Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress
and occasional singer. She is noted for having played diverse
characters over her career, but probably best-known for her
critically acclaimed performances as Marianne Dashwood in Sense and
Sensibility, Rose DeWitt Bukater in Titanic, Clementine Kruczynski
in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sarah Pierce in Little
Children, April Wheeler in Revolutionary Road, and Hanna Schmitz in
The Reader.
Winslet has been nominated for six Academy Awards and won the
Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in The Reader. She has
won awards from the Screen Actors Guild, British Academy of Film
and Television Arts, and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association,
as well as being nominated for an Emmy. At the age of 22, she
became the youngest person to receive two Oscar nominations, a
milestone she would maintain through her sixth nomination. David
Edelstein of New York Magazine hails her as "the best
English-speaking film actress of her generation."
Date Published: Feb 01, 2009 - 2:41 am
While on the set of
Dark
Season, Winslet met actor-writer Stephen Tredre, with whom she
had a five-year relationship. He died of bone cancer soon after
Winslet completed filming Titanic, so she missed the premiere
because she was attending his funeral in London. She and Titanic
co-star
Leonardo DiCaprio have remained good friends
since the filming.
[66]
Winslet was later in a relationship with
Rufus
Sewell,
[67] but on 22 November 1998 she married director
Jim Threapleton. They have a daughter, Mia Honey,
who was born on 12 October 2000 in London. After a divorce in 2001,
Winslet was in a relationship with
Sam
Mendes, whom she married on 24 May 2003 on the island of
Anguilla in the
Caribbean. Their son, Joe Alfie Winslet Mendes, was
born on 22 December 2003 in New York City.
Mendes and his production company, Neal Street Productions,
purchased the film rights to the long-delayed biography of circus
tiger tamer
Mabel Stark.
[68] The couple's spokesperson said, "It's a
great story, they have had their eyes on it for a while. If they
can get the script right, it would make a great film."
[68]
The media have documented her weight fluctuations over the years.
Winslet has been outspoken about her refusal to allow Hollywood to
dictate her weight. In February 2003, the British edition of
Gentlemen's Quarterly magazine published photographs
of Winslet which had been digitally enhanced to make her look
dramatically thinner than she really was; Winslet issued a
statement saying that the alterations were made without her
consent. GQ issued an apology in the subsequent issue.
Winslet and Mendes currently reside in
New
York City. They own a manor house in the tiny village of Church
Westcote in
Gloucestershire,
England.
They spent £3 million on the secluded Westcote Manor, a rambling
Grade II-
listed house with eight bedrooms, set in 22
acres. They have reportedly spent more than £1 million on interior
renovations, as well as restoring the original water garden,
mulberry garden, and orchard, all of which fell into disrepair when
the former owner, equestrian artist
Raoul
Millais, died in 1999.
As a result of both being involved in aircraft incidents, and
fearing leaving their children parentless, Winslet and Mendes never
fly on the same aircraft.
[69] He was scheduled to fly on
American Airlines Flight 77, which was hijacked on
11 September 2001 and subsequently crashed into the
Pentagon.
[69] In October 2001, Winslet was seven hours
into a London-Dallas flight with daughter Mia when a passenger who
claimed to be an Islamic terrorist, later charged with creating
mischief, stood up and shouted "We are all going to die
Date Published: Dec 01, 2008 - 2:52 am