Kate Winslet 'marries Ned RocknRoll in romantic secret ceremony' - Telegraph Celebrity news Kate Winslet 'marries Ned RocknRoll in romantic secret ceremony' Actress Kate Winslet has married her third husband Ned RocknRoll in a secret ceremony, as she was given away by former co-star and best friend Leonardo DiCaprio. Kate Winslet has married Ned RocknRoll in a secret ceremony Photo: REX Follow The Oscar-winning actress is understood to have married boyfriend Ned RocknRoll in an intimate ceremony in New York. Arrangements for the marriage were kept so secret that even the couple's parents were not aware of it, according to the Sun newspaper. Kate Winslet with her husband Ned Rocknroll (Reuters) Winslet, 37, is reported to have been given away by her Titanic co-star Leonardo DiCaprio, with whom she enjoys a close friendship. A spokeswoman for Winslet this morning said: "I can confirm that Kate Winslet married Ned Rocknroll in New York earlier this month in a private ceremony attended by her two children and a very few friends and family.

Related Articles 09 Oct 2011 "The couple have been engaged since the summer." RocknRoll, the nephew of Sir Richard Branson who changed his name from Abel Smith, is Winslet's third husband. According to the newspaper, the "romantic, private" ceremony took place in a converted barn in New York, with just six close friends from either side present. Winslet's two children from her former marriages also attended, along with RocknRoll's brother Jack. Winslet is reported to have been given away by her Titanic co-star Leonardo DiCaprio A source told the Sun the marriage had always been "on the cards", with the couple discussing it seriously over the last few months. "They had been planning it for a while," the unnamed source said. "They are both so happy and very much in love. Kate is very private and didn't want anyone to know." He added Winslet had "never looked so happy", with the couple's relationship being "full steam ahead" from the beginning.

The actress, who won the Best Actress Oscar in 2009 for her performance as a former Nazi concentration camp guard in The Reader, was previously married to Jim Threapleton, a film director, by whom she has a daughter, Mia, who turns 12 next month. They divorced in 2001 after three years. Kate Winslet has been married to James Threapleton (left) and to director Sam Mendes (right) (Reuters) In 2003, she married director Sam Mendes on a Caribbean island, going on to have son Joe Alfie. The pair divorced in 2010. Rocknroll, 34, who works for his uncle’s space venture Virgin Galactic, has previously been married to Eliza Pearson, the eldest daughter of Viscount Cowdray. Winslet and RocknRoll moved in together in September of this year, buying a 15th-century house in a hamlet in West Sussex for £2 million.

Kate Winslet - Biography - IMDb Kate Winslet Biography Showing all 147 items Jump to: Overview (4) | Mini Bio (1) | Spouse (3) | Trade Mark (1) | Trivia (108) | Personal Quotes (24) | Salary (6) Overview (4) 5' 6½" (1.69 m) Mini Bio (1) Ask Kate Winslet what she likes about any of her characters, and the word "ballsy" is bound to pop up at least once. The British actress has made a point of eschewing straightforward pretty-girl parts in favor of more devilish damsels; as a result, she's built an eclectic resume that runs the gamut from Shakespearean tragedy to modern-day mysticism and erotica. Kate Elizabeth Winslet was born in Reading, Berkshire, into a family of thespians -- parents Roger Winslet and Sally Anne Bridges-Winslet were both stage actors, maternal grandparents Oliver and Linda Bridges ran the Reading Repertory Theatre, and uncle Robert Bridges was a fixture in London's West End theatre district. Kate came into her talent at an early age.

She scored her first professional gig at eleven, dancing opposite the Honey Monster in a commercial for a kids' cereal. She started acting lessons around the same time, which led to formal training at a performing arts high school. Over the next few years, she appeared on stage regularly and landed a few bit parts in sitcoms. Her first big break came at age 17, when she was cast as an obsessive adolescent in Heavenly Creatures (1994). The film, based on the true story of two fantasy-gripped girls who commit a brutal murder, received modest distribution but was roundly praised by critics. Still a relative unknown, Winslet attended a cattle call audition the next year for Ang Lee 's Sense and Sensibility (1995). She made an immediate impression on the film's star, Emma Thompson , and beat out more than a hundred other hopefuls for the part of plucky Marianne Dashwood. Her efforts were rewarded with both a British Academy Award and an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Winslet followed up with two more period pieces, playing the rebellious heroine in Jude (1996) and Ophelia in Kenneth Branagh 's Hamlet (1996).

The role that transformed Winslet from art house attraction to international star was Rose DeWitt Bukater, the passionate, rosy-cheeked aristocrat in James Cameron 's Titanic (1997). Young girls the world over both idolized and identified with Winslet, swooning over all that face time opposite heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio and noting her refreshingly healthy, unemaciated physique. Winslet's performance also garnered a Best Actress nomination, making her the youngest actress to ever receive two Academy Award nominations. After the swell of unexpected attention surrounding Titanic (1997), Winslet was eager to retreat into independent projects. Rumor has it that she turned down the lead roles in both Shakespeare in Love (1998) and Anna and the King (1999) in order to play adventurous soul searchers in Hideous Kinky (1998) and Holy Smoke (1999). The former cast her as a young single mother traveling through 1970s Morocco with her daughters in tow; the latter, as a zealous follower of a guru tricked into a "deprogramming" session in the Australian outback.

The next year found her back in period dress as the Marquis de Sade's chambermaid and accomplice in Quills (2000). Kate holds the distinction of being the youngest actor ever honored with four Academy Award nominations (she received her fourth at age 29). As of 2016, she has been nominated for an Oscar seven times, winning one of them: she received the Best Actress Oscar for the drama The Reader (2008), playing a former concentration camp guard. For her performance of Joanna Hoffman in Steve Jobs (2015), she received her seventh Academy Award nomination. Off camera, Winslet is known for her mischievous pranks and familial devotion. She has two sisters, Anna Winslet and Beth Winslet (both actresses), and a brother, Joss. In 1998, she married assistant director Jim Threapleton . They had a daughter, Mia Honey Threapleton, in October 2000. They divorced in 2001. She later married director Sam Mendes in 2003 and gave birth to their son, Joe Alfie Winslet-Mendes, later that year.

