1975-10-05 ( 49 years old ) in Reading, Berkshire, England, UK
Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born October 5, 1975) is an English actress. Known for her work in independent films, particularly period dramas, as well as for her portrayals of headstrong and complicated women, she has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a Grammy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, three British Academy Film Awards, and five Golden Globe Awards.
Winslet studied drama at the Redroofs Theatre School. Her first screen appearance, at age 15, was in the British television series Dark Season (1991). She made her film debut playing a teenage murderess in Heavenly Creatures (1994), and went on to win a BAFTA Award for playing Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility (1995). Global stardom followed soon after with her leading role in the epic romance Titanic (1997), which earned her a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. Titanic was the highest-grossing film at the time, after which she 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, and she gained further recognition for her performances in Finding Neverland (2004), Little Children (2006), Revolutionary Road (2008), and The Reader (2008). For playing a former Nazi camp guard in the latter, she won the BAFTA Award and the Academy Award for Best Actress. Winslet's portrayal of Joanna Hoffman in the biopic Steve Jobs (2015) won her another BAFTA Award, and she won 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, she has written a book on the topic, The Golden Hat: Talking Back to Autism (2010). Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2009 and 2021. In 2012, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). 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.
Movies
Avatar: Fire and Ash
2025-12-17
Naya: Legend of the Golden Dolphin
2025-06-28
DreamScapes
2025-04-22
Lee
2024-09-12
Titanic: Stories from the Heart
2023-12-05
Inside Pandora's Box
2023-03-28
Avatar: The Way of Water
2022-12-14
Eleven Days in May
2022-05-06
L'Oreal Paris Women of Worth
2021-12-16
Eating Our Way to Extinction
2021-09-16
Baba Yaga
2021-01-14
Black Beauty
2020-11-27
Ammonite
2020-11-13
The Christmas Letter
2019-12-22
Blackbird
2019-09-06
Manou the Swift
2019-01-25
Buttons
2018-12-08
Oceans: Our Blue Planet
2018-06-22
Snow Bears
2017-12-26
Wonder Wheel
2017-12-01
The Mountain Between Us
2017-10-05
Diana: The Day Britain Cried
2017-08-29
Collateral Beauty
2016-12-15
The Lost Letter
2016-07-01
Daisy Chain
2016-06-04
Triple 9
2016-02-19
Snow Chick - A Penguin's Tale
2015-12-23
The Dressmaker
2015-10-29
Steve Jobs
2015-10-09
A Little Chaos
2015-03-26
Insurgent
2015-03-18
Divergent
2014-03-14
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014-02-01
Labor Day
2013-12-27
Best Actress of All Time
2013-10-15
Movie 43
2013-01-24
Reflections on Titanic
2012-09-10
Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
2012-02-04
Discovering Hamlet
2011-11-01
Carnage
2011-09-16
Contagion
2011-09-08
Revolutionary Road
2008-12-19
The Reader
2008-12-10
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
2008-10-02
The Fox and the Child
2007-12-27
The Holiday
2006-12-05
Flushed Away
2006-10-22
Little Children
2006-10-06
All the King's Men
2006-09-10
Deep Sea 3D
2006-03-03
Romance & Cigarettes
2005-09-13
Finding Neverland
2004-10-17
Pride
2004-06-21
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004-03-19
The Life of David Gale
2003-02-21
War Game
2002-02-11
Iris
2001-12-14
Christmas Carol: The Movie
2001-12-07
Being Mick
2001-11-22
Enigma
2001-01-22
Quills
2000-11-22
Holy Smoke
1999-09-04
Hideous Kinky
1999-02-05
Faeries
1999-01-23
Titanic
1997-11-18
Hamlet
1996-12-25
Jude
1996-02-06
Sense and Sensibility
1995-12-13
A Kid in King Arthur's Court
1995-08-11
Heavenly Creatures
1994-09-12
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