Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Kate Winslet – British Celebrity, Actress, Singer


Kate Winslet – British Celebrity, Actress, Singer
Kate Winslet is the youngest actress who was nominated six times for Academy Award and won the Academy Award in best actress category for the film The Reader in 2008. 

The British celebrity actress full name is Kate Elizabeth Winslet, CBE. She was born in October 05, 1975 in Berkshire in England. Winslet was born into a family of actors in theater. Her parents are Roger Winslet and Sally Bridges Winslet. Kate Winslet is the second among her brethren Joss Winslet, Anna Winslet and Beth Winslet.

Raised in Berkshire at age 11 began studying acting at the Redroofs Theatre School and at 12 she made ​​her first television appearance by participating in an Addirected by Tim Pope. 
She studied drama from childhood, and in 1991 began her career in television on the series Dark Season of the BBC, followed by the TV movie Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1992), the sitcom Get Back for ITV and an episode of Casualtyin 1993.
In 1994, director Peter Jackson offered her first chance in the film environment in Heavenly Creatures, in which Kate played Juliet, a teenager in love with a friend whose mother had been killed by the two co-starring with Zealand actress Melanie Lynskey. Winslet was awarded the Empire Award for her performance. 
In 1995 participated in Adventures in King Arthur's Court as Princess Sarah. Then she added Sense and Sensibility, directed by Ang Lee. Kate starred as the amorous, impulsive Marianne Dashwood, who, after a head-on collision with reality, is forced to mature. Since then, the actress's face was associated with certain ideal of romance and classic heroine.
This paper showed the antique woman in her next two films, shot in 1996 : Jude, based on the work of Thomas Hardy , in which she plays the role of Sue, a poor woman, mother of two and ahead of its time and where shares scene with Christopher Eccleston , who plays her cousin while her lover is. Kenneth Branagh told her to his version of Hamlet , in which Kate playing Ophelia, deeply in love with the Danish prince whose rejection the initiated on the madness and then to a tragic death.
Between these two recent shootings, she received the BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress Award and Screen Actors Guild in the same category, as well as her first nomination for the Oscar for Sense and Sensibility. Although the award went to Mira Sorvino, her name began to catch on.
The director James Cameron sent an offer to act in his film Titanic. Kate Winslet works with Billy Zane, Kathy Bates, Leonardo DiCaprio, Gloria Stuart & Frances Fisher in the film. Kate receives his first nomination for Best Actress Oscar for her performance in the Titanic
She achieved great recognition through participation in Sense and Sensibility in 1995, and worldwide fame for Titanic in 1997. Since 2000, its various interpretations in Quills , Iris , Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind , Finding Neverland , The Holiday , Flushed Away , Little Children , The Reader and Revolutionary Road , among others, have been highly valued. The magazine New York named her the ‘Best Actress Anglo speaker of her generation’.
While in the filming of Dark Season the actress met writer Stephen Tredre with whom she maintained a relationship for four years. Winslet and Tredre decided by mutual agreement to end their relationship in 1995. He died of cancer while she was on the Titanic prestreno in Los Angeles but left for London to attend the funeral. It was during the filming of this movie when it became a very good friendship with Leonardo DiCaprio, which continues today.
In November 1998, Winslet married director Jim Threapleton, whom she met in 1997 on the set of Hideous Kinky. On October 12 of 2000 gave birth to her daughter, Mia Honey Threapleton. Winslet and Threapleton filed for divorce with mutual consent on 13 December 2001.
After her separation from Threapleton, she began a connection with director Sam Mendes; she married with him on May 24, 2003. Their son, Joe Alfie Winslet Mendes, was born on 22December, 2003. Winslet and Mendes announced their separation in March 2010 and signed the divorce, but still maintain a cordial friendship.
The November 21 of 2012 was honored by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom as commander of the Order of the British Empire.
In December 2012, Kate married shrinks back Ned Rocknroll. Currently the couple is expecting their first child together, third times for Kate.
Kate Winslet has won the most prestigious awards of the film industry in 2009 was awarded the Oscar as best actress for her performance in The Reader. That same year two simultaneous won a Golden Globe for The Reader and Revolutionary Road, in the categories of Best Supporting Actress and Best Actress in a Drama, respectively. She has also been awarded the BAFTA on two occasions: first, in 1995 as Best Supporting Actress for Sense and Sensibility and the second, in 2008 as Best Actress for The Reader. Kate Winslet has achieved a total of six nominations at the Oscars, seven nominations Golden Globe nominations, and seven nominations in BAFTA.


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