After seven years of marriage, in February 2010 they announced that they had amicably separated, and divorced in October 2010. In 2012, Kate married Ned Rocknroll, with whom she has a son. She was awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2012 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to drama. - IMDb Mini Biography By: IMDb Editors Spouse (3) Voluptuous figure Trivia (108) Kate met her now ex-1st husband Jim Threapleton on the set of her movie Hideous Kinky (1998), where he was working as an assistant director. Won Best Spoken Word Album for Children, Grammy Awards, shared with Graham Greene (2000). Turned down the Gwyneth Paltrow role in Shakespeare in Love (1998) and the Jodie Foster role in Anna and the King (1999). At age 11, she began attending the acting school Redroofs in Maidenhead, England, UK. Sister of Anna Winslet , Joss Winslet and Beth Winslet . Kate is the second child.

Her first acting job was dancing with the Honey Monster in a commercial for Sugar Puffs cereal. Nominated 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) and (2004). She has a younger brother: Joss Winslet. Parents are 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. 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 United Kingdom, peaking at number six. As of 2016, the music video of "What If?" has 11 million views on YouTube.

[June 2001] (September 3, 2001) Announced that she and husband Jim Threapleton are separating. Purchased a $3 million (US) home in London with then-boyfriend (later husband) Sam Mendes . They also bought a home in New York City. [2002]. 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). Married director Sam Mendes in a private ceremony whilst on holiday in the West Indies. [May 2003] Daughter Mia's name is Italian for "my". Prefers to wear boots rather than ordinary shoes because it makes her feel that her feet are "firmly on the ground". Missed the premiere of Titanic (1997) because she was attending the funeral of close friend and former boyfriend, Stephen Tredre .

Resides in West Sussex England, her main home is in Itchenor (West Sussex), she owns a home in the Chelsea district (New York City). Has a nephew: George Bryn Mawr Winslet Jones. His mother is Beth Winslet . Sprained her ankle on the set of Romance & Cigarettes (2005). [May 2004] She sold her North London home in Belsize Park to Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin . Was considered for the role of Bridget Jones 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 DeWitt Bukater in Titanic (1997). While serving as host of Saturday Night Live (1975) one week after Ashlee Simpson 's "recorded song malfunction", she opened the show by singing and dancing live. Was born in the same hospital as her ex-husband, Sam Mendes . 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). Was offered the role of Eowyn in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002), which went to Miranda Otto . Kate married Sam Mendes , who was childhood friends with 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). Nominated for Best Supporting Actress, Premiere magazine for Sense and Sensibility (1995)) (1995). Won Best Film Actress, Smash Hits magazine (1998). Won Sexiest Actress, Entertainment Insider Awards (1998).

Won Film Actress of the Year, Variety Club of Great Britain (1999). 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 Claude Rains (for Mr.

Skeffington (1944)), Vanessa Redgrave (for Julia (1977)), Mare Winningham (for Georgia (1995)) and Philip Seymour Hoffman (for The Master (2012)), she is one of the few performers to be nominated for an Supporting Oscar (for Iris (2000)) for playing the title role in a movie. As of 2013, Redgrave is the only one to win. As of January 2009, at the age of 34, she is the youngest actress to rack up six Academy Award 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). Is a huge fan of Rufus Wainwright 's CD, "Poses" (mentioned in one of her ads for AmEx). 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). Official celebrity spokesperson for Lancôme perfumes and cosmetics (2007). Her children refer to very close friend Leonardo DiCaprio as "Uncle Leo". He also bought Kate an inscribed gold ring, after they filmed Revolutionary Road (2008).

However, Winslet keeps the inscription a secret. Chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful in the World (2005). Auditioned for the role of Elizabeth in Kenneth Branagh 's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994). Helena Bonham Carter got the role, but Branagh was so impressed by Winslet that he offered her the role of Ophelia in Hamlet (1996). 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). 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 did not develop a special voice for her character.

Sister-in-law of Edmund Harcourt . 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 2015, 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). However, of those six performers, Winslet is the only one to be nominated and win an Academy Award for a leading role but for a different role, in a same year.

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 Lead Actress for her role in Revolutionary Road (2008)). The Academy overthrew this plan by nominating Winslet for Best Lead 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. According to Academy rules, an actor is eligible for only one nomination in a single category. Is one of 13 actresses to have won the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Critics' Choice 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), Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls (2006), Mo'Nique for Precious (2009), Natalie Portman for Black Swan (2010), Octavia Spencer for The Help (2011), Anne Hathaway for Les Misérables (2012), Cate Blanchett for Blue Jasmine (2013), Patricia Arquette for Boyhood (2014) and Julianne Moore for Still Alice (2014). 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 . Was considered for the role of Satine in Moulin Rouge! (2001) but Nicole Kidman , who went on to receive a Best Actress Oscar nomination for her performance, was cast instead.

Returned to work 11 months after giving birth to her daughter Mia in order to begin filming The Life of David Gale (2003). Returned to work 5 months after giving birth to her son Joe in order to begin filming Romance & Cigarettes (2005). Born at 7:15 am-BST. (March 15, 2010) Announced that she had separated amicably from husband Sam Mendes two months previously. Is just 12 years older than Evan Rachel Wood , who played her daughter on Mildred Pierce (2011). Virgin Group billionaire Richard Branson credited Kate with 'helping to carry' his 90-year-old mother out of his burning Caribbean-island house, where Winslet, her boyfriend 'Ned Rocknroll' and her two children were staying. [August 2011] Ranked as having one of the "Most Beautiful Famous Faces" by "The Annual Independent Critics List of the 100 Most Beautiful Famous Faces From Around the World" for 17 consecutive years.

She was ranked #55 in 2013, #65 in 2012, #50 in 2011, #31 in 2010, #22 in 2009, #12 in 2008, #15 in 2007, #18 in 2006, #21 in 2005, #13 in 2004, #11 in 2003, #14 in 2002, #4 in 2001, #11 in 2000, #20 in 1999, #17 in 1998, and #27 in 1997. She was awarded the CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2012 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to drama. Kate was the first actress considered for the role of River Song in Doctor Who (2005). The role went to Alex Kingston .

