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Catherine Zeta-Jones returns to Wales in new series

Charlie Buckland
BBC News
Amazon Prime Catherine Zeta Jones headshot. Amazon Prime
Swansea born star Catherine Zeta-Jones will return home to film the new Amazon Prime thriller

Catherine Zeta-Jones will be returning to her hometown of Swansea to star in a new revenge thriller for Amazon Prime.

Based on the novel The Price You Pay by Nick Harkaway as his pseudonym Aidan Truhen, the Oscar-winning actress from the Mumbles will take a walk down memory lane in her leading role in Kill Jackie.

Production of the eight-part series will begin in March, with filming to take place in Swansea, Bilbao, Lisbon and London, according to Prime Video.

Speaking about the series, Zeta-Jones, 55, said she is "thrilled" to be involved both behind and in front of the camera, as she also takes on the executive producer role.

The Chicago star will play Jackie Price, an extravagant jet-setter who is trying to stay anonymous after escaping a "dangerous past as an international cocaine dealer," says Amazon Prime.

Zeta-Jones said she is looking forward to the opportunity to explore a female-driven plot that "encompasses empowerment, identity and redemption".

Co-produced by Fremantle and Steel Springs Pictures, the series is expected to hit our screens in 2026, but an official release date is yet to be announced.

Along with her husband Michael Douglas, Zeta-Jones is reported to own several houses over the world, including homes in California, Spain and Swansea.

In April 2024, Zeta-Jones posted a photo of a rainbow in the Mumbles to her Instagram page, which sent Welsh fans into a frenzy.

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Zeta-Jones is perhaps best known for her Oscar winning supporting role in Chicago (2002), The Legend of Zorro (2005), and more recently starring as Moritia Addams in Netflix's Wednesday (2022).

In 2011, she was made a CBE for her services to the film industry and charity.

Kill Jackie comes from BBC spy thriller Killing Eve's Damon Thomas as lead director, and Netflix crime series Gangs Of London's Tom Butterworth as writer and showrunner.

Butterworth said the pairs ambition is to twist and expand Mr Harkaway's novel into something "equally funny, dark, crazed and unique, or die trying".