Catherine Zeta-Jones Floats ‘Noah’s Ark’

CARDIFF, Wales (June 21, 2006) — Welsh-born actress Catherine Zeta-Jones has visited a children’s hospital in Cardiff that she helped raise money to build.

Zeta-Jones is a patron of the Noah’s Ark Appeal, which raised funds to build the Children’s Hospital for Wales, the first hospital solely for children in the principality.

“I’m very proud that we now have our dedicated children’s hospital in Wales,” the 36-year-old actress said Tuesday. She was accompanied by her husband, Michael Douglas.

Zeta-Jones won a supporting actress Oscar for her role in 2002’s “Chicago.” Her screen credits also include “The Mask of Zorro,” “Traffic,” “The Terminal” and “Ocean’s Twelve.”