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Kate Winslet

Kate Winslet

Birthday: 1975-10-05 | Place of Birth: Reading, Berkshire, England, UK

Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress. Known for her work in independent films, particularly period dramas, as well as for her portrayals of headstrong and complicated women, she has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, and five Golden Globe Awards. Winslet studied drama at the Redroofs Theatre School. Her first screen appearance, at age 15, was in the British television series Dark Season (1991). She made her film debut playing a teenage murderess in Heavenly Creatures (1994), and went on to win a BAFTA Award for playing Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility (1995). Global stardom followed soon after with her leading role in the epic romance Titanic (1997), which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Titanic was the highest-grossing film at the time, after which she eschewed parts in blockbusters in favour of critically acclaimed period pieces, including Quills (2000) and Iris (2001). The science fiction romance Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), in which Winslet was cast against type in a contemporary setting, proved to be a turning point in her career, and she gained further recognition for her performances in Finding Neverland (2004), Little Children (2006), Revolutionary Road (2008), and The Reader (2008). For playing a former Nazi camp guard in the latter, she won the BAFTA Award and the Academy Award for Best Actress. Winslet's portrayal of Joanna Hoffman in the biopic Steve Jobs (2015) won her another BAFTA Award, and she won two Primetime Emmy Awards for her performances in the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce (2011) and Mare of Easttown (2021). For her narration of a short story in the audiobook Listen to the Storyteller (1999), Winslet won a Grammy Award. She performed the song "What If" for the soundtrack of her film Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001). A co-founder of the charity Golden Hat Foundation, which aims to create autism awareness, she has written a book on the topic, The Golden Hat: Talking Back to Autism (2010). Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2009 and 2021. In 2012, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). Divorced from film directors Jim Threapleton and Sam Mendes, Winslet has been married to businessman Edward Abel Smith since 2012. She has a child from each marriage.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
Eleven Days in May

as    Narrator

2022
Avatar: The Way of Water

as    Ronal

2021
Mare of Easttown

as    Marianne 'Mare' Sheehan

2021
Eating Our Way to Extinction

as    Narrator (voice)

2020
Baba Yaga

as    Baba Yaga

2020
Black Beauty

as    Black Beauty (voice)

2020
Ammonite

as    Mary Anning

2019
Blackbird

as    Jennifer

2017
The Mountain Between Us

as    Alex Martin

2017
Wonder Wheel

as    Ginny

2016
Collateral Beauty

as    Claire Wilson

2016
Triple 9

as    Irina Vlaslov

2016
The Dressmaker

as    Myrtle "Tilly" Dunnage

2015
Insurgent

as    Jeanine Matthews

2015
Steve Jobs

as    Joanna Hoffman

2015
Snow Chick - A Penguin's Tale

as    Narrator (voice)

2015
A Little Chaos

as    Sabine De Barra

2014
Divergent

as    Jeanine Matthews

2013
Labor Day

as    Adele

2012
Reflections on Titanic

as    Self

2011
Contagion

as    Erin Mears

2011
Mildred Pierce

as    Mildred Pierce

2011
Mildred Pierce

as    Mildred Pierce

2011
Carnage

as    Nancy Cowan

2008
Revolutionary Road

as    April Wheeler

2008
The Reader

as    Hanna Schmitz

2007
The Fox and the Child

as    Narrator (voice)

2006
The Holiday

as    Iris Simpkins

2006
Little Children

as    Sarah Pierce