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Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress. She was the youngest person to accrue six Academy Award nominations, and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Reader (2008 film)|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.

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 (film)|Sense and Sensibility (1995) and for her leading role in Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic (1997), the highest grossing film at the time, and the highest grossing film of Winslet's career.

Since 2000, Winslet's performances have continued to draw positive comments from film critics, and she has been nominated for various awards for her work in such films as Quills (2000), Iris (film)|Iris (2001), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Finding Neverland (2004), Little Children (film)|Little Children (2006), The Reader (2008 film)|The Reader (2008) and Revolutionary Road (film)|Revolutionary Road (2008). Her performance in the last of these prompted New York Magazine|New York magazine critic David Edelstein to describe her as "the best English-speaking film actress of her generation". The romantic comedy The Holiday and the animated film Flushed Away (both 2006) are among the biggest commercial successes of her career.

Winslet was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children in 2000. She has been included as a vocalist on some soundtrack s of works she has performed in, and the single " What If (Kate Winslet song)|What If " from the soundtrack for Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001), was a hit single in several European countries. Winslet has two children.

Early life

Born in Reading, Berkshire|Reading , Berkshire , Winslet is the second of four children born to Sally Anne (née Bridges), a barmaid, and Roger John Winslet, a swimming pool contractor. Her parents were "jobbing actors", which led Winslet to comment that she "didn't have a privileged upbringing" and that their daily life was "very hand to mouth". Her maternal grandparents, Linda (née Plumb) and Archibald Oliver Bridges, founded and operated the Reading Repertory Theatre, and her uncle, Robert Bridges, appeared in the original West End of London|West End production of Oliver! . Her older sister, Anna Winslet|Anna , and younger sister, Beth Winslet|Beth , are also actresses. Her younger brother, Joss, is the only sibling who did not pursue an acting career.

Winslet began studying drama at the age of 11 at the Redroofs Theatre School , a co-educational independent school in Maidenhead , Berkshire, where she was Head Boy|head girl . At the age of 12, Winslet appeared in a television advertisement directed by filmmaker Tim Pope for Sugar Puffs cereal. Pope said her naturalism was "there from the start".

Career

1991–1997

Winslet's career began on television, with a co-starring role in the BBC children's science fiction serial Dark Season . This role was followed by appearances in the Television movie|made-for-TV film Anglo-Saxon Attitudes in 1992, the sitcom Get Back (TV series)|Get Back , and an episode of the medical drama Casualty (TV series)|Casualty in 1993.

In 1992, Winslet attended a casting call for Peter Jackson 's Heavenly Creatures in London. Winslet auditioned for the part of Anne Perry|Juliet Hulme , a teenager who assists in the murder of the mother of her best friend, Pauline Parker (played by Melanie Lynskey ). She won the role over 175 other girls. The film included Winslet's singing debut, and her a cappella version of "Sono Andati", an aria from La Bohème , was featured on the film's soundtrack. The film was released to favourable reviews in 1994 and won Jackson and partner Fran Walsh a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Writing (Original Screenplay)|Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay . Winslet was awarded an Sony Ericsson Empire Awards|Empire Award and a London Film Critics' Circle|London Film Critics' Circle Award for British Actress of the Year for her performance. The Washington Post writer Desson Thomson commented: "As Juliet, Winslet is a bright-eyed ball of fire, lighting up every scene she’s in. She's offset perfectly by Lynskey, whose quietly smoldering Pauline completes the delicate, dangerous partnership." Speaking about her experience on a film set as an absolute beginner, Winslet noted: "With Heavenly Creatures , all I knew I had to do was completely become that person. In a way it was quite nice doing and not knowing a bloody thing."

The following year, Winslet auditioned for the small but pivotal role of Lucy Steele in the adaptation of Jane Austen 's Sense and Sensibility (film)|Sense and Sensibility , featuring Emma Thompson , Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman . She was instead cast in the second leading role of Marianne Dashwood . Director Ang Lee admitted he was initially worried about the way Winslet had attacked her role in Heavenly Creatures and thus required her to exercise T'ai chi ch'uan|t'ai chi , read Austen-era Gothic novels and poetry, and work with a piano teacher to fit the grace of the role. Budgeted at US$ 16.5 million ($ million in current year dollars) the film became a financial and critical success, resulting in a worldwide box office total of US$ 135 million ($ million) and various awards for Winslet, winning her both a British Academy of Film and Television Arts|BAFTA and a Screen Actors Guild Awards|Screen Actors' Guild Award , and nominations for both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award|Golden Globe .