(November 22, 2012) Was awarded the CBE, by Queen Elizabeth II , for her services to acting. (December 26, 2012) Announced that she and Ned Rocknroll, whom she has been engaged to since July 2012, married in a secret ceremony in New York with just Winslet's children, Mia and Joe, and 6 friends present. Leonardo DiCaprio gave the bride away. One of her maternal great-great-grandfathers, Alfred Lidman, was Swedish. Was working in a deli when she landed her first film role, Heavenly Creatures (1994). She has appeared on over 300 magazine covers around the world. Gave birth to her 1st child at age 25, a daughter Mia Honey Threapleton on October 12, 2000. Child's father is her now ex-1st husband, Jim Threapleton . Wrote the book "The Golden Hat: Talking Back to Autism" to raise awareness and support for autism.

The book has personal statements and self-portraits from various celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio , Marion Cotillard and Michael Caine . All revenues will go to The Golden Hat Foundation, a non-profit organization founded by Winslet [2012]. As of 2015, has appeared in four films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Sense and Sensibility (1995), Titanic (1997), Finding Neverland (2004) and The Reader (2008). Titanic (1997) won in the category. Gave birth to her 2nd child at age 28, a son Joe Alfie Winslet Mendes on December 22, 2003. Child's father is her now ex-2nd husband, Sam Mendes . Gave birth to her 3rd child at age 38, a son Bear Blaze Winslet on December 7, 2013. Child's father is her 3rd husband, Ned Rocknroll. Gave her 3rd son name Bear after her old friend's nickname and a nickname Blaze because she and her husband met in a house fire.

She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6262 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on March 17, 2014. Turned down the female lead role in Transcendence (2014) due to her dual conflicts with A Little Chaos (2014) and Divergent (2014). The role went to Rebecca Hall instead. Was the 134th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Actress Oscar for The Reader (2008) at The 81st Annual Academy Awards (2009) on February 22, 2009. Completed on filming A Little Chaos (2014) when she was three months pregnant with her son, Bear Blaze. She did her own stunt in the scene where her character falls into a weir, she didn't tell anybody that she was pregnant back then, because she knew they wouldn't let her fall in if they knew. Quentin Tarantino and Liv Ullmann have expressed their desire to work with Winslet. Was five months pregnant with her third child, Bear Blaze, while filming Divergent (2014).

Despite only being on set for four weeks, it got to a point where shooting above her waist was required as well as her carrying folders, files and iPads to cover the bump in master shots. Returned to work 5 months after giving birth to her son Bear Blaze, to begin filming Insurgent (2015). [May 2014] Learned how to sew for her part in The Dressmaker (2015). Costume designer Margot Wilson was exclusively hired to create the outfits for Winslet's character, and Winslet assisted this process, with her newly taught skills. Winslet and her Titanic (1997) and Revolutionary Road (2008) co-star (as well as close friend) Leonardo DiCaprio have been nominated for Oscars in the same year twice: in 2006 for Blood Diamond (2006) (DiCaprio) and Little Children (2006) (Winslet), and in 2015 for The Revenant (2015) (DiCaprio) and Steve Jobs (2015) (Winslet).

Is the 3rd youngest actress (at age 40) to have received 7 Academy Award nominations, behind Bette Davis (age 36) and Meryl Streep (age 38). The longest she has gone without an Oscar nomination is the 7 years between her nominations for The Reader (2008) and Steve Jobs (2015). In 2005, at the age of 29, she became the youngest actress to receive 4 Academy Award nominations when she was nominated for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004). She lost her record to Jennifer Lawrence (25 years old) in 2016. As of 2016, Winslet holds the record of youngest actress to receive five and six Academy Award nominations. She received her fifth nomination in 2007, at age 31, for Little Children (2006), and her sixth nomination in 2009, at age 33, for The Reader (2008). Winslet and Cate Blanchett have both received their seventh Academy Award nomination in 2016.

Winslet for Best Supporting Actress for Steve Jobs (2015), and Blanchett for Best Actress for Carol (2015). Was originally cast in the role ultimately played by Rachel Weisz in The Mercy (2017) before dropping out. While being interviewed by Entertainment Tonight (1981) at the red carpet of the 2016 Golden Globes, her long-time friend Leonardo DiCaprio stated that Winslet is his favorite actress in the industry and he would love to work with her again. Husband Ned (b. Abel Smith) works for uncle Richard Branson 's space travel company Virgin Galactic in the capacity of "Head of Marketing Promotion and Astronaut Experience". Her favorite movies of her own are Heavenly Creatures (1994), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Revolutionary Road (2008), The Reader (2008), & Steve Jobs (2015). Winslet won the Oscar for Best Actress for "The Reader" (2008). Was terrified of Alan Rickman when she first met him on the set of Sense & Sensibility.

After a week of getting to know him she realized how sweet and kind he was in real life. They ended up becoming great friends and would work again together. Kate also developed a crush on him. Was devastated when Alan Rickman died in 2016. She gave a tearful tribute to him at the London Critics Awards a few days after he passed away. She refused offer to play Milada Horáková in Milada (2017), eventually played by Ayelet Zurer . Personal Quotes (24) [on her screen debut in Heavenly Creatures (1994)]: I was reading the script in the back of the car and I turned to my dad and yelled, "I've GOT to get this!". And he replied, "Then you will." And I thought, "Yep, that's it. I'm bloody well going to." And that was it. I was so determined. It was something crucial to my life. I just so communicated with her, the story and their relationship. And when I found out, I just couldn't believe it. I was so happy, I cried.

I remember I was working part-time at a deli at the time because I didn't have any money and was in the middle of making a sandwich when they phoned and said I'd got the job. I burst into tears and had to leave work because I couldn't control myself. It was absolutely brilliant. In 2002, she had this to say about doing nude scenes: I like exposing myself. There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress that absolutely believes in exposing myself. I'd rather do theatre and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films. It's very important for me to make the statement that I am English and just because I've done one really big film, it doesn't mean that I don't want to keep a finger in the fantastic British film industry and do films like this. On her spur-of-the-moment marriage to Sam Mendes : We hadn't been planning to do it but we thought it was rather a good idea, so we just did it. After Titanic (1997), it would have been completely foolish for me to go and try and top that.

