Catherine Zeta-Jones’ daughter Carys marks new chapter in NYC with bold career move

Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas’ daughter Carys has a bright future ahead of her! 

Less than a year since graduating from Brown University, the 23-year-old is set to move from acting to producing. 

Carys – who has starred in a number of films – announced on social media that she was looking for writers to pitch her their plays, with the chosen one set to be produced by her and shown at one of Off Broadway’s leading theater houses in NYC. 

Carys’ career falls in line with her college degree – she studied film and international studies while at Brown University. 

The 23-year-old is keen to carve her own path away from the shadows of her famous parents too. In an interview back in 2018, Carys told Town & Country: “I think what bothers me the most is that people think I don’t work hard for it, that I don’t need to work hard for it. That anything I do gets handed to me. 

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“When, honestly, I feel like it’s the opposite. I feel I need to constantly prove myself to people — that I am not just my parents’ daughter.” 

Even before graduating, Carys was working hard, and appeared in short film, [Expletive] That Guy, alongside Victoria Pedretti in 2024. 

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That same year, she landed a second role in another short film, Shell. While Carys is stepping into the spotlight more now that she’s older, when she was growing up, Catherine and Michael worked hard to keep their children away from the media glare as much as possible, and raised their family in Bermuda when they were young children. Bermuda holds a very special place in the family’s hearts, as Michael’s mom, Diana, is from the Caribbean island. 

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Catherine and Michael did such a good job at giving their children normalcy, that Carys previously admitted to Town & Country that she thought her dad was a “pancake maker” when she was younger. 

She also opened up about the difficulties she experienced as a young child during trips outside of Bermuda. She recalled: “I used to get really upset. They would jump on the subway and sit right in front of me. I was, like, six. I was confused. That’s when I knew, ‘If this is going to be what it’s like, I need to focus on who I really am, and this is going to be something that’s just going to happen, and I can’t do anything about it.'”