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Kate Winslet
Born in Reading, 1975, Kate Winslet's family came from a theatrical background; she started acting from the age of 5 years old as The Virgin Mary in a school play. At the age of 11 she attended the Redroof Theatre School in Maidenhead, staying until the age of 16. After numerous television and theatre roles her cinema talents first became apparent as a teenage murderer in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures (1994), a true story about two vengeful best friends. She returned to obscurity and unemployment until landing the role of romantic Marianne Dashwood in the Ang Lee adaptation of Jane Au Sten's Sense And Sensibility (1995), a performance that earned her an Academy nomination for Best Supporting Actress. The next year, she appeared as the rebellious heroine Sue Bridehead, opposite Christopher Eccleston in an adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure, Jude (1996).
After appearing as Ophelia in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (1996) she felt ready for a big budget American movie, persuading James Cameron into handing her the role of feisty Rose DeWitt Bukater opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic (1997), acquiring her second Academy Award nomination. In 1998, Kate Married assistant director Jim Threapleton in her hometown of Reading; they were to divorce three years later. After the success of James Cameron's blockbu Ster, she shunned mainstream Hollywood roles to star in a number of independent films, including the hippie mum in Hideous Kinky (1998), and an Indian cult devotee in Jane Campion's Holy Smoke (1999). Kate followed this with appearances as a disciple of the Marquis de Sade in Quills (2001), and in the code-breaking war drama Enigma (2001). She was again nominated for an Academy Award for her performance as a youthful Iris Murdoch in director Richard Eyre's Iris (2002).
Wise words: "There's more to life than cheek bones."
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Winslet and Branagh's Guernsey film delayed -
2 April 2012
-Actress Kate Winslet will have to wait another year to reunite with her Hamlet co-star Kenneth Branagh - their forthcoming war tale has been postponed until next year (13).-The Titanic beauty was due to begin shooting actor/director Branagh's next film, The Guernsey
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Winslet forced to shave arms for Titanic -
29 March 2012
-Actress Kate Winslet was forced to shave her arms to shoot key evening scenes for hit 1997 film Titanic - because the moonlight kept striking her peach fuzz and ruining the shot.-Winslet was just 20 years old when she stepped into the role of Rose opposite Leonardo D
Kate Winslet - what members say
review by from Bury, Lancashire.
well-worth persevering with 29 June 2004
review by from Surrey
A Very English Affair 3 February 2005
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21 February 2004
Kate Winslet - filmography
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Mildred Pierce - Blu-ray
(2 discs)
(2011)
Starring: Kate Winslet, Brian F. O'Byrne, Melissa Leo
Director: Todd Haynes
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MILDRED PIERCE (Kate Winslet) is a single mother during the great depression who has a passion for baking and decides to open her own restaurant after failing to find work elsewhere. After starting her own business, she meets a new man and tries to juggle both of these while fighting to gain love ..read more »
 
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from 575 members
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Mildred Pierce - Series 1
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Kate Winslet, Brian F. O'Byrne, Melissa Leo
Director: Todd Haynes
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Glendale, California, 1931: Mildred Pierce, a young mother with a talent for baking, is left a "grass widow" after throwing her husband, Bert, out of the house. Forced to hunt for work to support herself and her two young daughters, 11-year-old Veda and seven-year-old Ray, Mildred visits an ..read more »
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from 1,747 member
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Contagion - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Gwyneth Paltrow, Matt Damon, Kate Winslet
Director: Steven Soderbergh
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Watch now: £3.49
Steven Soderbergh presents this look at what happens when an infectious disease threatens humanity through varied viewpoints from an ensemble cast, including Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Jude Law, Gwyneth Paltrow, Laurence Fishburne, and Kate Winslet. With no main protagonist, the film follows ..read more »
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Carnage
(2011)
Starring: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz
Director: Roman Polanski
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Based on the acclaimed play ‘God of Carnage’ by Yasmina Reza, and directed by legendary auteur Roman Polanski, Carnage pits power couple Nancy (Academy Award-winner Kate Winslet (Mildred Pierce, The Reader) and Alan Cowan (Academy Award-winner Christoph Waltz (Water for Elephants, Inglourious ..read more »
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from 232 members
Due for release on 18th June 2012
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Carnage - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz
Director: Roman Polanski
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Based on the acclaimed play ‘God of Carnage’ by Yasmina Reza, and directed by legendary auteur Roman Polanski, Carnage pits power couple Nancy (Academy Award-winner Kate Winslet (Mildred Pierce, The Reader) and Alan Cowan (Academy Award-winner Christoph Waltz (Water for Elephants, Inglourious ..read more »
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from 42 members
Due for release on 18th June 2012
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Revolutionary Road
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, David Harbour, Kathy Bates
Director: Sam Mendes
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Frank and April, a married couple in the 1950s, have always seen themselves as special, different, ready and willing to live their lives based on higher ideals. So, as soon as they move into their new house on Revolutionary Road, they proudly declare their independence from the suburban inertia ..read more »
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Revolutionary Road - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, David Harbour, Kathy Bates
