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Kate Winslet
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Kate Elizabeth Winslet (/ˈwɪnzlət/; born 5 October 1975) is an English actress. Primarily known for her roles as headstrong and complicated women in independent films, particularly period dramas, she has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, five BAFTA Awards and five Golden Globe Awards. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2012.
Winslet studied drama at the Redroofs Theatre School. Her first screen appearance, at age fifteen, was in the British television series Dark Season (1991). She made her film debut playing a teenage murderess in Heavenly Creatures (1994). She went on to win a BAFTA Award for playing Ma…
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Kate Elizabeth Winslet (/ˈwɪnzlət/; born 5 October 1975) is an English actress. Primarily known for her roles as headstrong and complicated women in independent films, particularly period dramas, she has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, five BAFTA Awards and five Golden Globe Awards. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2012. Winslet studied drama at the Redroofs Theatre School. Her first screen appearance, at age fifteen, was in the British television series Dark Season (1991). She made her film debut playing a teenage murderess in Heavenly Creatures (1994). She went on to win a BAFTA Award for playing Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility(1995). Global stardom followed with her leading role in James Cameron's epic romance Titanic (1997), which was the highest-grossing film at the time. Winslet then 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. She gained further recognition for her performances in Finding Neverland (2004), Little Children (2006), The Holiday (2006), Revolutionary Road (2008), and The Reader (2008). For playing a former Nazi camp guard in the last, she won the BAFTA Award and the Academy Award for Best Actress. Winslet has since portrayed historical figures in Steve Jobs (2015) and Lee (2023), and has received 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, Winslet has also written a book on the topic. 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, two of whom are the actors Mia Threapleton and Joe Anders. Description above from the Wikipedia article Kate Winslet, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Kate Winslet's Filmography
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The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum
as Marigol
Charlie vs. the Chocolate Factory
as (voice)
Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
as Clementine Kruczynski (archive footage) (uncredited)
Igniting the Flame: The Making of “Avatar: Fire and Ash”
as Self
Finding Harmony: A King's Vision
as Narrator (voice over)
No Poster
Royal Carols: Together At Christmas 2025
as Self
Avatar: Fire and Ash
as Ronal
Goodbye June
as Julia
Avatar: A New Era - Special Edition of 20/20
as Self
DreamScapes
as Mother Earth (voice)
Lee
as Elizabeth 'Lee' Miller
Titanic: Stories from the Heart
as Self
Inside Pandora's Box
as Self
Avatar: The Way of Water
as Ronal
Avatar: The Deep Dive - A Special Edition of 20/20
as Self
Eleven Days in May
as Narrator
L'Oreal Paris Women of Worth
as Self
Eating Our Way to Extinction
as Narrator (voice)
Baba Yaga
as Baba Yaga (voice)
Black Beauty
as Black Beauty (voice)
Ammonite
as Mary Anning
The Christmas Letter
as Narrator (voice)
Blackbird
as Jennifer
Manou the Swift
as Manou's Mother(voice)
Buttons
as Narrator (voice)
The Kodiak Queen
as Narrator
Oceans: Our Blue Planet
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Snow Bears
as Narrator (voice)
Wonder Wheel
as Ginny
The Mountain Between Us
as Alex Martin
Diana: The Day Britain Cried
as Narrator (voice)
Collateral Beauty
as Claire Wilson
The Lost Letter
as Narrator (voice)
Daisy Chain
as Buttercup Bree (voice)
Triple 9
as Irina Vlaslov
Snow Chick - A Penguin's Tale
as Narrator (voice)
The Dressmaker
as Myrtle "Tilly" Dunnage
Steve Jobs
as Joanna Hoffman
A Little Chaos
as Sabine De Barra
Insurgent
as Jeanine Matthews
Divergent
as Jeanine
Labor Day
as Adele
Movie 43
as Beth (segment "The Catch")
Reflections on Titanic
as Self
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
Discovering Hamlet
as Ophelia (archive footage)
Carnage
as Nancy Cowan
Contagion
as Erin Mears
Revolutionary Road
as April Wheeler
The Reader
as Hanna Schmitz
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
as Kate Winslet (uncredited)
The Holiday
as Iris
Flushed Away
as Rita (voice)
Little Children
as Sarah Pierce
All the King's Men
as Anne Stanton
Romance & Cigarettes
as Tula
Deep Sea 3D
as Narrator (voice)
Finding Neverland
as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies
A Look Inside Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
A Conversation with Jim Carrey and Director Michel Gondry
Pride
as Suki (voice)
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
as Clementine Kruczynski
Celebrity Naked Ambition
as Self (archive footage)
The Life of David Gale
as Bitsey Bloom
War Game
as Mum / Annie (voice)
Iris
as Young Iris Murdoch
Christmas Carol: The Movie
as Belle (voice)
Being Mick
as Self
Enigma
as Hester Wallace
Quills
as Madeleine LeClerc
Holy Smoke
as Ruth Barron
Hideous Kinky
as Julia
Faeries
as Brigid (voice)
Titanic: Breaking New Ground
as Self
Titanic
as Rose DeWitt Bukater
Hamlet
as Ophelia
Jude
as Sue Bridehead
Sense and Sensibility
as Marianne Dashwood
A Kid in King Arthur's Court
as Princess Sarah
Heavenly Creatures
as Juliet Hulme
Naya: Legend of the Golden Dolphin
as Queen Cupid (voice)