Background

Kate Winslet was born on October 5, 1975, in Reading, Berkshire, England, to Sally Anne (née Bridges) and Roger John Winslet. Her mother worked as a nanny and waitress, and her father, a struggling actor, took labouring jobs to support the family. Her maternal grandparents were both actors and ran the Reading Repertory Theatre Company. Winslet has two sisters, Anna and Beth, both of whom are actresses, and a younger brother, Joss.

The family had limited financial means; they lived on free meal benefits and were supported by a charity named the Actor's Charitable Trust. When Winslet was 10, her father severely injured his foot in a boating accident and found it harder to work, leading to more financial hardships for the family. Winslet has said that her parents always made them feel cared for and that they were a supportive family.

Education

Winslet attended St Mary and All Saints' Church of England primary school. Living in a family of actors inspired her to pursue acting from a young age. She and her sisters participated in amateur stage shows at school and at a local youth theatre, named Foundations. When she was five, Winslet made her first stage appearance as Mary in her school's production of the Nativity. She has described herself as an overweight child; she was nicknamed "blubber" by her schoolmates and was bullied for the way she looked. She said that she did not let this defeat her.

At 11, Winslet was accepted into the Redroofs Theatre School in Maidenhead. The school also functioned as an agency and took students to London to audition for acting jobs. She appeared in a Sugar Puffs commercial and dubbed for foreign films. At school, she was made head girl and took part in productions of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and played the lead role of Wendy Darling in Peter Pan. She worked simultaneously with the Starmaker Theatre Company in Reading. She participated in over 20 of their stage productions, but was rarely selected as the lead due to her weight. Nonetheless, she played key roles as Miss Agatha Hannigan in Annie, the Mother Wolf in The Jungle Book, and Lena Marelli in Bugsy Malone.

In 1991, within two weeks of finishing her GCSE examinations, Winslet made her screen debut as one of the main cast members of the BBC science fiction television series Dark Season. Her part was that of Reet, a schoolgirl who helps her classmates fight against a sinister man distributing free computers to her school. She did not earn much from the job, and at 16, a lack of funds forced Winslet to leave Redroofs.

Career

Kate began performing at an early age, taking small parts in commercials, television shows, and stage plays. Her first major role was in director Peter Jackson’s drama Heavenly Creatures (1994). The film, based on the Pauline Parker–Juliet Hulme case in New Zealand, depicted the obsessive fantasy life of two adolescent girls and their eventual murder of Parker’s mother. In 1995 Winslet appeared in an adaptation of the Jane Austen novel Sense and Sensibility; the film was written by actress Emma Thompson and directed by Ang Lee. Winslet’s turn as Marianne Dashwood, a young woman set financially and romantically adrift by the circumstances of her father’s death, brought her to the attention of a larger audience and earned her an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress. Winslet then starred in another literary adaptation, Jude (1996), which was based on Thomas Hardy’s novel Jude the Obscure (1895). Winslet solidified her burgeoning reputation for taking period roles by portraying Ophelia in Kenneth Branagh’s production of Hamlet (1996).

In 1997 Winslet became an international star with the release of director James Cameron’s Titanic, an epic that innovatively blended a conventional romantic story line with the large-scale computer-generated special effects normally reserved for action movies. Winslet portrayed heroine Rose DeWitt Bukater, a wealthy, idealistic young woman who pursues a brief, passionate affair with Jack Dawson, a struggling artist played by Leonardo DiCaprio. The film set box-office records, and Winslet received her second Oscar nomination.

Following the phenomenon generated by Titanic, Winslet eschewed a career in popular, lucrative movies in favour of several independent films. Hideous Kinky (1998) featured Winslet as a woman traveling in search of spiritual fulfillment in 1960s Morocco with her two daughters. In Holy Smoke (1999) she starred as a young woman whose parents extricate her from a cult and attempt to have her deprogrammed. Winslet further demonstrated a tendency to choose provocative roles with Quills (2000), in which she played a laundress smuggling manuscripts written by the Marquis de Sade out of the insane asylum where he is imprisoned. Her transformation into writer Iris Murdoch in Iris (2001) won her further accolades, including Oscar and Golden Globe nominations.

Again demonstrating a proclivity for idiosyncratic choices, Winslet portrayed a woman who has the memories of a painful relationship erased by a new medical procedure in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), earning her yet another Academy Award nomination. In Little Children (2006) she appeared as a housewife whose frustration with the tedium of her suburban existence results in an adulterous affair. Winslet earned her fifth Academy Award nomination for that performance; she was the youngest actress to have received that many nominations. She turned to lighter matters with the romantic comedy The Holiday (2006) and Flushed Away (2006), a computer-animated adventure for which she provided the voice of a rat.

