Kate winslet children
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Kate Elizabeth Winslet, CBE (born 5 October 1975), is an English actress and singer. She was the youngest person to accrue six Academy Award nominations, and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Reader (2008). She has won awards from the Screen Actors Guild, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association among others, and has been nominated twice for an Emmy Award for television acting, winning once for her role as Mildred Pierce in the 2011 mini-series of the same name. In 2012 she received the Honorary César Award for her life and acting career.
Brought up in Berkshire, Winslet studied drama from childhood, and began her career in British television in 1991. She made her film debut in Heavenly Creatures (1994), for which she received her first notable critical praise. She achieved recognition for her subsequent work in a supporting role in Sense and Sensibility (1995) and for her leading role in Titanic (1997), the highest-grossing film in the world at the time.
Since 2000, Winslet's performances have continued
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It just is absolutely constant. Discussing what a title will be for a different territory because perhaps “Lee” doesn’t make sense. Then the poster in those territories and what changes they want to make and do—or even come up with something different. Release dates. It is all just constant juggling, and every single thing needs equal attention. It doesn’t stop when the film is delivered, not by any stretch. I probably have covered more territory, in terms of physically going and doing the press, than as an actor I might have been asked to do. That has felt very necessary for this film. But it’s also just really important to me. It’s important to me that people know that it’s out there and might feel compelled to go and see it.
One thing in doing press for this film that I have found is people ask a confusing question: “You’re Kate Winslet! Surely you could have got this funded?” I’m like, “Do you have any idea how fucking hard it is to make independent films?” It doesn’t matter who you are. No one’s going to go, “Oh, I’ll just back that pony because she was in Titanic.” It d
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Kate Winslet in younger years |
Kate Elizabeth Winslet was born on October 5, 1975 to Sally Bridges Winslet and Roger Winslet into an acting family and was raised in Reading, Berkshire, England. Her maternal grandparents, Oliver, a dentist, and Linda Bridges, founded and perated the Reading Repertory. Her maternal uncle, Robert Bridges was an actor and is best known for playing Mr. Bumble in the West End production of Oliver!. Her father is an actor as are her older sister Anna and younger sister Beth. The youngest of the four Winslet children is brother Joss.
THE THEATER YEARS
Kate in two of her first stage productions, “Annie” and “What the Butler Saw” |
Kate’s first “professional” role was in a Sugar Puffs cereal commercial at the age of 11. As a teen, she had roles in the British television series, Dark Season and Get Back. She also made appearances on the shows Casualty,
Shrinks and Anglo Saxon Attitudes — an experience that first opened her eyes about her weight. She had a
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