• Name: Kate Winslet
  
• Birth Name: Kate Elizabeth Winslet
  
• Height: 5' 8"
  
• Sex: F
  
• Nationality: British
  
• Birth Date: October 5, 1975
  
• Birth Place: Reading, Berkshire, U.K.
  
• Profession: actress
  
• Education: Redroofs School in Maidenhead, U.K.
  
•   : studied at drama school in UK
  
• Husband/Wife: Sam Mendes (director; born on August 1, 1965; married in May 2003), Jim Threapleton (assistant director; met during filming of Hideous Kinky in 1997; engaged in October 1998; married on November 22, 1998; separated in September 2001)
  
• Relationship: Rufus Sewall (actor; born on October 29, 1967; broke up in 1996), Stephen Tredre (actor; born in 1963; died in December 1997 from bone cancer at age 34; together until 1995)
  
• Father: Roger Winslet (actor)
  
• Mother: Sally Winslet (née Bridges; actress, nanny)
  
• Sister: Beth Winslet (actress; born in May 1978), Anna Winslet (actress; born in 1972)
  
• Brother: Joss Winslet (born in 1980)
  
• Grand Father: Oliver Bridges (theater manager)
  
• Grand Mother: Linda Bridges (theater manager)
  
• Uncle: Robert Bridges (actor)
  
• Son: Joe Mendes (born on December 22, 2003 in New York; father: Sam Mendes)
  
• Daughter: Mia (born on October 12, 2000; father: Jim Threapleton)
  
• Claim to fame: as Rose DeWitt Bukater in Titanic (1997)
  

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• "Getting nominated for an Oscar is a great honor, but as always, I don't think I'll win."
• "I like exposing myself. There's not an awful lot that embarrasses me. I'm the kind of actress that absolutely believes in exposing myself."
• "Being cast as the Virgin Mary was my first acting buzz... I took it very, very seriously. I remember really, really being Mary. Really, really feeling it."
• Talking about her screen debut in HEAVENLY CREATURES: "I was reading the script in the back of the car and I turned to my dad and yelled, 'I've GOT to get this!' And he replied, 'Then you will.' And I thought, 'Yep, that's it. I'm bloody well going to.' And that was it. I was so determined. It was something crucial to my life. I just so communicated with her, the story and their relationship. And when I found out, I just couldn't believe it. I was so happy, I cried. I remember I was working part-time at a deli at the time because I didn't have any money and was in the middle of making a sandwich when they phoned and said I'd got the job. I burst into tears and had to leave work because I couldn't control myself. It was absolutely brilliant."
• "After TITANIC (1997) it would have been completely foolish for me to go and try and top that. I'm an English girl, I've always loved England, I've never felt the desire to leave it for any particular reason. And whilst I'm ambitious and care very much about what I do, I'm not competitive. I also don't want to act every day of my life. ... So it was important to me after 'Titanic' to just remind myself of why it was that I was acting in the first place, which is of course because I love it."
• "I was on the tube just before Christmas. and this girl turned round to me and said, `Are you Kate Winslet? And I said, `Well, yes. I am actually'. And she said, `And you're getting the tube?' And I said, `Yes'. And she said, `Don't you have a big car that drives you around?' And I said, `No'. And she was absolutely stunned that I wasn't being driven round in some flash car all the time. It was ludicrous."
• "I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode."
• "I'd much rather be known as some curvy Kate than as some skinny stick."
• "I'd rather do theatre and British films than move to L.A. in hopes of getting small roles in American films."
• "It's very important for me to make the statement that I am English and just because I've done one really big film, it doesn't mean that I don't want to keep a finger in the fantastic British film industry and do films like this."
• "People say to me, 'You seem to have made this conscious decision to do independent films'. In reality, I haven't. After each movie, I always think, how different can I possibly be?... Is this going to challenge me, is this going to inspire me, and is this going to make me love my job more than I already do?"
• "Since I was 13 or 14, I've always felt older than I actually am."
• "There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers."
• "There is no way we are going to move out of England. Some might think that we want to live in Hollywood but that is not what we want at all. We will go and live in New York when it is necessary because of work but we prefer to be in England. I'm proud to be English - we both are. It's very important to me to retain that. I am an English girl and I love England. I have never felt the desire to leave. I am still ambitious and I will have to travel and live elsewhere because of that but England is always home."
• About her spur-of-the-moment marriage to Sam Mendes: "We hadn't been planning to do it but we thought it was rather a good idea, so we just did it."

• Empire Awards: Best British Actress, ENIGMA (2002)
• European Film Awards: Audience Award - Best Actress, IRIS (2002)
• Evening Standard British Film Awards: Best Actress, QUILLS (2001)
• Golden Camera, Germany: Film - International, TITANIC (2001)
• Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards: Best Supporting Actress, IRIS (2001)
• Empire Awards: Best British Actress, TITANIC (1999)
• Blockbuster Entertainment Awards: Favorite Actress - Drama, TITANIC (1998)
• Empire Awards: Best British Actress, HAMLET (1998)
• European Film Awards: Audience Award - Best Actress, TITANIC (1998)
• Evening Standard British Film Awards: Best Actress, SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (1997)
• BAFTA Awards: Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role, SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (1996)
• Empire Awards: Best British Actress, HEAVENLY CREATURES (1996)
• London Critics Circle Film Awards: British Actress of the Year, HEAVENLY CREATURES (1996)
• Screen Actors Guild Awards: Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role, SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (1996)
• New Zealand Film and TV Awards: Best Foreign Performer, HEAVENLY CREATURES (1995)

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