Kate Winslet: Snapshot
- Name
- Kate Winslet
- Birth Date
- October 05, 1975
- Birth Place
- Reading, England
Winslet's heart-wrenching performance in 1997's megahit Titanic made her a household name, of course, but her voluptuous figure has continued to steal headlines: The mother of two openly detests ultra-thin stars, sued a magazine for claiming she saw a diet specialist, and spoke out against a 2003 GQ cover, where she had been digitally slimmed. But at the end of the day, it has always been about the acting: Winslet can next be seen reteaming with Titanic costar Leonardo DiCaprio for the upcoming Revolutionary Road, directed by her Oscar-winning husband Sam Mendes.
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Kate Winslet: Five Fun Facts
- Kate Winslet spent much of the 1990s in slimming corsets for such films as Sense and Sensibility and Titanic. "My top two rib bones on one side stick out more than the other side. It's bloody horrible," she told USA Today. "They do constrict your internal organs and when you take them off, my God, are you skinny...Then, after a few hours, it all flops back again."
- After being dubbed a "Period Piece Babe," Kate Winslet told Entertainment Weekly, "I really want to be a Valley Girl in a feel-good American movie."
- When Kate Winslet landed the role of socialite Rose DeWitt Bukater in Titanic, she delivered roses to director James Cameron for casting her.
- Kate Winslet called Claire Danes "brilliant" as Juliet in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and told USA Today that she'd wanted to play opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in the movie. "But I knew I was too old."
- In 2001, Kate Winslet had a top ten single in Great Britain with the song ''What If'' taken from the animated feature, A Christmas Carol.
Kate Winslet: Biography 
- 1995
The Period Babe
Winslet, 20, costars with Emma Thompson (left) as Marianne Dashwood in Ang Lee's adaptation of the Jane Austen classic, Sense and Sensibility. Variety calls Winslet "outstanding as the high-flying romantic who gets her wings burned" and praises the film as "almost too much of a good thing." She earns her first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress and builds her resume with more period pieces, playing Ophelia in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet and a Thomas Hardy heroine in Jude. The following year, she is named one of PEOPLE's 50 Most Beautiful.
- 1997
A Titanic Catapult
Winslet is cast as the sensitive socialite Rose in James Cameron's blockbuster Titanic opposite Leonardo DiCaprio (right). The film, which earns more than $1.8 billion worldwide, makes both actors movie stars. For her performance, Winslet earns her second Oscar nomination, this time for Best Actress. But her success is paired with tragedy when her first love, Stephen Tredre, dies of bone cancer. Winslet skips the premiere of Titanic to attend his funeral in London.
- 1998
Work Over Wage
"Before Titanic yes...I had been nominated for an Academy Award, but I had never been sort of world-famous," she tells the New York Times. "When I thought about becoming an actress, I never had fantasies about being a movie star." She follows Titanic with risqué choices like Hideous Kinky and Holy Smoke with Harvey Keitel (left). "After Titanic, she chose to go where the work excited her," Keitel adds. "She chose the work over the money."
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