1. Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born 5 October 1975) is an
English actress and occasional singer. She is noted for
having played diverse characters over her career, but
probably best-known for her critically acclaimed
performances as Marianne Dashwood in
Sense and Sensibility, Rose DeWitt Bukater in Titanic,
Clementine Kruczynski in
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sarah Pierce in
Little Children, April Wheeler in Revolutionary Road, and
Hanna Schmitz in The Reader.
Winslet has been nominated for six Academy Awards and
won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in
The Reader. She has won awards from the
Screen Actors Guild,
British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and the
Hollywood Foreign Press Association, as well as being
nominated for an Emmy. At the age of 22, she became the
youngest actress to receive two Oscar nominations; at age
33, she is now the youngest actor of either sex to receive
six nominations. David Edelstein of New York Magazine
hails her as "the best English-speaking film actress of her
generation".
