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The Biography actress Kate Winslet

The Biography Actress Kate Winslet

Birth Name Kate Elizabeth Winslet
Height 5 ft 8 inch
Sex Female
Birth Date October 5, 1975
Zodiac Libra
Birth Place Reading, Berkshire, U.K.
Nationality British
Father Roger Winslet (actor)
Mother Sally Winslet (née Bridges; actress, nanny)
Brother Joss Winslet (born in 1980)
Sister Anna Winslet (actress), Beth Winslet (actress)
Uncle Robert Bridges (actor)
Grand Father Joss Winslet (born in 1980)
Grand Mother Linda Bridges (theater manager)
Relationship Rufus Sewall (actor; broke up in 1996), Stephen Tredre (actor, screenwriter; died December 1997 from bone cancer at age 34; together until 1995)
Husband Jim Threapleton (assistant director; met during filming of Hideous Kinky in 1997; engaged October 1998; married on November 22, 1998; separated in September 2001)
Daughter Mia (10/12/2000)
Education Redroofs School, Maidenhead, U.K.; Studied at drama school in U.K.
Occupation Actress
Claim to fame As Rose DeWitt Bukater in “Titanic” (1997)
Fan Mail Peters, Fraser & Dunlop 503/4 The Chambers London Sw10 Oxf Eng. England
Our star-of-the-month for February is the indelible Kate Winslet who we will eternally remember for her role as Rose Dawson in James Cameron’s 1997 epic Titanic – even though she is reported to have told a journalist last month: “I’m sick of being Rose. It’s been a nearly a decade since we made the film. I want to be Kate”.
Kate Winslet was 17 years old when she made her auspicious film debut as an extroverted but tubercular young girl who constructs a murderous fantasy world with her best friend in Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures (1994). Since then, her rise to stardom has been sure and steady, with acclaimed roles in films such as Sense and Sensibility and, of course, Titanic. Possessing a voluptuous, old-fashioned beauty that lends itself to costume dramas, Winslet has also been hailed for proudly standing in stark contrast to her more emaciated colleagues, proving that unconventional beauty and Hollywood success can indeed go hand in hand.
Following the overwhelming success of Titanic, the actress surprised many observers with her next project; rather than go for another high-profile film, she instead chose to star in Gillies MacKinnon’s small independent Hideous Kinky (1998), which cast her as a young hippie who takes her children to Morocco in order to pursue spiritual enlightenment. Aside from the good reviews she got for her performance, she also got a husband out of the film: she ended up marrying James Threapleton, Hideous Kinky’s third assistant director. Though the marriage wouldn’t last long, romance returned to the young starlet’s life when she announced that she was dating American Beauty director Sam Mendes in late 2001.
In 1999, she played another young woman in search of spiritual enlightenment, this time in Jane Campion’s Holy Smoke. After following up the next year as a laundress who is the Marquis De Sade’s sole link to getting his erotic works to the outside world in Quills, Winslet was once in the spotlight for her Oscar nominated performance as a youthful Iris Murdoch in director Richard Eyre’s Iris. In 2003 Winslet could be found in yet another biopic, this time cast opposite Kevin Spacey in the film The Life of David Gale.
In 2005 Winslet was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; she eventually lost to Hilary Swank. This tied her for the record for most Academy Award nominations for an actress before the age of 30. This nomination was preceded by nominations for Best Supporting Actress in Sense and Sensibility and Iris. Winslet was also nominated for Best Actress in Titanic, but lost to Helen Hunt. She was also nominated for a BAFTA for Best Actress in that film and in Finding Neverland, but lost to Imelda Staunton.
At age 11, she began attending the acting school Redroofs in Maidenhead, England, UK.
Won Best Spoken Word Album for Children, Grammy Awards, shared with Graham Greene in 2000.
The youngest actress ever to be nominated for two Academy Awards (for Sense and Sensibility (1995) and Titanic (1997)) (Aged 20 and 22 respectively). [1998]
Nominated for Best Supporting Actress, Manchester Evening News Award for her theatre role in “What the Butler Saw” as Geraldine Barclay. [1994]
Chosen by People (USA) magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world. [1996]
Won Best Film Actress, Smash Hits Magazine. [1998]
Won Sexiest Actress, Entertainment Insider Awards. [1998]
Won Film Actress of the Year, Variety Club of Great Britain. [1999]
Nominated for Best Actress, Roughcut.com Internet Movie Award for Holy Smoke (1999). [2000]
Nominated for Best Actress in a Dramatic Performance, Excellent Dynamic Activism (EDA) Awards/The Alliance of Women Journalists for Little Children (2006). [2006]
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