Kate Winslet
Kate Elizabeth Winslet is an English actress and singer. She is noted for having played diverse characters over her career, but probably best-known for her critically acclaimed performances as Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility, Rose DeWitt Bukater in Titanic, and Hanna Schmitz in The Reader.
She has been honored with awards from the Screen Actors Guild, BAFTA Awards, and the Golden Globe Awards. Winslet has also won a Grammy Award and has been nominated for six Academy Awards as well as an Emmy. At the age of 22, she broke the record for the youngest person to receive two Oscar nominations. David Edelstein of New York Magazine hails Winslet as “the best English-speaking film actress of her generation”.
Early life
Winslet was born in Reading, England, U.K., the daughter of Sally Ann (née Bridges), a barmaid, and Roger John Winslet, a swimming-pool contractor. Both of her parents were also actors. Her maternal grandparents, Linda (Plumb) and Archibald Oliver Bridges, founded and operated the Reading Repertory, and her uncle, Robert Bridges, appeared in the original West End production of Oliver!. Her sisters, Beth Winslet and Anna Winslet, are also actresses. 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 appeared in a television commercial for Sugar Puffs cereal, directed by Tim Pope. Throughout her adolescence, she was severely bullied for being overweight and having 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 medical drama Casualty in 1993, also for the BBC.
In 1993, Winslet attended a casting call for Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures in London. Auditioning for the part of Juliet Hulme, a vivacious and imaginative teen who helps killing her best friend’s mother, she won the role over 175 other girls. The film was released to favorable reviews in 1994 and won Jackson and partner Fran Walsh an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Winslet herself was awarded an Empire Award and a London Critics Circle Film Award for her performance; Washington Post writer Desson Thomson commented: “As Juliet, Winslet is a bright-eyed ball of fire, lighting up every scene she’s in.” Speaking about her experience on a film set as an absolute beginner, Winslet noted: “With Heavenly Creatures, all I knew I had to do was completely become that person. In a way it was quite nice doing [the film] and not knowing a bloody thing.”
The following year, Winslet auditioned for the Jane Austen adaption Sense and Sensibility (1995) featuring Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman, intending to get the small but pivotal role of Lucy Steele. She was instead cast in the second leading role of Marianne Dashwood. Director Ang Lee admitted he was initialy worried about the way Winslet had attacked her role in Heavenly Creatures and thus required her to exercise tai chi, read list of Austen-era Gothic novels and poetry, and to work with a piano teacher to fit the grace of the role. Budgeted at $16,500,000, the became a financial and cricital success, resulting in a worldwide box office total of $135 million, and the winning of various awards for Winslet, including a BAFTA, a Screen Actors Guild Award and both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe nomination.
Winslet became a major star after the 1997 release of Titanic, which went on to become the highest-grossing film of all time, grossing more than US$1.8 billion in box-office receipts worldwide. The film also went on to win 11 Academy Awards, including Best Picture.
She was originally offered the role of Nola Rice in Woody Allen’s film Match Point, but declined. She stated she had just finished two movies and wanted to spend time with her children. The part went to Scarlett Johansson.
Despite Titanic’s success, Winslet 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 was even considered for the role of Satine in “Moulin Rouge!”. Throughout her career, she often turned down roles in high profile films, such as Anna and the King and Éowyn in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy. She has, however, taken several roles in studio “period dramas” 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 American Express. 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: going to prison for murder (Heavenly Creatures), being penniless and heartbroken (Sense and Sensibility), almost drowning (Titanic), losing her mind (Hamlet), 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. When Winslet talks about nearly drowning at age 20 in Titanic, she is walking over a bridge with water underneath it, in reference to the iceberg and water seen in the film.
Winslet also appeared in an episode of BBC’s comedy series Extras in August 2005, as a satirical version of ‘herself’. She also (while dressed as a nun) was shown giving phone sex tips to the romantically challenged Maggie. Ricky Gervais (who is a native of the same town as Winslet, Reading, as is her husband Sam Mendes) later said on NPR that she was his favorite guest star. Her performance in the episode did lead to her nomination for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Performance in a Comedy Series.
In 2007 she was nominated for her role in Todd Field’s Little Children. Just 31, she became 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).
In 2008 Leonardo DiCaprio signed on to co-star with Winslet in Sam Mendes’s, Revolutionary Road. The film was the first to reunite the duo, who had remained close since their first pairing in James Cameron’s Titanic.
In 2009, Winslet earned her sixth Academy Award nomination for Stephen Daldry’s The Reader. The Reader was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, marking the fourth time that Winslet featured in a Best Picture nominee. The other films were: Sense and Sensibility (1995), Titanic (1997, won) and Finding Neverland (2003).
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. The couple’s spokesperson said, “It’s a great story, they have had their eyes on it for a while. If they can get the script right, it would make a great film.”
Other Information
- Full Name : Kate Elizabeth Winslet
- Born :5 October 1975
- Birth Place : Reading, Berkshire, England
- Occupation : Actress, Singer
- Years active : 1991–present
- Spouse(s) : James Threapleton (1998–2001) 1 daughter, Sam Mendes (2003–present) 1 son
Awards Won
- BAFTA Awards : Best Actress in a Supporting Role (1995 Sense and Sensibility)
- Golden Globe Awards : Best Actress – Drama (2008 Revolutionary Road), Best Actress in a Supporting Role
(2008 The Reader) - Grammy Awards : Best Spoken Word Album for Children (2000 Listen to the Storyteller)
- Screen Actors Guild Awards : Outstanding Supporting Actress (1995 Sense and Sensibility, 2008 The Reader)
- BFCA Award : Best Supporting Actress’ (2008 The Reader)
- CFCA Award : Best Supporting Actress (2008 The Reader)
- Empire Award : Best Actress (1995 Heavenly Creatures, 1997 Hamlet, 1998 Titanic, 2001 Enigma, 2004 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
- Sierra Award : Best Actress (2004 Finding Neverland ; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 2008 Revolutionary Road)
- LAFCA Award : Best Supporting Actress (2001 Iris)
- OFCS Award : Best Actress (2004 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind)
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