Kate Winslet

Kate Elizabeth Winslet, CBE (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress.^[1] She is best known for her starring role in the American movie, Titanic.^[2]

Kate Winslet CBE
Winslet at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival
Born	Kate Elizabeth Winslet (1975-10-05) 5 October 1975 (age 49) Reading, Berkshire, England
Nationality	English
Alma mater	Redroofs Theatre School
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1991–present
Spouses	Jim Threapleton ​ ​ (m. 1998; div. 2001)​ Sam Mendes ​ ​ (m. 2003; div. 2011)​ Ned Rocknroll ​ (m. 2012)​
Children	3

She made her movie debut as Juliet Hulme in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures (1994).^[2] Winslet is the second of four children, her sisters are the actresses Anna and Beth Winslet and her brother is Joss Winslet, her mother Sally Anne is a barmaid and her father Roger John Winslet is a swimming pool contractor. Her maternal grandparents Linda and Oliver Bridges founded the Reading Repertory Theatre and her uncle is the actor Robert Bridges, Her maternal great-grandmother Florence Theodelinda Lidman, was the daughter of a Swedish immigrant.

Kate Winslet was married to director Jim Threapleton; they had a daughter, Mia.^[3] She married director Sam Mendes; they had a son, Joe.^[3] In 2012, she married Ned Rocknroll, nephew of billionaire Richard Branson.^[3] She had his first son in December 2013.

Winslet at the 2009 Academy Awards

Films

• Heavenly Creatures (1994) Juliet Hulme
• A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995) Princess Sarah
• Sense and Sensibility (1995) Marianne Dashwood
• Jude (1996) Sue Bridehead
• Hamlet (1996) Ophelia
• Titanic (1997) Rose DeWitt Bukater
• Hideous Kinky (1998) Julie
• Faeries (1999) Brigid
• Holy Smoke! (1999) Ruth Barron
• Quills (2000) Madeleine LeClerc
• Enigma (2001) Hester Wallace
• Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001) Belle
• Iris (2001) Young Iris Murdoch
• The Life of David Gale (2003) Bitsey Bloom
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) Clementine Kruczynski
• Finding Neverland (2004) Sylvia Llewelyn Davies
• Romance & Cigarettes (2005) Tula
• All the King's Men (2006) Anne Station
• Little Children (2006) Sarah Pierce
• Flushed Away (2006) Rita Malone
• The Holiday (2006) Iris Simpkins
• The Reader (2008) Hanna Schmitz
• Revolutionary Road (2008) April Wheeler
• Carnage (2011) Nancy Cowan
• Contagion (2011) Dr. Erin Mears
• Movie 43 (2013) Beth
• Labor Day (2013) Adele Wheeler
• A Little Chaos (2014) Sabine De Barra
• Divergent (2014) Jeanine Matthews
• The Dressmaker (2014) Myrtle 'Tilly' Dunnage