Kate Winslet Biography

Kate Elizabeth Winslet was born on 5th October 1975 at Reading, Berkshire, U.K. When Kate was 11 years old, she began to take acting lessons in Maidenhead. She achieved her first acting role in a 'Sugar Puffs' commercial with the Honey Monster. Later she attended an arts school and carried on with roles in the British television drama 'Shrinks'. It followed a series of appearances in televisions projects like 'Casualty', 'Dark Season', 'Get Back', and 'Anglo-Saxon Attitudes'. Kate's appearance in theaters includes 'Pandora' in the musical 'Adrian Mole', 'Sarah' in 'A Game of Soldier', 'Wendy' in 'Peter Pan' and 'Geraldine' in 'What the Butler Saw'. In the year 1994, Kate made her debut into films with 'Heavenly Creatures', in which she appeared as the leading lady and received roaring reviews. In the first instance only, Kate caught the eye of screenwriter and producer Emma Thompson. Emma then caste Kate for a role in which Kate went on to earn herself a greater accolade of being nominated as the Best Supporting Actress in Oscar. Later Kate continued to show her talent and flair in other productions like 'Jude' and Kenneth Branagh's 'Hamlet'. But Kate's most memorable and successful movie is 'Titanic', where she played the role of 'Rose Dewitt Bukater', an upper class Philadelphian who boarded the ill fated ocean liner. The success of 'Titanic' helped Kate to get more roles. She also was caste in some smaller films like 'Hideous Kinky' in Morocco and opposite Harvey Keitel in 'Holy Smoke'. Leaving 'Titanic' the next memorable work for Kate was in the film 'Quills'. It was all about Marquis de Sade's ultimate days that was known for his disputed works which contained graphic descriptions of sex. Then Kate went on to appear in films like 'Enigma' and 'Iris' for which she has captured numerous awards. This 5' 8'' talented and beautiful lady is a well seasoned actress now, who follows a long listed line of performing artist family members. As a child she was destined to be in the show business as her grandparents controlled Reading Repertory Theatre, her late uncle was a West End actor, and her father Roger Winslet and mother Sally Winslet were stage actors. As far her personal life goes she married Jim Threapleton on November 22, 1998 (the assistant director) whom she met during filming of 'Hideous Kinky' in 1997. They got engaged on October 1998 and later separated in September 2001.She was also believed to have relationship with actor Rufus Sewall which broke up in 1996, and with actor and screenwriter Stephen Tredre who died in December 1997 from bone cancer at age 34. They were together until 1995.