Kate Winslet - Biography

Last Editor: crashdiet				Kate Winslet Biography -   Name : Kate Winslet Full Name : Kate Elizabeth Winslet Nick Names : Corset Kate, Combat Kate Date Of Birth : October 5th, 1975 Place Of Birth : Reading, England Sign : Libra Height : 5'8'' Hair : Blonde Eyes : Blue-green (hazel) Occupation : Actress Husband : Jim Threapleton Father : Roger Mother : Sally Fan Mail : Kate Winslet c/o PMK 955 S. Carillo Dr. 200 Los Angeles, CA 90048 USA

Kate Winslet Trivia -

Kate has a  daughter namelyMia Honey Threapleton who was born (in England) on the 12th October 2000, weighing in at 8 pounds 9 ounces. Kate met husband Jim Threapleton on the set of her movie Hideous Kinky (1998), where he was working as an assistant director. She won Best Spoken Word Album for Children, Grammy Awards, shared with Graham Greene. [2000] Kate turned down the Gwyneth Paltrow role in Shakespeare in Love (1998) and the Jodie Foster role in Anna and the King (1999). She has very large feet and wears size 11 shoes. At age 11, she began attending the acting school Redroofs in Maidenhead, England, UK. She dated Rufus Sewell. Sister of Anna Winslet, Joss Winslet and Beth Winslet. Kate is the second child. The youngest actress ever to be nominated for two Academy Awards (for Sense and Sensibility (1995) and Titanic (1997)) (Aged 20 and 22 respectively). [1998] Dated Stephen Tredre. [1991-1995] Her first acting job was dancing with the Honey Monster in a commercial for Sugar Puffs cereal. She got the nomination for Best Supporting Actress, Manchester Evening News Award for her theatre role in "What the Butler Saw" as Geraldine Barclay. [1994] Chosen by People (USA) magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world. [1996] She has a younger brother, Joss. Parents: Roger Winslet (actor) and Sally Bridges-Winslet. After her first success in the film Heavenly Creatures (1994), a reviewer predicted that she would always be associated with that character and would never be a big star.  She recorded a song for the soundtrack for the movie Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001). Producers were so impressed at her efforts they have decided to release the ballad - called "What If?" - as a single. It reached the top ten in the UK, peaking at number six. [June 2001]  She made an announcement that she and husband Jim Threapleton are splitting up. [3 September 2001] [November 2001] Confirms that she is dating director Sam Mendes. She Purchased a $3 million (US) home in London with boyfriend (later husband) Sam Mendes. They also bought a home in New York City. She holds a unique position in Academy Awards history: Only twice have two actresses been nominated for playing the same character in the same film. The first two were Gloria Stuart and Kate in Titanic (1997). The second two were Judi Dench and Kate in Iris (2001/I). She married director Sam Mendes in a private ceremony whilst on holiday in the West Indies in May, 2003. Her daughter Mia's name is Italian for "my". She has sung in 5 of her films. She prefers to wear boots rather than ordinary shoes because it makes her feel that her feet are "firmly on the ground." She missed the premiere of Titanic (1997) because she was attending the funeral of close friend and former boyfriend, Stephen Tredre. Her son, Joe Alfie Winslet Mendes, was born on December 22, 2003, in New York, and weighed 7 pounds and 13 ounces. She resides in both London, England, and New York City, America. Her main home, however, is in Cotswolds, England. She has a nephew, George. His mother is Beth Winslet. Sprained her ankle on the set of Romance & Cigarettes (2005) in May 2004. She sold her North London home in Belsize Park to Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin. She was considered for the role of Bridget in Bridget Jones's Diary (2001) but it was then decided she was too young to portray the role. On the day she had to film the straitjacket scene in Hamlet (1996), she learned she had won the role of Rose in Titanic (1997). While serving as host of "Saturday Night" (1975) one week after Ashlee Simpson-Wentz's "recorded song malfunction," she opened the show by singing and dancing live. Her bust size 1996 - 34C. Born in the same year and on the same day as Parminder Nagra. She was born in the same hospital as her husband, Sam Mendes. She filmed her 2005 American Express commercial in Camden Town, London, England. First screen kiss was with Melanie Lynskey in Heavenly Creatures (1994). Her performance as Clementine Kruczynski in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) is ranked #81 on Premiere Magazine's 100 Greatest Performances of All Time (2006). Her daughter Mia had to be delivered by Cesarean section, which made Kate feel she hadn't given birth properly. She admitted to it only after giving birth to her son Joe (who had been delivered naturally). She was offered the role of Eowyn in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002). She offered the role of Tessa in The Constant Gardener (2005) but turned it down to do Finding Neverland (2004). Kate married Sam Mendes, who was a childhood friend of Tom Hollander, with whom he went to Cambridge University and whom he directed in several plays. Tom and Kate were both in the film Enigma (2001). She is a very close friends with actor Leonardo DiCaprio. She nominated for Best Supporting Actress, Premiere Magazine for Sense and Sensibility (1995)). [1995] She won Best Film Actress, Smash Hits Magazine. [1998] She won Sexiest Actress, Entertainment Insider