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Leonardo DiCaprio is called Uncle Leo by Winslet’s children; he bought her an inscribed gold ring after filming Revolutionary Road 2008, but she keeps the inscription secret.
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When promoting The Holiday 2006 on Good Morning America, a clip of a supposed Sugar Puff commercial was shown but was not her. Winslet kept quiet to avoid embarrassing the researcher, earning praise for her kindness.
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She missed the premiere of Titanic 1997 to attend the funeral of close friend and former boyfriend Stephen Tredre.
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She married Ned Rocknroll in a secret New York ceremony with only her children and six friends present; Leonardo DiCaprio gave the bride away.
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The Holiday 2006 was her first contemporary film using her own accent; she had trouble not lapsing into an American accent.
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She is only the third person to win two Golden Globe acting awards in the same year Best Actress Drama for Revolutionary Road and Best Supporting Actress for The Reader in 2009.
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She was terrified of Alan Rickman when first meeting him on Sense and Sensibility 1995 but later became great friends and developed a crush on him.
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Virgin Group billionaire Richard Branson credited Winslet with helping carry his 90-year-old mother out of his burning Caribbean house; this inspired the name of her son Bear Blaze.
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Her personal favorite performance is in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind 2004.
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She has appeared in five Best Picture Oscar nominees: Sense and Sensibility, Titanic, Finding Neverland, The Reader, and Avatar: The Way of Water. Titanic won.
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She and Gloria Stuart were the first two actresses nominated for playing the same character in the same film Rose in Titanic. She and Judi Dench were the second Iris.
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On the day she filmed the straitjacket scene in Hamlet 1996, she learned she won the role of Rose in Titanic.
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She has not had to audition for any role since Titanic 1997.
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She was working in a deli when she landed her first film role in Heavenly Creatures 1994.
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She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on March 17, 2014, at 6262 Hollywood Boulevard; James Cameron and Kathy Bates spoke.
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She turned down lead roles in Shakespeare in Love 1998 and Anna and the King 1999.
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Leonardo DiCaprio stated in a 2016 Golden Globes red carpet interview that Winslet is his favorite actress and he would love to work with her again.
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Her performance as Clementine Kruczynski in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is ranked #81 on Premiere’s 100 Greatest Performances of All Time.
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She was five months pregnant with Bear Blaze while filming Divergent 2014; she carried folders to hide the bump in master shots.
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She recorded the ballad What If? for the Christmas Carol: The Movie soundtrack; it reached #6 in the UK and has 19 million YouTube views.
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She was awarded CBE in the 2012 Queen’s Birthday Honours List for services to drama.
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She was devastated by Alan Rickman’s death in 2016 and gave a tearful tribute at the London Critics Awards.
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She authored The Golden Hat: Talking Back to Autism to raise awareness and support; proceeds go to The Golden Hat Foundation.
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She auditioned for Elizabeth in Kenneth Branagh’s Frankenstein 1994 but did not get the role; Branagh later cast her as Ophelia in Hamlet 1996.
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She has worked with eight Best Director Oscar winners: Peter Jackson, Ang Lee, James Cameron, Jane Campion, Sam Mendes, Roman Polanski, Danny Boyle, and Woody Allen.
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She gave birth to Bear Blaze on December 7, 2013, at age 38; the name Bear came from an old friend’s nickname and Blaze because she and her husband met in a house fire.
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She was originally cast as Nola Rice in Match Point 2005 but dropped out to spend time with her child; Scarlett Johansson took the role.
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She is the third-youngest actress at age 40 to have received seven Academy Award nominations, behind Bette Davis and Meryl Streep.
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She was considered for Bridget Jones in Bridget Jones’s Diary but deemed too young; Renée Zellweger got the role.
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Producers of The Reader tried to campaign her as Supporting Actress but the Academy nominated her as Lead, leaving out Revolutionary Road.
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She won Best Actress at the Toronto Film Festival for Heavenly Creatures, shared with Melanie Lynskey.
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She learned to sew for her role in The Dressmaker 2015 and assisted costume designer Margot Wilson.
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She resides in West Sussex, England, with main home in Itchenor and a New York City home in Chelsea.
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She gave birth to daughter Mia Honey Threapleton on October 12, 2000, at age 25; father is Jim Threapleton.
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She began attending Redroofs Theatre School at age 11.
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Her daughter Mia was delivered by Cesarean section, which made Winslet feel she had not given birth properly until son Joe was born naturally.
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As of 2015, she is one of six performers to win a Golden Globe Best Lead Actress in a Drama without an Oscar nomination for that role Revolutionary Road, but she won an Oscar for a different role the same year.
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She was offered the role of Eowyn in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, which went to Miranda Otto.
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She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Manchester Evening News Award for her theatre role in What the Butler Saw.
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After Heavenly Creatures, a reviewer predicted she would always be typecast and never be a huge star.
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She sold her North London home in Belsize Park to Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin.
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She has appeared on over 300 magazine covers worldwide.
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Kate was the first actress considered for River Song in Doctor Who, which went to Alex Kingston.
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She is one of 13 actresses to have won the Academy Award, BAFTA, Critics’ Choice, Golden Globe, and SAG Award for the same performance The Reader.
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She took a year off from April 2006 to April 2007 to spend time with family.
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She won Best Spoken Word Album for Children at the Grammy Awards, shared with Graham Greene.
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She gave birth to son Joe Alfie Winslet Mendes on December 22, 2003, at age 28; father is Sam Mendes.
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She completed filming A Little Chaos 2014 while three months pregnant with Bear Blaze and performed a stunt fall into a weir without revealing the pregnancy.
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Her first screen kiss was with Melanie Lynskey in Heavenly Creatures 1994.
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She credits Jodie Foster’s portrayal of Iris in Taxi Driver 1976 as the role that changed her perception of acting.
