![]() ![]() The film won numerous Academy Awards, including best picture and best director, and scored Winslet her second Academy Award nomination, this time for best actress. She then appeared as Ophelia in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (1996), and landed squarely on the A-list of leading ladies with her performance as Rose DeWitt, the heroine of James Cameron's record-breaking blockbuster Titanic (1997). In a similarly high-brow role, Winslet starred with Christopher Eccleston in Jude, a modern interpretation of the Thomas Hardy novel Jude the Obscure. ![]() The film also earned high praise from critics. As the winsome Marianne Dashwood-the "sensibility" of the movie-Winslet earned an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress. The actress proved she could hold her own across from screen legends such as Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman. Winslet attracted even more attention with her next role in Ang Lee's film adaptation of the Jane Austen novel Sense and Sensibility (1995). In the film, Winslet played Juliet Hulme, a schoolgirl with tuberculosis whose obsessive friendship with a classmate leads the two girls to murder the classmate's mother in order to avoid separation. Winslet appeared on the British stage in productions such as Adrian Mole and Peter Pan, and had a recurring role on the British sitcom Get Back, before landing her debut film role in Heavenly Creatures (1994), directed by Peter Jackson. In 1988, she appeared on the TV series Shrinks three years later, she left school to pursue her fledgling acting career. Winslet began acting as a child, making her first appearance on British television at age 7 in a cereal commercial. Early Careerīorn on October 5, 1975, in Reading, England, Kate Elizabeth Winslet is the granddaughter of two theater managers (her maternal grandparents founded Reading Repertory Theatre) and the daughter of two actors. She has also received several Golden Globes, including wins for Revolutionary Road, Mildred Pierce and Steve Jobs. She has since starred in several films and won the best actress Oscar for The Reader. In 1997 she had the lead role in Titanic, which propelled her to international stardom. She starred on the British stage until the mid-1990s, when she appeared in her first film, Heavenly Creatures. ![]()
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