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Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born October 5, 1975 in Reading, Berkshire, England) is an English actress most famous for her role of Rose DeWitt Bukater in the 1997 blockbuster film Titanic.
Her career began in television, with the co-starring role in the BBC children's science-fiction serial Dark Season in 1991, followed by an appearance in an episode of the medical drama Casualty in 1993, also for the BBC.
Winslet's film career took off within 1994 when she performed her first leading role when Juliet Hulme in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures. Since so she has acted around many films, like Sense and Sensibility, Titanic, Iris, Finding Neverland, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, earning her four Oscar nominations and quaternary Golden Globes.
Kate Winslet has besides enjoyed the brief taste of profits as a singer, by having her individual "What If" from either a Christmas Carol: The Movie soundtrack.
In November 22, 1998 Winslet married director Jim Threapleton with whom she has a girl known as Mia Honey. When her divorce in 2001, she began a relationship by owning director Sam Mendes. Winslet married Mendes in May 24, 2003 on the island of Anguilla in the West Indies and their sin Joe Alfie Winslet-Mendes was innate on December 22, 2003.
In January 25, 2005 Winslet was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. She one of these days wasted to Hilary Swank. This attached her for a record for virtually all Academy Award nominations for an actress prior to the age of Thirty. This nomination was preceded by nominations for Better Supporting Actress inside Feel & Sensibility & Iris. Winslet was as well nominated for Better Actress inside Titanic, however wasted to Helen Hunt. She was besides nominated for the BAFTA for Best Actress thereinside film & in Locating Neverland, however misused to Imelda Staunton.
Her front yard town of Reading has known as the street - Winslet Place - around her honour, build upon the places of the dismantled cinema.
Winslet is famed for her sonsy figure, & a media, around England in particular, have enthusiastically documented her weight fluctuations on top a years. Winslet, the previous anorexic, has been outspoken about her refusal to slenderize sequentially to conform to the Hollywood "ideal". Around February 2003, the British edition of GQ magazine published photographs of Winslet which experienced been airbrushed to produce her look dramatically thinly than she really was; Winslet issued a statement saying that the alterations were mass produced forswearing her consent.
Selected Filmography
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! Season !! Film !! Role
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| 2006 || Holiday ||
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| 2006 || Flushed Away || Rita (voice)
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| 2006 || Little Children || Sarah Pierce
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| 2005 || All the King's Men || Anne Stanton
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| 2005 || Romance & Cigarettes || Tula
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| 2004 || Finding Neverland || Sylvia Llewelyn Davies
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| 2004 || Pride (TV) || Suki (voice)
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| 2004 || Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind || Clementine Kruczynski
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| 2003 || The Life of David Gale || Bitsey Bloom
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| 2001 || Iris || Young Iris Murdoch
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| 2001 || Christmas Carol: The Movie || Belle (voice)
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| 2001 || Enigma || Hester Wallace
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| 2000 || Quills'' || Madeleine 'Maddy' LeClerc
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| 1999 || Holy Smoke || Ruth Barron
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| 1999 || Faeries || Brigid (voice)
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| 1998 || Hideous Kinky || Julia
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| 1997 || Titanic || Rose DeWitt Bukater
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| 1996 || Hamlet || Ophelia
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| 1996 || Jude || Sue Bridehead
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| 1995 || Sense and Sensibility || Marianne Dashwood
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| 1995 || ''A Kid in King Arthur's Court || Princess Sarah
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| 1994 || Heavenly Creatures || Juliet Hulme
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| 1991 || Dark Season'' (TV series) || Reet
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