Kate Elizabeth Winslet was born in Reading, Berkshire, England, U.K. on October 5, 1975. Best know for her role in Titanic playing a warm-blooded socialite in the arms of the lower-class passenger and artist, Leonardo DiCaprio. While Leonardo sunk into the frigid Atlantic Ocean, she somehow survived to tell the story.

Kate was born into a family of thespians. Acting was in her blood and she started young. At age 11, she could be seen dancing next to the Honey Monster, a commercial for kids cereal.

Taking acting lessons and bit parts in soap operas, she got a break at age 17 in cast as an obsessive adolescent in Heavenly Creatures (1994). The film was based on the true story of two fantasy-gripped girls who commit a brutal murder. Her role was praised by critics although the film had limited distribution.

Before Titanic, Winslet played roles in Sense and Sensibilities, Jude and Hamlet winning a British Academy Award and a Nomination for the first. More recent roles were in Hideous Kinky (1998), Holy Smoke (1999) and Quills (2000).

Kate Winslet has been nominated a number of times for an Academy Award but last evening was the first time she won the award for her role in The Reader.

Winslet, 33, received more recognition on the awards circuit for "The Reader" netting her additional trophies at the Screen Actors Guild Awards and British Film Academy Awards for her portrayal of Hanna Schmitz - a woman having a passionate affair with a teenager who encounters her again years later while she is on trial for Holocaust crimes.

Kate is married to Sam Mendes.

Filmography

Revolutionary Road (2008)
The Reader (2008)
The Holiday (2006)
Flushed Away (2006) (voice)
Little Children (2006)
All the King's Men (2006)
Deep Sea 3D (2006) (voice)
Romance & Cigarettes (2005)
Finding Neverland (2004)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
The Life of David Gale (2002)
Enigma (2002)
The Raquin (2001)
Iris (2001)
Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001) (voice)
Therese Raquin (2001)
Quills (2000)
Holy Smoke (2000)
Faeries (1999) (voice)
Hideous Kinky (1998)
Titanic (1997)
Hamlet (1996)
Jude (1996)
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
Kid in King Arthur's Court, A (1995)
Heavenly Creatures (1994)

John T. Jones, Ph.D. (tjbooks@hotmail.com a retired college professor and business executive, former editor of an international engineering magazine. Writer, novelist, painter of landscapes. Lots of grand-kids



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