A 2008 adaptation of Richard Yates’s novel Revolutionary Road again paired Winslet and DiCaprio, this time as an unconventional couple attempting to buck the restrictive mores of 1950s suburbia. In The Reader (2008), Winslet explored the ethical complexities of the Holocaust as an illiterate concentration camp guard. For her performances in Revolutionary Road and The Reader, Winslet won Golden Globe Awards for best actress and best supporting actress, respectively. For her work in The Reader she also earned her first Academy Award (for best actress).

In 2011 Winslet moved to the small screen with the titular role in the Home Box Office (HBO) miniseries Mildred Pierce, based on James M. Cain’s novel about the travails of a divorced mother in the 1930s. Winslet received an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award for her performance. Returning to feature films, she then appeared in Contagion (2011), as an epidemiologist analyzing the spread of a deadly virus, and in the satiric comedy Carnage (2011), as one of four parents entangled in a dispute about child rearing. She played a single mother who develops a relationship with an escaped convict in Labor Day (2013). Winslet then stalked the screen as a ruthless operative in Divergent (2014), based on a series of young-adult novels, and wafted through the period piece A Little Chaos (2014), a fictional take on the romantic life of Versailles garden designer André Le Nôtre.

In 2016 Winslet was awarded a Golden Globe for her portrayal of Apple marketing executive Joanna Hoffman in Steve Jobs (2015), a biopic about seminal moments in the career of the titular computer pioneer; she also received an Oscar nomination, her seventh overall, for her performance. Winslet then appeared as a vampy Russian mobster in the crime thriller Triple 9 and as the coworker of a grieving father in the tearjerker Collateral Beauty (both 2016). Her credits from 2017 included The Mountain Between Us, an adventure drama about strangers who survive a plane crash, and Wonder Wheel, a comedy directed by Woody Allen, in which she portrayed a bored waitress on Coney Island in the 1950s.

In 2012, Winslet wrote a book about autism, entitled The Golden Hat: Talking Back to Autism, which was published by Simon & Schuster. It contains correspondence between Winslet and Ericsdottir, personal statements from various celebrities, and contributions from Thorsteinsson. A reviewer for Publishers Weekly praised the book for its "warmth and sincerity". The United Nations featured the book during a ceremony on the World Autism Awareness Day of 2012. For her work with the Golden Hat Foundation, Winslet received Spain's Yo Dona award for Best Humanitarian Work.

Achievements

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  Countless people around the world will never be able to erase the memories of her performance as ‘Hanna Schmitz’ in the spine-tingling Academy Award-winning movie, ‘The Reader’ or as the delicate upper-class beauty, torn in love, in one of the highest-grossing films of all time, ‘Titanic’. One of the most popular actresses in Hollywood, Kate Winslet achieved colossal success in less than a decade with her entry in Hollywood; a feat that most accomplished actresses, look to achieve in a lifetime.
  
  Kate has won a number of awards and distinguished honors for her extensive contributions to world cinema and has managed to incessantly draw positive comments from critics and audiences for her performances and choice of films, globally. She is the youngest person to acquire six Academy Award nominations, with seven nominations in total, and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Reader (2008). Among her numerous accolades for her performances, Winslet has won an Oscar, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Grammy, a Critics' Choice Movie Award, an AACTA Award, three BAFTAs, four Golden Globe Awards, three Screen Actors Guild Awards, and four Empire Awards. She is one of the few actresses to have won three of the four major American entertainment awards (EGOT), with her Academy Award, Primetime Emmy Award, and Grammy Award wins.
  
  In 2007, British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) honoured her with Britannia Award. She received the 2009 Santa Barbara International Film Festival Modern Master (Montecito) Award in recognition of her accomplishments in the film industry. In 2011, Winslet received the Yo Dona award for Best Humanitarian Work for her work with the Golden Hat Foundation, whose mission is to eliminate barriers for autistic people. Winslet was appointed as Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to drama. The same year she was honoured with an Honorary César Award. In 2014, American Library Association awarded her Odyssey Award for her audiobook performance of Roald Dahl's children's novel Matilda. In 2015, Film Society of Lincoln Center honoured her at the 53rd New York Film Festival for her contributions to arts, and BAFTA with a special career tribute titled BAFTA A Life in Pictures. In 2017, she was honoured with Actors Inspiration Award by SAG-AFTRA for both her entertainment and philanthropic work. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, inducted at 6262 Hollywood Blvd, which was unveiled on 17 March 2014 at Saint Patrick's Day by Winslet, with Kathy Bates and James Cameron as guest speakers at the unveiling ceremony.
  
  Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2009, and in 2012, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).

Works

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• book

  • The Golden Hat: Talking Back to Autism 2012

• movie

  • The Dressmaker 2016
  • Hideous Kinky 1998
  • What Other Couples Do 2013
  • A Little Chaos 2015
  • Heavenly Creatures 1994
  • Little Children 2006
  • Revolutionary Road 2009
  • The Mountain Between Us 2017
  • Wonder Wheel 2017
  • The Holiday 2006
  • Heavenly Creatures 1994
  • Iris 2002
  • Labor Day 2013
  • Carnage 2011
  • Titanic 1997
  • Sense and Sensibility 1995
  • Contagion 2011
  • Quills 2000
  • Steve Jobs 2015
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004
  • Finding Neverland 2005
  • Enigma 2002
  • All The King's Men 2006
  • Jude 1996

• music

  • What If By Kate Winslet (2001-11-26) 2001

Religion

Kate doesn’t speak much of her religion to the press, even though Winslet has played roles commenting on spirituality throughout her career, including Hideous Kinky in which a mother goes on a spiritual quest to Morocco and Holy Smoke in which her character is spiritually awakened on a trip to India. She does appear, however, to believe that God created her and is responsible for her physical appearance:

"The lord God almighty has done me proud with my features which I’m proud of and have no desire to alter them."

Beyond that the actress has been mostly silent on all things religious, probably indicating that she isn’t terribly concerned with it.

Politics

Winslet doesn’t appear to be very involved in British politics.

Views

Kate has been an outspoken critic of the unrealistic physical expectations Hollywood has for female celebrities. Although she struggled with her weight in the past, Winslet says that now she is “sincerely grateful for my buttocks.” She started the British Anti-Cosmetic Surgery League with several fellow actresses in order to further promote natural beauty and fight pressures on women to live up to unrealistic ideals.

Quotations: "The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.

It's very easy to be judgmental until you know someone's truth."

"Glamour to me is about remaining graceful and understated."

"Life is short, and it is here to be lived."

"I really believe in, 'Move on, live and let live, forgive and forget.'"

"One thing I love about being back is English rain. Looking out of the window now, it's raining, and the sky is dark; I love it. To me, those are reassuringly English things. I love it when it rains."

"Thank God I'm in touch with my emotions enough to be able to pick up my children, kiss them all over and say 'I love you' over and over."

"Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together."

"I think more and more people these days go for the safe option in film making."

Personality

Although Winslet generally sticks to healthy living, she does have some naughty secrets, too. The actress occasionally enjoys a slice of cake and a glass of rosé – for Winslet, it’s all about moderation.

Winslet avoids processed foods and breads as best as possible. For Winslet, it’s all about cooking at home and preparing healthy meals on her own. Although her portions may be small, her meals are very nutrient-dense and include plenty of fruits and vegetables.

While she’s a clean eater for the most part, she also knows the importance of treating yourself. She is a firm believer that fad diets are not the answer; and so, she just tries her best to eat in balance without fully depriving herself.

Another diet secret of Winslet’s is that she keeps herself well hydrated. She noted that her frequent flights can lead to dehydration, and she is often drinking water to compensate.

Kate Winslet takes simple steps in order to keep herself healthy, which really pay off when you see recent photos of the actress. She continues to look fresh-faced and beautiful as the years pass without much stress or fuss when it comes to diet and exercise.

She prefers to wear boots than ordinary shoes so that she can walk easily.

Favorite food – pizza.

Favorite color – dark purple.

Physical Characteristics: Kate Winslet weighs 63 kg (or 139 pounds) and has a height of 5’6” (149 cm). Her workout includes yoga and Pilates, which helps her maintain a 37-26-36 figure.

Interests

• Humanitarian work. Winslet supports several charities and causes. An orange top she wore in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was auctioned in 2004 for a fund-raising event at Helen & Douglas House, a hospice in Oxford. In 2006, she became a patron of a Gloucester-based charity, the Family Haven, which provides counselling services to vulnerable families. The same year, hand-made envelopes designed by Winslet were auctioned for the "Pushing the Envelope" campaign created by the National Literacy Trust. Winslet was one of the celebrities to participate in a 2007 auction to raise funds for the Afghanistan Relief Organization. In 2009, she contributed to the Butterfly Book, a compilation of doodles made by several celebrities, to raise money for leukaemia research.
  
