Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born October 5, 1975) is a five-time Academy Award-nominated, Emmy Award-nominated, BAFTA, Grammy and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning English actress.
She is noted for having played a wide range of diverse characters over her career, but is probably best-known for her critically acclaimed performances as Juliet Hulme in Heavenly Creatures (1994), Rose DeWitt Bukater in the highest-grossing film of all time, Titanic (1997), and Clementine Kruczynski in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004).
She is the winner of a BAFTA and SAG Award, and a five-time Oscar nominee. At the age of 22, she broke the record for the youngest person to receive two Oscar nominations, and each of her subsequent nominations has broken a further record: the youngest person to receive three, four, and five nominations.
Biography
Early Life
Kate Winslet was born in Reading, Berkshire, England to Roger Winslet and Sally Bridges, both of whom were actors. Her maternal grandparents, Oliver and Linda Bridges, founded and operated the Reading Repertory, and her uncle, Robert Bridges, appeared in the original West End production of Oliver! Her sisters are Beth Winslet and Anna Winslet, also actresses. Most of the people in her family are actors, so her continuing the time-honored tradition was perhaps a natural progression.
Winslet, raised as an Anglican, began studying drama at the age of eleven at the Redroofs Theatre School, a co-educational independent school in Maidenhead, Berkshire, where she was head girl and was soon cast as a spokesperson for a cereal in television commercials. Although she seems to be living an almost idealistic existence, it wasn’t always that way. Throughout her adolescence, she was severely bullied for being overweight and having exceptionally large feet (which she inherited from her mother).
Career
Winslet’s career began on television, with a co-starring role in the BBC children’s science fiction serial Dark Season in 1991. This was followed by appearances in the made-for-tv movie Anglo-Saxon Attitudes in 1992 and an episode of the medical drama Casualty in 1993, also for the BBC.
Winslet alongside Melanie Lynskey in Heavenly Creatures. This was her first film role.
Her film career took off with praise and recognition in 1994 when she starred in a joint leading role, as Juliet Hulme in director Peter Jackson’s critically acclaimed Heavenly Creatures, playing a vivacious and imaginative teen who helps her best friend murder her mother when they are not allowed to be together.
This role was followed by the successful film Sense and Sensibility (co-starring Emma Thompson), which made her well-known, especially in the UK. Winslet became famous world-wide after the 1997 release of Titanic, a massive hit which holds the record as highest-grossing film in history (not accounting for inflation) at more than 1 billion dollars in box-office worldwide. It went on to win 11 Academy Awards.
Winslet has been regarded as something of a critics’ darling, generally receiving positive reviews for every one of her films. Despite Titanic’s success, she has continued making lower-budget, independent films, including Hideous Kinky and Holy Smoke!; her roles in these smaller, more artistic films appear to be one of choice – she turned down the lead in Shakespeare in Love to make Hideous Kinky. She has also taken several roles in studio “period dramas” like Quills, Titanic and Finding Neverland. (For a time, she was given the nickname “Corset Kate”).
Winslet as Rose in Titanic, with Amy Gaipa as her maid, Trudy
In 2005, Winslet appeared in a television commercial for American Express. As part of the “My Life, My Card” campaign, the ad shows Winslet strolling around Camden Lock, in London, as she makes references to all the events that have happened to her film characters – such as going to prison for murder (Heavenly Creatures), being penniless and heartbroken (Sense and Sensibility), almost drowning (Titanic), losing her mind (Iris), having her memory erased (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) and being in Neverland (Finding Neverland). During the ad, she is shown holding items relating to her films; during the reference to Sense and Sensibility she thumbs through a copy of the book, and when she references Finding Neverland, she’s holding a hook.
Filmography
Ø 1991
Dark Season (TV series)
Ø 1994
Heavenly Creatures
Ø 1995
A Kid in King Arthur’s Court
Sense and Sensibility winner
Ø 1996
Jude
Hamlet
Ø 1997
Titanic
Ø 1998
Hideous Kinky
Ø 1999
Faeries
Holy Smoke!
Ø 2000
Quills
Ø 2001
Enigma
Christmas Carol: The Movie
Iris
Ø 2003
The Life of David Gale
Ø 2004
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Finding Neverland
Ø 2005
Romance & Cigarettes
Ø 2006
All the King’s Men
Little Children
Flushed Away
The Holiday
Ø 2008
Gnomeo and Juliet
Revolutionary Road
Ø 2009
The Marvelous Mabel Stark
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