| notable role = '''Marianne Dashwood''' in ''
Sense and Sensibility''
'''Rose DeWitt Bukater''' in ''
Titanic''
'''Young Iris Murdoch''' in ''
Iris''
'''Clementine Kruczynski''' in ''
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind''
}}
'''Katherine "Kate" Elizabeth Winslet''' (born October 5, 1975) is a BAFTA Award winning English actress. She is noted for having played a wide range of diverse characters over her career. Though her best known role may be that of Rose DeWitt Bukater in the highest-grossing film of all time, ''
Titanic'' (1997), she was also highly regarded for her first role as Juliet Hulme in ''
Heavenly Creatures'' (1994).
Although Winslet has not won an Academy Award, she has been highly favoured by the Academy, and holds two records in that area: the youngest person to receive two Oscar nominations, and the most Oscar nominations of any actor before the age of 30 (having received a total of four nominations by that age).
Biography
Early life
Winslet was born in Reading, Berkshire to Roger Winslet and Sally Bridges, both of whom were actors. Her maternal grandparents, Oliver and Linda Bridges, founded and operated the Reading Repertory, and her uncle, Robert Bridges, appeared in the original West End production of ''Oliver!'' Her sisters are Beth Winslet and Anna Winslet, also actresses.
Winslet, raised an Anglican, began studying drama at the age of eleven at Redroofs stage school http://www.redroofs.co.uk/information.html#day2, and was soon cast as a spokesperson for a cereal in television commercials.
Career
Winslet's career began on television, with a co-starring role in the BBC children's science-fiction serial ''Dark Season'' in 1991, followed by appearances in the made-for-tv movie ''Anglo-Saxon Attitudes'' in 1992 and an episode of the medical drama ''Casualty'' in 1993, also for the BBC.
Winslet's film career took off in 1994 when she starred in a joint leading role, as Juliet Hulme in director Peter Jackson's critically acclaimed ''
Heavenly Creatures'', playing a vivacious and imaginative teen who helps her best friend murder her mother when they are not allowed to be together. This role was followed by the successful film ''
Sense and Sensibility'' (co-starring Emma Thompson), which made her well-known, especially in the UK. Winslet became famous world-wide after the 1997 release of ''
Titanic'', which was the most expensive film of all time, and became the highest-grossing film of all time after several months in release, grossing $600 million at the United States box office.
Winslet has also enjoyed a brief taste of success as a singer, with her single What If? from soundtrack of Christmas Carol: The Movie, which
