Kate Winslet biography
July 2, 2010 by
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Kate Elizabeth Winslet (October 5, 1975, Reading, England) is a British actress and occasional singer, who won an Academy Award, two Golden Globes, two BAFTA Awards, two Screen Actors Guild award, a prize Bambi European film award and a Grammy. It is one of the few actresses who has managed to make the four main acting awards for her performance in The Reader. For this and other achievements is considered one of the best actresses of her generation.
Early
He was born into a family of theater actors. His parents are Roger Winslet and Sally Bridges-Winslet. It is the second among his brethren Anna Winslet, Joss Winslet and Beth Winslet. At age 11 she began studying acting at the Redroofs Theatre School in Maidenhead, Berkshire.
At 12 she made her first appearance on television, participating in a commercial.
In 1991 started her career in television series Dark Season of the BBC, followed by the TV movie Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1992), the sitcom Get Back to ITV and an episode of Casualty in 1993.
In 1994, director Peter Jackson offered him his first opportunity 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 the New Zealand actress Melanie Lynskey .
Then he joined Sense and Sensibility (1995, directed by Ang Lee. Kate portrayed the amorous, impulsive Marianne Dashwood, who after a head-on collision with reality was forced to mature. Since that time, was associated for a time face of the actress to a certain ideal of classic romanticism and heroin. So in Jude (1996), based on the work of Thomas Hardy, played the role of Sue, a poor woman a mother of two, used to spend all miseries.
Kenneth Branagh had it for their version of Hamlet, in which Kate played Ophelia, deeply in love with the Danish prince and the rejection of which first brought him to madness, and then to a tragic death.
Among the latter two films, received the BAFTA for best supporting actress and Screen Actors Guild awards in the same category, as well as his first Oscar nomination for Sense and Sensibility. Although the prize went to Mira Sorvino, his name began to be popular.
[Edit] Titanic and stardom
The director James Cameron sent him the script for Titanic. Before you decide, Kate met with Emma Thompson, who had worked in Sense and Sensibility. Emma, after reading the script, I said to Kate: “Honey, you have to accept it.” In this way, Kate joined the shooting of a film produced by two large studies. In it, the actress was a romantic heroine who breaks the strict rules of society that was part, to start living their own lives, to survive the sinking of the ship first and maintain its independent spirit. Kathy Bates, Billy Zane, Leonardo DiCaprio, Frances Fisher, Gloria Stuart accompanied her on a trip to the end of which, Kate receiving her first Oscar nomination for best actress. During the ceremony, Kate was up to the audience throughout the film crew, and its application one of the few who missed the film. So strong was the impact of Titanic, Kate wanted to change the content in future films.
