Kate Winslet
- Profession: Actress
- Place/Date of Birth: Reading , 05 October 2020
Sacha Baron Cohen’s fictional Kazakh journalist Borat earned him a best actor in a comedy nod and a best comedy nomination for the film.
He will be up against Chiwetel Ejiofor for his role in Kinky Boots.
The Queen was nominated for best picture while Stephen Frears got a best director nod for the film.
Irish-born actor Peter O’Toole was nominated for best actor in a drama for Venus.
Dame Helen also picked up nominations for the title role in the TV miniseries Elizabeth I and best actress in a TV miniseries or movie for Prime Suspect: The Final Act.
She, Dame Judi and Winslet will go up against Penelope Cruz, for her role in Volver, and Maggie Gyllenhaal for Sherrybaby.
Hugh Laurie was nominated in the TV drama series category for his role in House.
British 23-year-old Emily Blunt was nominated as best supporting actress for her role as fashion magazine assistant in The Devil Wears Prada.
Peter Morgan was shortlisted for best screenplay for The Queen and Patrick Marber for Notes On A Scandal.
Kate ’feels sick’ before nude scenes - Oct 26 2006
Actress Kate Winslet braved the rain last night for the premiere of her new film Little Children.
The 31-year-old dazzled in a black and white floral evening gown by designer Ben de Lisi.
And she revealed that stripping off for sex scenes with co-star Patrick Wilson had left her feeling physically sick.
"As an actress, when you have to take your clothes off and get naked it’s really, really terrible," she said.
"It’s a terrible day and when you wake up you feel sick and you think to yourself, ’I must be absolutely mad and I must remember not to do this ever again’."
In the drama, Kate plays a reluctant mother and housewife who cheats on her husband and has little interest in her children.
The actress, a devoted mum to Mia, six, and Joe, three, admitted she found the role tough.
She said: "There was a part of me that thought: ’Can I do this?’ But then I decided I was up to the challenge so I said yes."
The film had its British premiere as part of the London Film Festival.
Kate misses her corsets - Oct 16 2006
Kate Winslet felt uncomfortable starring in The Holiday (see trailer) - because she played a normal, modern day woman.
The English rose is so used to appearing in period dramas she joked she wasn’t sure what to do without a corset and a flowing wig.
"In The Holiday I kind of didn’t like playing a contemporary English person," she admits.
"It was an uncomfortable feeling, I can’t hide behind anything. There’s no wig, no corset, no dialect. It’s just me, me and me!"
The blonde actress, who is married to filmmaker Sam Mendes, has another unusual role ahead of her - she’s voicing a punky girl rat in new Aardman Animations’ movie, Flushed Away.
The animated film follows the adventures of a plucky sewer rat called Rita.
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She continued in a performing arts school and followed graduation with roles in the British television drama Shrinks (1988), followed by appearances in the television series Casualty (1989), Dark Season (1991), Get Back (1992), and Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1993) and theatrical roles including Pandora in the musical Adrian Mole, Wendy in Peter Pan, Sarah in A Game of Soldier, and Geraldine in What the Butler Saw.
Before she was a big movie star, Kate worked in a deli. She was actually in the middle of making a pastrami sandwich when she received the call that she’d been cast in the film "Heavenly Creatures." Kate Winslet got worldwide recognition when she was cast alongside side Leonardo Di Caprio to play ill fated lovers on board the Titanic, the film was a huge commercial success and won 11 Academy Awards.
She dated writer/actor Stephen Tredre for 4 and 1/2 years. The couple remained close even after their breakup. Sadly, Stephen died in 1997 after he lost his battle with cancer. Kate missed the U.S. premiere of "Titanic" to sing at his funeral in England. Kate also had a brief fling with fellow actor Rufus Sewell, however that all changed when Kate met and fell in love with Jim Threapleton, The couple met in 1997 on the set of "Hideous Kinky," where Jim was 3rd Assistant Director.
Kate married Jim Threapleton in 1998 they were married at the Anglican All Saints’ Church in Reading, near the Winslet family home, on November 22, 1998. Kate wore a beautiful white gown designed by Alexander McQueen, and the church was decorated with white and yellow roses. The ceremony was planned in absolute secrecy - not even the 170 guests knew the exact location! (This was in case any invitations happened to stray.)
They were told only to meet the carriages that would transport them to the church. The press didn’t get wind of the wedding until the very last minute, and they arrived just in time to catch some footage of Kate and Jim leaving the church. The wedding was followed by a reception at the Crooked Billet Pub, where the guests feasted on bangers and mash, a favourite dish of Kate’s. Later, the newlyweds headed off to their honeymoon on Scotland’s West Coast.
On October 12, 2000, Kate and Jim welcomed their first child, a little girl named Mia!
(Written 2001)
March 2007