The Kate Winslet Handbook - Everything you need to know about Kate Winslet

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Kate Winslet Fan this is your ultimate resource for the talented Kate Winslet. Here you'll find the most up-to-date information, photos, and much more.

In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about her Early life, Career, Personal life and Filmography right away: Dark Season, Get Back (TV series), Heavenly Creatures, Juliet Hulme, A Kid in King Arthur's Court, Sense and Sensibility (film), Marianne Dashwood, Jude (film), Hamlet (1996 film), Ophelia (character), Titanic (1997 film), Hideous Kinky (film), Faeries (film), Holy Smoke!, Quills, Enigma (2001 film), Christmas Carol: The Movie, Iris (film), Iris Murdoch, The Life of David Gale, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Clementine Kruczynski, Finding Neverland, Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, Romance & Cigarettes, All the King's Men (2006 film), Little Children (film), Flushed Away, The Holiday, Deep Sea 3D, The Fox and the Child, The Reader (2008 film), Revolutionary Road (film)

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• Publié par: Emereo Publishing
• Date de parution: 24 octobre 2012
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• EAN13: 9781486433667
• Langue: English
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Contents Articles Kate Winslet Dark Season Get Back (TV series) Heavenly Creatures Juliet Hulme A Kid in King Arthur's Court Sense and Sensibility (film) Marianne Dashwood Jude (film) Hamlet (1996 film) Ophelia (character) Titanic (1997 film) Hideous Kinky (film) Faeries (film) Holy Smoke! Quills Enigma (2001 film) Christmas Carol: The Movie Iris (film) Iris Murdoch The Life of David Gale Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Clementine Kruczynski Finding Neverland Sylvia Llewelyn Davies Romance & Cigarettes All the King's Men (2006 film) Little Children (film) Flushed Away The Holiday Deep Sea 3D The Fox and the Child The Reader (2008 film) Revolutionary Road (film)

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Kate Winslet Kate Winslet

Kate Winslet

Winslet at the Palm Springs Film Festival, 2007 Born Kate Elizabeth Winslet 5 October 1975 Reading, Berkshire, England Occupation Actress, singer Years active 1991 – present Spouse(s)Jim Threapleton (m. 1998 – 2001) Sam Mendes (m. 2003 – present)(separated)

Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress and occasional singer. She has received multiple awards and nominations. She is the youngest person to accrue six Academy Award nominations, and won the Academy Award for Best Actress forThe Reader(2008). Winslet has been acclaimed for both dramatic and comedic work in projects ranging from period to contemporary films, and from major Hollywood productions to less publicised indie films. 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 for an Emmy Award for television acting. Raised in Berkshire, Winslet studied drama from childhood, and began her career in British television in 1991. She made her film debut inHeavenly Creatures(1994), for which she received her first notable critical praise. She achieved recognition for her subsequent work in a supporting role inSense and Sensibility(1995) and for her leading role inTitanic(1997), the highest grossing film for more than 12 years until 2010. 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 asQuills(2000),Iris(2001),Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind(2004),Finding Neverland(2004),Little Children(2006),The Reader(2008) andRevolutionary Road (2008). Her performance in the latter promptedNew Yorkmagazine to describe her as "the best English-speaking [1] film actress of her generation". The romantic comedyThe Holidayand the animated filmFlushed Away(both 2006) were 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 soundtracks of works she has performed in, and the single "What If" from the soundtrack for Christmas Carol: The Movie(2001), was a hit single in several European countries. Winslet has a daughter with her former husband, Jim Threapleton, and a son with her second husband, Sam Mendes, from whom she is separated. She lives in New York City.

