Actress Catherine Zeta-Jones

There haven't been many bigger stars in Hollywood in the past quarter century than Catherine Zeta-Jones.

The Welsh-born actress first came attention to Americans as the Elena, the adopted daughter of a corrupt Spanish colonial governor, in the 1998 adventure film The Mask of Zorro, and she later said she saw a similarity between her own volatile Celtic temper and the Hispanic temperament of Elena.  The movie made her an overnight sensation.

Her most important movies include Entrapment, a 1999 crime thriller in which she played an insurance investigator who tries to entrap a professional thief (played by Sean Connery) suspected of staling a Rembrandt painting, and No Reservations, a 2007 romantic comedy-drama in which she played a hard-edged chef whose life is turned around when she takes in her sister's young daughter after her sister dies in an accident.

Two of her biggest roles, of course were as Helena Ayala, the wife of a drug lord in 2000's Traffic and as Velma Kelly in the 2002 film version of the Broadway musical Chicago, which won her numerous awards, including a Best Supporting Actress Oscar.

While she hasn't made a movie since 2016, preferring more recently to work in television, Catherine Zeta-Jones' status as a legend is well-assured.

Fun fact: Catherine Zeta-Jones has been married to actor Michael Douglas since 2000.