145 Facts About Kate Winslet

Kate Winslet was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2012.

Kate Winslet made her film debut playing a teenage murderess in Heavenly Creatures, and went on to win a BAFTA Award for playing Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility.

Kate Winslet then eschewed parts in blockbusters in favour of critically acclaimed period pieces, including Quills and Iris.

The science fiction romance Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, in which Kate Winslet was cast against type in a contemporary setting, proved to be a turning point in her career, and she gained further recognition for her performances in Finding Neverland, Little Children, Revolutionary Road, and The Reader.

Kate Winslet performed the song "What If" for the soundtrack of her film, Christmas Carol: The Movie.

Kate Elizabeth Winslet was born on 5 October 1975, in Reading, Berkshire, to Sally Ann and Roger John Winslet.

Kate Winslet is primarily of British descent, but has Irish ancestry on her father's side and Swedish ancestry on her mother's side.

Kate Winslet's mother worked as a nanny and waitress, and her father, a struggling actor, took labouring jobs to support the family.

Kate Winslet has two sisters, Anna and Beth, both of whom are actresses, and a younger brother, Joss.

When Kate Winslet was ten, her father severely injured his foot in a boating accident and found it harder to work, leading to more financial hardships for the family.

Kate Winslet has said her parents always made them feel cared for and that they were a supportive family.

Kate Winslet attended St Mary and All Saints' Church of England primary school.

When she was five, Kate Winslet made her first stage appearance as Mary in her school's production of the Nativity play.

Kate Winslet describes herself as an overweight child, and was called "blubber" by her schoolmates and was bullied for her appearance.

At eleven, Kate Winslet was accepted into the Redroofs Theatre School in Maidenhead.

Kate Winslet appeared in a Sugar Puffs commercial and dubbed for foreign films.

Kate Winslet worked simultaneously with the Starmaker Theatre Company in Reading.

Kate Winslet participated in over twenty of their stage productions, but was rarely selected as the lead due to her weight.

In 1991, within two weeks of finishing her GCSE examinations, Kate Winslet made her screen debut as one of the main cast members of the BBC science fiction television series Dark Season.

Kate Winslet's part was that of Reet, a schoolgirl who helps her classmates fight against a sinister man distributing free computers to her school.

Kate Winslet did not earn much from the job and, at age sixteen, lack of funds forced Winslet to leave Redroofs.

Kate Winslet next took on the role of the young daughter of a bankrupt self-made man in the television sitcom Get Back.

Kate Winslet had a guest role in a 1993 episode of the medical drama series Casualty.

Kate Winslet was among 175 girls to audition for Peter Jackson's psychological drama Heavenly Creatures, and was cast after impressing Jackson with the intensity she brought to her part.

Kate Winslet prepared for the part by reading the transcripts of the girls' murder trial, their letters and diaries, and interacted with their acquaintances.

Kate Winslet has said she learnt tremendously from the job.

Kate Winslet found it difficult to detach herself from her character, and said that after returning home, she often cried.

David Parkinson of Radio Times considered Kate Winslet to be a standout among the cast, and Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle took note of how well she had portrayed her character's growth and maturity.

Kate Winslet won the Screen Actors Guild and British Academy Film Award for Best Supporting Actress, and received nominations for the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award in the same category.

Also in 1995, Kate Winslet featured in the poorly received Disney film A Kid in King Arthur's Court.

Kate Winslet received Golden Globe and SAG nominations for Best Actress.

Kate Winslet did not view Titanic as a platform for bigger salaries.

Kate Winslet avoided parts in blockbuster films in favour of independent productions that were not widely seen, believing that she "still had a lot to learn" and was unprepared to be a star.

Kate Winslet turned down offers to star in Shakespeare in Love and Anna and the King to do the film.

Kate Winslet found the script brave and was challenged by the idea of playing an unlikeable, manipulative woman.

Kate Winslet learnt to speak with an Australian accent and worked closely with Campion to justify her character's vileness.

Kate Winslet received a SAG Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

Kate Winslet's character was vastly expanded from a subsidiary love-interest in the novel it was based on to a prominent code-breaker in the film.

Kate Winslet was pregnant while filming, and to prevent this from showing, she wore corsets under her costume.

Kate Winslet was drawn to the idea of playing an intellectual and zesty female lead, and in research, she read Murdoch's novels, studied her husband's memoir Elegy for Iris, and watched televised interviews of Murdoch.

