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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 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.
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 living an almost idealistic
exsistance, 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.
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 drama"s like Quills, Titanic
and Finding Neverland. (For a time, she was given the
nickname "Corset Kate").
In 2005, Winslet appeared in a television commercial for
the American Express credit card. 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.
Winslet also appeared in an episode of BBC's comedy
series Extras in August of 2005, as a satirical version
of 'herself'. She memorably told Andy and Maggie, the
two characters who star in the series, that she was
doing a film about the Holocaust because she was tired
of losing out on Oscars, as she's been nominated four
times, and that everyone who does a film about the
Holocaust wins an Oscar. She also (while dressed as a
nun) was shown giving phone sex tips to the romantically
challenged Maggie. Ricky Gervais later said on NPR that
she was his favorite guest star. Her performance in the
episode did lead to her being nominated for an Emmy
Award for Outstanding Guest Performance in a Comedy
Series, but she did not win.
As of March 2007, Leonardo DiCaprio signed to co-star in
Revolutionary Road with Winslet as the Wheeler couple, a
'50s couple who appear content on the surface but are
withering internally. The film will be the first to
reunite the notable duo, who have remained close since
their first pairing in Titanic.
There are also talks that Winslet's husband, Sam Mendes
and his production company, Neal Street Productions,
purchased the film rights to the long-delayed biography
of circus tiger tamer Mabel Stark. Winslet has stated
that she has been eager to portray this complex woman
for three years now and is looking forward to working
with her husband on bringing this to the screen. She
also has expressed interest in returning to the stage.
Personal life: On November 22, 1998, Winslet
married director Jim Threapleton. The two have a
daughter, Mia Honey, who was born on October 12, 2000.
After a divorce in 2001, Winslet was reported to have
been dating producer Anthony Bregman and playwright Jeff
Smeenge before a relationship with Sam Mendes, whom she
married on May 24, 2003, on the island of Anguilla in
the Caribbean. Their son, Joe Alfie, was born on
December 22, 2003. Kate has said in numerous interviews
that the couple plan to have another child in the near
future.
The media, particularly in England, have
enthusiastically documented her weight fluctuations over
the years. Winslet has been outspoken about her refusal
to lose weight in order to conform to the Hollywood
ideal. In February 2003, the British edition of
Gentlemen's Quarterly magazine published photographs of
Winslet which had been digitally enhanced to make her
look dramatically thinner than she really was; Winslet
issued a statement saying that the alterations were made
without her consent. GQ subsequently issued an apology
in the subsequent issue.
Winslet claims that her feet are still the only part of
her body she sorely wishes she could change. Her feet
are a whopping size 11, yet she is only 5'6",
though her bust size is an impressive 34C. Not only was
she sorely teased as a child about them, but her
"Titanic" co-star Leonardo DiCaprio teased her
immensely when he noticed their disproportional size.
Winslet claimed this brought back a lot of unpleasant
memories. Winslet remarked that her feet are the same
exact size as DiCaprio's and he's a 6'1" man and
she's a little woman at 5'6". Winslet has to wear
exquisite dressy shoes at Hollywood Premiers, but they
do not make shoes in her size and the ones she has to
wear are far too small, which are painful to wear. She
claims that it is a pain to find shoes that actually fit
and she "picks at her feet" quite a bit,
perhaps it an attempt to reduce them.
Winslet and her husband Mendes currently reside in New
York City. They also own a manor house in the tiny
village of Church Westcote near Stow-on-the-Wold. Kate
and Sam spent £3 million on the secluded Westcote
Manor, a rambling Grade II-listed house with eight
bedrooms, set in 22 acres. They've reportedly spent more
than £1 million on interior renovations as well as
restoring the original water garden, mulberry garden and
orchard, which all fell into disrepair when the former
owner, equestrian artist Raoul Millais, died in 1999. As
of 2006, it is reported Winslet and Mendes have a large
lake house near Canandaigua lake, in Canandaigua, New
York.