Awards. [1998] She won Film Actress of the Year, Variety Club of Great Britain. [1999] She nominated for Best Actress, Roughcut.com Internet Movie Award for Holy Smoke (1999). [2000] When interviewed on "Good Morning America" (1975) to promote her film The Holiday (2006), they surprised her by showing a clip which was supposedly Winslet on the Sugar Puff Commercial in 1987. However, the girl in the clip shown was not her. Winslet did not point out the error because she did not want to embarrass the researcher and get the person fired. She was then praised by the media for her caring and consideration of other people. [2006] Her performance in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) is her personal favorite. Along with Vanessa Redgrave (for Julia (1977)) and Mare Winningham (for Georgia (1995)), she is the only performer to be nominated for an Supporting Oscar (for Iris (2000)) for playing the title role in a movie. As of 2006, Redgrave is the only one to win. As of January 2009, she is the youngest actress to rack up 6 Oscar nominations. Won Best Actress, Toronto Film Festival for Heavenly Creatures (1994), shared with Melanie Lynskey. [1995] Runner-Up for Best Actress, New York Film Critics Circle for Holy Smoke (1999). [1999] Nominated for Best Supporting Actress, Rec.Arts.Movies.* Critics Circle for Quills (2000). [2000] Runner-Up for Best Actress, National Society of Film Critics for Holy Smoke (1999). [2000] Runner-Up for Best Actress, New York Film Critics Circle for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004). [2004] Chris Tookey, of the British newspaper "Daily Mail," chose her as Best Actress of the Year for her roles in The Holiday (2006) and Little Children (2006). [2006] She is a fan of Rufus Wainwright's CD, "Poses" (mentioned in one of her ads for AmEx). She nominated for Best Actress in a Dramatic Performance, Excellent Dynamic Activism (EDA) Awards/The Alliance of Women Journalists for Little Children (2006). [2006] In an interview for the London Evening Standard, she revealed she has taken a year off (from April 2006 to April 2007) from her career, to spend more time with her family. [2007] She was the Official Celebrity Spokesperson for Lancôme. [2007] Her children refer to close friend Leonardo DiCaprio as "Uncle Leo". She was named one of '50 Most Beautiful' by People Magazine in 2005. Auditioned for the role of "Elizabeth" in Kenneth Branagh's Frankenstein (1994). Helena Bonham Carter got the role, but Branagh was so impressed by Winslet that he offered her the part of "Ophelia" in Hamlet (1996). She got involved, along with Sherilyn Fenn, Rufus Sewell, Miranda Richardson and Paul McGann in the 1998 film project "Johnny Hit and Run Pauline". The film was to be executive produced by Emma Thompson, and written and directed by Fay Efrosini Lellios. The shooting was set to start in June 1998 in New Hampshire. The film was canceled due to financial withdrawal. [1998] She lives in New York City. She also owns a home in Gloucestershire, England. She placed third equal (with Anne Hathaway) for Best Actress, New York Film Critics Circle for Revolutionary Road (2008). [2008] The Holiday (2006) was the first movie that Kate used her own accent and didn't develop a special voice for her character. She is the sister-in-law of Edmund Harcourt. She is the only the third person in history to win two acting Golden Globes in the same year (Best Actress, Drama for Revolutionary Road (2008) and Best Supporting Actress for The Reader (2008)). As of 2009, she is only one of six performers who won a Golden Globe Award as Best Lead Actor/Actress in a Motion Picture Drama without being nominated for an Oscar for that same role (hers for Revolutionary Road (2008)). The others are Spencer Tracy in The Actress (1953), Anthony Franciosa in Career (1959), Omar Sharif in Doctor Zhivago (1965), 'Shirley Maclaine' in Madame Sousatzka (1988), Jim Carrey in The Truman Show (1998). The producers of the The Reader (2008) tried to promote Winslet as Supporting Actress during the Oscar race 2009 in order to enhance her chances to get nominated twice (for Best Supporting Actress for The Reader (2008) and Best Actress for her role in Revolutionary Road (2008)). The Academy overthrew this plan by nominating Winslet for Best Actress for her performance in The Reader (2008), leaving aside her performance in Revolutionary Road (2008), although she won several other award nominations in both categories for the respective movies. She is one of six actresses to have won the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Golden Globe Award and SAG Award for the same performance. The others in chronological order are Julia Roberts for Erin Brockovich (2000), Renée Zellweger for Cold Mountain (2003), Reese Witherspoon for Walk the Line (2005), Helen Mirren for The Queen (2006) and Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls (2006). She was originally cast as Nola Rice in Woody Allen's Match Point (2005), but dropped out at the last minute, so she could spend her time with her child. The role went to Scarlett Johansson . She got Oscar award for best actress in the film The Reader in 2009. She is the third person in history to win two acting Golden Globes in the same year (Best Actress, Drama for Revolutionary Road (2008) and Best Supporting Actress for The Reader (2008)). As of 2009, she is only one of six performers who won a Golden Globe Award as Best Lead Actor/Actress in a Motion Picture Drama without being nominated for an Oscar for that same role.

