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Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born October 5, 1975) is an Academy Award-nominated English actress. She is noted for having played a wide range of diverse parts over her career, though her best known role may be that of Rose DeWitt Bukater in the highest-grossing film of all time, Titanic
(1997).

Although Winslet has not won an Academy Award, she has been highly favoured by the Academy, and holds the record for the youngest person to receive two Oscar nominations, as well as the record for the most Oscar nominations of any actor before the age of 30 (having received a total of four nominations by that age).

Biography

Early life

Winslet was born in Reading, Berkshire to Roger Winslet and Sally Bridges, both of whom were actors. Her maternal grandparents, Oliver and Linda Bridges, founded and operated the Reading Repertory, and her uncle, Robert Bridges, appeared in the original West End production of Oliver!
Her sisters are Beth Winslet and Anna Winslet, also actresses.

Winslet, raised an Anglican, began studying drama at the age of eleven, and was soon cast as a spokesperson for a cereal in television commercials.

Career

Winslet's career began on television, with a co-starring role in the BBC children's science-fiction serial Dark Season in 1991, followed by an appearance in an episode of the medical drama Casualty in 1993, also for the BBC.

Winslet's film career took off in 1994 when she starred in her first leading role, as Juliet Hulme in director Peter Jackson's critically acclaimed Heavenly Creatures
. This role was followed by the successful film Sense and Sensibility
(co-starring Emma Thompson), which made her well-known, especially in the UK. Winslet became famous world-wide after the 1997 release of Titanic
, which was the most expensive film of all time, and became the highest-grossing film of all time after several months in release, grossing $600 million at the United States box office.

Winslet has since become regarded as something of a critics' darling, having received generally positive reviews for every one of her films. Despite Titanics success, Winslet has continued making lower-budget films, including Hideous Kinky
and Holy Smoke, as well as studio "period drama"s like Quills
, Iris
and Finding Neverland
. For a time, she became associated with such films and given the nickname "Corset Kate". Winslet has most recently appeared in several American films, including the well-reviewed quirky comedy Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
and the dramatic thriller The Life of David Gale
.

Winslet has also enjoyed a brief taste of success as a singer, with her single "What If" from soundtrack of Christmas Carol: The Movie
, which reached #1 in Ireland and #6 in the UK. More recently, she participated in a duet with singer "Weird Al" Yankovic
on the Sandra Boynton CD, Dog Train, and sang in the 2006
film, Romance and Cigarettes.

In 2005, Winslet appeared in a television commercial for the American Express credit card. As part of the "My Life, My Card" campaign, the ad shows Winslet visiting shops in London as she makes references to all the events that have happened to her film characters - such as going to prison for murder (Heavenly Creatures), almost drowning (Titanic), and having her memory erased (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). During the ad, she is shown holding items relating to her films; during the reference to Sense and Sensibility she thumbs through a copy of the book, and when she references Finding Neverland, she's holding a hook.
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