I'm an English girl, I've always loved England, I've never felt the desire to leave it for any particular reason. And whilst I'm ambitious and care very much about what I do, I'm not competitive. I also don't want to act every day of my life. ... So it was important to me after Titanic (1997) to just remind myself of why it was that I was acting in the first place, which is of course because I love it. Since I was 13 or 14, I've always felt older than I actually am. I was on the tube just before Christmas and this girl turned round to me and said, "Are you Kate Winslet ?". And I said, "Well, yes. I am actually." And she said, "And you're getting the tube?". And I said, "Yes." And she said, "Don't you have a big car that drives you around?". And I said, "No". And she was absolutely stunned that I wasn't being driven round in some flash car all the time. It was ludicrous. People say to me, "You seem to have made this conscious decision to do independent films." In reality, I haven't.

After each movie, I always think, how different can I possibly be?... Is this going to challenge me, is this going to inspire me, and is this going to make me love my job more than I already do? There is no way we are going to move out of England. Some might think that we want to live in Hollywood but that is not what we want at all. We will go and live in New York when it is necessary because of work but we prefer to be in England. I'm proud to be English - we both are. It's very important to me to retain that. I am an English girl and I love England. I have never felt the desire to leave. I am still ambitious and I will have to travel and live elsewhere because of that but England is always home. On a scene from the movie Holy Smoke (1999): It was a difficult scene. When I read the script and I saw this scene was there, I laughed hysterically. I just couldn't believe it. When it came to shooting it, I had been sort of putting it off, and pretending it wasn't going to happen. And suddenly, I am there naked, peeing and thinking "Oh no!".

It was really hard to do, but I've always loved the fact that it was there, and it's such a sort of turning point for the character I play in the movie that I've always felt sort of good, that it should be there. On receiving her fourth Oscar nomination: I can't believe it. I am ecstatic! This nomination means so much to me. To be remembered for a film that was released a while ago, I am unbelievably honoured and completely overwhelmed. There's more to life than cheekbones. Mum and dad were very much friends, and up to life. There was no anxiety for anything when I was growing up, they just taught me to be me. Life is short, and it is here to be lived. Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go. I don't know if it's a skill, but I have been really lucky. I've always got on with every actor I've had to work opposite. I just always try and be as accepting of that person as I possibly can, and remain non-judgmental about their process, because every actor works in a different way. I was a wayward child, very passionate and very determined.

If I made up my mind to do something, there was no stopping me. On going to the 1996 Oscars: Emma Thompson said to me "Listen, it's honestly just like going to see a fantastic show", and actually it really is, because there are so many people to look at and all those fabulous frocks and it's really fascinating. But mum and dad and I did kind of amble through it a bit, a bit like the Beverly Hillbillies, getting out the car, my mum stepping on my dress and I'm going "Mum, mum!". I'm really proud of being English, because I learned my job in England, in English films with English actors. But I never dared dream of such a success... it's more than a dream. I realize it's extraordinary for a British actress. I feel good, but guilty at the same time, cause I wish I could share this emotion with all my British actors' friends... I play the main character in the most expensive and probably successful film, but that's not a good reason to leave England and become a superstar. Not at all. It seems daft that I'm famous and I've not really got to grips with that.

On taking chances in Hollywood: If you're not still learning and growing as an actor, then you have no backbone and no career. [November 2000] My skin still crawls if you call me a movie star. I get embarrassed. I think, don't be ridiculous. Maybe it's because I'm British. To me, Julia Roberts that's a movie star. But when people do call me one, that, I think, is an enormous compliment but, my God, is that a responsibility! [on being nominated in the same category as superstar Meryl Streep ] It feels unbelievable to be mentioned in the same breath as fellow actress Meryl Streep. It's inconceivable to me that this would even happen in my lifetime at all. It's such a dream. Salary (6) Kate Winslet Marries Ned Rocknroll: Ned Rocknroll Who? | Celebrity Gossip Kate Winslet Marries Ned Rocknroll: Ned Rocknroll Who? Email Actress Kate Winslet married Ned Rocknroll in early December in New York. Academy-award winning actress Kate Winslet tied the knot with her now third husband Ned Rocknroll.

Winslet and her 34-year-old Brit secretly wed during an intimate, secretive ceremony “surrounded by a small group of friends and close family members,” says a source. “I can confirm that Kate Winslet married Ned Rock’nRoll in NY earlier this month in a private ceremony attended by her two children and a very few friends and family. The couple had been engaged since the summer,” Winslet’s rep Sara Keene confirms to UsMagazine.com "Titanic" co-star and "Django Unchained" actor Leonardo DiCaprio was also a wedding guest. According to the rumor mill, DiCaprio actually walked Winslet down the aisle to give the bride away. Earlier this fall, the newly wed couple Winslet and Rocknroll bought a 15th-century home in West Sussex, England. Who is this British man who won the heart of this Hollywood star? Acquaint yourself with the third Mrs. Winslet. Rocknroll legally changed his name from Abel Smith to shed himself from its seriousness. (Teen angst?) Rocknroll is the nephew of billionaire Sir Richard Branson, who's the founder of Virgin Group, cha-ching.

Rocknroll’s actual day job is up for speculation, but he apparently works for the space-travel division, Virgin Galactic, of his uncle’s empire. If the Ned Rocknroll profile I found on LinkedIn is authentic, then his official title is: Head of Marketing Promotion and Astronaut Experience at Virgin Galactic. In August 2011, Winslet, her kids and her then boyfriend, Burberry model Louis Dowler visited Rocknroll’s uncle's vacation home on Necker Island. While evacuating because of a fire during Hurricane Irene, Winslet apparently rescued Rocknroll’s mum. Winslet then left with Rocknroll, ditched Dowler — and never looked back. Rocknroll was previously married for two years to Eliza Pearson, a 23-year-old British socialite and daughter of Viscount Cowdray. In 1998, Winslet married director Jim Threapleton with whom she also had daughter Mia, 12. Her first marriage to Threapleton ended in 2001, and in 2003 Winslet wed director Sam Mendes only to divorce seven years later. Winslet and Mendes together have son Joe, 9.