In 1996, Winslet starred in both Jude (film)|Jude and Hamlet (1996 film)|Hamlet . In Michael Winterbottom 's Jude , based on the Victorian era|Victorian novel Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy , she played Sue Bridehead, a young woman with suffragette leanings who falls in love with her cousin, played by Christopher Eccleston . Acclaimed among critics, it was not a success at the box office, barely grossing US$ 2 million ($ million) worldwide. Richard Corliss of Time (magazine)| Time magazine said "Winslet is worthy of the camera's scrupulous adoration. She's perfect, a modernist ahead of her time and Jude is a handsome showcase for her gifts." Winslet played Ophelia (character)|Ophelia , Hamlet's drowned lover, in Kenneth Branagh 's all star-cast Shakespeare on screen|film version of William Shakespeare 's Hamlet . The film garnered largely positive reviews and earned Winslet her second Sony Ericsson Empire Awards|Empire Award .

Titanic

In mid-1996, Winslet began filming James Cameron 's Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic (1997), alongside Leonardo DiCaprio . Gwyneth Paltrow , Claire Danes , and Gabrielle Anwar had been considered for the role; when they turned it down, Winslet campaigned heavily for it. She sent Cameron daily notes from England, which led Cameron to invite her to Hollywood for auditions. Cameron described the character as "an Audrey Hepburn type" and was initially uncertain about casting Winslet even after her screen test impressed him. After she screen tested with DiCaprio, Winslet was so thoroughly impressed with him, that she whispered to Cameron, "He's great. Even if you don't pick me, pick him." Winslet sent Cameron a single rose with a card signed "From Your Rose" and lobbied him by phone. "You don't understand!" she pleaded one day when she reached him by mobile phone in his Humvee. "I am Rose& #33; I don't know why you're even seeing anyone else!" Her persistence, as well as her talent, eventually convinced him to cast her in the role.

Cast as the sensitive seventeen-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater, a fictional first-class socialite who survives the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic|RMS Titanic , Winslet's experience was emotionally demanding. " Titanic was totally different and nothing could have prepared me for it. ... We were really scared about the whole adventure. ... Jim is a perfectionist, a real genius at making movies. But there was all this bad press before it came out, and that was really upsetting." Against expectations, the film went on to become the highest-grossing film of all time, grossing more than United States dollar|US$ 1.843 billion ($ billion) in box-office receipts worldwide, and transformed Winslet into a commercial movie star. Subsequently, she was nominated for most of the high-profile awards, winning a European Film Award .

1998–2003

Shot prior to the release of Titanic , Hideous Kinky (film)|Hideous Kinky , a low-budget hippie romance, was Winslet's sole film of 1998. Winslet had rejected offers to play the leading roles in Shakespeare in Love (1998) and Anna and the King (1999) in favour of the role of a young English mother named Julia who moves with her daughters from London to Morocco hoping to start a new life. The film garnered generally mixed reviews and received only limited distribution, resulting in a worldwide gross of US$ 5 million ($ million). Despite the success of Titanic , the next film Winslet opted to star in was Holy Smoke! (1999), featuring Harvey Keitel , another low-budget project—much to the chagrin of her agents, who felt "miserable" about her preference of art film|arthouse films. Feeling pressured, Winslet has said she "never saw Titanic as a springboard for bigger films or bigger pay cheques", knowing that "it could have been that, but would have destroyed ." The same year, she voiced Brigid in the computer animation|computer animated film Faeries (film)|Faeries .