Awards: Winslet has earned five Oscar nominations
and five Golden Globe nominations, as well as one BAFTA
Award and four further BAFTA nominations. She is the
youngest Actress to be nominated for 5 Academy
Awards.Premiere Magazine named her performance as
Clementine Kruczynski in Eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind the 81st greatest film performance of all
time.
She has also received numerous awards and nominations
from other organizations, including the Screen Actors
Guild and the Evening Standard British Film Awards.
Winslet won the Los Angeles Film Critics' Association
(LAFCA) award for Best Supporting Actress for Iris. For
Holy Smoke!, she was Best Actress runner-up at both the
New York Film Critics' Circle (NYFCC) and the National
Society of Film Critics (NSFC). Winslet was also NYFCC's
Best Actress runner-up for Eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind.
Academy Awards (Oscars): Winslet earned her fifth
Academy Award nomination for Little Children at the age
of 31, becoming the youngest actress to garner five
nominations (in just 19 movies). Previous record holder
was Olivia de Havilland, who secured her fifth at the
age of 33 in 1950 (with 33 films).
With her Best Actress nomination for Eternal Sunshine of
the Spotless Mind, which she eventually lost to Hilary
Swank, she surpassed Marlon Brando's record for the
youngest actor to have received four Oscar nominations.
Her Titanic nomination secured her the record for the
youngest ever double-Oscar-nominee.
She has also received two nominations for playing
younger versions of another nominee in the same film -
the only two instances of different actors playing the
same role in the same film both being nominated. She
played the younger versions of nominees Gloria Stuart in
Titanic and Judi Dench in Iris.
- Nominated: Best Supporting Actress, Sense and
Sensibility (1995)
- Nominated: Best Actress, Titanic (1997)
- Nominated: Best Supporting Actress, Iris (2001)
- Nominated: Best Actress, Eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind (2004)
- Nominated: Best Actress, Little Children (2006)
Golden Globes: Winslet has received Golden
Globe nominations for Sense and Sensibilty (Best
Supporting Actress), Titanic (Best Actress, Drama), Iris
(Best Supporting Actress), Eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind (Best Actress, Musical or Comedy), and
Little Children (Best Actress, Drama).
- Nominated: Best Supporting Actress - Motion
Picture, Sense and Sensibility (1996)
- Nominated: Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama,
Titanic (1998)
- Nominated: Best Supporting Actress - Motion
Picture, Iris (2002)
- Nominated: Best Actress - Motion Picture
Musical/Comedy, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless
Mind (2004)
- Nominated: Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama,
Little Children (2007)
BAFTAs: Winslet won a BAFTA Award as Best
Supporting Actress for her role in Sense and
Sensibility. She also received a nomination as Best
Supporting Actress for Iris in 2001, and two nominations
for Best Actress in 2004, for Eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind and Finding Neverland. She lost to
Jennifer Connelly and Imelda Staunton, respectively. In
2006, Winslet received a Best Actress nomination for
Little Children.
- Won: Best Supporting Actress, Sense and
Sensibility (1996)
- Nominated: Best Supporting Actress, Iris (2002)
- Nominated: Best Actress, Finding Neverland (2005)
- Nominated: Best Actress, Eternal Sunshine of the
Spotless Mind (2005)
- Nominated: Best Actress, Little Children (2007)
Grammys: In 2000, she won a Grammy Award for
the 'Best Spoken Word Album for Children' for Listen To
the Storyteller.
Emmys: On July 6, 2006, Winslet was nominated
for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a
Comedy Series for playing herself on an episode of
Extras that premiered in 2004. In this episode she
comically criticized the fact that she had (by that
point) been nominated for an Oscar four times, but had
never won one.
Music: Winslet has also enjoyed a brief taste
of success as a singer, with her single "What
If" from the soundtrack of Christmas Carol: The
Movie, which reached #1 in Ireland and #6 in the UK (she
also filmed a music video for the song). She has also
participated in a duet with "Weird Al"
Yankovic on the Sandra Boynton CD, Dog Train, and sang
in the 2006 film, Romance and Cigarettes. She also sang
an aria from La Boheme, called "Sono Andanti",
in her film Heavenly Creatures, which is featured on the
film's soundtrack. |
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