Kate Winslet
69 movies · 15 TV shows
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Oct 5, 1975 (age 51)
- Place of birth
- Reading, Berkshire, England, UK
- Also known as
- Kate Elizabeth Winslet · केट विंसलेट
Biography
Kate Elizabeth Winslet (/ˈwɪnzlət/; born 5 October 1975) is an English actress. Primarily known for her roles as headstrong and complicated women in independent films, particularly period dramas, she has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, five BAFTA Awards and five Golden Globe Awards. She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in 2012.
Winslet studied drama at the Redroofs Theatre School. Her first screen appearance, at age fifteen, was in the British television series Dark Season (1991). She made her film debut playing a teenage murderess in Heavenly Creatures (1994). She went on to win a BAFTA Award for playing Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility(1995). Global stardom followed with her leading role in James Cameron's epic romance Titanic (1997), which was the highest-grossing film at the time. Winslet then eschewed parts in blockbusters in favour of critically acclaimed period pieces, including Quills (2000) and Iris (2001).
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The science fiction romance Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), in which Winslet was cast against type in a contemporary setting, proved to be a turning point in her career. She gained further recognition for her performances in Finding Neverland (2004), Little Children (2006), The Holiday (2006), Revolutionary Road (2008), and The Reader (2008). For playing a former Nazi camp guard in the last, she won the BAFTA Award and the Academy Award for Best Actress. Winslet has since portrayed historical figures in Steve Jobs (2015) and Lee (2023), and has received two Primetime Emmy Awards for her performances in the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce (2011) and Mare of Easttown (2021).
For her narration of a short story in the audiobook Listen to the Storyteller (1999), Winslet won a Grammy Award. She performed the song "What If" for the soundtrack of her film, Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001). A co-founder of the charity Golden Hat Foundation, which aims to create autism awareness, Winslet has also written a book on the topic. Divorced from film directors Jim Threapleton and Sam Mendes, Winslet has been married to businessman Edward Abel Smith since 2012. She has a child from each marriage, two of whom are the actors Mia Threapleton and Joe Anders.
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Known for
Kate Winslet: movies and TV shows
Acting (84)
- Upcoming Charlie vs. the Chocolate Factory
as (voice)
- Upcoming The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum
as Marigol
- Upcoming Naya: Legend of the Golden Dolphin
as Queen Cupid (voice)
- Upcoming
- 2026 Proust Palimpsesto: Pastiches e Misturas
as Clementine Kruczynski (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 2026 Finding Harmony: A King's Vision
as Narrator (voice over)
- 2025 Avatar: Fire and Ash
as Ronal
- 2025 Goodbye June
as Julia
- 2025 DreamScapes
as Mother Earth (voice)
- 2024 Lee
as Elizabeth 'Lee' Miller
- 2024
- 2023
- 2022 Avatar: The Way of Water
as Ronal
- 2022 Eleven Days in May
as Narrator
- 2021 Eating Our Way to Extinction
as Narrator (voice)
- 2021
- 2021 Baba Yaga
as Baba Yaga (voice)
- 2020 Black Beauty
as Black Beauty (voice)
- 2020 Ammonite
as Mary Anning
- 2020
- 2019 The Christmas Letter
as Narrator (voice)
- 2019 Blackbird
as Jennifer
- 2019
- 2019 Manou the Swift
as Manou's Mother(voice)
- 2018 Buttons
as Narrator (voice)
- 2018 The Kodiak Queen
as Narrator
- 2017 Snow Bears
as Narrator (voice)
- 2017 Wonder Wheel
as Ginny
