List of Kate Winslet performances

Winslet at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival

English actress Kate Winslet made her screen debut at age fifteen in the BBC series Dark Season (1991).[1][2] Following more television appearances in the UK, she made her film debut with the leading role of murderess Juliet Hulme in Peter Jackson's crime film Heavenly Creatures (1994).[3] Winslet gained wider recognition for playing Marianne Dashwood in a 1995 film adaptation of Sense and Sensibility, for which she received an Academy Award nomination and won the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actress.[4][5][6] The same year, she appeared in the Royal Exchange Theatre's production of Joe Orton's farce What the Butler Saw.[7] In 1997, she starred opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in James Cameron's romance Titanic, which emerged as the highest-grossing film of all time to that point; it established her as a star and earned her an Academy Award for Best Actress nomination.[8][9]

Winslet followed Titanic with roles in small-scale period dramas which were critically acclaimed but not widely seen.[1][10][11] She played a disillusioned single mother in Hideous Kinky (1998), an Australian woman brainwashed by a religious cult in Holy Smoke! (1999), a sexually repressed laundress in Quills (2000), and the novelist Iris Murdoch in Iris (2001).[12] For the last of these, she received her third Academy Award nomination.[13] Winslet was awarded a Grammy Award for narrating a short story in the children's audiobook Listen to the Storyteller (1999), and she sang the single "What If" for the 2001 animated film Christmas Carol: The Movie.[14] The 2004 science fiction romance Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind marked one of her first roles set in contemporary times, and Winslet followed it by playing Sylvia Llewelyn Davies in Finding Neverland (2004) and an unhappy housewife in Little Children (2006).[15][16] She received Academy Award nominations for the first and last of these, and went on to star alongside Cameron Diaz in the commercially successful romantic comedy The Holiday (2006).[10][13]

In 2008, Winslet played a 1950s housewife yearning for a better life in Revolutionary Road and a Nazi concentration camp guard in The Reader.[12] For the latter, she was awarded the BAFTA and Academy Award for Best Actress.[13] Winslet next played the eponymous protagonist in the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce (2011), for which she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress.[17] In 2014, Winslet portrayed Jeanine Matthews in the Divergent film series, and in 2015, she starred in The Dressmaker, which ranks among the highest-grossing Australian films.[18][19] For playing Joanna Hoffman in Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs (2015), a biopic of the titular inventor, she received her third BAFTA Award and her seventh Academy Award nomination.[20][21] After playing a cynical waitress in Woody Allen's drama Wonder Wheel (2017),[22] Winslet starred as a troubled police detective in the HBO miniseries Mare of Easttown (2021), winning another Primetime Emmy Award.[23] In 2022, she had a supporting role in Cameron's science fiction film Avatar: The Way of Water, which emerged as her second film to earn over $2 billion worldwide.[24] She also won two BAFTA TV Awards for producing and starring in the single drama "I Am Ruth" (2022).[25]

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  4. ^ Elias, Justine (7 December 1995). "Kate Winslet: No 'Period Babe'". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 11 November 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2008.
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  13. ^ a b c Mueller, Matt (20 November 2015). "We need to talk about Kate: Kate Winslet on 'Steve Jobs'". Screen International. Archived from the original on 26 November 2015. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
  14. ^ "Listen to the Storyteller – A Trio of Musical Tales from Around the World". Sony Classical Records. 17 August 1999. Archived from the original on 28 October 2017. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
    "Grammy Award Results for Kate Winslet". The Recording Academy. Archived from the original on 30 October 2017. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
    "Winslet launches festive chart bid". BBC News. 26 November 2001. Archived from the original on 26 January 2017. Retrieved 4 November 2017.
  15. ^ Bunbury, Stephanie (2 January 2005). "Mother Superior". The Age. Archived from the original on 18 February 2009. Retrieved 7 February 2009.
  16. ^ Hiscock, John (27 October 2006). "Why Winslet bared body and soul". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 31 August 2015. Retrieved 27 October 2017.
  17. ^ Wicks, Kevin (September 2011). "Emmys: 'Downton' Nearly Sweeps, Kate Winslet Edges Toward EGOT". BBC America. Archived from the original on 23 October 2013. Retrieved 28 October 2017.
  18. ^ Feeney, Nolan (17 March 2015). "Kate Winslet on Insurgent: I Wanted More Fight Scenes With Shailene Woodley". Time. Archived from the original on 24 July 2016. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
  19. ^ Van Schilt, Stephanie (8 December 2015). "Gender matters in Australian film and equality can't come soon enough". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 13 August 2018. Retrieved 13 August 2018.
  20. ^ Lipsky-Karasz, Elisa (30 September 2015). "Director's Darling: Kate Winslet Stars in the Highly Anticipated Film 'Steve Jobs'". The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on 9 September 2017. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
  21. ^ Ellis-Petersen, Hannah; Lee, Benjamin (14 February 2016). "Kate Winslet: I was told to 'settle for the fat girl parts'". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 7 October 2017. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
    Piccalo, Gina (21 January 2016). "The Envelope: Oscars 2016: How a wig helped Kate Winslet snag her nominated 'Steve Jobs' role". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 24 October 2017. Retrieved 29 October 2017.
  22. ^ Ryzik, Melena (12 September 2017). "Kate Winslet on Woody Allen, Idris Elba and career longevity". The Independent. Archived from the original on 24 January 2018. Retrieved 19 July 2018.
  23. ^ Perez, Lexy (19 September 2021). "Emmys: Kate Winslet Wins Best Limited Series Actress for Playing "Imperfect, Flawed Mother" in 'Mare of Easttown'". The Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on 20 September 2021. Retrieved 19 September 2021.
  24. ^ Klein, Brennan (22 January 2023). "Avatar: Way of Water Makes Box Office History By Crossing $2 Billion". Screen Rant. Archived from the original on 22 January 2023. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
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