The project was filmed over four weeks and allowed Kate Winslet to bring her daughter, who was six months old at the time, on set.

Kate Winslet received her third Oscar nomination for Iris, in addition to BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for Best Supporting Actress.

Kate Winslet agreed to the project to work with the director Alan Parker, whom she admired, and believed the film raised pertinent questions about capital punishment.

Kate Winslet found it in the science fiction romance Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind in which she played Clementine, a neurotic and impetuous woman who decides to erase memories of her ex-boyfriend.

Peter Travers of Rolling Stone described it as a "uniquely funny, unpredictably tender and unapologetically twisted romance" and found Kate Winslet to be "electrifying and bruisingly vulnerable" in it.

Kate Winslet considers it to be a favourite among her roles, and she received Best Actress nominations at the Oscar and BAFTA award ceremonies.

Kate Winslet has said the film marked a turning point in her career and prompted directors to offer her a wide variety of parts.

Kate Winslet received a second Best Actress nomination at that year's BAFTA Award ceremony.

In 2005, Kate Winslet took on a guest role in an episode of the British comedy sitcom Extras, starring Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.

Kate Winslet received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series nomination.

Derek Elley of Variety wrote that despite her limited screen time, Kate Winslet had "the showiest role and filthiest one-liners".

Kate Winslet turned down an offer from Woody Allen to star in Match Point to spend more time with her children.

Kate Winslet first appeared in All the King's Men, a political thriller set in 1940s Louisiana, featuring Sean Penn and Jude Law.

Kate Winslet played the supporting part of the love interest to Law's character.

Kate Winslet was challenged by the role of an uncaring mother, as she did neither understand nor respect her character's actions.

Kate Winslet played Iris, a Briton who temporarily exchanges homes with an American during the Christmas holiday season.

Kate Winslet was drawn to the idea of playing a woman whose aspirations had not been met, and she read The Feminine Mystique to understand the psychology of unhappy housewives from the era.

Mendes encouraged DiCaprio and Kate Winslet to spend time together, and she believed the small set they used helped them to develop their characters' strained relationship.

Kate Winslet was unable to sympathise with Schmitz and struggled to play the part honestly without humanising the character's actions.

Todd McCarthy commended Kate Winslet for supplying "a haunting shell to this internally decimated woman", and writing for The Daily Telegraph, Sukhdev Sandhu considered her to be "absolutely fearless here, not just in her willingness to expose herself physically, but her refusal to expose her character psychologically".

Kate Winslet received significant awards attention for her performances in Revolutionary Road and The Reader.

Kate Winslet won a Golden Globe Award for each of these films, and for the latter, she was awarded the Academy Award and BAFTA Award for Best Actress.

Kate Winslet became the third actress in history to win two Golden Globe Awards at the same ceremony.

Kate Winslet, who had recently divorced Mendes, believed certain aspects of her character's life mirrored her own.

Kate Winslet was intimidated by the scope of the production, as she featured in every scene of the 280-page script.

Kate Winslet was disturbed and upset by the story, and was particularly fascinated by the complex relationship between the mother-daughter pair.

Kate Winslet collaborated closely with the production and costume designers, and learnt to bake pies and prepare chickens.

Kate Winslet received the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress, in addition to Golden Globe and SAG Award wins.

Kate Winslet was cast as a disease detective for the CDC, and she modelled her role on Anne Schuchat, the director of the NCIRD.

Contagion was a commercial success, and David Denby of The New Yorker credited Kate Winslet for capturing the essence of an exasperated woman.

The cast rehearsed the script like a play for two weeks, and Kate Winslet brought her children with her to Paris for the eight weeks of filming.

Kate Winslet said her workload in 2011 helped her overcome heartbreak from her divorce, and after completing work on Carnage she took a break from acting to focus on her children.

Kate Winslet performed an audiobook recording of Emile Zola's novel Therese Raquin.

Kate Winslet was reluctant to accept Jason Reitman's offer to star in his 2013 film adaptation of Joyce Maynard's novel Labor Day, but agreed after Reitman postponed the production for a year to accommodate Winslet's commitment to her children.

Reviews of the film were negative; Chris Nashawaty of Entertainment Weekly dismissed it as "mawkish and melodramatic" but credited Kate Winslet for adding layers to her passive role.