- 2017 The Mountain Between Us
as Alex Martin
- 2017 Diana: The Day Britain Cried
as Narrator (voice)
- 2016 Collateral Beauty
as Claire Wilson
- 2016 The Lost Letter
as Narrator (voice)
- 2016 Daisy Chain
as Buttercup Bree (voice)
- 2016 Triple 9
as Irina Vlaslov
- 2015 Snow Chick - A Penguin's Tale
as Narrator (voice)
- 2015 The Dressmaker
as Myrtle "Tilly" Dunnage
- 2015 Steve Jobs
as Joanna Hoffman
- 2015 A Little Chaos
as Sabine De Barra
- 2015 Insurgent
as Jeanine Matthews
- 2014 Divergent
as Jeanine
- 2013 Labor Day
as Adele
- 2013 Movie 43
as Beth (segment "The Catch")
- 2012 Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
as (archive footage)
- 2011 Discovering Hamlet
as Ophelia (archive footage)
- 2011 Carnage
as Nancy Cowan
- 2011 Contagion
as Erin Mears
- 2011
- 2008 Revolutionary Road
as April Wheeler
- 2008 The Reader
as Hanna Schmitz
- 2008 How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
as Kate Winslet (uncredited)
- 2007
- 2006 The Holiday
as Iris
- 2006 Flushed Away
as Rita (voice)
- 2006 Little Children
as Sarah Pierce
- 2006 All the King's Men
as Anne Stanton
- 2006 Romance & Cigarettes
as Tula
- 2006 Deep Sea 3D
as Narrator (voice)
- 2005
- 2004 Finding Neverland
as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies
- 2004
- 2004
- 2004 Pride
as Suki (voice)
- 2004 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
as Clementine Kruczynski
- 2003 The Life of David Gale
as Bitsey Bloom
- 2002 War Game
as Mum / Annie (voice)
- 2001 Iris
as Young Iris Murdoch
- 2001 Christmas Carol: The Movie
as Belle (voice)
- 2001 Enigma
as Hester Wallace
- 2000 Quills
as Madeleine LeClerc
- 1999 Holy Smoke
as Ruth Barron
- 1999 Hideous Kinky
as Julia
- 1999 Faeries
as Brigid (voice)
- 1997 Titanic
as Rose DeWitt Bukater
- 1996 Hamlet
as Ophelia
- 1996
- 1996 Jude
as Sue Bridehead
- 1995 Sense and Sensibility
as Marianne Dashwood
- 1995 A Kid in King Arthur's Court
as Princess Sarah
- 1994 Heavenly Creatures
as Juliet Hulme
- 1992
- 1992
- 1991
- 1986
- 1982
Behind the camera (5)
- Upcoming
- 2025 Goodbye June
Director, Producer
- 2024 Lee
Producer
- 2024
- 2021
Talk shows and appearances (47)
- 2026 Skip Intro
1 episode
- 2025
- 2025
- 2025 Fire and Water: Making the Avatar Films
2 episodes
- 2023
- 2023 Faut Voir - L'Hebdo cinéma
1 episode
- 2023
- 2022
- 2022 Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
3 episodes
- 2021
- 2019 The Kelly Clarkson Show
2 episodes
- 2018
- 2015 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
3 episodes
- 2015 Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
1 episode
- 2014 Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
3 episodes
- 2014 Running Wild with Bear Grylls
1 episode
- 2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
1 episode
- 2012
- 2009 C à vous
1 episode
- 2007 The Graham Norton Show
10 episodes
- 2006 The One Show
1 episode
- 2004 Who Do You Think You Are?
1 episode
- 2004 Parkinson
2 episodes
- 2003 The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2 episodes
- 2003
- 2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live!
1 episode
- 2001
- 1999 The Early Show
2 episodes
- 1998
- 1998 Parkinson
1 episode
- 1997 The View
3 episodes
- 1997 Leute heute
1 episode
- 1994 Inside the Actors Studio
1 episode
- 1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1 episode
- 1993 GMTV
1 episode
- 1992 HBO First Look
1 episode
- 1992 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
2 episodes
- 1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark
2 episodes
- 1987 Seitenblicke
1 episode
- 1984 Goldene Kamera
1 episode
- 1981 Entertainment Tonight
1 episode
- 1975 Saturday Night Live
1 episode
- 1968 60 Minutes
1 episode
- 1953 The Oscars
4 episodes
- 1952 Today
1 episode
- 1948 Bambi
1 episode
- 1944 Golden Globe Awards
1 episode