“All right, you're a spoiled little brat even, but under that you're the
most amazingly astoundingly wonderful girl - woman I've ever known and...”
So did Jack (Leonardo de Caprio) said to lovely Rose (Kate Winslet) in the
sought after and biggest box office hit in history – Titanic.
Astoundingly wonderful indeed, Kate Winslet is considered to be one of the
UK’s firs-rate and most booming young actresses. She was nominated twice for
Oscars for the roles she played in Sense and Sensibility and Titanic.
Unlike other popular Hollywood stars, Kate Winslet spurned major Hollywood
productions in favor of British pieces (the most) – independent, smaller but
none the less interesting. Many were surprised when subsequently she had
Hideous Kinky after Titanic. This movie was written and directed by Max
Newsom and was called Plunge. Moreover, this was cobbled jointly for just
£30,000 . More than this, she has also famously disparages the coercive
statements put upon young women by the film industry and in the macro level
the society.
Kate Winslet (Kate Elizabethe Winslet – real name) was born on October 5th,
1975, in Reading, Berkshire. She has a brother named Joss and two sisters,
Anna and Beth. Her family history was embedded with thespian endowment – her
mother’s parents, Oliver and Linda, operated the Reading Repertory Theatre;
her father together with her sisters Beth and Anna where in they perform on
many Casualty episodes. Casualty was a show that provided Kate the help to
early acting appearances’ two of her father’s twin lineage played in
vaudeville; and her uncle Robert Bridges acquired roles in various
productions particularly as Mr. Bumble in the original version of West End
of Oliver.
Drawn as "champagne and caviar for movie-goers with good taste" and "the
most gifted actress of her generation," she got her first major taste of TV
acting was in 1991 where she played a role of the rebel Reet in Dark Season
- a bizzare kids' adventure with two three-parters (six episodes).
Moving on, she became part of the comedy series created by famous Maurice
Gran and Laurence Marks, Get Back. Here she played as Eleanor, a little girl
disturbed by their family’s fall down from grace but still cheered by her
father's small triumphs.
Her first official accolade was being nominated by the Manchester Evening
News as Best Supporting Actress of 1994 in her role as Geraldine in What the
Butler Saw.
Other accolades include a British Academy Award, European Film People's
Choice Award, Screen Actors Guild award, and awards from fans and critics.
Among other movies of Kate Winslet are: Holy Smoke in 1999, Hideous Kinky
(1999), Quills (2000), Iris: A Memoir of Iris Murdoch (2001), Enigma (2002),
The Life of David Gale (2003), Finding Neverland (2004), and Eternal
Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004). |
