English-born actress KATE WINSLET grew up in a family of actors and began performing for British television when she was thirteen. At the age of seventeen, she made her name internationally in Peter Jackson’s feature film Heavenly Creatures. She followed that in 1995 with her role as Marianne Dashwood in Ang Lee’s Sense and Sensibility. Kate received her first Academy Award nomination for this performance and was also nominated for a Golden Globe. She then went on to win the BAFTA and the Screen Actors Guild Award.
In her next film, she co-starred with Christopher Eccleston in Michael Winterbottom’s Jude and then as Ophelia in Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet. She then went on to appear as the amazing Rose in James Cameron’s Titanic opposite Leonardo DiCaprio. At the age of 22, Kate received her second Academy Award nomination for this role, and the honor of being the youngest actress ever to be nominated for two Academy Awards.
In 1997 Kate starred as Julia in Hideous Kinky directed by Gillies MacKinnon, and in 1998 co-starred with Harvey Keitel in Jane Campion’s comedic drama Holy Smoke. She also starred in Philip Kaufman’s period drama Quills along with Geoffrey Rush, Joaquin Phoenix and Michael Caine.
Most recently, Kate co-starred in the Richard Eyre production of Iris. In her performance portraying a young Iris Murdoch, Kate received Golden Globe and Oscar nominations. She then starred in Michael Apted’s Enigma, a spy drama about code breakers during early World War II period and The Life of David Gale with Kevin Spacey. She also starred in recently released Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind with Jim Carrey.
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