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Name: Kate Elizabeth Winslet
Nicknames: Combat Kate, English Rose
Birthdate: October 5, 1975
Birthplace: Reading, England
Height: 5′7"
Hair color: Honey blonde
Shoe size: 11

Parents: Roger & Sally Winslet

Siblings: Anna, Beth, and Joss

Spouse: Sam Mendes
Jim Threapleton | divorced (1998-2001)
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Children: Mia Honey Threapleton (2000)
Joe Alfie Winslet-Mendes (2003)

Residences: Cotswolds, England
New York City

Upcoming Projects:
Romance & Cigarettes | Summer 2006
All the Kings Men | September 22, 2006
Flushed Away | November 3, 2006
Little Children | TBA 2006
The Holiday | December 8, 2006
Gnomeo & Juliet (voice) | 2008

Kate was born and raised in Reading England in a family of struggling actors. In fact, grandpa had a theater in his backyard, where the family would stage their own plays. Acting was an obvious career choice for Ms. Winslet. Her first role was that of Mary in a school play, at the tender age of 5.

Kate Winslet is known the world over for her breakthrough performance in the world’s highest grossing movie of all time, Titanic. Yet, Ms. Winslet had been nominated for an Academy Award prior to this film for her work in the Jane Austen epic Sense and Sensibility. which won Emma Thompson an Academy Award for screenplay adaptation. Kate’s success in Titanic might have appeared sudden to some, but it was actually her sixth film. Before stepping onto the set of Titanic Kate had worked with some of the finest directors the filmmaking world had to offer: Peter Jackson, Kenneth Branagh, and Ang Lee.

Ms. Winslet has been nominated for four Academy Awards, most recently for her brilliant role as Clementine in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotles Mind, acknowledged by many to be her best work to date. Her upcoming movie roles include All the King’s Men, with co-stars Jude Law and Sean Penn, and a quirky musical directed by John Torturro co-starring James Gandolfini, Susan Surandon, and Christopher Walken.

Kate just recently began filming a romantic comedy by Nancy Meyers, What Women Want, with Jack Black as her love interest also starring Cameron Diaz and Jude Law.