Kate Winslet was pregnant with her third child during production, and her tight-fitting costumes had to be altered to accommodate the pregnancy.

Richard Lawson of Vanity Fair compared the film unfavourably to the Hunger Games series, and found Kate Winslet to be underutilised in it.

Kate Winslet's role was that of fictional architect Sabine de Barra, a character she believed had overcome extreme grief and hardship like herself.

Catherine Shoard of The Guardian took note of the "emotional honesty" Kate Winslet brought to her part, but criticised the implausibility of her role.

Kate Winslet starred as the femme fatale Tilly Dunnage, a seamstress who returns to her hometown years after she was accused of murder.

Kate Winslet learnt to sew for the part and designed some of her own costumes.

In preparation, Kate Winslet spent time with Hoffman, and worked with a dialect coach to speak in Hoffman's accent, a mixture of Armenian and Polish, which she considered to be the most difficult of her career.

Kate Winslet collaborated closely with Fassbender, and their off-screen relationship mirrored the collegial dynamic between Jobs and Hoffman.

Peter Howell of the Toronto Star commended Kate Winslet for finding "strength and grace" in her part, and Gregory Ellwood of HitFix thought she had improved on Hoffman's characterisation.

Kate Winslet won the Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards for Best Supporting Actress, and received her seventh Oscar nomination.

The critic Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post felt Kate Winslet had failed to effectively portray her.

Kate Winslet agreed to the romantic disaster film The Mountain Between Us to take on the challenge of a role requiring physical exertion.

Kate Winslet performed her own stunts and described it as the most physically gruelling experience of her career.

Kate Winslet played Ginny, a temperamental housewife having an affair with a lifeguard.

Kate Winslet described her character as permanently dissatisfied and uneasy; playing the part proved difficult for Winslet, who suffered from anxiety.

Manohla Dargis of The New York Times disliked Allen's writing but credited Kate Winslet for filling her "shabby character with feverish life".

In 2019, Kate Winslet provided her voice to Moominvalley, an animated television series about the Moomins, and took on a leading role alongside Susan Sarandon and Mia Wasikowska in Blackbird, a remake of the Danish film Silent Heart.

Kate Winslet portrayed palaeontologist Mary Anning in Ammonite, a period drama about a romance between Anning and Charlotte Murchison set in 1840s England.

Kate Winslet dropped out of Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch to have more preparation time for the project.

Kate Winslet next voiced the titular horse in a film adaptation of the novel Black Beauty, which was released on Disney+.

In 2021, Kate Winslet executive produced and starred in Mare of Easttown, an HBO miniseries about a troubled police detective solving a murder case.

Kate Winslet narrated the documentary Eleven Days in May, about the 2021 bombing of Gaza by Israel.

Kate Winslet starred with her daughter Mia Threapleton in an improvised feature-length episode of the Channel 4 anthology series I Am.

Kate Winslet won two BAFTA TV Awards for Best Actress and Best Single Drama.

In 2017 and 2018, Kate Winslet concurrently filmed two sequels to James Cameron's science fiction film Avatar using motion capture technology.

Kate Winslet learnt freediving for her role and was able to hold her breath underwater for seven minutes, setting a new record for any film scene shot underwater.

Kate Winslet will portray the model and war photographer Lee Miller in the biopic Lee, which she will produce.

Production in Croatia was suspended for a short period when Kate Winslet slipped and fell while filming.

Kate Winslet is set to star and serve as executive producer on the HBO miniseries The Regime, about an authoritarian regime.

Journalists consider Kate Winslet to be among the finest actresses of her generation.

Kate Winslet belongs to a group of esteemed British actresses who are typically showing "restraint, rendering emotions through intellect rather than feelings, and a sense of irony, which demonstrates the heroine's superior understanding".

Leonardo DiCaprio, her co-star in Titanic and Revolutionary Road, considers Kate Winslet to be "the most prepared and well-researched actor on set", and Jude Law, her co-star in The Holiday, believes that despite her seriousness she remains "very calm and good-natured".

Kate Winslet has said she is interested in playing "angst-ridden women" with strong dispositions masking flaws and insecurities, and that she connects with "women who are either finding their way out of a situation, looking for love, having some struggle within love, or questioning the big things in life".

Kate Winslet is known for her willingness to perform nude scenes, having done so in twelve of her films, although she considers its contribution to the narrative before agreeing to it.

