Kate Winslet | |
Biographical information | |
Full name: | Kate Elizabeth Winslet |
Nationality: | British |
Birthdate: | October 5, 1975 |
Birthplace: | Reading, Berkshire, England |
Age: | 43 |
Occupation: | Actress, singer |
Years active: | 1991–present |
Significant other(s): | Jim Threapleton (m. 1998–2001) Sam Mendes (m. 2003–2011) Ned Rocknroll (m. 2012) |
Family: | Roger John Winslet (Father) Sally Anne Bridges (Mother) |
Kate Winslet (born 5 October, 1975) is an English actress. She portrays Rose DeWitt Bukater in James Cameron's 1997 film, Titanic. She has arguably had a large part in almost every role she has played throughout her career.
Biography
Kate Elizabeth Winslet has received multiple awards and nominations. She was the youngest person to accrue six Academy Award nominations, and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Reader (2008).
She has won awards from the Screen Actors Guild, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association among others, and has been nominated twice for an Emmy Award for television acting, winning once for her role as Mildred Pierce in the 2011 mini-series of the same name.
Brought up in Berkshire, Winslet studied drama from childhood, and began her career in British television in 1991. She made her film début in Heavenly Creatures (1994), for which she received her first notable critical praise.
She achieved recognition for her subsequent work in a supporting role in Sense and Sensibility (1995) and for her leading role in Titanic (1997), the highest grossing film at the time, and the highest grossing film of Winslet's career.
Since 2000, Winslet's performances have continued to draw positive comments from film critics, and she has been nominated for various awards for her work in such films as Quills (2000), Iris (2001), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Finding Neverland (2004), Little Children (2006), The Reader (2008) and Revolutionary Road (2008). Her performance in the last of these prompted New York magazine critic David Edelstein to describe her as "the best English-speaking film actress of her generation".
The romantic comedy The Holiday and the animated film Flushed Away (2006) are among the biggest commercial successes of her career. Winslet was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children in 2000. She has been included as a vocalist on some soundtracks of works she has performed in, and the single "What If" from the soundtrack for Christmas Carol: The Movie. Winslet has two children.
In mid-1996, Winslet began filming James Cameron's Titanic (1997), alongside Leonardo DiCaprio. Cast as the sensitive seventeen-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater, a fictional first-class socialite who survives the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic, Winslet's experience was emotionally demanding. "Titanic was totally different and nothing could have prepared me for it. ... We were really scared about the whole adventure. Jim [Cameron] is a perfectionist, a real genius at making movies. But there was all this bad press before it came out, and that was really upsetting." Against expectations, the film went on to become the highest-grossing film of all time, grossing more than US$1.843 billion ($2.7 billion) in box-office receipts worldwide, and transformed Winslet into a commercial movie star. Subsequently, she was nominated for most of the high-profile awards, winning a European Film Award.
Filmography
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
1991 | Dark Season | Reet | TV series |
1992 | Get Back (TV series) | Eleanor Sweet | TV series |
1994 | Heavenly Creatures | Juliet Hulme | Main role |
1995 | A Kid in King Arthur's Court | Princess Sarah | Main role |
1995 | Sense and Sensibility | Marianne Dashwood | Main role |
1996 | Jude | Sue Bridehead | Main role |
1996 | Hamlet | Ophelia | Main role |
1997 | Titanic | Rose DeWitt Bukater | Main role |
1998 | Hideous Kinky | Julia | Main role |
1999 | Faeries | Brigid | Voice |
1999 | Holy Smoke! | Ruth Barron | Main role |
2000 | Quills | Madeleine 'Maddy' LeClerc | Main role |
2001 | Enigma | Hester Wallace | Main role |
2001 | Christmas Carol: The Movie | Belle | Voice |
2001 | Iris | Young Iris Murdoch | Main role |
2003 | The Life of David Gale | Bitsey Bloom | Main role |
2004 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Clementine Kruczynski | Main role |
2004 | Finding Neverland | Sylvia Llewelyn Davies | Main role |
2005 | Romance & Cigarettes | Tula | Main role |
2006 | All the King's Men | Anne Stanton | Main role |
2006 | Little Children | Sarah Pierce | Main role |
2006 | Flushed Away | Rita | (Voice) |
2006 | The Holiday | Iris Simpkins | Main role |
2006 | Deep Sea 3D | Narrator | (Voice) |
2008 | The Fox and the Child | Narrator | (Voice) |
2008 | The Reader | Hanna Schmitz | Main role |
2008 | Revolutionary Road | April Wheeler | Main role |
2011 | Mildred Pierce | Mildred Pierce Beragon | Main role |
2011 | Contagion | Dr. Erin Mears | Main role |
2011 | Carnage | Nancy Cowan | Main role |
2013 | Movie 43 | Juliet Hulme | Post-production |
2013 | Labor Day | Adele | Filming |
External Links
- Kate Winslet at the Internet Movie Database
- Kate Winslet on Wikipedia
- Kate Winslet at Google images
- Kate Winslet at People Magazine