Kate Winslet

Acting · 6.5 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

The Holiday

20067.1

Insurgent

20156.4

Divergent

20146.9

Lee

20247.0

Sense and Sensibility

19957.4

Movie 43

20134.7

Contagion

20116.7

Labor Day

20137.1

Triple 9

20166.0

Revolutionary Road

20087.0

Little Children

20067.1

Steve Jobs

20156.8

Finding Neverland

20047.3

Collateral Beauty

20167.2

The Dressmaker

20157.0

Ammonite

20206.9

Black Beauty

20208.0

Goodbye June

20256.6

The Mountain Between Us

20176.6

The Life of David Gale

20037.4

Wonder Wheel

20176.4

Buttons

20186.3

How to Lose Friends & Alienate People

20086.0

Celebrity Naked Ambition

20035.0

Carnage

20117.2

The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum

2027

Hamlet

19967.3

A Little Chaos

20156.3

Quills

20007.1

Heavenly Creatures

19947.0

Blackbird

20196.8

All the King's Men

20065.8

Romance & Cigarettes

20056.0

Iris

20016.4

Holy Smoke

19995.7

Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen

20127.5

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

20227.2

Enigma

20016.3

Manou the Swift

20196.4

Christmas Carol: The Movie

20015.2

A Kid in King Arthur's Court

19955.0

Jude

19966.3

Deep Sea 3D

20066.6

Naya: Legend of the Golden Dolphin

2026

Hideous Kinky

19996.0

Being Mick

20017.0

Finding Harmony: A King's Vision

20269.3

Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas

2026

Reflections on Titanic

20127.2

Titanic: Stories from the Heart

20237.0

Discovering Hamlet

20117.5

Eating Our Way to Extinction

20216.9

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

20256.3

Pride

20046.1

Snow Chick - A Penguin's Tale

20157.3

Faeries

19995.2

War Game

20027.2

Oceans: Our Blue Planet

20187.7

Diana: The Day Britain Cried

20177.0

Snow Bears

20177.6

Baba Yaga

2021

L'Oreal Paris Women of Worth

2021

A Look Inside Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

20046.8

Inside Pandora's Box

20235.6

Eleven Days in May

20227.8

A Conversation with Jim Carrey and Director Michel Gondry

2004

Titanic: Breaking New Ground

19987.0

The Christmas Letter

20194.8

Royal Carols: Together At Christmas 2025

2025

Daisy Chain

20168.0

The Lost Letter

20165.8

The Kodiak Queen

2018

DreamScapes

2025