Kate Winslet

Kate Elizabeth Winslet is an English actress and occasional singer was born 5 October 1975. She was born into a family of thespians — parents Roger Winslet and Sally Bridges-Winslet were both stage actors. She lives in New York City. She also owns a home in Gloucestershire, England. Kate Winslet is best known for her role of “Rose DeWitt Bukater” alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in Titanic. She was the youngest person to accrue six Academy Award nominations, and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Reader (2008). At age 11, she began attending the acting school Redroofs in Maidenhead, England, UK.

In 1998, she married assistant director Jim Threapleton. They had a daughter, Mia Honey Threapleton, October 2000. They divorced in 2001. She later married director Sam Mendes in 2003 and gave birth to their son, Joe Alfie Winslet-Mendes, later that year. After seven years of marriage, Kate announced that she and Sam amicably separated in February 2010. She was awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2012 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for her accomplishments in film and television.