Kate Winslet
Kate Winslet
Kate Elizabeth Winslet, CBE, is an English actress and singer. She is the recipient of an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, four Golden Globe Awards, a Grammy Award, an AACTA Award, and three BAFTA Awards. She is the youngest person to receive six Academy Award nominations with seven nominations in total, and is one of the few actresses to win three of the four major American entertainment awards. In addition, she has won awards from the Screen Actors Guild, British...
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth5 October 1975
CityReading, England
What I've learned about acting is that it needs to be mysterious. If you overthink how a beat needs to be played, it can trip you up.
We all get cracked nipples, mastitis and frantically do pelvic floor exercises' - on being just like any other Mum
Whenever I go to L.A., the make-up artist or hairdresser will end up having a conversation about how fat they think they are, and I really just can't take it seriously at all.
You can't choose who you fall in love with, you know?
It's often assumed that British actors read Shakespeare and sonnets as we're going to bed at night and we're all very familiar with it.
It's what you feel, what is in your heart that matters most.
I did absolutely grow up in a world surrounded by people who were always performing and being flamboyant.
There were nineteen years between my grandparents, and I was in a relationship for five years from the age of fifteen to twenty with a man who was thirteen years older than me who remains one of the loves of my life, and he passed away when I was twenty years old.
You have to forgive me because I have a habit of not winning things.
When I was doing 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' I was asked, 'If there was one part of your life that you could erase, what would it be?' And I was so stunned by that. I thought: 'Nothing.' I would keep all the good bits and the bad bits, because those things made me who I am.
I think heartbreak is something that you learn to live with as opposed to learn to forget.
I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.
Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
I do like being busy. I'm not the kind of person who just sits around and goes to a spa when I'm not working.