Kate Winslet

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

She made her movie debut as Juliet Hulme in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures (1994). 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. She married director Sam Mendes; they had a son, Joe. In 2012, she married Ned Rocknroll, nephew of billionaire Richard Branson. She had his first son in December 2013.


 Films 
 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

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