Kate Elizabeth Winslet, CBE (born
5 October 1975), is an
English actress and singer. She is the recipient of an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, three Golden Globe Award and a Grammy Award. She is the youngest
person to acquire six Academy Award nominations, and is one of the few
actresses to win three of the four major American entertainment awards (EGOT). In
addition, 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 an Honorary César
Award in 2012.
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 praise. She garnered recognition for her supporting role in Sense and Sensibility (1995) before achieving global stardom
with the epic romance Titanic (1997), which was the highest-grossing
film of all time at that point. Winslet's
performances in Iris (2001), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless
Mind (2004), Finding Neverland (2004),Little Children (2006), and Revolutionary Road (2008) continued to draw praise from
film critics; her performance in the last of these prompted the critic David Edelstein to describe her as "the best
English-speaking film actress of her generation". She won theAcademy Award for Best
Actress for her role in The Reader (2008) and the Emmy Award for Best Actress in a
Miniseries for portraying the
title role in Mildred Pierce (2011). Winslet's greatest commercial
successes have been the romantic comedy The
Holiday (2006), the animated
film Flushed Away (2006), and the science fiction film Divergent (2014).
In
addition to acting, Winslet has narrated documentaries and children's books.
She was awarded the Grammy Award
for Best Spoken Word Album for Children in
2000 for narrating Listen To
the Storyteller. She has also provided her vocals to soundtracks of her
films, the most popular of which is the single "What If" from Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001). Divorced from film directorsJim
Threapleton and Sam Mendes, Winslet is now married to
businessman Ned Rocknroll .
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