Best wishes to Winslet and Rocknroll. Despite two failed marriages and a seemingly heartless breakup with former boyfriend Dowler, I still find Kate Winslet incredibly charming and idyllic. When you’re a gorgeous actress and Hollywood starlet, you can play romance according to your own rules, and I say, keep breakin' hearts Kate. Photo Credit: PR Photos Kate Winslet Married: Actress Weds Ned Rocknroll | The Huffington Post Kate Winslet Married: Actress Weds Ned Rocknroll 12/26/2012 09:11 pm ET | Updated Mar 05, 2013 630 Kiki Von Glinow Director of Growth & Analytics, The Huffington Post Congratulations are in order! Kate Winslet married Ned Rocknroll in a secret wedding ceremony , according to Us Weekly. The tabloid reports that Winslet and her 34-year-old now husband (Richard Branson's nephew) wed in early December in New York, saying "I do" at an intimate ceremony.

"I can confirm that Kate Winslet married Ned Rock'nRoll in NY earlier this month in a private ceremony attended by her two children and a very few friends and family," a spokesperson told the UK's Daily Mail. "The couple had been engaged since the summer." We hope that third time's a charm for the "The Reader" actress. She was previously married to Jim Threapleton (1998 - 2001) -- with whom she has 12-year-old daughter Mia -- and Sam Mendes (2003 - 2010) -- with whom she has 9-year-old son Joe. The 37-year-old is no stranger to secret weddings, either. She married Mendes on a Caribbean island in front of only 4 guests, according to the Daily Mail. We wonder if Winslet's special day topped her November meeting of Queen Elizabeth II , who honored her with the prestigious CBE award for services to drama. Three babies by three husbands, why is Kate Winslet's love life such a mess? | Daily Mail Online comments Kate Winslet's announcement provoked online abuse from middle-class mothers Kate Winslet is something of a celebrity paradox.

With her icy-blonde coiffeured hair and elegant style, she exudes glossy composure. But beneath the polish, the English Rose charm, lies a spectacularly chaotic love-life that this week only deepened in its complexity. On Tuesday, the actress — already the mother of a child by each of her previous two husbands — announced that she was pregnant by her third spouse, the unfortunately named Ned Rocknroll. Even by the easy-come, easy-go standards of modern show business, to have chalked up three marriages and three children by three different men, all before you hit 40, is going some. Kate’s announcement provoked online abuse from middle-class mothers, who cruelly labelled her a 3x3, and compared her to Ulrika Jonsson, who is often referred to as a 4x4 because she has four children by four fathers. One Mumsnet commentator asked: ‘Is [Winslet] going into competition with Ulrika? Good luck to her, I bet Ulrika’s quaking in her ‘4x4’ boots’. Another said: ‘3rd child by 3rd husband. Yes absolutely appalling’.

Of course, everyone accepts that there can be youthful mistakes, and that partners can let you down. However, Miss Winslet’s romantic history is so drama-soaked that one starts to wonder why she finds her happy-ever-afters so transient. People who know Kate say her ‘problem’ is simple: she’s a hopeless romantic who loves to be in love and has never outgrown girlish dreams of finding a Mr Absolutely Right. She said once that if you are really in love then you don’t need to change a person, and they don’t need to change you. Not for her, it seems, the myriad compromises which form the fabric of most marriages. And if her perfect romances stop working? She will cut the cord with a ruthlessness which is starkly at odds with all that girlish sentiment. Take Jim Threapleton, her first husband. He was famously dumped after just three years of marriage and before their daughter, Mia, now 12, had celebrated her first birthday. Within a few weeks she was dating director Sam Mendes, whom she had met while she and Jim were still together. They married in May 2003 when Kate was pregnant with their son, Joe, now nine.

After she and Mendes divorced in 2010, Kate’s romantic whirlwind continued. She began a relationship with a male model, Louis Dowler, only to dump him abruptly after a holiday to Sir Richard Branson’s Necker Island in 2011. It was here that she had met and fallen in love with Branson’s nephew, Ned Rocknroll, 34, who was called Ned Abel Smith before changing his name by deed poll. They were married in New York a mere 16 months later, and didn’t invite either of their families to the wedding. Indeed, Kate’s father only found out three weeks later from Press reports, which must have caused some upset. Ned Rocknroll doesn't make her feel small because she hasn’t read as much as he has. Instead, he offers complete adoration, the basic requirement for every Hollywood diva Kate has confessed that she can be direct to the point of brashness in her life. ‘I am a very up-front, hands-on individual,’ she said.

‘I don’t pretend things aren’t happening and I don’t sweep them under the carpet.’ One pal, who was close to her at the time she dumped Jim Threapleton, can confirm that she is defiantly — almost perversely — happy to embrace change, however brutal. He told me: ‘None of us could quite believe it with Jim. We thought it was just a rough patch, but she decided that was that, and moved out with their baby to live with her sister, and that was the end of it. ‘We felt bad for Jim. Kate had made all the running in the first place and chased Jim down the aisle, told everyone she had never been more in love. And then when she wasn’t, that was it — boom. ‘I remember she announced it by saying: “I’m divorcing Jim.” It wasn’t a case of “We are having problems”. When it was over, it was over.’ As second husband Sam Mendes once said: ‘Kate doesn’t over-analyse, she’s a doer.

When she turns on the ignition it’s: “Get out of the way.”’ Kate is a complex personality - and many friends say this aspect of her character blighted her marriage to the confident Sam Mendes Interestingly, nothing in her upbringing can be blamed for causing this skittish nature. Her parents, Sally and Roger, are happily married after decades of contentment. Not for them the chaos of repeat divorces. They raised Kate with lots of love, but not much money, in Reading, Berks. Roger is a jobbing actor, and it was a struggle to send her to school at Redroofs Theatre School, an independent institution in Maidenhead which cost £1,000 a term. Perhaps it is while she was there that some of her highly strung nature developed. Kate remembers being called ‘Blubber’ for her plumpness, and says the insecurities which haunt her to this day began in this period. She claims she was picked on and bullied, mentally and physically, and was once even locked in a cupboard by her classmates. She admitted that it had made her feel unattractive even as an adult. ‘I suffered from “No one will ever fancy me!” syndrome, well into my teens.

