Kate Winslet

Kate Winslet is an English actress whose work since the early 1990s has won her an Academy Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and four BAFTA Film Awards. She was born Kate Elizabeth Winslet on October 5, 1975, in Reading, Berkshire, into a family of working actors; her grandparents ran the Reading Repertory Theatre Company. She trained at the Redroofs Theatre School and made her television debut at age 11 in a BBC children's adventure serial.

Her film debut came at 17 as the murderous teenager Juliet Hulme in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures (1994). She received her first Academy Award nomination for playing Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility (1995).

James Cameron cast her as Rose DeWitt Bukater in Titanic (1997), opposite Leonardo DiCaprio; the film was the highest-grossing in cinema history at the time of its release and earned her a second Academy Award nomination. She received further nominations for Iris (2001), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), and Little Children (2006), and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as former concentration-camp guard Hanna Schmitz in The Reader (2008).

She reunited with DiCaprio under the direction of her then-husband Sam Mendes in Revolutionary Road (2008), and received her seventh Academy Award nomination for Steve Jobs (2015). She won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series for HBO's Mildred Pierce (2011) and again for Mare of Easttown (2021), in which she played a Pennsylvania detective. She was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2012. Other notable films include Sense and Sensibility, Quills (2000), The Holiday (2006), Mildred Pierce, and Avatar: The Way of Water (2022).

Her given name Kate is a short form of Katherine, from the Greek Aikaterinē; the name has been linked since the Middle Ages to the Greek katharos meaning "pure," though its original etymology remains debated. Kate has been used as an English given name since the medieval period.