Kate Winslet believes that such scenes promote a positive body image among women.

Kate Winslet considered him a major influence in her life and they lived together in London from 1991.

Kate Winslet absented herself from the premiere of Titanic to attend his funeral.

Kate Winslet married Mendes in May 2003 on the island of Anguilla, and their son, Joe, was born later that year.

Amid intense media speculation of an affair between Mendes and actress Rebecca Hall, he and Kate Winslet announced their separation in 2010 and were divorced a year later.

Kate Winslet admitted to being heartbroken by the split, but affirmed her determination to look after her children in spite of her marital breakups.

Kate Winslet has stated that despite three marriages and a family structure that might be perceived by some as "unconventional", she does not consider it to be any "less of a family".

Kate Winslet turns down offers of work that otherwise would take her away from her children for too long, and likes to schedule her filming commitments around their school holidays.

Kate Winslet has lent her support to several charities and causes, along with financial donations and items for auctions.

Kate Winslet was one of the celebrities to participate in a 2007 auction to raise funds for the Afghanistan Relief Organization.

Also in 2009, Kate Winslet participated in a joint effort with Titanic co-star Leonardo DiCaprio, James Cameron, and Celine Dion, financially to help Millvina Dean, the then last-living survivor of the sinking of the Titanic.

In 2009, Kate Winslet narrated the English version of an Icelandic documentary named A Mother's Courage: Talking Back to Autism, about Margret Ericsdottir, whose child Keli Thorsteinsson has non-verbal autism.

Kate Winslet created a make-up collection for Lancome in 2011 and, in 2017, she designed a new watch for Longines.

Kate Winslet narrated a video for PETA in 2010 that showed animal cruelty in the production of foie gras.

Kate Winslet encouraged chefs to remove the item from their menu and urged consumers to boycott it.

Kate Winslet narrated an Australian animated short film named Daisy Chain, about a victim of cyberbullying.

In 2017, Kate Winslet teamed with Leonardo DiCaprio's environmental foundation for a fundraiser on global warming.

Kate Winslet teamed with Lancome and the National Literacy Trust in 2018 to launch a programme that aims to educate underprivileged women in the UK.

In 2020, Kate Winslet read a bedtime story as part of Save with Stories to raise funds for Save the Children's Emergency Coronavirus Appeal.

Kate Winslet has been outspoken in her refusal to allow Hollywood to dictate her weight.

In 2003, the British edition of GQ magazine published photographs of Kate Winslet which had been digitally altered to make her look thinner and taller.

Kate Winslet said the alterations were made without her consent, and GQ subsequently issued an apology.

In 2007, Kate Winslet won a libel case against Grazia magazine after it claimed she had visited a dietitian.

Kate Winslet won another case in 2009 against the British tabloid Daily Mail after it claimed she had lied about her exercise regimen.

Kate Winslet was included on People magazine's "Most Beautiful People" listing in 2005.

Kate Winslet has said she does not subscribe to the beauty ideal of Hollywood, and uses her celebrity to empower women to accept their appearance with pride.

Kate Winslet instructs magazines and brands not to digitally smooth her wrinkles in photographs.

Kate Winslet is reluctant to discuss the gender pay gap in the film industry, as she dislikes speaking publicly about her salary.

Kate Winslet has expressed an aversion to elaborate press junkets and red carpet events, terming them a waste of money.

Kate Winslet was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2009 and 2021.

Kate Winslet was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2012 Birthday Honours for her services to drama.

Prolific in film since 1994, Kate Winslet's most acclaimed and highest-grossing films, according to the online portal Box Office Mojo and the review aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes, include Heavenly Creatures, Sense and Sensibility, Hamlet, Titanic, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Finding Neverland, The Holiday, Contagion, Divergent, Insurgent, Steve Jobs, and Avatar: The Way of Water.

Kate Winslet has been recognised by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the following performances:.

Kate Winslet has won five BAFTA Awards: Best Actress in a Leading Role for The Reader ; Best Actress in a Supporting Role for Sense and Sensibility and Steve Jobs ; Best Leading Actress and Best Single Drama for I Am Ruth.

Kate Winslet has won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Actress in a Leading Role in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for Mildred Pierce, and Mare of Easttown as well as the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for narrating the children's audiobook Listen to the Storyteller.

Kate Winslet is among the few actresses to have won three of the four major American entertainment awards.