Director: Sam Mendes
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Those who were waiting for the romantic reunion of TITANIC's Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet may be surprised by what they find in REVOLUTIONARY ROAD. The movie begins with a sweet scene where Frank (DiCaprio) and April (Winslet) meet at a party, but the rest of this drama--based on Richard ..read more »
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from 5,390 members
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All The King's Men - Blu-ray
(2006)
Starring: Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet
Director: Steven Zaillian
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Louisiana politician Willie Stark starts out as a man of the people, proud to be a hick, wanting to make a difference to the struggling families in his community. But the smell of power leads to back-room corruption, lies, and betrayal. Based on the Robert Penn Warren novel. The life of populist ..read more »
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from 833 members
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All The King's Men
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Sean Penn, Jude Law, Kate Winslet
Director: Steven Zaillian
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Louisiana politician Willie Stark starts out as a man of the people, proud to be a hick, wanting to make a difference to the struggling families in his community. But the smell of power leads to back-room corruption, lies, and betrayal. Based on the Robert Penn Warren novel. The life of populist ..read more »
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from 9,973 members
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The Allstar Workout
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Gordon Ramsay, Efua Baker, penny smith (iii)
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Take the celebrity approach to keep fit with THE ALLSTAR WORKOUT and tone up, lose weight, or simply improve your general wellbeing. Introduced by Oscar nominee Kate Winslet, the programme features a variety of workouts each presented by a different celebrity (24 in all, including Patsy Palmer, ..read more »
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IMAX - Deep Sea - Blu-ray
(2006)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet
Director: Howard Hall
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The wondrous denizens of the diverse marine habitat known as a coral reef are the subject matter of Howard Hill's DEEP SEA 3-D (originally an IMAX presentation). Exploring the reefs throughout the Pacific, Hill's cameras capture a rare close-up glimpse of turtles, shrimp, scallops, sharks, eels, ..read more »
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from 14 members
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The Holiday - Blu-ray
(2006)
Starring: Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz, Jude Law
Director: Nancy Meyers
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Nancy Meyers' romantic comedy THE HOLIDAY stars Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet as two women who exchange houses in order to get a new lease on life. After each suffers her fair share of romantic disappointments, Englishwoman Iris (Winslet) and L.A. woman Amanda (Diaz) meet on-line at a website ..read more »
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from 267 members
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Finding Neverland - Blu-ray
(2004)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie
Director: Marc Forster
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Most people know the story of Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up. Director Marc Forster's (MONSTER'S BALL) FINDING NEVERLAND delves deeper, depicting a fictionalised account of the family and events that inspired the classic tale. At the turn of the 20th Century, Scottish playwright J.M. ..read more »
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Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Elijah Wood
Director: Michel Gondry
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Joel (Carrey) is stunned to discover that his girlfriend Clementine (Winslet) has had her memories of their tumultuous relationship erased. Out of desperation, he contracts the inventor of the process, Dr. Howard Mierzwaik, to have Clementine removed from his own memory. But as Joel's memories ..read more »
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from 98,828 members
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Finding Neverland
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie
Director: Marc Forster
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Watch now: £2.49
It all begins as successful Scottish playwright J.M. Barrie watches his latest play open to a ho-hum reaction among the polite society of Edwardian England. A literary genius of his times but bored by the same old themes, Barrie is clearly in need of some serious inspiration. Unexpectedly, he finds ..read more »
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The Life Of David Gale
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Kevin Spacey, Laura Linney, Kate Winslet
Director: Alan Parker
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David Gale (Kevin Spacey) is a Texas professor and anti-death penalty activist who, ironically enough, winds up on death row for the rape and murder of a colleague. Kate Winslet plays Bitsey Bloom, the brave journalist who sets out to tell to his story. In the days leading up to his execution, Gale ..read more »
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Enigma
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Kate Winslet, Dougray Scott, Saffron Burrows
Director: Michael Apted
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Set in England during World War II, Michael Apted's ENIGMA follows bookish code-breaker Tom Jericho (Dougray Scott) through a whirlwind love affair with Claire Romilly (Saffron Burrows), a seductive blonde clerk, and his subsequent recovery from a mental breakdown caused by the relationship. As Tom ..read more »
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Enigma - Blu-ray
(2001)
Starring: Kate Winslet, Dougray Scott, Saffron Burrows
Director: Michael Apted
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Set in England during World War II, Michael Apted's ENIGMA follows bookish code-breaker Tom Jericho (Dougray Scott) through a whirlwind love affair with Claire Romilly (Saffron Burrows), a seductive blonde clerk, and his subsequent recovery from a mental breakdown caused by the relationship. As Tom ..read more »
