Kate Winslet
QUICK FACTS
NAME
Kate Winslet
OCCUPATION
Television Actress, Film Actress
BIRTH DATE
October 5, 1975 (age 43)
PLACE OF BIRTH
Reading, England, United Kingdom
AKA
Kate Elizabeth Winslet
Kate Winslet
FULL NAME
Kate Elizabeth Winslet
CBE
ZODIAC SIGN
Libra
Biography of Kate Winslet
Film actor / Film actress, Actress, TV actress, Film actress (1975-)
Oscar winner Kate Winslet has starred in a series of acclaimed films. She gained fame in the blockbuster 'Titanic' and also starred in 'Little Children', 'The Holiday' and 'Mildred Pierce'.
Who is Kate Winslet?
Born on October 5, 1975 in Reading, England, Kate Winslet began acting at age 7. He performed on the British stage until the mid-1990s, when he appeared in his first film, Heavenly Creatures. In 1997 she had the lead in Titanic, which drove her to international stardom. Since then, she has participated in several unusual films and has won the best actress Oscar for The Reader. She has also received several Golden Globes, including victories for Revolutionary Road, Mildred Pierce and Steve Jobs.
Early career
Born on October 5, 1975, in Reading, England, Kate Elizabeth Winslet is the granddaughter of two theater directors (her maternal grandparents founded Reading Repertory Theater) and the daughter of two actors. Winslet began acting as a child, making her first appearance on British television at age 7 in a cereal commercial. In 1988, she appeared on the television series Shrinks; Three years later, she left school to continue her incipient career as an actress.
Winslet appeared on the British stage in productions such as Adrian Mole and Peter Pan, and had a recurring role in the British comedy Get Back, before playing his debut role in the movie Heavenly Creatures (1994), directed by Peter Jackson. In the film, Winslet played Juliet Hulme, a schoolgirl with tuberculosis whose obsessive friendship with a classmate leads the two girls to murder the classmate's mother to avoid separation.
Winslet attracted even more attention with her next role in the Ang Lee film adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Sense and Sensibility (1995). The actress showed that she could defend herself against screen legends like Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman. Like the winner Marianne Dashwood, the "sensibility" of the film, Winslet won an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress. The film also won high critical acclaim.
Oscar Nod for 'Titanic'
In a similarly high role, Kate Winslet starred with Christopher Eccleston in Jude, a modern interpretation of Thomas Hardy's novel Jude the Obscure. She then appeared as Ophelia in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (1996), and landed directly on the A list of leading ladies with her performance as Rose DeWitt, the heroine of James Cameron's hit Titanic (1997). The film won numerous Academy Awards, including best film and best director, and earned her second Academy Award nomination, this time for best actress. Her co-star, Gloria Stuart, also got a nod in the supporting actress category for her portrayal of the former Rose DeWitt; the two actresses became the first to win nominations for playing two versions of the same character.
Immediately after his first box office success, Winslet made two unlikely decisions for his next projects: Hideous Kinky (1999) and Holy Smoke (1999). In Hideous Kinky, Winslet played a free-spirited single mother who brings her two daughters on a spiritual quest to Marrakech. For Holy Smoke, directed by Jane Campion, Winslet played Ruth Barron, a young woman who joins a religious cult. The frank description of the film of the sexual connection between Barron and PJ Waters (played by Harvey Keitel) showed Winslet's talent for portraying physical and emotional nudity on the screen.
Winslet then returned to a period drama in 2000 with the movie Quills, a film about the French novelist Marqués de Sade. In the film, Winslet played the laundress who helps the Marquis (Geoffrey Rush) to smuggle his illicit writings from an asylum during his engagement there.
More recognitions and Oscar Win
In 2001, Winslet lent his voice to the animated British film A Christmas Carol. A song from the film, "What If," featured Winslet as the lead vocalist and became a Top 10 in Britain. His most notable film of that year was Iris, a screenplay based on John Bailey's book Elegy for Iris. Winslet played the young Iris Murdoch, an unconventional student. Judi Dench played the older Iris, whose husband (Jim Broadbent) tries to help her while fighting the growing effects of her Alzheimer's disease. The three stars of Iris won nominations for the Academy Awards, so Winslet and a co-star won nominations for interpreting different versions of the same character.