In 2000, Winslet appeared in the period piece Quills with Geoffrey Rush and Joaquin Phoenix , a film inspired by the life and work of the Marquis de Sade . The actress served as somewhat of a " patron saint " of the film for being the first big name to back it, accepting the role of a chambermaid in the History of psychiatric institutions|asylum and the courier of the Marquis' manuscripts to the underground publishers. Well-received by critics, the film garnered numerous accolades for Winslet, including nominations for Screen Actors Guild Awards|SAG and Satellite Awards . The film was a modest arthouse success, averaging US$ 27,709 ($) per screen its debut weekend, and eventually grossing US$18 million ($ million) internationally.

In 2001's Enigma (2001 film)|Enigma , Winslet played a young woman who finds herself falling for a brilliant young World War II code breaker, played by Dougray Scott . It was her first war film , and Winslet regarded "making Enigma a brilliant experience" as she was five months pregnant at the time of the shoot, forcing some tricky camera work from the director Michael Apted . Generally well-received, Winslet was awarded a British Independent Film Awards|British Independent Film Award for her performance, and A. O. Scott of The New York Times described Winslet as "more crush-worthy than ever." In the same year she appeared in Richard Eyre 's critically acclaimed film Iris (film)|Iris , portraying novelist Iris Murdoch . Winslet shared her role with Judi Dench , with both actresses portraying Murdoch at different phases of her life. Subsequently, each of them was nominated for an Academy Award the following year, earning Winslet her third nomination. Also in 2001, she voiced the character Belle in the animated motion picture Christmas Carol: The Movie , based on the Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol|classic novel . For the film, Winslet recorded the song " What If (Kate Winslet song)|What If ", which was released in November 2001 as a single (music)|single with proceeds donated to two of Winslet's favourite charities, the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children|N.S.P.C.C. and the Sargeant Cancer Foundation for Children. A Europe-wide top ten hit, it reached number one in Austria, Belgium and Ireland, number six on the UK Singles Chart , and won the 2002 OGAE|OGAE Song Contest .

Her next film role was in the 2003 drama The Life of David Gale , in which she played an ambitious journalist who interviews a death row|death-sentenced professor, played by Kevin Spacey , in his final weeks before capital punishment|execution . The film underperformed at international box offices, garnering only half of its US$ 50,000,000 budget, and generating mostly critical reviews, with Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times calling it a "silly movie."

2004–2006

Following The Life of David Gale , Winslet appeared with Jim Carrey in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), a surrealism|neosurrealistic indie-drama by French director Michel Gondry . In the film, she played the role of Clementine Kruczynski, a chatty, spontaneous and somewhat neurosis|neurotic woman, who decides to have all memories of her ex-boyfriend erased from her mind. The role was a departure from her previous roles, with Winslet revealing in an interview with Variety (magazine)|Variety that she was initially upended about her casting in the film: "This was not the type of thing I was being offered I was just thrilled that there was something he had seen in me, in spite of the corsets, that he thought was going to work for Clementine.” The film was a critical and financial success. Winslet received rave reviews for her Academy Award -nominated performance, which Peter Travers of Rolling Stone described as "electrifying and bruisingly vulnerable."

Her final film in 2004 was Finding Neverland . The story of the production focused on Scottish writer J.M. Barrie ( Johnny Depp ) and his platonic relationship with Sylvia Llewelyn Davies (Winslet), whose sons inspired him to pen the classic play '' Peter and Wendy|Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up ''. During promotion of the film, Winslet noted of her portrayal "It was very important for me in playing Sylvia that I was already a mother myself, because I don’t think I could have played that part if I didn’t know what it felt like to be a parent and have those responsibilities and that amount of love that you give to a child and I've always got a baby somewhere, or both of them, all over my face." The film received favourable reviews and proved to be an international success, becoming Winslet's highest-grossing film since Titanic with a total of $118 million worldwide.

In 2005, Winslet appeared in an episode of BBC's comedy series Extras (TV series)|Extras as a satirical version of herself. While dressed as a nun, she was portrayed giving phone sex tips to the romantically challenged character of Maggie. Her performance in the episode led to her first nomination for an Emmy Award . In Romance & Cigarettes (2005), a musical film|musical romantic comedy film|romantic comedy written and directed by John Turturro , she played the character Tula, described by Winslet as "a slut, someone who’s essentially foulmouthed and has bad manners and really doesn’t know how to dress." Hand-picked by Turturro, who was impressed with her display of dancing ability in Holy Smoke! , Winslet was praised for her performance, which included her interpretation of Connie Francis 's "Scapricciatiello (Do You Love Me Like You Kiss Me)". Derek Elley of Variety (magazine)|Variety wrote: "Onscreen less, but blessed with the showiest role, filthiest one-liners, a perfect Lancashire accent that's comical enough in the Gotham setting Winslet throws herself into the role with an infectious gusto."

