Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born October 5, 1975 in Reading, Berkshire, England) is an English actress most famous for her role as Rose DeWitt Bukater in the 1997 blockbuster film Titanic.

Her career began on television, with a co-starring role in the BBC children's science-fiction serial Dark Season in 1991, followed by an appearance in an episode of the medical drama Casualty in 1993, also for the BBC.

Winslet's film career took off in 1994 when she performed her first leading role as Juliet Hulme in Peter Jackson's critically acclaimed Heavenly Creatures. Since then, she has acted in several films, such as Sense and Sensibility, Titanic, Iris, Finding Neverland, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Little Children, earning her six Oscar nominations, one of which led to a Best Actress win (for The Reader).

Her home town of Reading has named a street - Winslet Place - in her honour, built on the site of a demolished cinema. Winslet is famous for her curvaceous figure and the media, in England in particular, have enthusiastically documented her weight fluctuations over the years. Winslet, a former anorexic, has been outspoken about her refusal to lose weight in order to conform to the Hollywood “ideal”. In February 2003, the British edition of GQ magazine published photographs of Winslet which had been airbrushed to make her look dramatically thinner than she really was; Winslet issued a statement saying that the alterations were made without her consent.

 

On November 22, 1998, Winslet married director Jim Threapleton, with whom she has a daughter named Mia Honey. After her divorce in 2001, she began a relationship with director Sam Mendes. Winslet married Mendes on May 24, 2003 on the island of Anguilla in the West Indies, and their son Joe Alfie Winslet-Mendes was born on December 22, 2003. The couple separated in March 2010.

Mildred Pierce (TV-2010), The Reader (2008), Revolutionary Road (2008), Holiday (2006), Little Children (2006, All the King's Men (2006), Romance & Cigarettes (2005),  Finding Neverland (2004), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), The Life of David Gale (2003), Iris (2001), Enigma (2001), Quills (2000), Holy Smoke (1999), Hideous Kinky (1998), Titanic (1997), Hamlet (1996) Sense and Sensibility (1995), A Kid in King Arthur's Court (1995) Heavenly Creatures (1994)