That same year, Winslet co-starred
NAMEKate Winslet
OCCUPATION
Television Actress, Film Actress
BIRTH DATE
October 5, 1975 (age 43)
PLACE OF BIRTH
Reading, England, United Kingdom
AKA
Kate Elizabeth Winslet
Kate Winslet
FULL NAME
Kate Elizabeth Winslet
CBE
ZODIAC SIGN
Libra
Biography of Kate Winslet
Film actor / Film actress, Actress, TV actress, Film actress (1975-)
Oscar winner Kate Winslet has starred in a series of acclaimed films. She gained fame in the blockbuster 'Titanic' and also starred in 'Little Children', 'The Holiday' and 'Mildred Pierce'.
Who is Kate Winslet?
Born on October 5, 1975 in Reading, England, Kate Winslet began acting at age 7. He performed on the British stage until the mid-1990s, when he appeared in his first film, Heavenly Creatures. In 1997 she had the lead in Titanic, which drove her to international stardom. Since then, she has participated in several unusual films and has won the best actress Oscar for The Reader. She has also received several Golden Globes, including victories for Revolutionary Road, Mildred Pierce and Steve Jobs.
Early career
Born on October 5, 1975, in Reading, England, Kate Elizabeth Winslet is the granddaughter of two theater directors (her maternal grandparents founded Reading Repertory Theater) and the daughter of two actors. Winslet began acting as a child, making her first appearance on British television at age 7 in a cereal commercial. In 1988, she appeared on the television series Shrinks; Three years later, she left school to continue her incipient career as an actress.
Winslet appeared on the British stage in productions such as Adrian Mole and Peter Pan, and had a recurring role in the British comedy Get Back, before playing his debut role in the movie Heavenly Creatures (1994), directed by Peter Jackson. In the film, Winslet played Juliet Hulme, a schoolgirl with tuberculosis whose obsessive friendship with a classmate leads the two girls to murder the classmate's mother to avoid separation.
Winslet attracted even more attention with her next role in the Ang Lee film adaptation of Jane Austen's novel Sense and Sensibility (1995). The actress showed that she could defend herself against screen legends like Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman. Like the winner Marianne Dashwood, the "sensibility" of the film, Winslet won an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress. The film also won high critical acclaim.
Oscar Nod for 'Titanic'
In a similarly high role, Kate Winslet starred with Christopher Eccleston in Jude, a modern interpretation of Thomas Hardy's novel Jude the Obscure. She then appeared as Ophelia in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (1996), and landed directly on the A list of leading ladies with her performance as Rose DeWitt, the heroine of James Cameron's hit Titanic (1997). The film won numerous Academy Awards, including best film and best director, and earned her second Academy Award nomination, this time for best actress. Her co-star, Gloria Stuart, also got a nod in the supporting actress category for her portrayal of the former Rose DeWitt; the two actresses became the first to win nominations for playing two versions of the same character.
Immediately after his first box office success, Winslet made two unlikely decisions for his next projects: Hideous Kinky (1999) and Holy Smoke (1999). In Hideous Kinky, Winslet played a free-spirited single mother who brings her two daughters on a spiritual quest to Marrakech. For Holy Smoke, directed by Jane Campion, Winslet played Ruth Barron, a young woman who joins a religious cult. The frank description of the film of the sexual connection between Barron and PJ Waters (played by Harvey Keitel) showed Winslet's talent for portraying physical and emotional nudity on the screen.
Winslet then returned to a period drama in 2000 with the movie Quills, a film about the French novelist Marqués de Sade. In the film, Winslet played the laundress who helps the Marquis (Geoffrey Rush) to smuggle his illicit writings from an asylum during his engagement there.
More recognitions and Oscar Win
In 2001, Winslet lent his voice to the animated British film A Christmas Carol. A song from the film, "What If," featured Winslet as the lead vocalist and became a Top 10 in Britain. His most notable film of that year was Iris, a screenplay based on John Bailey's book Elegy for Iris. Winslet played the young Iris Murdoch, an unconventional student. Judi Dench played the older Iris, whose husband (Jim Broadbent) tries to help her while fighting the growing effects of her Alzheimer's disease. The three stars of Iris won nominations for the Academy Awards, so Winslet and a co-star won nominations for interpreting different versions of the same character.
That same year, Winslet co-starred