After declining an invitation to appear in Woody Allen 's film Match Point (2005), Winslet stated that she wanted to be able to spend more time with her children. She began 2006 with '' All the King's Men (2006 film)|All the King's Men '', featuring Sean Penn and Jude Law . Winslet played the role of Anne Stanton, the childhood sweetheart of Jack Burden (Law). The film was critically and financially unsuccessful. Todd McCarthy of Variety summed it up as "overstuffed and fatally miscast Absent any point of engagement to become involved in the characters, the film feels stillborn and is unlikely to stir public excitement, even in an election year."

Winslet fared far better when she joined the cast of Todd Field 's Little Children (film)|Little Children , playing Sarah Pierce, a bored housewife who has a torrid affair with a married neighbour, played by Patrick Wilson (actor)|Patrick Wilson . Both her performance and the film received rave reviews; A.O. Scott of The New York Times wrote: "In too many recent movies intelligence is woefully undervalued, and it is this quality—even more than its considerable beauty—that distinguishes Little Children from its peers. The result is a film that is challenging, accessible and hard to stop thinking about. Ms. Winslet, as fine an actress as any working in movies today, registers every flicker of Sarah’s pride, self-doubt and desire, inspiring a mixture of recognition, pity and concern that amounts, by the end of the movie, to something like love. That Ms. Winslet is so lovable makes the deficit of love in Sarah’s life all the more painful." For her work in the film, she was honoured with a Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year from BAFTA/LA, a Los Angeles-based offshoot of the BAFTA Awards . and nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress , and at 31, became the youngest actress to ever garner five Oscar nominations.

She followed Little Children with a role in Nancy Meyers ' romantic comedy The Holiday , also starring Cameron Diaz , Jude Law and Jack Black . In it she played Iris, a British woman who temporarily house swapping|exchanges homes with an American woman (Diaz). Released to a mixed reception by critics, the film became Winslet's biggest commercial success in nine years, grossing more than US$ 205 million worldwide. Also in 2006, Winslet provided her voice for several smaller projects. In the CG-animated Flushed Away , she voiced Rita, a scavenging sewer rat who helps Roddy ( Hugh Jackman ) escape from the city of Ratropolis and return to his luxurious Kensington origins. A critical and commercial success, the film collected US$ 177,665,672 at international box offices.

