Welsh-born actress Catherine Zeta-Jones first captivated U.S. film audiences with her swashbuckling turn in “The Mask of Zorro” (1998) – leaving moviegoers so mesmerized by her ebony-tressed old Hollywoodesque beauty, it was a wonder she was able to move beyond all the comparisons to Ava Gardner and Vivien Leigh – enough to garner respect as a serious actress. It was her impressive turn in “Traffic” (2000) and Oscar-winning scenery-chewing for her musical showstoppers in “Chicago” (2002) which firmly established her as a Hollywood A-lister. That, and a fairytale-likened marriage to one of the industry’s most respected actors-producers, Michael Douglas; thusly, entry into one of Hollywood’s most famous and respected families.
This strapping, handsome leading man specializes in villains and oddballs, and has appeared in a number of big-budget hits and odd independent films since the late 1980s. Moving to Los Angeles right out of high school, Billy Zane appeared in local theater (he'd been inspired by teenaged theater-going trips to London), before getting bit parts in "Back to the Future" (1985, as a thug), "Critters" (1986) and the TV-movie "Brotherhood of Justice" (ABC, 1986).