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To celebrate ITV Studios Home Entertainment’s fantastic Christmas DVD box set collection (including classics such as Prime Suspect, Jeeves & Wooster, Darling Buds of May and The Catherine Cookson Collection) we’ve taken a look at stars past and present - unearthing some modern-day stars with very humble beginnings. There’s hope for us all!

1) Catherine Zeta Jones
 
Although Catherine Zeta Jones began acting in her local theatre, she found her breakthrough role in playing Mariette Larkin in The Darling Buds of May at the tender age of 22. 

Jones has seen gone on to become a Hollywood A-lister, married to A List resident Michael Douglas and acting with someone of the biggest film stars including Sean Connery, Julia Roberts, George Clooney, Liam Neeson, Tom Hanks, and Billy Crystal, in such films as The Mask of Zorro, America’s Sweethearts, The Haunting, Intolerable Cruelty and Chicago, for which she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Golden Globe under the same title.

As well as enjoying several BAFTA nominations and a Tony award for Best Leading Actress.

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Catherine Zeta Jones