Even now, I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not,’ she said. Could this be what has set her off on such a chequered path with men? Perhaps, but it’s here that we note a rather perplexing inconsistency. The principal of Redroofs, June Rose, finds the whole idea of Kate being bullied baffling, and says that she wasn’t bullied or overweight, but was a popular pupil who emerged grounded and happy. ‘The fact she was head girl says all you need to know about her character and how highly she was regarded,’ she adds. Jim Threapleton was famously dumped after just three years of marriage and before their daughter, Mia, now 12, had celebrated her first birthday And, famously, Kate was rather caught out when she told the world that she had given birth to her daughter, Mia, ‘naturally and without complications’. She was later forced to admit that she had been delivered by an emergency Caesarean section. She said it was only after 'achieving' natural birth with her son, Joe, that she felt able to tell the truth. ‘I felt a complete failure,’ she grumbled.

It’s apparent that Winslet is a complex personality — and many friends say this aspect of her character blighted her marriage to the confident Sam Mendes, an Oxford graduate who moved in circles that rather awed his decade-younger bride. ‘She is very insecure, like all actresses,’ says one movie executive. ‘She is an anxious person who functions on the nervous energy of those fears.’ So nervous is Kate that she once told an interviewer she had a full-on panic attack during her marriage to Sam, and heard voices that seemed to be talking in Hebrew. In Ned Rocknroll, she might just have someone who is able to still those insecurities. For, despite his childish name, he seems a rather better bet for Kate than Sam Mendes. Unlike the celebrated director, he is no intellectual. He doesn’t make her feel small because she hasn’t read as much as he has. Instead, he offers complete adoration, the basic requirement for every Hollywood diva. She, Ned and her two children now live in a 15th-century manor house, which has been beautifully modernised And he also crucially knows his place, which is behind her children. There is no doubt that the children are Kate’s top priority.

Despite the instability of her personal life, they have remained her core concern. She often did the school run while she lived in New York with Mendes, and it’s the same story in West Sussex, where she has settled in a picture-postcard village. She takes care of and pays attention to what her children eat, what they watch and who they see. ‘It’s no secret that I am a hands-on mother,’ she once said. She told another interviewer of the control she exerts at home: ‘I really rule the roost. I steer the ship. I am constantly making checklists. You know, library books have to go in on Friday, make sure that one day a week the children are not having bread for lunch.’ She, Rocknroll and her two children now live in a 15th-century manor house, which has been beautifully modernised. There is a small stream and ducks on the pond. Her 5.7 acres include stabling and fields, and the children attend a rather famous independent school not far away, where fees are £8,345 a term for day pupils.

Kate’s move from New York to the English countryside has certainly helped to ease access arrangements with her first husband, Threapleton, who previously had to cross the Atlantic to see his daughter. He remarried in 2008 and has a new young family of his own, and they live in North London. Richard Branson engineered the introduction between Kate and his nephew, who works for his Virgin Galactic company, and has delighted in their romance Director Mendes, who is dating actress Rebecca Hall, is also based largely in the UK. His family are from Swindon and he is expected to direct the next Bond film later this year. No one who knows Kate is at all surprised that she has gone for another baby with Ned. Indeed, some in her circle thought that their super-low-key wedding in New York State was the prelude to an announcement that she was already expecting. She seems, however, to have fallen pregnant during her second honeymoon on Necker Island at the end of January. Rather bizarrely, this romantic getaway took place with Ned’s uncle, Sir Richard, in attendance, too.

Indeed, the Bransons are something of a constant presence in Kate’s life — and the new baby will bring her even closer into the orbit of Richard’s social whirlwind. Branson engineered the introduction between her and Ned, who works for his Virgin Galactic company, and has delighted in their romance — and the publicity it has brought him — posting a picture of them honeymooning on Necker on his Twitter feed. But the Branson association has already led to an almighty muddle. Last year, Kate appeared to endorse a campaign run by Richard’s son, Sam, calling for the decriminalisation of cannabis. She appeared on a short film of his saying: ‘I’m Kate Winslet and I’m breaking the taboo’. A source later said that she had only supported the film, and not the campaign, and described it as ‘a mistake’. It was highly embarrassing for her. Regardless, at 37, so many years after becoming a mother for the first time, and after so much heart-ache and complexity, Kate is thrilled to have conceived again. ‘It’s very much part of the plan. I would not be surprised if she has another two children,’ said one associate.

‘She and Ned were talking about babies before they got married and they both love the idea of having a happy houseful.’ And so, as Kate merrily careers onwards through her topsy-turvy life, her friends have only one question: does this new baby mark a period of stability for the actress? Her beaming smile and growing bump promise a happy future. But we should observe that Kate is currently filming a period drama in Ealing Studios. The title? A Little Chaos. How fitting. Third husband at 37? That’s very RocknRoll, Kate - Telegraph Celebrity news Third husband at 37? That’s very RocknRoll, Kate Has Kate Winslet finally found 'the one’ in an 'astronaut experience' expert she’s known for barely a year? Sarah Rainey reports on the latest chapter in the actress's dramatic love life. Kate Winslet has married Ned RocknRoll in a secret ceremony Photo: REX Follow It was a dream Caribbean holiday that turned into nightmare when Kate Winslet had to make a perilous escape with her two children and Sir Richard Branson’s mother from a burning building during a tropical storm.

Few were surprised that, in the aftermath of the drama, the Oscar-winning actress fell in love with a fellow guest on the private island who had shared something of the terrifying experience… although the object of her affection was not her then lover, a Burberry model who was also on the trip. Such is the romantic rollercoaster of Winslet’s love life. However, the confirmation yesterday that the 37-year-old had married Ned RocknRoll, Sir Richard’s nephew, in a secret ceremony in New York, has raised more than a few eyebrows. The couple, who apparently have been engaged since the summer, met on Branson’s Necker Island on the trip in August last year, when romance blossomed amid the ruins of the billionaire’s mansion, which caught fire after being struck by lightning during Hurricane Irene. Winslet had made headlines worldwide after it was reported that she had carried Sir Richard’s mother, Eve, to safety. She was linked to RocknRoll shortly afterwards. Their wedding, which took place early this month, was such an exclusive affair that even the couple’s parents were not involved.

