Kate Winslet Profile

Name: Kate Winslet
Birth Name: Kate Elizabeth Winslet
Height: 5' 8"
Sex: Female
Nationality: British
Birth Date: October 5, 1975
Birth Place: Reading, Berkshire, England, UK
Profession: Actress
Education: Redroofs School in Maidenhead, U.K.; Studied at drama school in UK
Husband: Sam Mendes (director; born on August 1, 1965; married in May 2003), Jim Threapleton (assistant director; born in 1974; met during filming of Hideous Kinky in 1997; engaged in October 1998; married on November 22, 1998; separated in September 2001)
Relationship: Rufus Sewall (actor; born on October 29, 1967; broke up in 1996), Stephen Tredre (actor; born in 1963; died in December 1997 from bone cancer at age 34; together until 1995)
Father: Roger Winslet (actor)
Mother: Sally Winslet (née Bridges; actress, nanny)
Sister: Beth Winslet (actress; born in May 1978), Anna Winslet (actress; born in 1972)
Brother: Joss Winslet (born in 1980)
Grand Father: Oliver Bridges (theater manager)
Grand Mother: Linda Bridges (theater manager)
Uncle: Robert Bridges (actor)
Son: Joe Mendes (born on December 22, 2003 in New York; father: Sam Mendes)
Daughter: Mia (born on October 12, 2000; father: Jim Threapleton)


Filmography
# Solskins Drengur (2009)
# Revolutionary Road (2008)
# The Reader (2008)
# Romance and Cigarettes (2007)
# All the King's Men (2006)
# Flushed Away (2006)
# Little Children (2006)
# The Holiday (2006)
# Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
# Finding Neverland (2004)
# War Game (2004)
# The Life of David Gale (2003)
# Enigma (2002)
# Christmas Carol: the Movie (2001)
# Iris (2001)
# Faeries (2000)
# Quills (2000)
# Hideous Kinky (1999)
# Holy Smoke (1999)
# Titanic (1997)
# Hamlet (1996)
# Jude (1996)
# Sense and Sensibility (1995)
# A Kid in King Arthur s Court (1995)
# Heavenly Creatures (1994)


Career Highlights
# 1986 Began studying a local drama school
# 1987 Appeared in a British TV commercials for Sugar Puffs cereal
# 1988 Made British TV debut in Shrinks
# 1991 First professional TV role, as Reet in the BBC children s series Dark Season
# 1991 Left school to pursue career
# 1992 Appeared in the made-for-TV movie Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
# 1994 Made feature debut in a leading role, as Juliet Hulme in director Peter Jackson s critically acclaimed Heavenly Creatures
# 1995 Co-starred as Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility ; earned first Oscar nomination as Best Supporting Actress
# 1995 Played female lead in Jude opposite Christopher Eccleston
# 1996 Cast as Ophelia opposite Kenneth Branagh in Branagh s feature version of Shakespeare s Hamlet
# 1997 Played the heroine Rose in James Cameron s blockbuster Titanic ; earned a Best Actress Oscar nomination
# 1999 Appeared opposite Harvey Keitel in Jane Campion s Holy Smoke
# 1999 Played a hippie mother who takes her two daughters with her on a spiritual journey to Marrakech in the Independent film Hideous Kinky
# 2000 Co-starred with Geoffrey Rush and Joaquin Phoenix in Quills
# 2001 Played the younger incarnation of the title character in Iris ; the older Iris was played by Judi Dench; earned third Oscar nomination, this time as Supporting Actress
# 2001 Voiced a character in the animated version of A Christmas Carol ; had Top Ten single in Great Britain with song What If from the film s soundtrack
# 2003 Cast as a reporter to whom a death row inmate tells his story in The Life of David Gale
# 2004 Co-starred with Jim Carrey in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind about a couple who have their memories erased in an attempt to rescue their failing relationship; received Golden Globe, SAG and Oscar nominations for Best Actress
# 2004 Starred opposite Johnny Depp in Finding Neverland about the experiences of Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie
# 2005 Cast as the mistress to James Gandolfini in the musical Romance & Cigarettes ; written and directed by John Turturro (released in 2007)
# 2006 Co-starred with Jack Black in director Nancy Meyers romantic comedy The Holiday
# 2006 Earned an Emmy nomination for Best Guest Actress for her appearance in the HBO Comedy Series Extras
# 2006 Played a adulteress mother in Todd Field s Little Children ; received Golden Globe, SAG and Oscar nominations for Best Actress
# 2006 Played a southern belle who has an affair with the Louisiana governor in Steven Zaillian s All the King s Men
# 2007 Named the celebrity spokesperson for cosmetics giants Lancome
# 2008 Directed by Stephen Daldry in the film adaption of the German novel The Reader
# 2008 Nominated for the 2008 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress In A Supporting Role in a Motion Picture (“The Reader”)
# 2008 Nominated for the 2008 Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama (“Revolutionary Road”)
# 2008 Nominated for the 2008 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role (“Revolutionary Road”)
# 2008 Nominated for the 2008 Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role (“The Reader”)
# 2008 Re-teamed with Titanic co-star, Leonardo DiCaprio for Revolutionary Road ; directed and produced by husband Sam Mendes; earned a SAG nomination for Best Actress
# 2009 Nominated for the 2008 Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role (“The Reader”)