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Kate Winslet

Kate WinsletAKA Kate Elizabeth Winslet

Born: 5-Oct-1975
Birthplace: Reading, England

Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor

Nationality: England
Executive summary: Titanic

Coming from a family of struggling stage actors, Kate Winslet started taking acting lessons at age 11, and within a few months she was dancing with the Honey Monster in TV commercials for Sugar Puffs. At 16 she was in the British sci-fi series Dark Season. At 18, she played Peter Jackson's "let's kill Mum" classic Heavenly Creature, opposite equally heavenly Melanie Lynskey. After several art house films like Sense and Sensibility, Jude, and Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet, she went sailing with Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic.

Since then, Winslet has returned to the quiet side of cinema, doing mostly independent and arty films instead of blockbusters. In Holy Smoke, she stripped and urinated for Harvey Keitel. She did Marquis de Sade's laundry in Quills, and forgot Jim Carrey in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. She did voice work for an animated Christmas Carol: The Movie in 2001, and her song "What If?" from the film was released as a single in Britain. All proceeds went to cancer charities.

Winslet has also been considered somewhat controversial for carrying half a handful of body fat on her fine frame, instead of psychotically dieting to stay perpetually rail-thin.

Father: Roger Winslet (stage actor)
Mother: Sally Bridges (stage actress)
Sister: Anna Winslet (actress, b. 1972)
Sister: Beth Winslet (actress, b. 1978)
Brother: Joss Winslet (b. 1980)
Boyfriend: Stephen Tredre (TV writer, dated and cohabited 1990-95)
Boyfriend: Rufus Sewell (actor, dated 1995-96)
Husband: James Threapleton (asst. director, m. 22-Nov-1998, div. 13-Dec-2001, one daughter)
Daughter: Mia Honey Threapleton (b. 12-Oct-2000)
Husband: Sam Mendes (film director, m. 24-May-2003, div. 2010, one son)
Son: Joe Alfie Winslet Mendes (b. 22-Dec-2003)
Boyfriend: Louis Dowler (model, together 2010)
Husband: Ned Abel Smith (Virgin Galactic executive,"Ned Rocknroll", nephew of Richard Branson, m. Dec-2012)

    High School: Redroofs School, Maidenhead, U.K.

    Oscar for Best Actress 2009 for The Reader
    Emmy 2011, Best Actress in a Miniseries or Movie, for Mildred Pierce
    Golden Globe 2012, Best Actress in a Miniseries or TV Movie, for Mildred Pierce
    Endorsement of American Express 2006
    Endorsement of Lancôme 2007
    Fainted on the set of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
    Risk Factors: Smoking

    FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
    Wonder Wheel (14-Oct-2017)
    The Mountain Between Us (9-Sep-2017)
    Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond (5-Sep-2017)
    Mary and the Witch's Flower (8-Jul-2017) [VOICE]
    Collateral Beauty (12-Dec-2016)
    Triple 9 (19-Feb-2016)
    The Dressmaker (14-Sep-2015)
    Steve Jobs (5-Sep-2015)
    Insurgent (11-Mar-2015)
    A Little Chaos (13-Sep-2014)
    Divergent (18-Mar-2014)
    Labor Day (30-Aug-2013)
    Movie 43 (1-Jan-2013)
    Contagion (3-Sep-2011) · Dr. Erin Mears
    Carnage (1-Sep-2011)
    Mildred Pierce (27-Mar-2011)
    Revolutionary Road (15-Dec-2008)
    The Reader (10-Dec-2008)
    The Holiday (5-Dec-2006)
    Flushed Away (22-Oct-2006) [VOICE]
    All the King's Men (10-Sep-2006) · Anne Stanton
    Little Children (1-Sep-2006) · Sarah Pierce
    Deep Sea (3-Mar-2006) [VOICE]
    Romance & Cigarettes (6-Sep-2005) · Tula
    Finding Neverland (4-Sep-2004)
    Pride (21-Jun-2004) [VOICE]
    Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (19-Mar-2004) · Clementine Kruczynski
    The Life of David Gale (7-Feb-2003)
    Iris (14-Dec-2001)
    Christmas Carol: The Movie (15-Sep-2001) · Belle [VOICE]
    Enigma (22-Jan-2001)
    Quills (2-Sep-2000) · Madeleine
    Holy Smoke (4-Sep-1999) · Ruth
    Hideous Kinky (2-Oct-1998)
    Titanic (1-Nov-1997) · Rose DeWitt Bukater
    Hamlet (25-Dec-1996)
    Jude (10-Sep-1996) · Sue Bridehead
    Sense and Sensibility (13-Dec-1995) · Marianne Dashwood
    A Kid in King Arthur's Court (11-Aug-1995) · Princess Sarah
    Heavenly Creatures (12-Sep-1994) · Juliet


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