Kate Winslet

Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress and singer. She is noted for having played diverse characters over her career, but probably best-known for her critically acclaimed performances as Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility, Rose DeWitt Bukater in Titanic, Hanna Schmitz in The Reader, and April Wheeler in Revolutionary Road.

Kate Winslet was born in Reading, England, U.K., the daughter of Sally Ann (née Bridges), a barmaid, and Roger John Winslet, a swimming-pool contractor.Both of her parents were also actors. Her maternal grandparents, Linda (Plumb) and Archibald Oliver Bridges, founded and operated the Reading Repertory, and her uncle, Robert Bridges, appeared in the original West End production of Oliver!. Her sisters, Beth Winslet and Anna Winslet, are also actresses. Winslet, raised as an Anglican, began studying drama at the age of eleven at the Redroofs Theatre School, a co-educational independent school in Maidenhead, Berkshire, where she was head girl and appeared in a television commercial for Sugar Puffs cereal, directed by Tim Pope. Throughout her adolescence, she was severely bullied for being overweight and having large feet (which she inherited from her mother).

She has been honored with awards from the Screen Actors Guild, BAFTA Awards, and the Golden Globe Awards. Winslet has also won a Grammy Award and has been nominated for six Academy Awards as well as an Emmy. At the age of 22, she broke the record for the youngest person to receive two Oscar nominations. David Edelstein of New York Magazine hails Winslet as "the best English-speaking film actress of her generation".