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Kate Winslet

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Kate Winslet
CBE
A close-up shot of Kate Winslet's face in 2017
Winslet at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival
Born
Kate Elizabeth Winslet

(1975-10-05) 5 October 1975 (age 51)
Reading, Berkshire, England
NationalityEnglish
Alma materRedroofs Theatre School
OccupationActress
Years active1991–present
Spouses
  • Jim Threapleton
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    (m. 1998; div. 2001)​
  • ​
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    (m. 2003; div. 2011)​
  • Ned Rocknroll
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    (m. 2012)​
Children3

Kate Elizabeth Winslet, CBE (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress.[1] She is best known for her starring role in the American movie, Titanic.[2]

She made her movie debut as Juliet Hulme in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures (1994).[2] Winslet is the second of four children, her sisters are the actresses Anna and Beth Winslet and her brother is Joss Winslet, her mother Sally Anne is a barmaid and her father Roger John Winslet is a swimming pool contractor. Her maternal grandparents Linda and Oliver Bridges founded the Reading Repertory Theatre and her uncle is the actor Robert Bridges, Her maternal great-grandmother Florence Theodelinda Lidman, was the daughter of a Swedish immigrant.

Kate Winslet was married to director Jim Threapleton; they had a daughter, Mia.[3] She married director Sam Mendes; they had a son, Joe.[3] In 2012, she married Ned Rocknroll, nephew of billionaire Richard Branson.[3] She had his first son in December 2013.

Winslet at the 2009 Academy Awards

Films

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  • Heavenly Creatures (1994) Juliet Hulme
  • A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995) Princess Sarah
  • Sense and Sensibility (1995) Marianne Dashwood
  • Jude (1996) Sue Bridehead
  • Hamlet (1996) Ophelia
  • Titanic (1997) Rose DeWitt Bukater
  • Hideous Kinky (1998) Julie
  • Faeries (1999) Brigid
  • Holy Smoke! (1999) Ruth Barron
  • Quills (2000) Madeleine LeClerc
  • Enigma (2001) Hester Wallace
  • Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001) Belle
  • Iris (2001) Young Iris Murdoch
  • The Life of David Gale (2003) Bitsey Bloom
  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) Clementine Kruczynski
  • Finding Neverland (2004) Sylvia Llewelyn Davies
  • Romance & Cigarettes (2005) Tula
  • All the King's Men (2006) Anne Station
  • Little Children (2006) Sarah Pierce
  • Flushed Away (2006) Rita Malone
  • The Holiday (2006) Iris Simpkins
  • The Reader (2008) Hanna Schmitz
  • Revolutionary Road (2008) April Wheeler
  • Carnage (2011) Nancy Cowan
  • Contagion (2011) Dr. Erin Mears
  • Movie 43 (2013) Beth
  • Labor Day (2013) Adele Wheeler
  • A Little Chaos (2014) Sabine De Barra
  • Divergent (2014) Jeanine Matthews
  • The Dressmaker (2014) Myrtle 'Tilly' Dunnage

References

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  1. ↑ "Kate Winslet". TV Guide. Archived from the original on 18 March 2016. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Kate Winslet". People. Archived from the original on 27 May 2015. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
  3. 1 2 3 "Kate Winslet Biography". Bio/A&E Television Networks, LLC. Retrieved 22 February 2016.

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