PLACE: Reading,Berkshire, England
Kate Elizabeth Winslet, CBE is an English actress and
singer. She was the youngest person to accrue six Academy Award nominations,
and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Reader (2008). She has won
awards from the Screen Actors Guild, British Academy of Film and Television
Arts, and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association among others, and has been
nominated twice for an Emmy Award for television acting, winning once for her
role as Mildred Pierce in the 2011 mini-series of the same name. In 2012 she
received the Honorary César Award for her life and acting career.
Brought up in Berkshire, Winslet studied drama from
childhood, and began her career in British television in 1991. She made her
film debut in Heavenly Creatures (1994), for which she received her first
notable critical praise. She achieved recognition for her subsequent work in a
supporting role in Sense and Sensibility (1995) and for her leading role in
Titanic (1997), the highest-grossing film in the world at the time.