Famous For
Leading star along side Leonardo DiCaprio in "Titanic"

-SAG Award for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture for "Sense and Sensibility"

-BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
for "Sense and Sensibility"


Quick Bio
British actress Kate Winslet's film career took off with her role in Heavenly Creatures, playing a vivacious and imaginative teen who helps her best friend (played by Melanie Lynskey) murder her mother, when they are not allowed to be together.

This role was followed by the successful film Sense and Sensibility (co-starring Emma Thompson), which made her well-known, especially in the UK. Winslet became famous worldwide after the 1997 release of Titanic, a massive hit which holds the record as highest-grossing film in history at more than US$1.8 billion in box-office worldwide.

Despite Titanic's success, she has continued making lower-budget, independent films, including Hideous Kinky and Holy Smoke!; her roles in these smaller, more artistic films appear to be one of choice—she turned down the lead in Shakespeare in Love to make Hideous Kinky; ironically, she appeared as Ophelia in Kenneth Branagh's version of Hamlet. She was even considered for the role of Satine in "Moulin Rouge!". Throughout her career, she has often turned down other roles in high profile films, such as Anna and the King and Éowyn in The Lord of the Rings film trilogy.