English actress Kate Winslet made her screen debut at age 15 in the BBC series Dark Season (1991). Following more television appearances in the UK, she made her film debut with the leading role of murderer Juliet Hulme in Peter Jackson's crime film Heavenly Creatures (1994). 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. The same year, she appeared in the Royal Exchange Theatre's production of Joe Orton's farce What the Butler Saw. 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.
Winslet followed Titanic with roles in small-scale period dramas which were critically acclaimed but not widely seen. 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). For the last of these, she received her third Academy Award nomination. 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. 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). 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).
In 2008, Winslet played a 1950s housewife yearning for a better life in Revolutionary Road and a Nazi concentration camp guard in The Reader. For the latter, she was awarded the BAFTA and Academy Award for Best Actress. 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. 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. 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. After playing a cynical waitress in Woody Allen's drama Wonder Wheel (2017), Winslet starred as a troubled police detective in the HBO miniseries Mare of Easttown (2021), winning another Primetime Emmy Award. 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. She also won two BAFTA TV Awards for producing and starring in the single drama "I Am Ruth" (2022).
Film
+ Year Title Role Notes 1994 Heavenly Creatures 1995 Sense and Sensibility Princess Sarah 1996 Jude Hamlet Ophelia 1997 Titanic 1998 Hideous Kinky Julia 1999 Faeries Brigid (voice) Holy Smoke! 2000 Quills Madeleine 2001 Enigma Iris Christmas Carol: The Movie Belle (voice) 2002 War Game Mum (voice), Annie (voice) Short film 2003 2004 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Finding Neverland 2005 Romance & Cigarettes Tula 2006 Deep Sea 3D Narrator Documentary film Flushed Away (voice) All the King's Men Little Children Iris 2007 Narrator English dub 2008 Revolutionary Road 2009 Narrator Documentary film 2011 Carnage Contagion 2013 Movie 43 Beth Segment: The Catch Labor Day 2014 Divergent 2015 Daisy Chain Buttercup (voice) Short film Steve Jobs 2016 Triple 9 Collateral Beauty Narrator Short film 2017 Wonder Wheel 2018 Mary and the Witch's Flower (voice) English dub 2019 Birds of a Feather Blanche (voice) Blackbird Jennifer 2020 Baba Yaga Baba Yaga (voice) Short film Ammonite Black Beauty Black Beauty (voice) 2021 Eating Our Way to Extinction Narrator Documentary2022 Eleven Days in May Avatar: The Way of Water Ronal 2023 Lee Lee Miller Also producer 2024 DreamScapes Narrator Documentary film 2025 Avatar: Fire and Ash Ronal Goodbye June Julia "Jules" Cheshire Also director and producer 2027 The Lord of the Rings: The Hunt for Gollum Marigol Filming
Television
Year(s) Title Role Notes 1991 Dark Season Reet 6 episodes 1992 Anglo-Saxon Attitudes Miniseries 1992–1993 Get Back 15 episodes 1993 Casualty Suzanne Episode: "Family Matters" 2004 Pride Suki (voice) Television film 2004 Saturday Night Live Host Episode: "Kate Winslet/Eminem" 2005 Extras Herself Episode: "Kate Winslet" 2011 Mildred Pierce Miniseries 2015 Running Wild with Bear Grylls Herself Episode: "Kate Winslet" 2015 Snow Chick Narrator Television film 2017 Diana: The Day Britain Cried Narrator Documentary film 2017 Snow Bears Narrator Documentary film 2019–2020 Moominvalley Mrs Fillyjonk (voice)6 episodes 2021 Mare of Easttown Miniseries; also executive producer 2022 I Am... Ruth Episode: "I Am Ruth"; also producer 2024 The RegimeElena Vernham Miniseries; also executive producer 2025 Digman! Dr. Sandra Null (voice) Episode: "Freud’s Couch" 2026 Finding Harmony: A King's Vision Narrator Documentary film
Theatre Year Production Role Venue 1994 What the Butler Saw Geraldine Barclay Royal Exchange, Manchester
Video games Year Production Role Notes 2015Insurgent – Shatter RealityJeanine MatthewsVirtual realitySamsung Gear VR
Discography + Year Soundtrack Song Label 1994Heavenly Creatures "Juliet's Aria"BMG Rights Management2001Christmas Carol: The Movie "What If"EMI2005Sandra Boynton's Dog Train "I Need a Nap"Boynton Recordings
Audiobook + Year Title Role 1995Sense and SensibilityNarrator1999Listen to the StorytellerNarrator2012Thérèse RaquinNarrator2012You're a Bad Man, Mr Gum!Narrator2014MatildaNarrator2014Narrator 2023 Dark Season: Legacy RisingReet
Bibliography + Year Title ISBN 2012The Golden Hat: Talking Back to Autism
See also List of awards and nominations received by Kate Winslet
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