Mr RocknRoll’s father, Robert, told reporters yesterday: “It’s not something I know of — but nothing would surprise me with those two.” Related Articles Drawn to a different view of life 30 Dec 2012 Winslet wore a diamond ring designed by her favourite jeweller, Charles Goode, and was escorted down the aisle by her children from her two previous marriages, her publicist confirmed. According to reports, the “romantic, private” ceremony was held in a converted barn outside the city, witnessed by just six guests from either side, including Leonardo DiCaprio, Winslet’s best friend and co-star from the film Titanic, who reportedly gave the bride away. "They had been planning it for a while,” one unnamed source told a newspaper. "They are both so happy and very much in love. Kate is very private and didn’t want anyone to know.” He added Winslet had “never looked so happy”, and said the couple’s relationship had been “full steam ahead” from the beginning. So who is the man who has stolen Winslet’s heart and why, after two high-profile matrimonial failures, is the actress prepared to try again?

Ned RocknRoll is not, as you may have guessed, the name her new husband was born with. Ned Abel Smith changed his surname by deed poll in 2008 because, he felt, “people take themselves too seriously”. Originally from London, the 34-year-old works for Virgin Galactic, the space-travel division of the Branson empire, as “head of marketing, promotion and astronaut experience”. In contrast to their top-secret wedding, the Winslet/RocknRoll romance has been conducted very publicly. They have been photographed playing happy families with Winslet’s children, Mia, 12, and Joe, nine, in locations from Chichester to New Mexico. The four were first seen together at New Jersey’s Newark International airport in October 2011, only a few months after the Necker Island fire, while the couple made their red-carpet debut at the Golden Globes earlier this year. Mr RocknRoll persuaded Winslet to return to Britain from New York, and they moved in together in September, buying a £2 million 15th-century house in a hamlet in West Sussex.

Mr RocknRoll, notorious in London social circles as fun-loving party boy, has a colourful past. Until last year, he was married to Eliza Pearson, the 24-year-old daughter of Viscount Cowdray. Their 2009 marriage ceremony was conducted by a spiritual Shaman who bound their hands together with rope, and the reception was an extravagant beach party featuring Ugandan dancers and an adult ''playpen’’. Last year, Pearson said of her ex-husband: “He said he had met an amazing woman and she was making him really happy. Other than saying Kate’s a gorgeous human being and he’s having a wonderful time with her, he hasn’t told me much.” Winslet, too, is no stranger to relationship traumas. After one long-term romance, with Stephen Tredre, the late actor and writer, from whom she separated in 1995, two years before his death from bone cancer, and a dalliance with actor Rufus Sewell, whom she dated for three months, she married Jim Threapleton, the assistant director on the film Hideous Kinky, in which she appeared, in 1997.

The pair were famously down-to-earth, eating bangers-and-mash in a local pub for their wedding breakfast after a simple ceremony in Reading. That relationship broke down in 2000, shortly after Mia was born. Just a year later, Winslet was engaged to Sam Mendes, the acclaimed theatre and film director, after he approached her to appear in a play at the Donmar Warehouse in London. The couple married “on a whim” while holidaying in Anguilla in May 2003, and their son Joe was born later that year. Theirs was regarded as a rock-solid union and their separation in 2010 shocked Hollywood. Before Mr RocknRoll, Winslet was in a relationship with Louis Dowler, 35, a Cornwall-born Burberry model who was said to be “heartbroken” when it ended. So has the actress finally found ''the one’’ in an “astronaut experience” expert she’s known for barely a year? “Life is short,” she once said, “and it is here to be lived”. Hear, hear, Kate. Just don’t go taking your new husband’s surname.

Kate Winslet on how her three children from different marriages all get along | Daily Mail Online comments Despite the downsides of aging, Kate Winslet is very much looking forward to turning the big 4-0 on October 5 of this year. 'I'm definitely going to get to my birthday and feel I've earned it!' the gorgeous Oscar winner told People . 'I have the kind of wrinkles that are here to stay now. You know, not just the ones where you wake up in the morning and you go, "Oh that will go away in two hours' time." No, they're there. That's the way it is.' Scroll down for video 'I'm definitely going to get to my birthday and feel I've earned it!' Kate Winslet is very much looking forward to turning the big 4-0 on October 5 of this year (pictured September 13) The Berkshire-born blonde beamed over how well her three children - Mia, 14, Joe, 11, and Bear, 15 months - from three marriages all get along. 'They're absolutely adorable together,' the A Little Chaos actress said of her blended family. 'They're very helpful, I must say.

I really love hanging out with my kids. They're terrific people. They're kind of happy in who they are, too, and that's all you can really hope for them - that they love being themselves.' Kate continued: 'We've all got our health and we all laugh a lot. In my personal life, I really can't say why, but I've never felt more confident and happy.' The Oscar winner admitted: 'I have the kind of wrinkles that are here to stay now.

You know, not just the ones where you wake up in the morning and you go, "Oh that will go away in two hours' time"' (pictured in 2014) 'They're absolutely adorable together': The Berkshire-born blonde beamed over how well her three children - Mia (R), 14, Joe (L), 11, and Bear, 15 months - from three marriages all get along (pictured in 2011) '[He] is so incredibly supportive': Winslet calls husband #3, British businessman Ned Rocknroll, a 'wonderful man' (pictured December 5) Winslet calls husband #3, British businessman Ned Rocknroll, a 'wonderful man.' '[He] is so incredibly supportive that makes it possible for me to have those experiences,' the three-time Golden Globe winner smiled. 'I've got a really wonderful little family.' Her daughter Mia's father is Extraordinary Rendition director Jim Threapleton, whom she divorced in 2001 following a three-year marriage. That same year, Kate met Joe's father Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes and the couple divorced in 2011 following a seven-year marriage.

