Before Catherine Zeta Jones was famous, German advert starring a young Catherine Zeta Jones is unearthed

Catherine Zeta Jones first ever on-screen role has been unearthed. The Welsh actress played a married woman who runs off with her handsome lover in a two minute advert that aired in Germany back in 1990. She filmed the commercial a year before she landed the role that shot her to fame as Mariette in Darling Buds of May.

Catherine Zeta Jones starred in a two minute advert that aired in Germany back in 1990

The actress looks very youthful in ad, which was filmed 21 years ago

The advert was for the national railway in Germany called the Deutsche Bahn Werbung. The advert starts off with the handsome man storming out of his job as a mechanic after rowing with the boss. Zeta Jones, who was just 21 when she shot the ad, is then seen sitting at a table having lunch with her husband and in-laws, looking unhappy.

She played a married woman who runs off with her hunky lover

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Her lover then appears in the restaurant, grabs her hand and pulls away as her husband looks stunned. The laughing couple jump in a clapped-out old Volkswagen Beetle car and kiss before driving to the train station. They abandon the car and run through the station before jumping on a train where they kiss several times.

The husband is then seen driving alongside the train in his car, waving a bunch of flowers. But Zeta Jones simply tears the wedding ring off her fingers and throws it out of the train window - before kissing her lover once more. After starring in the advert, Zeta Jones went on to international fame, appearing on in such shows as The Young Indian Jones Chronicles and Catherine The Great before going on to find fame in such movies as The Mask of Zorro, America's Sweetheart, Chicago and Ocean's Twelve.

The commercial was for a line of German trains

Seen here in another warmly lit kissing scene