Though the movie met with a mediocre reception, it was clear that the Welsh actress had asserted herself as one of Hollywood’s most glamorous new faces.

Later in 1999, Zeta-Jones starred alongside Liam Neeson and Lili Taylor in the less-than-stellar horror film The Haunting. The next year, she turned in a sharp cameo in the witty comedy High Fidelity, starring John Cusack. In late 2000, Zeta-Jones played the wife of a Mexican drug lord in the Oscar-winning drama Traffic, directed by Steven Soderbergh. She next starred as a temperamental Hollywood movie diva in the comedy America's Sweethearts (2001), opposite box office queen Julia Roberts, Billy Crystal, and John Cusack. In 2003, she received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Chicago, an adaptation of the 1975 stage musical, also starring Renee Zellweger and Richard Gere. Her next project is Getting and Spending in which she stars as a woman accused of insider trading who hires a high-powered lawyer to defend her in court. Zeta-Jones married Michael Douglas, her costar in Traffic (though they share no scenes together), on November 18, 2000. Their son, Dylan Michael Douglas, was born in August of 2000. Their daughter, Carys Zeta Douglas, was born in April of 2003.