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Kate Elizabeth Winslet is an English actress. She is particularly known for her work in period dramas, and is often drawn to portraying angst-ridden women. Winslet is the recipient of various accolades, including three British Academy Film Awards, and is among the few performers to have won Academy, Emmy, and Grammy Awards.

Born in Reading, Berkshire, Winslet studied drama at the Redroofs Theatre School. Her first screen appearance, at the age of 15, was in the British television series Dark Season . She made her film debut playing a teenage murderess in Heavenly Creatures , and received her first BAFTA Award for playing Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility . Global stardom followed soon after with her leading role in the epic romance Titanic . It was the highest-grossing film of all time to that point, after which she eschewed parts in blockbusters in favour of critically acclaimed period pieces, including Quills and Iris , which were not widely seen.

The science fiction romance Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind , 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 , Little Children , Revolutionary Road , and The Reader . For playing a former Nazi camp guard in the last of these, she won the BAFTA Award and Academy Award for Best Actress. In the 2010s, Winslet played a single mother in 1930s America in the miniseries Mildred Pierce , joined the Divergent film series, and portrayed Joanna Hoffman in Steve Jobs . She won a Primetime Emmy Award for the first of these and a third BAFTA Award for the lattermost.

For her narration of a short story in the audiobook Listen to the Storyteller , Winslet won a Grammy Award. She performed the song "What If" for the soundtrack of her film Christmas Carol: The Movie . 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 . Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2009, and in 2012, she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire . Divorced from the film directors Jim Threapleton and Sam Mendes, Winslet has been married to the businessman Edward Abel Smith since 2012. She has a child from each marriage. Wikipedia  

✵ 5. October 1975
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Famous Kate Winslet Quotes

“I don’t particularly remember sitting at home crying and eating endless packets of HobNobs. I don’t remember doing that at all. Honestly, I think it was a stress thing or something. I don’t know.”

Kate Winslet

Of her weight problems
Marie Clare, Kate Winslet interview by Harvey Marcus on Thursday 30 April 2009 http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/celebrity/interviews/322173/kate-winslet-interview.html

“I do think it’s important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. People don’t really look like that. In films I might look glamorous, but I’ve been in hair and make-up for two hours.”

Kate Winslet

Marie Clare, Kate Winslet interview by Harvey Marcus on Thursday 30 April 2009 http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/celebrity/interviews/322173/kate-winslet-interview.html

“I don't look like that and I don't desire to look like that.”

Kate Winslet

Of a digital edited picture on a magazine
MoveOn.org, quoted by Alicia, moveOn.org, on 27 May 2011 http://front.moveon.org/kate-winslet-i-dont-look-like-that-and-i-dont-desire-to-look-like-that/

“I’m not classically trained. I didn’t come from the fancy home, no.”

Kate Winslet

Isn’t She Deneuvely?: Vanity Fair, Dec 2008 http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/12/winslet200812

“This is going to sound really weird, but I never had a desire to be famous. I never had huge ambitions — never.”

Kate Winslet

Isn’t She Deneuvely?: Vanity Fair, Dec 2008 http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/12/winslet200812

“You know why I fear people’s judgment? Because I know they’re judging. I know they are.”

Kate Winslet

Isn’t She Deneuvely?: Vanity Fair, Dec 2008 http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/12/winslet200812

Kate Winslet Quotes

“Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty.”

Kate Winslet

I don’t mind the way I’m ageing. No reason to panic just yet. I think I look my age, and that’s fine. The lord God almighty has done me proud with my features which I'm proud of and have no desire to alter them. I say " let nature take its course ".
Marie Clare, Kate Winslet interview by Harvey Marcus on Thursday 30 April 2009 http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/celebrity/interviews/322173/kate-winslet-interview.html

Beauty

“I know when I walk into that classroom in the morning, even if it’s for a split second, at some point I’m being checked out.”

Kate Winslet

Isn’t She Deneuvely?: Vanity Fair, Dec 2008 http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/12/winslet200812

“I often look at women who wear great jeans and high heels and nice little T-shirts wandering around the city and I think, I should make more of an effort. I should look like that. But then I think, They can’t be happy in those heels.”

Kate Winslet

Isn’t She Deneuvely?: Vanity Fair, Dec 2008 http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/12/winslet200812

Women , Thinking , Effort , Happiness

“I need to be looked after. I’m not talking about diamond rings and nice restaurants and fancy stuff—in fact, that makes me uncomfortable. I didn’t grow up with it and it’s not me, you know. But I need someone to say to me, ‘Shall I run you a bath?’ or ‘Let’s go to the pub, just us.”

Kate Winslet

Isn’t She Deneuvely?: Vanity Fair, Dec 2008 http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/12/winslet200812

“Everyone can commit to 20 minutes, especially if there’s a glass of Chardonnay afterwards.”

Kate Winslet

Of working out in a gym
Isn’t She Deneuvely?: Vanity Fair, Dec 2008 http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2008/12/winslet200812

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