Kate Winslet Detailed Biography -

Kate Winslet was born October 5, 1975 in Reading, England. She was born into an family of people in the theatre, and it seemed to Kate that it was the natural thing to do to go into it. Her first role ever was a the Virgin Mary, at age 5. From that point on, she had caught the acting bug.She attended Redroofs, a performing arts school in Maidenhead, until age 16. Kate's first job was in a Sugar Puffs cereal commercial. After that, she appeared in a few television series. On one of them, Dark Season, she met Stephan Tredre, many years her senior, who became Kate's first real love interest. They were together for quite some time, and continued to be extremily close. Stephan passed away in December, of cancer, causing Kate to miss the Hollywood premier of Titanic During her childhood, and into her teen years, Kate's 5'6'' frame weighed as much as 185 pounds, which led to her to acquire the nickname ''Blubber'' in school. Her weight has since become a non-issue in my opinion, but one that still causes her to get press about. Personally, one of the reasons why I like Kate is that she looks like a normal person, not someone who looks like they have been stranded on a desert island for five months eating nothing but berries and moss.Anyway, Kate's first movie role was in Heavenly Creatures, the much acclaimed New Zealand film about the true story oftwo girls whose relationship becomes so close that it causes them to do a drastic thing to be together. Kate plays one of those girls, Juliet Hulme. After Heavenly Creatures in 1994, Kate had a role in Disney's A Kid in King Arthurs Court, as Princess Sarah and her Oscar-nominated role a Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility, both movies released in 1995. She followed up with the part of Sue Bridehead in Jude and Ophelia in Kenneth Branagh's wonderous Hamlet Currently, Kate has the starring role (she beats out Leonardo in my mind) in James Cameron's amazing, heart-wrenching, wonderful Titanic, as Rose Dewitt Bukater, the 17-year old wild beauty trapped in the heart of Philidelphia high society. Kate got a second Oscar nomination for her part as Rose (also a Golden Globe nomination, which, unfourtunately, went to Judi Densch, who is also an incredible actress, but still...) Kate also recieved a nomination for best actress from the Screen Actors Guild Awards. If you haven't yet seen Titanic, run, don't walk, to you're nearest movie theatre. You won't be sorry!Kate's future projects include a movie called Hideous Kinky, which is set to be released in June, 1998. The film has yet to be picked up by a North American production company, but hopefully that will change! It is based on the novel of the same title by Anna Freud (grandaughter of the famous Sigmund). Kate stars as a young British mother of two in the 1960's who is travelling around Morroco with her two young daughters. She also slated to do a new film with director Jane Campion called Holy Smoke.