By Hugh Davies, Entertainment Correspondent

THE strain of Kate Winslet's broken marriage was evident yesterday. Hours after she was nominated for a best actress award, she still seemed immersed in her own troubled world.

A forlorn figure, she arrived with her estranged husband, Jim Threapleton, at their north London home, both saying little.

Winslet, 25, skipped the London premiere of Enigma earlier this week. The £19 million film's producer, Mick Jagger, said she was having a problem coping with the limelight.

In fact, reviews of her performance, in a Joyce Grenfell mode as a mousy clerk at Bletchley Park in 1943 during the cracking of Nazi codes, have been as good as her Oscar-nominated role in Sense and Sensibility.

But she was pale and bleary-eyed yesterday, dressed in old jeans, a black leather jacket and thick scarf. Her husband, a film director she met on the set of Hideous Kinky in 1997, looked even more dishevelled.

Winslet said earlier this month that the break-up was extremely sad. She added that their daughter, Mia, remained a happy child.

Her nomination yesterday was part of the British Independent Film Awards to be presented on Oct 24. She is in competition for the best actress prize with Samantha Morton for Pandemonium, Kate Ashfield for Late Night Shopping and Susan Lynch for Beautiful Creatures.

Source: UK Telegraph