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Kate Winslet was born
October 5, 1975 in Reading, England. She was born into an
family of people in the theatre, and it seemed to Kate that it
was the natural thing to do to go into it. Her first role ever
was a the Virgin Mary, at age 5. From that point on, she had
caught the acting bug.She attended Redroofs, a performing arts
school in Maidenhead, until age 16. Kate's first job was in a
Sugar Puffs cereal commercial. After that, she appeared in a
few television series. On one of them, Dark Season, she met
Stephan Tredre, many years her senior, who became Kate's first
real love interest. They were together for quite some time,
and continued to be extremily close. Stephan passed away in
December, of cancer, causing Kate to miss the Hollywood
premier of Titanic
During her childhood, and into her teen years, Kate's 5'6''
frame weighed as much as 185 pounds, which led to her to
acquire the nickname ''Blubber'' in school. Her weight has
since become a non-issue in my opinion, but one that still
causes her to get press about. Personally, one of the reasons
why I like Kate is that she looks like a normal person, not
someone who looks like they have been stranded on a desert
island for five months eating nothing but berries and
moss.Anyway, Kate's first movie role was in Heavenly
Creatures, the much acclaimed New Zealand film about the true
story oftwo girls whose relationship becomes so close that it
causes them to do a drastic thing to be together. Kate plays
one of those girls, Juliet Hulme. After Heavenly Creatures in
1994, Kate had a role in Disney's A Kid in King Arthurs Court,
as Princess Sarah and her Oscar-nominated role a Marianne
Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility, both movies released in
1995. She followed up with the part of Sue Bridehead in Jude
and Ophelia in Kenneth Branagh's wonderous Hamlet
Currently, Kate has the starring role (she beats out Leonardo
in my mind) in James Cameron's amazing, heart-wrenching,
wonderful Titanic, as Rose Dewitt Bukater, the 17-year old
wild beauty trapped in the heart of Philidelphia high society.
Kate got a second Oscar nomination for her part as Rose (also
a Golden Globe nomination, which, unfourtunately, went to Judi
Densch, who is also an incredible actress, but still...) Kate
also recieved a nomination for best actress from the Screen
Actors Guild Awards. If you haven't yet seen Titanic, run,
don't walk, to you're nearest movie theatre. You won't be
sorry!Kate's future projects include a movie called Hideous
Kinky, which is set to be released in June, 1998. The film has
yet to be picked up by a North American production company,
but hopefully that will change! It is based on the novel of
the same title by Anna Freud (grandaughter of the famous
Sigmund). Kate stars as a young British mother of two in the
1960's who is travelling around Morroco with her two young
daughters. She also slated to do a new film with director Jane
Campion called Holy Smoke. |