  Winslet narrated a video for PETA in 2010 that showed animal cruelty in the production of foie gras. She encouraged chefs to remove the item from their menu and urged consumers to boycott it. In 2015, Winslet lent her support to the UNICEF campaign World’s Largest Lesson, which creates awareness among children about sustainable development and global citizenship. Teased as a child for her weight, Winslet takes a stand against body-shaming and bullying. She narrated an Australian animated short film named Daisy Chain (2015), about a victim of cyber-bullying. In 2017, Winslet teamed with Leonardo DiCaprio's environmental foundation for a fundraiser on global warming. Also that year, DiCaprio and Winslet auctioned off a private dinner with themselves to raise money for a British woman's cancer treatment.

• Writers

  Kate Winslet’s personal literary interests include novels that have been adapted into films she’s starred in, children’s stories with zany characters, and a scrumptious Italian cookbook. Her favorite books are Thérèse Raquin By Émile Zola, Made in Italy: Food & Stories By Giorgio Locatelli, Revolutionary Road By Richard Yates, The Waterline By Joseph Olshan.

• Sport & Clubs

  Her workout includes yoga and Pilates.

Connections

While filming Dark Season, Winslet, aged 15, began a romantic relationship with the actor-writer Stephen Tredre, who was 12 years her senior. She considered him to be a major influence in her life and cohabited with him in London. The couple separated in 1995, but they remained close until he died of bone cancer two years later. Winslet missed the premiere of Titanic to attend his funeral. In a 2008 interview, she said that she had never gotten over his death.

A year after Tredre's death, Winslet met Jim Threapleton on the set of Hideous Kinky, in which he was an assistant director. They married in November 1998 at her primary school in Reading, and she gave birth to their daughter, Mia, in 2000. Describing her marriage to Threapleton as a "mess", she later said that she had lost control of her instincts during this period. They divorced in 2001.

Soon after separating from Threapleton, Winslet met the director Sam Mendes when he offered her a part in a play. She refused the offer but began dating him. Disillusioned by the way the British tabloids portrayed her personal life, Winslet moved to New York. She wed Mendes in May 2003 on the island of Anguilla. Their son, Joe, was born later that year. The family divided their time in New York with frequent visits to their estate in the Cotswolds in England. Amid intense media speculation of an affair between Mendes and the actress Rebecca Hall, the couple announced their separation in 2010 and were divorced a year later. Winslet admitted to being heartbroken by the split, but affirmed her determination to look after her children in spite of her marital breakups.

While holidaying at Richard Branson's estate on Necker Island in 2011, Winslet met her third husband, Ned RocknRoll (born Edward Abel Smith; he is the nephew of Branson and works for Virgin Galactic), during a house fire. The couple married in New York in December 2012, and their son, Bear Blaze Winslet, was born the next year.

Father:

Roger Winslet

Mother:

Sally Bridges-Winslet

Sister:

Beth Winslet

(born May 1, 1978, Reading, United Kingdom)

Sister:

Anna Winslet

(born 1972, Reading, United Kingdom)

Brother:

Joss Winslet

Spouse (1):

James Edward Threapleton

(born 1974, Wharfedale, North Yorkshire, England)

He is an English film director. Threapleton has worked as an assistant director on many films, including Hideous Kinky.

Spouse (2):

Samuel Alexander Mendes

(born 1 August 1965)

He is an English stage and film director. He is best known for directing the drama film American Beauty (1999), which earned him the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Director, the crime film Road to Perdition (2002), and the James Bond films Skyfall (2012) and Spectre (2015).

Spouse (2):

Ned Rocknroll

(born 1978)

Daughter:

Mia Honey Threapleton

|(born October 12, 2000, London, United Kingdom)

Son:

Joe Alfie Winslet Mendes

(born 2003)

Son:

Bear Blaze Winslet

(born 2013)

Collegue :

Judi Dench

(born 9 December 1934)

She is an English actress.

Friend:

Leonardo DiCaprio

(born November 11, 1974)

He is an American actor and film producer.

Collegue :

Jodie Foster

(born November 19, 1962)

She is an American actress, director, and producer.

Partner:

Stephen Ralph Tredre

(17 July 1963 – 8 December 1997)

He was an English actor and writer.

References

• Kate Winslet: English Actress and Singer
  2017
• Kate Winslet-Life and Career
  2013
• Harper's Bazaar December 2005 - Kate Winslet
  2005
• Kate Winslet Unauthorized & Uncensored (All Ages Deluxe Edition with Videos)
  2014