Personal Info
Known For:
Acting
Birthday:
October 5, 1975
Place of Birth:
Reading, Berkshire, England, UK
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Kate Winslet
Biography
Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born October 5, 1975) is an English actress. Known for her work in independent films, particularly period dramas, as well as for her portrayals of headstrong and complicated women, she has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, and five Golden Globe Awards.
Winslet studied drama at the Redroofs Theatre School. Her first screen appearance, at age 15, was in the British television series Dark Season (1991). She made her film debut playing a teenage murderess in Heavenly Creatures (1994), and went on to win a BAFTA Award for playing Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility (1995). Global stardom followed soon after with her leading role in the epic romance Titanic (1997), which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Titanic was the highest-grossing film at the time, after which she eschewed parts in blockbusters in favour of critically acclaimed period pieces, including Quills (2000) and Iris (2001).
The science fiction romance Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), in which 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 (2004), Little Children (2006), Revolutionary Road (2008), and The Reader (2008). For playing a former Nazi camp guard in the latter, she won the BAFTA Award and the Academy Award for Best Actress. Winslet's portrayal of Joanna Hoffman in the biopic Steve Jobs (2015) won her another BAFTA Award, and she won two Primetime Emmy Awards for her performances in the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce (2011) and Mare of Easttown (2021).
For her narration of a short story in the audiobook Listen to the Storyteller (1999), Winslet won a Grammy Award. She performed the song "What If" for the soundtrack of her film Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001). A co-founder of the charity Golden Hat Foundation, which aims to create autism awareness, she has written a book on the topic, The Golden Hat: Talking Back to Autism (2010). Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2009 and 2021. In 2012, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). Divorced from film directors Jim Threapleton and Sam Mendes, Winslet has been married to businessman Edward Abel Smith since 2012. She has a child from each marriage.
Known For
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Avatar: Fire and Ash | Ronal |
| 2025 | DreamScapes | Mother Earth |
| 2025 | Naya: Legend of the Golden Dolphin | Queen Cupid (voice) |
| 2024 | Lee | Elizabeth 'Lee' Miller |
| 2023 | Inside Pandora's Box | Self |
| 2023 | Titanic: Stories from the Heart | Self / Rose DeWitt Bukater |
| 2022 | Eleven Days in May | Narrator |
| 2022 | Avatar: The Deep Dive - A Special Edition of 20/20 | Self |
| 2022 | Avatar: The Way of Water | Ronal |
| 2021 | L'Oreal Paris Women of Worth | Self |
| 2021 | Baba Yaga | Baba Yaga (voice) |
| 2021 | Eating Our Way to Extinction | Narrator (voice) |
| 2020 | Ammonite | Mary Anning |
| 2020 | Black Beauty | Black Beauty (voice) |
| 2019 | Manou the Swift | Manou's Mother(voice) |
| 2019 | Blackbird | Jennifer |
| 2019 | The Christmas Letter | Narrator (voice) |
| 2018 | Oceans: Our Blue Planet | Self - Narrator (voice) |
| 2018 | Buttons | Narrator (voice) |
| 2017 | The Mountain Between Us | Alex Martin |
| 2017 | Wonder Wheel | Ginny |
| 2017 | Diana: The Day Britain Cried | Narrator (voice) |
| 2017 | Snow Bears | Narrator (voice) |
| 2016 | Triple 9 | Irina Vlaslov |
| 2016 | Collateral Beauty | Claire Wilson |
| 2016 | The Lost Letter | Narrator (voice) |
| 2016 | Daisy Chain | Buttercup Bree (voice) |
| 2015 | A Little Chaos | Sabine De Barra |
| 2015 | Insurgent | Jeanine Matthews |
| 2015 | The Dressmaker | Myrtle "Tilly" Dunnage |
| 2015 | Steve Jobs | Joanna Hoffman |
| 2015 | Snow Chick - A Penguin's Tale | Narrator (voice) |
| 2014 | Divergent | Jeanine Matthews |
| 2014 | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) |
| 2013 | Movie 43 | Beth (segment "The Catch") |
| 2013 | Labor Day | Adele |
| 2012 | Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen | (archive footage) |
| 2012 | Reflections on Titanic | Self |
| 2011 | Contagion | Erin Mears |
| 2011 | Carnage | Nancy Cowan |
| 2011 | Discovering Hamlet | Ophelia (archive footage) |
| 2008 | Revolutionary Road | April Wheeler |
| 2008 | The Reader | Hanna Schmitz |
| 2008 | How to Lose Friends & Alienate People | Self (uncredited) |
| 2006 | Little Children | Sarah Pierce |
| 2006 | The Holiday | Iris |
| 2006 | All the King's Men | Anne Stanton |
| 2006 | Flushed Away | Rita (voice) |
| 2006 | Deep Sea 3D | Narrator (voice) |
| 2005 | Romance & Cigarettes | Tula |
| 2005 | $200,000,001: A Ship's Odyssey (The Titanic Crew Video) | Self / Rose DeWitt Bukater (archive footage) |
| 2005 | Titanic: Behind The Scenes | Self / Rose DeWitt Bukater (archive footage) |
| 2004 | Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | Clementine Kruczynski |
| 2004 | Finding Neverland | Sylvia Llewelyn Davies |
| 2004 | Pride | Suki (voice) |
| 2003 | The Life of David Gale | Bitsey Bloom |
| 2002 | War Game | Annie |
| 2001 | Enigma | Hester Wallace |
| 2001 | Iris | Young Iris Murdoch |
| 2001 | Christmas Carol: The Movie | Belle (voice) |
| 2001 | Being Mick | Self |
| 2000 | Quills | Madeleine LeClerc |
| 1999 | Hideous Kinky | Julia |
| 1999 | Holy Smoke | Ruth Barron |
| 1999 | Faeries | Brigid (voice) |
| 1998 | Titanic: Breaking New Ground | Self |
| 1997 | Titanic | Rose DeWitt Bukater |
| 1997 | Heart of the Ocean: The Making of Titanic | Self / Rose Dewitt Bukater |
| 1996 | Hamlet | Ophelia |
| 1996 | Jude | Sue Bridehead |
| 1995 | Sense and Sensibility | Marianne Dashwood |
| 1995 | A Kid in King Arthur's Court | Princess Sarah |
| 1994 | Heavenly Creatures | Juliet Hulme |
| Fake! | ||
| Goodbye June |