Kate Winslet

Acting · 5.9 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: October 5, 1975
From: Reading, Berkshire, England, UK

Biography

Kate Elizabeth Winslet (/ˈwɪnzlət/; born 5 October 1975) is an English actress. Primarily known for her roles as headstrong and complicated women in independent films, particularly period dramas, she has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, five BAFTA Awards and five Golden Globe Awards. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2012. Winslet studied drama at the Redroofs Theatre School. Her first screen appearance, at age fifteen, was in the British television series Dark Season (1991). She made her film debut playing a teenage murderess in Heavenly Creatures (1994). She went on to win a BAFTA Award for playing Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility(1995). Global stardom followed with her leading role in James Cameron's epic romance Titanic (1997), which was the highest-grossing film at the time. Winslet then eschewed parts in blockbusters in favour of critically acclaimed period pieces, including Quills (2000) and Iris (2001). The science fiction romance Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), in which Winslet was cast against type in a contemporary setting, proved to be a turning point in her career. She gained further recognition for her performances in Finding Neverland (2004), Little Children (2006), The Holiday (2006), Revolutionary Road (2008), and The Reader (2008). For playing a former Nazi camp guard in the last, she won the BAFTA Award and the Academy Award for Best Actress. Winslet has since portrayed historical figures in Steve Jobs (2015) and Lee (2023), and has received two Primetime Emmy Awards for her performances in the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce (2011) and Mare of Easttown (2021). For her narration of a short story in the audiobook Listen to the Storyteller (1999), Winslet won a Grammy Award. She performed the song "What If" for the soundtrack of her film, Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001). A co-founder of the charity Golden Hat Foundation, which aims to create autism awareness, Winslet has also written a book on the topic. Divorced from film directors Jim Threapleton and Sam Mendes, Winslet has been married to businessman Edward Abel Smith since 2012. She has a child from each marriage, two of whom are the actors Mia Threapleton and Joe Anders. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kate Winslet, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

79 films

Avatar: Fire and Ash

20257.6

Titanic

19977.9

Avatar: The Way of Water

20227.6

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

20048.1

Flushed Away

20066.3

The Reader

20087.5

Divergent

20146.9

Lee

20247.0

Insurgent

20156.4

The Holiday

20067.1

Movie 43

20134.7

Contagion

20116.7

Labor Day

20137.1

Sense and Sensibility

19957.4

Triple 9

20166.0

Little Children

20067.1

Revolutionary Road

20087.0

Ammonite

20206.9

Steve Jobs

20156.8

Finding Neverland

20047.3

Collateral Beauty

20167.2

The Life of David Gale

20037.4

The Mountain Between Us

20176.6

Goodbye June

20256.6

Black Beauty

20208.0

The Dressmaker

20157.0

Celebrity Naked Ambition

20035.0

Carnage

20117.2

Wonder Wheel

20176.4

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

20086.0

The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum

2027

Blackbird

20196.8

Hamlet

19967.3

All the King's Men

20065.8

Quills

20007.1

Heavenly Creatures

19947.0

Romance & Cigarettes

20056.0

A Little Chaos

20156.3

Enigma

20016.3

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

20127.5

Holy Smoke

19995.7

Buttons

20186.3

Iris

20016.4

Avatar: The Deep Dive - A Special Edition of 20/20

20227.2

Manou the Swift

20196.4

A Kid in King Arthur's Court

19955.0

Christmas Carol: The Movie

20015.2

Deep Sea 3D

20066.6

Naya: Legend of the Golden Dolphin

2026

Jude

19966.3

Hideous Kinky

19996.0

Finding Harmony: A King's Vision

20269.3

Being Mick

20017.0

Faeries

19995.2

Reflections on Titanic

20127.2

Titanic: Stories from the Heart

20237.0

Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas

2026

Pride

20046.1

Oceans: Our Blue Planet

20187.7

Snow Chick - A Penguin's Tale

20157.3

Avatar: A New Era - Special Edition of 20/20

20256.3

Eating Our Way to Extinction

20216.9

Baba Yaga

2021

War Game

20027.2

Diana: The Day Britain Cried

20177.0

Titanic: Breaking New Ground

19987.0

Snow Bears

20177.6

L'Oreal Paris Women of Worth

2021

Discovering Hamlet

20117.5

Inside Pandora's Box

20235.6

The Christmas Letter

20194.8

The Lost Letter

20165.8

Eleven Days in May

20227.8

Royal Carols: Together At Christmas 2025

2025

A Conversation with Jim Carrey and Director Michel Gondry

2004

Daisy Chain

20168.0

A Look Inside Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

20046.8

DreamScapes

2025

The Kodiak Queen

2018