Kate winslet

Her career began on television, with an appearance in an episode of the BBC medical drama Casualty in 1989, followed by a co-starring role in the children's science-fiction serial Dark Season two years later, also for the BBC. ...

Kate Elizabeth Winslet was born October 5, 1975 to stage actor Roger Winslet and stage actress Sally Bridges-Winslet. Having been born to a thespian family, Kate was exposed to the acting business at an early age.

At age 16, Winslet was cast in the British sci-fi series Dark Season. Her first big break came at age 18 with the role as an obsessive adolescent in Heavenly Creatures- a film based on the true story of two fantasy-gripped girls who commit a brutal murder. With this role, critics began to stand up and take notice.

The following year, Kate Winslet auditioned for a role in Sense and Sensibility. The film�s star Emma Thompson was immediately impressed and Kate won the role, beating out more than a hundred others for the part of Marion Dashwood. Her portrayal won her a British Academy Award and her first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress. From there, Winslet went on to perform in such films as Jude (1996) and Hamlet (1996).

International stardom came with the role of Rose Dewitt Bukater in 1997s blockbuster Titanic. Audiences the world over fell in love with actress and the role earned Kate Winslet another Academy nomination for Best Actress, thus making her the youngest actress to ever receive two Academy nominations.

After the unexpected attention she received from Titanic, Winslet retreated to the less conspicuous roles of independent artsy- films and doing voice work for animation including Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001) where her song �What If?� was released as a single in the UK (the song made it to the top of the charts in Ireland).

After filming Holy Smoke and Quills (both 2000), Winslet married assistant director Jim Threapleton and had a baby girl- Mia Honey. A year later, they were divorced. In 2003, Winslet met her current husband, director Sam Mendes, and in December of that year, their son Joe Alfie was born. They presently live in a 14^th �century manor in the English countryside.