2007–present

In 2007, Winslet reunited with Leonardo DiCaprio to film Revolutionary Road (film)|Revolutionary Road (2008), directed by her husband at the time, Sam Mendes . Winslet had suggested that both should work with her on a film adaptation of the Revolutionary Road|1961 novel of the same name by Richard Yates (novelist)|Richard Yates after reading the script by Justin Haythe . Resulting in both "a blessing and an added pressure" on-set, the reunion was her first experience working with Mendes. Portraying a couple in a failing marriage in the 1950s, DiCaprio and Winslet watched period videos promoting life in the suburbs to prepare themselves for the film, which earned them favorable reviews. In his review of the film, David Edelstein of New York (magazine)|New York magazine stated that "here isn’t a banal moment in Winslet’s performance—not a gesture, not a word. Is Winslet now the best English language|English-speaking film actress of her generation? I think so." Winslet was awarded a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama|Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her performance, her seventh nomination from the Golden Globes .
Also released in late 2008, the film competed against Winslet's other project, a The Reader (2008 film)|film adaptation of Bernhard Schlink 's 1995 novel The Reader , directed by Stephen Daldry and featuring Ralph Fiennes and David Kross in supporting roles. Originally the first choice for her role, she was initially not able to take on the role due to a scheduling conflict with Revolutionary Road , and Nicole Kidman replaced her. A month after filming began, however, Kidman left the film due to her pregnancy before filming of her had begun, enabling Winslet to rejoin the film. Employing a German accent, Winslet portrayed a former Nazism|Nazi concentration camp guard who has an affair with a teenager (Kross) who, as an adult, witnesses her war crime s trial. She later said the role was difficult for her, as she was naturally unable "to sympathise with an Schutzstaffel|SS guard." Because the film required full frontal nudity , a merkin was made for her. In an interview for Allure (magazine)|Allure she related how she refused to use it: "Guys, I am going to have to draw the line at a pubic wig,..."Hannah Morrill. , Allure (magazine)|Allure , 3 June 2009.
NOTE: Many sources claim that she wore a merkin by only quoting part of this interview. This is the full quote from the printed issue:
''"Let me tell you, The Reader was not glamorous for me in terms of body-hair maintenence. I had to grow it in, because you can't have a landing strip in 1950, you know? And then because of years of waxing, as all of us girls know, it doesn't come back quite the way it used to. They even made me a merkin because they were so concerned that I might not be able to grow enough. I said, 'Guys, I am going to have to draw the line at a pubic wig, but you can shoot my own snatch up close and personal.'" Lindsy Van Gelder. , Allure (magazine)|Allure '', 26 August 2009: "Kate Winslet joked with Allure about having one made for her (that she didn't wear) in The Reader ,..." While the film garnered mixed reviews in general, Winslet received favorable reviews for her performance. The following year, she earned her sixth Academy Award nomination and went on to win the Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress award, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role|BAFTA Award for Best Actress , a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role|Screen Actors' Guild Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress , and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture|Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress .

In 2011, Winslet headlined in the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce (TV miniseries)|Mildred Pierce , a small screen adaptation of James M. Cain 's Mildred Pierce|1941 novel of the same name , directed by Todd Haynes . Co-starring Guy Pearce and Evan Rachel Wood , she portrayed a self-sacrificing mother during the Great Depression who finds herself separated from her husband and falling in love with a new man, all the while trying to earn her narcissistic daughter's love and respect. Broadcast to moderate ratings, the five-part series earned generally favourable reviews, with Salon.com calling it a "quiet, heartbreaking masterpiece". Winslet won an Emmy Award a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie for her performance.

Also in 2011, Winslet appeared in Steven Soderbergh 's disaster film Contagion (film)|Contagion , featuring an ensemble cast consisting of Marion Cotillard , Matt Damon , Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law . The thriller follows the rapid progress of a lethal indirect contact Transmission (medicine)|transmission virus that kills within days. Winslet portrayed an Epidemic Intelligence Service officer who becomes infected with the disease over the course of her investigation. Winslet's other 2011 project, Roman Polanski 's Carnage (2011 film)|Carnage , premiered at the 68th Venice Film Festival . An adaptation of the play God of Carnage by French playwright Yasmina Reza , the black comedy follows two sets of parents who meet up to talk after their children have been in a fight that day at school. Jodie Foster , John C. Reilly and Christoph Waltz co-star. For her performance Winslet received a second nomination by the Hollywood Foreign Press that year.

In June 2011, it was announced that Winslet has been cast alongside Josh Brolin in Jason Reitman 's adaptation of Joyce Maynard 's 2009 novel Labor Day (novel)|Labor Day .

In 2012, Winslet's audiobook performance of Émile Zola 's Thérèse Raquin was released at Audible.com . Audiofile Magazine s review said, "Kate Winslet reads as though she is relishing every morsel of the drama…She clearly loves the book, and her pleasure in the text is infectious…she grabs listeners and doesn’t let go."

Personal life

While on the set of Dark Season , Winslet met actor and writer Stephen Tredre , with whom she had a four-and-a-half-year relationship. Winslet and Tredre remained close after their separation in 1995. He died of bone cancer during the opening week of Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic , causing her to miss the film's Los Angeles premiere to attend his funeral in London. She and Titanic co-star Leonardo DiCaprio have remained close friends since the filming.

On 22 November 1998, Winslet married director Jim Threapleton , whom she met while on the set of Hideous Kinky (film)|Hideous Kinky in 1997. They have a daughter, Mia Honey Threapleton, who was born on 12 October 2000 in London. Winslet and Threapleton divorced on 13 December 2001.