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2 Kate Winslet Early life Born in Reading, Berkshire, Winslet is the daughter of Sally Anne (née Bridges), a barmaid, and Roger John [2] Winslet, a swimming pool contractor. Her parents were "jobbing actors", which led Winslet to comment that she [3] "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 [3] Theatre, and her uncle, Robert Bridges, appeared in the original West End production ofOliver!. Her sisters, Beth [3] and Anna Winslet, are also actresses. Raised in an Anglican household, Winslet began studying drama at the age of 11 at the Redroofs Theatre School, a [4] co-educational independent school in Maidenhead, Berkshire, where she was 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 [5] 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 serialDark [6] Seasonrole was followed by appearances in the made-for-TV movie. This Anglo-Saxon Attitudesin 1992, the [6] sitcomGet Backfor ITV and an episode of medical dramaCasualtyin 1993, also for the BBC. In 1992, Winslet attended a casting call for Peter Jackson'sHeavenly Creatures in London. Winslet auditioned for the part of Juliet Hulme, a teenager who assists in the murder of the mother of her best friend, Pauline Parker (played by [7] 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 [8] [9] fromLa BohèmeThe film was, was featured on the film's soundtrack. released to favourable reviews in 1994 and won Jackson and partner Fran Walsh [10] a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Winslet was awarded an Empire Award and a London Film Critics Circle Award for [11] British Actress of the Year for her performance.The Washington Postwriter 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 [12] smoldering Pauline completes the delicate, dangerous partnership." Speaking Winslet at the 2006 Toronto about her experience on a film set as an absolute beginner, Winslet noted: "With International Film Festival Heavenly Creatures, all I knew I had to do was completely become that person. [13] In a way it was quite nice doing [the film] 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 [14] Austen'sSense and Sensibility, featuring Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, and Alan Rickman. She was instead cast [14] in the second leading role of Marianne Dashwood. Director Ang Lee admitted he was initially worried about the way Winslet had attacked her role inHeavenly Creaturesand thus required her to exercise tai chi, read Austen-era [14] Gothic novels and poetry, and work with a piano teacher to fit the grace of the role. Budgeted at US$16.5 million ($23.6 million in current year dollars) the film became a financial and critical success, resulting in a worldwide box office total of US$135 million ($192.7 million) and various awards for Winslet, winning her both a BAFTA and a [11] [15] Screen Actors Guild Award, and nominations for both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe. In 1996, Winslet starred in bothJudeandHamlet. In Michael Winterbottom'sJude, based on the Victorian novel Jude the Obscureby 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

 Kate Winslet 3 [16] [17] office, barely grossing US$2 million ($2.8 million) worldwide. Richard Corliss ofTimemagazine said "Winslet is worthy of [...] the camera's scrupulous adoration. She's perfect, a modernist ahead of her time [...] and [18] Judeis a handsome showcase for her gifts." Winslet played Ophelia, Hamlet's drowned lover, in Kenneth Branagh's all star-cast film version of William Shakespeare'sHamlet. The film garnered largely positive reviews and [11] [19] earned Winslet her second Empire Award. [20] In mid-1996, Winslet began filming James Cameron'sTitanicCast as the(1997), alongside Leonardo DiCaprio. sensitive seventeen-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater, a fictional first-class socialite who survives the 1912 sinking of [21] the RMSTitanic, Winslet's experience was emotionally demanding. "Titanicwas totally different and nothing could have prepared me for it. We were really scared about the whole adventure. Jim [Cameron] is a perfectionist, a [21] 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 US$1.843 [22] [23] billion ($2.6 billion) in box-office receipts worldwide, and transformed Winslet into a commercial movie star. [11] [24] Subsequently, she was nominated for most of the high-profile awards, winning a European Film Award. 1998 – 2003 [25] Shot prior to the release ofTitanic,Hideous Kinky, a low-budget hippie romance, was Winslet's sole film of 1998. Winslet had rejected offers to play the leading roles inShakespeare in Love(1998) andAnna 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 [25] [26] hoping to start a new life. The film garnered generally mixed reviews and received only limited [27] [28] distribution, resulting in a worldwide gross of US$5 million ($6.5 million). Despite the success ofTitanic, the next film Winslet opted to star in wasHoly Smoke!(1999), featuring Harvey Keitel, another low-budget [13] [21] project—much to the chagrin of her agents, who felt "miserable" about her preference of arthouse movies. Feeling pressured, Winslet has said she "never sawTitanicas a springboard for bigger films or bigger pay cheques", [29] knowing that "it could have been that, but would have destroyed [her]." The same year, she voiced Brigid in the [30] computer animated filmFaeries. In 2000, Winslet appeared in the period pieceQuillswith 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 asylum and the courier of The Marquis' [31] manuscripts to the underground publishers. Well-received by critics, the film garnered numerous accolades for [11] Winslet, including nominations for SAG and Satellite Awards. The film was a modest arthouse success, averaging US$27,709 ($35004) per screen its debut weekend, and eventually grossing US$18 million ($22.7 million) [32] internationally. In 2001'sEnigma, Winslet played a young woman who finds herself falling for a brilliant young World War II code [33] breaker, played by Dougray Scott. It was her first war film, and Winslet regarded "makingEnigmaa brilliant experience" as she was five months pregnant at the time of the shoot, forcing some tricky camera work from the [33] [34] director Michael Apted. Generally well-received, Winslet was awarded a British Independent Film Award for [11] [35] her performance, and A. O. Scott ofThe New York Timesdescribed Winslet as "more crush-worthy than ever." In the same year she appeared in Richard Eyre's critically acclaimed filmIris, portraying Irish novelist Iris Murdoch. [36] 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 [11] nomination. Also in 2001, she voiced the character Belle in the animated motion pictureChristmas Carol: The Movie, based on the Charles Dickens classic novel. For the film, Winslet recorded the song "What If", which was [37] released in November 2001 as a single with proceeds donated to two of Winslet's favourite charities, the National [37] [38] Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and the Sargeant Cancer Foundation for Children. A [39] Europe-wide top ten hit, it reached number one in Austria, Belgium, and Ireland, number six on the UK Singles [40] [41] Chart, and won the 2002 OGAE Song Contest.