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from 52 members
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Iris
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Judi Dench, Hugh Bonneville, Kate Winslet
Director: Richard Eyre
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Based on the book ELEGY FOR IRIS, by John Bayley, this biopic tells the inspiring and heartbreaking story of the writer's 40-year romance with English novelist Dame Iris Murdoch. The film cuts back and forth between the young Iris and John (played by Kate Winslet and Hugh Bonneville), at the height ..read more »
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War Game
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Kate Winslet, iain jones (voice), Adam Godley
Director: Dave Unwin
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Based on the best -selling book by Michael Foreman, War Game is the award-winning animated story of three English boys who leave their idyllic country lives to fight in the trenches of World War One. On Christmas Day, as if by a miracle, a soccer match is started between the Germans and the English ..read more »
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Christmas Carol - The Movie
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Kate Winslet, Simon Callow, Nicolas Cage
Director: Jimmy T. Murakami
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This animated version of Charles Dickens classic story Christmas Carol adds some new touches, but primarily follows the traditional tale of the miserly and cruel Ebenezer Scrooge being confronted by a series of ghosts who show him the true meaning of Christmas. His experience leads to his ..read more »
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Quills
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Stephen Moyer, Kate Winslet, Michael Caine
Director: Philip Kaufman
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Based on the award-winning play by Doug Wright, this erotic and fantastical drama reconstructs the unknown fate of the Marquis de Sade, the writer and sexual deviant who was imprisoned in Charenton Asylum for the last 10 years of his life. QUILLS is a Gothic period piece from director Philip ..read more »
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from 6,854 members
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Hideous Kinky
(1999)
Starring: Kate Winslet, Said Taghmaoui
Director: Gillies Mackinnon
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With her two precious daughters in tow, free-spirited Julia (Kate Winslet) flees her stifling life in London for the promise of excitement, freedom and self-discovery in exotic Marrakech. In her single-minded quest for enlightenment and escapism, Julia falls into a steamy relationship with a ..read more »
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Holy Smoke
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Kate Winslet, Harvey Keitel, Sophie Lee
Director: Jane Campion
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In this wildly inventive film from director Jane Campion (THE PIANO), Kate Winslet stars as Ruth, a headstrong Australian woman determined to get back to India in time to join a group marriage to her guru. Her family, hoping to break the cult leader's psychic grip on Ruth, hires P.J. (Harvey Keitel)..read more »
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Titanic
(1997)
Starring: Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Billy Zane
Director: James Cameron
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TITANIC, James Cameron's blockbuster, stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as young lovers aboard the ill-fated voyage. A mysterious nude sketch found in the wreckage of the Titanic leads to the tale of its subject, the now-elderly Rose DeWitt Bukater (Winslet). As her story begins, Rose is 17 ..read more »
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Jude
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Christopher Eccleston, Kate Winslet, Rachel Griffiths
Director: Michael Winterbottom
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In this austere adaptation of Thomas Hardy's 1895 novel JUDE THE OBSCURE, an intelligent young British man falls prey to romance, oppressive social conventions, and unspeakable tragedy in his unsanctioned relationship with his cousin. JUDE is a tragic romance, well acted by Kate Winslet (TITANIC), ..read more »
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Heavenly Creatures
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Kate Winslet, Melanie Lynskey, Sarah Peirse
Director: Peter Jackson
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After winning a cult following for several offbeat and darkly witty gore films, New Zealand director Peter Jackson abruptly shifted gears with this stylish, compelling, and ultimately disturbing tale of two teenage girls whose friendship begins to fuel an ultimately fatal obsession. Pauline (..read more »
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Sense And Sensibility
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Hugh Grant
Director: Ang Lee
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The recipient of seven Oscar® nominations, this film version of Jane Austen's classic 1811 novel stars Emma Thompson as Elinor Dashwood. With her mother and sisters, Elinor struggles financially after the death of her father, who bequeathed the Dashwood estate to his oafish son by an earlier ..read more »
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Dark Season
on DVD
(1991)
Starring: Victoria Lambert, Kate Winslet, Tim Barker
Director: Colin Cant
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Written by Russell T Davies, and starring a young Kate Winslet in one of her first TV roles, Dark Season is an exciting science-fiction mystery that centres around a English school, where all is not what is seems. A mysterious millionaire called Mr Eldritch arrives as the school, claiming to be its ..read more »
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Faeries - The Movie
Starring: Kate Winslet, Jeremy Irons, Dougray Scott
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Nellie and George are two young children who are sent to the country whilst their parents move house. When George stumbles into Faery Land, an adventure begins where Nellie must complete three tasks in return for her brother's freedom.
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...ays one of the key characters. She does look a little old for the part whereas Kate Winslet looks just right. However, Emma Thompson has a fine touch with the dialogue an...