Following her separation from Threapleton, Winslet began a relationship with director Sam Mendes , and she married him on 24 May 2003 on the island of Anguilla . Their son, Joe Alfie Winslet Mendes, was born on 22 December 2003 in New York City. Winslet and Mendes announced their separation in March 2010 and are divorced.Ashley Reich. Huffington Post . First Posted: 3/8/11. Updated: 25 May 2011Ben Todd. Mail Online . 4 October 2011'' Harpers_Bazaar#Harper.E2.80.99s_Bazaar_UK|Harper's Bazaar (UK) , November 2011Miranda Bryant. London Evening Standard . 3 Oct 2011

Mendes was scheduled to fly on American Airlines Flight 77 , which was hijacked on September 11 attacks|11 September 2001 and subsequently crashed into the Pentagon. In October 2001, Winslet was on a flight with her daughter, Mia, when a passenger who claimed to be a terrorist stood up and shouted, "We are all going to die". As a result of these incidents, Winslet and Mendes never flew together on the same aircraft, as they feared leaving their children parentless.

Winslet's weight fluctuations over the years have been well documented by the media. She has been outspoken about her refusal to allow Hollywood to dictate her weight. In February 2003, the British edition of GQ magazine published photographs of Winslet that had been digitally altered to make her look dramatically thinner. Winslet issued a statement that the alterations were made without her consent, saying, "I just didn't want people to think I was a hypocrite and that I'd suddenly lost 30 lbs or whatever". GQ subsequently issued an apology. She won a libel suit in 2009 against the British tabloid The Daily Mail after it printed that she had lied about her exercise regime. Winslet stated that she had requested an apology to demonstrate her commitment to the views that she has always expressed regarding women's body issues, namely that women should accept their appearance with pride.

Winslet narrated the documentary ''A Mother's Courage: Talking Back to Autism'', which was generally released on 24 September 2010, after airing on HBO in April of the same year. Her involvement in the documentary led to her founding the non-profit organisation, the Golden Hat Foundation, whose mission is to eliminate barriers for people with autism . In 2011, Winslet received the Yo Dona award for Best Humanitarian Work for her work with the Golden Hat.

Also in 2010, Winslet narrated a video for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals|PETA , encouraging chefs to remove foie gras from their menus and asking consumers to boycott restaurants that serve it.Jessica Bumpus, "," British Vogue 14 April 2010.

Awards and nominations

Winslet won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Reader (2008 film)|The Reader (2008). She won two Golden Globe Award s in the same year: Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama|Best Actress (Drama) for Revolutionary Road (film)|Revolutionary Road and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture|Best Supporting Actress for The Reader . She has won two British Academy Film Awards|BAFTA Awards : BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role|Best Actress for The Reader , and BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role|Best Supporting Actress for Sense and Sensibility (1995 film)|Sense and Sensibility (1995). She has earned a total of six Academy Award nominations, nine Golden Globe nominations, and seven BAFTA nominations.

She has received numerous awards from other organisations, including the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress for Iris (film)|Iris (2001) and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role for Sense and Sensibility and The Reader . Premiere (magazine)|Premiere magazine named her portrayal of Clementine Kruczynski in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) as the 81st greatest film performance of all time.

Winslet has been selected for a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2012.

Academy Award nomination milestones

Winslet was 26 when she received her third Academy Award nomination, for Iris , just missing the mark of Natalie Wood , who received her third nomination at age 25. She set the mark as the youngest actor to receive five nominations, at age 31, for Little Children (film)|Little Children (2006). She surpassed Bette Davis , who was 33 when she received her fifth nomination for her performance in The Little Foxes (film)|The Little Foxes (1941). With her Best Actress nomination for The Reader , Winslet became the youngest actor to receive six Oscar nominations. At age 33, Winslet passed the mark Davis, one year older, set with Now, Voyager (1942).

Winslet received Academy Award nominations as the younger versions of the characters played by fellow nominees Gloria Stuart , as Rose, in Titanic (1997 film)|Titanic (1997) and Judi Dench , as Iris Murdoch, in Iris . These are the only instances of the younger and older versions of a character in the same film both yielding Academy Award nominations, thus making Winslet the only actor to twice share an Oscar nomination with another for portraying the same character.

