicly prominent through television work in the early 1970s. He received three consecutive Emmy nominations for playing a homicide inspector in The Streets of San Francisco, which aired from 1972 to 1976. His film and television careers have continued since then.

Douglas produced One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, acquiring the rights from his father and later receiving the Academy Award for Best Picture. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for playing Gordon Gekko in Wall Street and reprised the role in Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. His notable films include The China Syndrome, Romancing the Stone, The Jewel of the Nile, Fatal Attraction, The War of the Roses, Basic Instinct, Falling Down, The American President, The Game, Traffic, Wonder Boys and Solitary Man. On television, he portrayed Liberace in Behind the Candelabra and acting coach Norman Newlander in The Kominsky Method, earning an Emmy for the former.

Who Catherine Zeta-Jones is

Catherine Zeta-Jones is a British actress born in Swansea in 1969. Born and raised in Swansea, she aspired to become an actress from a young age. She has received an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award and a Tony Award. Her professional career has included work in both film and stage.

After feeling typecast as the token pretty girl in British films, Zeta-Jones relocated to Los Angeles. The move changed the setting in which she pursued acting. She continued to build a screen career and received major industry recognition. She is recognised for acting work across film and stage throughout her career.

How the marriage was documented

Michael Douglas began dating Catherine Zeta-Jones in March 1999, after the two had met in Deauville, France. In 2000, he starred in Steven Soderbergh’s Traffic opposite Benicio del Toro and his future wife, Catherine Zeta-Jones. The couple married in 2000, the same year as Traffic. Their marriage dates from that year.

Douglas starred in Don’t Say a Word, which was filmed shortly before his marriage to Zeta-Jones. Zeta-Jones recalled that Douglas said at their meeting, “I want to father your children.” The project brought Douglas and Zeta-Jones together on screen before they became husband and wife. They have also owned four properties.

People reported in August 2013 that the couple had begun living separately in May 2013 and had not taken legal action towards separation or divorce. A representative for Zeta-Jones confirmed that they were “taking some time apart to evaluate and work on their marriage”. Later that year, they reconciled, and Zeta-Jones moved back into their New York apartment.

Michael Douglas’s wider family

Michael Douglas, born in 1944, is the elder son of Kirk Douglas and Diana Douglas. Kirk Douglas is Michael Douglas’s father, while Diana Douglas is his mother. Catherine Zeta-Jones, born in 1969, is his wife and the mother of his three children. Her marriage to Douglas places her within the wider Douglas family.

Eric Douglas is Michael Douglas’s sibling. Peter Douglas is also his sibling. Joel Douglas is another sibling. Cameron Douglas is Michael Douglas’s child. Carys Zeta Douglas is his child, as is Dylan Douglas. These connections include three siblings on Michael Douglas’s side and three children of the couple.

Catherine Zeta-Jones’s work beyond her marriage

Away from her relationship with Michael Douglas, Catherine Zeta-Jones is known for her professional work as an actress. Her public accolades include an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award and a Tony Award. The awards form part of a career that began with an ambition to act from a young age in Swansea.

Zeta-Jones was born and raised in Swansea, where she aspired to act from a young age. After being typecast as the token pretty girl in British films, she moved to Los Angeles. Her relocation was followed by a wider acting career in the United States. She received major awards for her acting work.

Details not publicly reported

No account of the circumstances in which the couple first met has appeared in print. Their meeting is placed in Deauville, France, but the beginning of the relationship was not described. Details of their wedding ceremony, including its location and attendees, have not been published. Their marriage is identified by the year 2000 rather than by a full calendar date.

Douglas and Zeta-Jones have not given a detailed shared account of what the 2013 separation involved. The sequence publicly described was a period of time apart followed by reconciliation. No detailed account of their daily life together or how they divide family responsibilities has been published.