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KATE WINSLET BIOGRAPHY |
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Kate Winslet was born October 5, 1975 in Reading,
England. She was born into an family of people in the theatre,
and it seemed to Kate that it was the natural thing to do to go
into it. Her first role ever was a the Virgin Mary, at age 5.
From that point on, she had caught the acting bug.She attended
Redroofs, a performing arts school in Maidenhead, until age 16.
Kate's first job was in a Sugar Puffs cereal commercial. After
that, she appeared in a few television series. On one of them,
Dark Season, she met Stephan Tredre, many years her senior, who
became Kate's first real love interest. They were together for
quite some time, and continued to be extremily close. Stephan
passed away in December, of cancer, causing Kate to miss the
Hollywood premier of Titanic
During her childhood, and into her teen years, Kate's 5'6''
frame weighed as much as 185 pounds, which led to her to acquire
the nickname ''Blubber'' in school. Her weight has since become
a non-issue in my opinion, but one that still causes her to get
press about. Personally, one of the reasons why I like Kate is
that she looks like a normal person, not someone who looks like
they have been stranded on a desert island for five months
eating nothing but berries and moss.Anyway, Kate's first movie
role was in Heavenly Creatures, the much acclaimed New Zealand
film about the true story oftwo girls whose relationship becomes
so close that it causes them to do a drastic thing to be
together. Kate plays one of those girls, Juliet Hulme. After
Heavenly Creatures in 1994, Kate had a role in Disney's A Kid in
King Arthurs Court, as Princess Sarah and her Oscar-nominated
role a Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility, both movies
released in 1995. She followed up with the part of Sue Bridehead
in Jude and Ophelia in Kenneth Branagh's wonderous Hamlet
Currently, Kate has the starring role (she beats out Leonardo in
my mind) in James Cameron's amazing, heart-wrenching, wonderful
Titanic, as Rose Dewitt Bukater, the 17-year old wild beauty
trapped in the heart of Philidelphia high society. Kate got a
second Oscar nomination for her part as Rose (also a Golden
Globe nomination, which, unfourtunately, went to Judi Densch,
who is also an incredible actress, but still...) Kate also
recieved a nomination for best actress from the Screen Actors
Guild Awards. If you haven't yet seen Titanic, run, don't walk,
to you're nearest movie theatre. You won't be sorry!Kate's
future projects include a movie called Hideous Kinky, which is
set to be released in June, 1998. The film has yet to be picked
up by a North American production company, but hopefully that
will change! It is based on the novel of the same title by Anna
Freud (grandaughter of the famous Sigmund). Kate stars as a
young British mother of two in the 1960's who is travelling
around Morroco with her two young daughters. She also slated to
do a new film with director Jane Campion called Holy Smoke. |
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