Kate Winslet 4 Her next film role was in the 2003 dramaThe Life of David Gale, in which she played an ambitious journalist who interviews a death-sentenced professor, played by Kevin Spacey, in his final weeks before execution. The film [42] underperformed at international box offices, garnering only half of its US$ 50,000,000 budget, and generating [43] [44] mostly critical reviews, with Roger Ebert of theChicago Sun-Timescalling it a "silly movie." 2004 – 2006 FollowingThe Life of David Gale, Winslet appeared with Jim Carrey inEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), a neosurrealistic indie-drama by French director Michel Gondry. In the film, she played the role of Clementine Kruczynski, a chatty, spontaneous and somewhat neurotic woman, who decides to have all memories of [45] her ex-boyfriend erased from her mind. The role was a departure from her previous roles, with Winslet revealing in an interview withVarietythat 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, [46] [47] 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 ofRolling Stone [48] described as "electrifying and bruisingly vulnerable." Her final film in 2004 wasFinding 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 playPeter 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 [...] [49] 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 sinceTitanicwith a total of $118 [50] [51] Winslet at the 61st British Academy million worldwide. Film Awards. In 2005, Winslet appeared in an episode of BBC's comedy seriesExtrasas a satirical version of herself. While dressed as a nun, she was portrayed giving [52] phone sex tips to the romantically challenged character of Maggie. Her performance in the episode led to her first [11] nomination for an Emmy Award. InRomance & Cigarettes(2005), a musical romantic comedy written and directed by John Turturro, she played the character Tula, described by Winslet as "a slut, someone who ‘ s essentially [53] foulmouthed and has bad manners and really doesn ‘ Hand-picked by Turturro, who wast know how to dress." [53] impressed with her display of dancing ability inHoly Smoke!which, Winslet was praised for her performance, [54] included her interpretation of Connie Francis's "Scapricciatiello (Do You Love Me Like You Kiss Me)". Derek Elley ofVarietywrote: "Onscreen less, but blessed with the showiest role, filthiest one-liners, [and] a perfect Lancashire accent that's comical enough in the Gotham setting Winslet throws herself into the role with an infectious [55] gusto." After declining an invitation to appear in Woody Allen's filmMatch Point(2005), Winslet stated that she wanted to [56] be able to spend more time with her children. She began 2006 withAll 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 [57] [58] critically and financially unsuccessful. Todd McCarthy ofVarietysummed it up as "overstuffed and fatally miscast [...] Absent any point of engagement to become involved in the characters, the film feels stillborn and is [59] unlikely to stir public excitement, even in an election year." Winslet fared far better when she joined the cast of Todd Field'sLittle Children, playing Sarah Pierce, a bored homemaker who has a torrid affair with a married neighbour, played by Patrick Wilson. Both her performance and

Kate Winslet 5 the film received rave reviews; A. O. Scott ofThe New York Timeswrote: "In too many recent movies intelligence is woefully undervalued, and it is this quality—even more than its considerable beauty—that distinguishesLittle Childrenfrom its peers. The result is a movie 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 [60] 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 honored with a Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year from BAFTA/LA, a Los [61] Angeles-based offshoot of the BAFTA Awards. and nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress, and at [62] 31, became the youngest actress to ever garner five Oscar nominations. She followedLittle Childrenwith a role in Nancy Meyers' romantic comedyThe Holiday, also starring Cameron Diaz, Jude Law, and Jack Black. In it she played Iris, a British woman who temporarily exchanges homes with an [63] American woman (Diaz). Released to a mixed reception by critics, the film became Winslet's biggest commercial [64] 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-animatedFlushed 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 [65] and commercial success, the film collected US$177,665,672 at international box offices. 2007 – present In 2007, Winslet reunited with Leonardo DiCaprio to filmRevolutionary Road (2008), directed by her husband Sam Mendes. Winslet had suggested that both should work with her on a film adaptation of the 1961 novel of the same name by [66] 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 [67] 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 [67] [68] prepare themselves for the film, which earned them favorable reviews. In his review of the film, David Edelstein ofNew York magazinestated that "[t]here isn ‘ t a banal moment in Winslet ‘ s performance—not a gesture, not a word. Is Winslet now the best English-speaking film actress of her generation? I think [1] so." Winslet was awarded a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for her [11] performance, her seventh nomination from the Golden Globes. Also released in late 2008, the film competed against Winslet's other project, a film adaptation of Bernhard Schlink's 1995 novelThe Reader, directed by Winslet at the 81st Academy Awards Stephen Daldry and featuring Ralph Fiennes and David Kross in supporting in February 2009 roles. Originally the first choice for her role, she was initially not able to take on [69] the role due to a scheduling conflict withRevolutionary RoadA month after, and Nicole Kidman replaced her. [69] filming began, however, Kidman left the role due to her pregnancy, enabling Winslet to rejoin the film. Employing a German accent, Winslet portrayed a former Nazi concentration camp guard who has an affair with a [70] teenager (Kross) who, as an adult, witnesses her war crimes trial. She later said the role was difficult for her, as [71] [72] she was naturally unable "to sympathise with an SS guard." While the film garnered mixed reviews in general, [72] Winslet received favorable reviews for her performance. The following year, she earned her sixth Academy Award nomination and went on to win the Best Actress award, the BAFTA Award for Best Actress, a Screen Actors [11] Guild Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress, and a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress. Winslet is set to headline the HBO miniseriesMildred Pierce, a five-hour remake of the 1945 film of the same name, [73] with production slated to begin in April 2010. She was cast in the Steven Soderbergh disaster film,Contagion [74] which is scheduled to film in the fall of 2010.