When she was not nominated for her work in Revolutionary Road , Winslet became only the second actress to win a Golden Globe for Best Actress (Drama) without getting an Oscar nomination for the same performance ( Shirley MacLaine was the first for Madame Sousatzka (1988), and she won the Golden Globe in a three-way tie). Academy rules allow an actor to receive no more than one nomination in a given category; as the Academy nominating process determined that Winslet's work in The Reader would be considered a lead performance—unlike the Golden Globes, which considered it a supporting performance—she could not also receive a Best Actress nomination for Revolutionary Road .

Awards for other work

In 2000, Winslet won a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for Listen To the Storyteller . She was nominated for an Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress - Comedy Series|Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for playing herself in a 2005 episode of Extras (TV series)|Extras . At the 2011 Primetime Emmy Awards, Winslet won the Best Actress in Miniseries or TV Movie award for her role as the titular character in Mildred Pierce.

Filmography

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	Dark Season	Reet	TV series )
1992	Get Back	Eleanor Sweet	(TV series)
1994	Heavenly Creatures	Juliet Hulme	Empire Award for Best British Actress London Film Critics' Circle
1995	sortname>A	Princess Sarah
1995	Sense and Sensibility	Marianne Dashwood	Evening Standard British Film Awards>Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actress (also for Jude (film)
1996	Jude (film)>Jude	Sue Bridehead	Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actress (also for Sense and Sensibility (film)
1996	Hamlet	Ophelia	Empire Award for Best British Actress Nominated— Satellite Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture
1997	Titanic (1997 film)>Titanic	Rose DeWitt Bukater/ Dawson	Blockbuster Entertainment Award for Favorite Actress& nbsp;– Drama Sony Ericsson Empire Awards
1998	Kinky (film)>Hideous Kinky	Julia
1999	Faeries	Brigid	voice )
1999	Holy Smoke!	Ruth Barron
2000	Quills	Madeleine 'Maddy' LeClerc	Evening Standard British Film Awards>Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actress (also for Enigma (2001 film)
2001	Enigma	Hester Wallace	Evening Standard British Film Awards>Evening Standard British Film Award for Best Actress (also for Iris (film)
2001	Christmas Carol: The Movie	Belle	(voice)
2001	Iris	Young Iris Murdoch	Empire Award for Best British Actress Evening Standard British Film Awards
2003	sortname>The	Bitsey Bloom
2004	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind	Clementine Kruczynski	Empire Award for Best British Actress Cinephile
2004	Finding Neverland	Sylvia Llewelyn Davies	Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind>Eternal Sunshine ) Santa_Barbara_International_Film_Festival#Outstanding_Performance_of_the_Year_Award
2005	Romance & Cigarettes	Tula
2006	All the King's Men (2006 film)>All the King's Men	Anne Stanton
2006	Little Children	Sarah Pierce	The Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year Gotham Awards & nbsp;– Tribute Award Palm Springs International Film Festival & nbsp;– Desert Palm Achievement Award Nominated— Academy Award for Best Actress Nominated— Alliance of Women Film Journalists
2006	Flushed Away	Rita	(voice)
2006	sortname>The	Iris Simpkins	Irish Film and Television Award for Best International Actress
2006	Deep Sea 3D	Narrator	(voice)
2008	sortname>The	Narrator	(voice)
2008	sortname>The	Hanna Schmitz	BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role Broadcast Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress Chicago Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress European Film Award>European Film Award for Best Actress Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress - Motion Picture Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Actress (also for Revolutionary Road (film)
2008	Revolutionary Road	April Wheeler	Alliance of Women Film Journalists Award for Best Actress Detroit Film Critics Society Awards 2008
2011	Mildred Pierce	Mildred Pierce Beragon	HBO mini-series Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie Satellite Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
2011	Contagion	Dr. Erin Mears	Phoenix Film Critics Society Award for Best Ensemble Acting
2011	Carnage (2011 film)>Carnage	Nancy Cowan	Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Ensemble Detroit Film Critics Society
2013	Movie 43	Juliet Hulme	Post-production

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