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
I don't go to the gym because I don't have time, but I do Pilates workout DVDs for 20 minutes or more every day at home.
Those days of every child having a mummy and daddy who lived at home - Daddy went to work, and Mummy stayed at home and took care of everyone - those days have almost gone, and it's so much more unconventional now.
I'm not the pedigree kid. I'm not classically trained. I didn't come from the fancy home, no.
I ordinarily do one film a year and the rest of the time I'm at home with the kids. Even when I am working I'm still basically at home and with the kids. I've never left them to go to work.
I don't go to the gym because I don't have time but I do Pilates workout DVDs for 20 minutes or more every day at home
There are moments to indulge and enjoy, but I always know when it's time to go home and wash my knickers.
To back away from fear is the worst thing you can do. Fear shows.
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.
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.
At a certain point in one's career, it's really wonderful when your child turns around and goes, 'Oh my God, Mommy, you have to be in that film. My friends are going to die.'
You can't choose who you fall in love with, you know?
Film, schmilm. I'm telling you, television is so much harder.
We all get cracked nipples, mastitis and frantically do pelvic floor exercises' - on being just like any other Mum
I don't have those great, strong, glowing pregnancies.