Kate Winslet
Biological Information
Full name	Kate Elizabeth Winslet
Gender	Female
Born	5 October 1975 (age 37)
Birthplace	Reading, Berkshire, England
Background Information
Family	Roger John Winslet (Father) Sally Anne Bridges (Mother)
Romances	Jim Threapleton (m. 1998–2001) Sam Mendes (m. 2003–2010)
Occupation	Actress, singer
Active	1991–present

Kate Winslet 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.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Filmography 3 External Links 4 Gallery 5 Comments

BiographyEdit

Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born 5 October 1975) 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 debut 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 (both 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.

FilmographyEdit

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 LinksEdit

• Kate Winslet at the Internet Movie Database
• Kate Winslet on Wikipedia
• Kate Winslets at Google images
• Kate Winslet at People Magazine

GalleryEdit