Catherine Zeta-Jones

By Stuart Jeffries Steven Soderbergh hasn't really got time for an interview. He should be finishing off his new film, The Informant, in which Matt Damon plays a corporate whistleblower. Then there's his $2m flick about a call girl, The Girlfriend Experience, starring 20-year-old porn actor Sasha Grey. Aft...

By Vanessa Thorpe Ida Lupino (1918-1995) Actress and music hall star who became a powerful Hollywood director. Catherine Zeta Jones (1969-) Went from television's Darling Buds of May to become Hollywood royalty by marrying Michael Douglas. Critical plaudits for her role in Chicago.

By Ian Tucker The Basic Instinct star had a son, Cameron, with Diandra Luker, his wife of 23 years. She divorced him in 2000. Later that year he ran into Catherine Zeta Jones and seduced her with the admirably direct and honest line: 'I'd like to father your children.' True to his word he hasn't let the 25-yea...

By Paul Howlett Catherine Zeta-Jones stars as the fiery chef of a top New York restaurant whose well-ordered life goes into the blender with the arrival of her orphaned niece (Abigail Breslin) and a hot new cook (Aaron Eckhart). She comes to learn that there's real life outside the kitchen, but there's a d...