HER CHARACTER Marina, who stows away on Sinbad's (Brad Pitt) ship during a mission to save the life of his pal -- and her boyfriend -- Proteus (Joseph Fiennes).
HER QUALIFICATIONS She showed a taste for swashbuckling adventure in ''The Mask of Zorro'' (1997) and ''Entrapment'' (1999). And that recent Oscar for ''Chicago'' means she's got one helluva voice.
FUN FACT This isn't Zeta-Jones' first brush with the lore of Sinbad: She made her film debut at 21 as storyteller Scheherezade in a 1990 French-language version of ''The 1001 Nights'' that featured the nautical adventurer.
WHAT'S NEXT The tabloid-suing actress seeks revenge on divorce lawyer George Clooney in the Coen brothers' romantic comedy ''Intolerable Cruelty,'' due in October.
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