"Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character."
Kate Elizabeth Winslet, CBE is a British actress, born October 5, 1975, best known for playing English Rose types, for being naked in almost every role she's done and being snubbed at the Oscars (until 2008). She first appeared in Heavenly Creatures (directed by Peter Jackson), went on to star in the 1995 version of Sense and Sensibility, Titanic (1997), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Little Children, and The Reader. She won her Oscar for her role in The Reader and an Emmy for playing Mildred Pierce.
She was married to director Sam Mendes from 2003 to 2010.
Filmography:
- Heavenly Creatures (1994)
- A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995)
- Sense and Sensibility (1995)
- Jude (1996)
- Titanic (1997)
- Quills (2000)
- The Life of David Gale (2003)
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
- Finding Neverland (2004)
- Little Children (2006)
- Flushed Away (2006) (voice)
- The Holiday (2006)
- The Reader (2008)
- Revolutionary Road (2008)
- Mildred Pierce (2011) (TV film)
- Contagion (2011)
- Carnage (2011)
- Movie 43 (2013)
- Divergent (2014)
- The Divergent Series: Insurgent (2015)
- Steve Jobs (2015)
- The Dressmaker (2015)
- Collateral Beauty (2016)
- The Mountains Between Us (2017)
Associated Tropes:
- And Starring: She's credited this way in the opening credits of Divergent.
- English Rose: As stated above, she plays these a lot because she has the classic naturally beautiful looks.
- Like Brother and Sister: With Leonardo DiCaprio.
- Ms. Fanservice: Respectable as she may be, one can expect Ms. Winslet to disrobe for a role more often than not. This gave her quite a few mentions in Seth MacFarlane's controversial Oscars 2013 song "We Saw Your Boobs".