Husband #1: Her daughter Mia's father is Extraordinary Rendition director Jim Threapleton, whom she divorced in 2001 following a three-year marriage (pictured in 1998) Husband #2: That same year, Kate met Joe's father Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes and the couple divorced in 2011 following a seven-year marriage (pictured in 2003) Husband #3: Later that year, the Divergent stunner began romancing Rocknroll - born Smith - with whom she had baby boy Bear in West Sussex (pictured June 15) Later that year, the Divergent stunner began romancing Rocknroll - born Smith - with whom she had baby boy Bear in West Sussex. Ned works for the space-travel division of his billionaire uncle Richard Branson's company Virgin Galactic. Having children so young, Winslet missed out on those formative college years, and she seems to hold a tinge of regret. 'I'm curious what that might have been like...just for a week,' the twice-divorced star laughed.

Her first-ever sequel: The Emmy winner will next reprise her role as the nefarious Erudite faction leader Jeanine Matthews in The Divergent Series: Insurgent Kate said of her part in the young-adult novel adaptation: '[My children were like] , "Yeah, Mom, you should definitely do it!" The idea that their mom would play this baddie was incredibly exciting' Hitting theatres March 20! The dismally-reviewed IMAX 3D flick also stars Oscar caliber actresses Shailene Woodley (L), Octavia Spencer, and Naomi Watts The Emmy winner will next reprise her role as the nefarious Erudite faction leader Jeanine Matthews in The Divergent Series: Insurgent. '[My children] do very much have an opinion on what I do and don't do these days,' Kate said of her part in the young-adult novel adaptation. '"Yeah, Mom, you should definitely do it!" The idea that their mom would play this baddie was incredibly exciting.' The dismally-reviewed IMAX 3D flick - hitting theatres March 20 - also stars Oscar caliber actresses Shailene Woodley, Octavia Spencer, and Naomi Watts.

The Labor Day star consecutively shot the heist drama Triple 9 - hitting US/UK theatres September 11 - alongside Norman Reedus, Aaron Paul, Woody Harrelson, and Chiwetel Ejiofor. Hitting US/UK theatres September 11! The Labor Day star consecutively shot the heist drama Triple 9 alongside Norman Reedus (L), Aaron Paul (R), Woody Harrelson, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Teresa Palmer Read more: British actress Kate Winslet marries for third time | Reuters Thu Dec 27, 2012 | 7:33 AM EST British actress Kate Winslet marries for third time British actress Kate Winslet attends the opening of a Longines flagship store in Hong Kong December 9, 2012. Reuters/Bobby Yip LONDON British Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet has married for the third time, her publicist confirmed on Thursday. The 37-year-old, best known for her starring role in the 1997 blockbuster "Titanic", married Ned RocknRoll, a nephew of music and aviation tycoon Richard Branson.

The private ceremony was attended by Winslet's two children from previous marriages and "a very few friends and family", according to the publicist, and took place in New York earlier this month. "The couple had been engaged since the summer," Winslet's spokeswoman said in a statement. Winslet has been nominated for six Academy Awards and won once for her lead role in "The Reader". Her other notable performances include Iris Murdoch in "Iris", Clementine Kruczynski in "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and April in "Revolutionary Road". That film was directed by Sam Mendes, whom Winslet wed in 2003 and divorced seven years later. Her first marriage was to Jim Threapleton, which lasted from 1998 to 2001. According to online reports, RocknRoll had his name changed by deed poll from Ned Abel Smith and is an executive for Branson's space flight venture Virgin Galactic. The Sun newspaper said the New York wedding was so secret that even the couple's parents did not know about it. Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who co-starred with Winslet in Titanic and Revolutionary Road, gave her away, the newspaper said.

(Reporting by Mike Collett-White; editing by Steve Addison) ADVERTISEMENT Kate Winslet Marries Ned Rocknroll | Hollywood Reporter Designers Kate Winslet Marries Richard Branson's Nephew in Secret Ceremony The award-winning actress wedding to Ned Rocknroll was kept so under wraps that the couple's parents reportedly didn't know about it. Getty Images by Elizabeth Snead The cat's out of the bag: Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet was secretly married earlier this month to boyfriend Ned Rocknroll, 34. A British rep for the actress confirmed to the Hollywood Reporter that the 37-year-old actress and 34-year-old nephew of Virgin Airlines founder Richard Branson had indeed been married.The service is said to have been kept so under wraps that even Winslet's parents weren't aware she was walking down the aisle for the third time. Her rep told THR that that the actress "wed Rocknroll in a private ceremony attended by her two children and a very few friends. The couple had been engaged since the summer." Winslet's father, Roger, and Ned's father, Robert, had no clue about the undercover nuptials, according to British media reports.

Rocknroll's father told the Sun : "It's not something I know of -- but nothing would surprise me with those two." Winslet's Titanic and Revolutionary Road costar Leonardo DiCaprio reportedly walked her down the aisle. Winslet has a bit of a history of secret marriages. She wed Sam Mendes, her second husband and father of her son, Joe, in a secret ceremony in 2003. The couple remained married until 2010. Winslet previously wed Jim Threapleton, the father of her daughter, Mia, in 1998 at a church ceremony in Reading, England. Kate met Rocknroll -- whose birth name is Abel Smith -- shortly after breaking up with her on-off model boyfriend Louis Dowler. At the time the couple met, Rocknroll was separating from his wife, British socialite Eliza Cowdray, whom he wed in 2009. Rocknroll previously had his name legally changed to his current, edgier moniker and now works for the space-travel branch of the Virgin empire, Virgin Galactic.

STORY: 'I Am Extremely Grateful For My Butt' Says Kate Winslet Despite the new revelation, perhaps we should not be too surprised about Winslet's wedding. After her second divorce, Kate confessed: “I still believe in the beauty of committing yourself to another person and, at least, in the idea of marriage as an expression of that commitment. Living with someone will always be a challenge, but you hope to be able to find someone whom you can spend the rest of your days.” Another marriage portent came in September when Winslet and Rocknroll purchased a 15th-century style home in West Sussex, England.

Question: In 2003, Kate Winslet married (and subsequently had two children with) whom?
Answer: Sam Mendes