Kate Winslet Personal life While on the set ofDark Season, Winslet met actor-writer Stephen Tredre, with whom she had a nearly five-year [20] [75] relationship. He died of bone cancer soon after Winslet completed filmingTitanic, causing her to miss the [75] film's premiere in order to attend his funeral in London. She andTitanicco-star Leonardo DiCaprio have [76] remained best friends since the filming. [20] Winslet was later in a relationship with Rufus Sewell, but on 22 November 1998 she married director Jim [77] Threapleton, whom she met while on the set ofHideous Kinky. They have a daughter, Mia Honey, who was born [77] [78] on 12 October 2000 in London. Winslet and Threapleton divorced in 2001, Winslet began a relationship with [77] Sam Mendes, whom she married on 24 May 2003 on the island of Anguilla in the Caribbean. Their son, Joe Alfie [77] Winslet Mendes, was born on 22 December 2003 in New York City. Mendes and Winslet announced a separation [79] in March 2010, stating, "The split is entirely amicable and is by mutual agreement." Mendes and his production company, Neal Street Productions, purchased the film rights to the long-delayed [80] biography of circus tiger tamer Mabel Stark. The couple's spokesperson said, "It's a great story, they have had [80] their eyes on it for a while. If they can get the script right, it would make a great film." [75] [77] The media have documented her weight fluctuations over the years. Winslet has been outspoken about her [76] [81] refusal to allow Hollywood to dictate her weight. In February 2003,British GQmagazine published photographs of Winslet which had been digitally altered to make her look dramatically thinner than she really [77] was. Winslet issued a statement that the alterations were made without her consent, saying "I just didn't want [82] people to think I was a hypocrite and that I'd suddenly lost 30 lbs. or whatever".GQsubsequently issued an [81] apology. She won a libel suit in 2009 against British tabloidThe Daily Mailafter it printed that she lied about her [83] exercise regimen. Winslet said she had always expressed the opinion that women should be encouraged to accept their appearance with pride, and therefore "was particularly upset to be accused of lying about my exercise regimen, and felt that I had a responsibility to request an apology in order to demonstrate my commitment to the views that I [83] have always expressed about body issues, including diet and exercise." [84] Winslet and Mendes live in Greenwich Village in New York City. They also own a Grade II-listed five-bedroom [85] house, set in 22 acres in the village of Church Westcote in Gloucestershire, England. After purchasing the house for £3 million, they have reportedly spent a further £1 million in renovations, as the house had fallen into disrepair [85] after the death of its former owner, the equestrian artist Raoul Millais in 1999. Mendes was scheduled to fly on American Airlines Flight 77, which was hijacked on 11 September 2001 and [86] subsequently crashed into the Pentagon. In October 2001, Winslet was seven hours into a London-Dallas flight with her daughter Mia when a passenger who claimed to be a terrorist, later charged with creating mischief, stood up [86] and shouted "We are all going to die." As a result of these incidents, Winslet and Mendes never fly together on [86] the same aircraft, as they fear leaving their children parentless. Awards and nominations

Winslet won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance inThe Reader(2008). She won two Golden Globe Awards in the same year: Best Actress (Drama) forRevolutionary Roadand Best Supporting Actress forThe Reader. She has won two BAFTA Awards: Best Actress forThe Reader, and Best Supporting Actress forSense and Sensibility(1995). She has earned a total of six Academy Award nominations, seven Golden Globe nominations, and [81] [87] [88] seven BAFTA nominations. She has received numerous awards from other organisations, including the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress forIris(2001) and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role forSense and SensibilityandThe Reader.Premieremagazine named her portrayal of Clementine Kruczynski inEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind(2004) as the 81st greatest film [89] performance of all time.

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