Catherine Zeta-Jones

Actor

Catherine Zeta-Jones won an Oscar as best supporting actress for her deliciously villainous femme fatale in the 2002 film Chicago. Originally more popular in the U.K. than in the U.S., Zeta-Jones was first a hit on both sides of the Atlantic as the love interest of Antonio Banderas in the 1998 movie The Mask of Zorro. She quickly became an A-list star, often cast as a wily and sexy schemer. She was the expert thief opposite Sean Connery in the heist movie Entrapment, and the hard-edged drug kingpin's wife in Traffic (2000, directed by Steven Soderbergh). She and co-star Renee Zellweger both received Oscar nominations for Chicago. Her profile was boosted by her movie-star romance with actor Michael Douglas. The two were married in 2000, not long after completing filming on Traffic. Zeta-Jones also was a prominent spokesperson for T-Mobile phones from 2002-2006.

Other "wily and sexy" types: Angelina Jolie, Barbara Stanwyck and Lana Turner.