Kate Winslet

The Whimsical Kate Winslet

Considered one of the best actresses of her generation, British-born beauty Kate Winslet has an impressive resume that runs the gamut from record-breaking blockbusters to art films. She's bringing in the new year with a couple of big-buzz films... (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)

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Kate Winslet Considered one of the best actresses of her generation, British-born beauty Kate Winslet has an impressive resume that runs the gamut from record-breaking blockbusters to art films. She's bringing in the new year with a couple of big-buzz films... (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
Reading Was Neve... Kate Winslet, pictured with David Kross in 'The Reader.' Ralph Fiennes also stars in the riveting post-World II drama, which comes out in wide release on Jan. 9. (Photo: Weinstein Co.)
Kate & Leo Reuni... The "Titanic" couple are finally reuniting in the film "Revolutionary Road," scheduled for a December 2008 release. It's more middle-class married angst and less death-defying romantic drama this time around for the star-crossed couple. Winslet's real-life husband, Sam Mendes, directed the film. (Photo: Paramount)
Winslet's World Winslet was born on October 5, 1975 to a theatrical family. Her parents were actors and her grandparents founded a theater in her hometown of Reading, England. (Photo by Carlo Allegri/Getty Images)
'Creature' Kate Winslet acted in commercials, stage and TV as a youth, but her breakthrough role was as an intense, troubled teen whose imaginary world becomes a little too real - and ends in murder - in the 1994 independent film "Heavenly Creatures," based on a true story. (AP Photo/Jacqueline Arzt)
Winslet Wins a N... Winslet followed that dark drama with a role as a princess in Disney's 1995 film "A Kid in King Arthur's Court," but it was in a period piece, "Sense and Sensibility," opposite Emma Thompson, that garnered Winslet an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress in 1996. (AP Photo/files/Columbia Pictures)
Winslet Wanders ... Winslet clocked in two more period pieces in 1996 with "Jude" (pictured, with Christopher Eccleston) and as Ophelia in director Kenneth Branagh's star-studded version of Shakespeare's "Hamlet." (Photo: Gramercy)
Winslet Hits the... But it was in 1997 that Winslet starred in the biggest period piece of them all - the behemoth "Titanic." Tragic, weepy and wet, the love story almost hit its own iceberg. (Photo: 20th Century Fox)
Kate and Leo Helmed by "Terminator" director James Cameron (pictured), Winslet portrayed Rose DeWitt Bukater, a wealthy American socialite who falls in love with Jack Dawson, a lowly artist, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, aboard the doomed ship. (Photo: 20th Century Fox)
'Titanic' Gamble The film's budget was over $200 million - a record at the time - and was produced by two studios. (Photo: 20th Century Fox)
Boatload of Buck... But the risk paid off. The film ended up breaking records, grossing over $600 million, earning 14 Academy Award nominations and catapulting rising star Winslet into the big time. (Photo: 20th Century Fox)
Another Nominati... One of those nominations was for Winslet, who was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar. (Photo: 20th Century Fox)
Best Buddies She and DiCaprio became friends on the set and have remained close ever since. (Photo: Getty Images)
Winslet Weds In 1998, Winslet married director Jim Threapleton. (Photo by Frank Micelotta/ImageDirect)]
'Holy' Harvey & ... Rather than go totally mainstream, Winslet chose to act in two indie films in 1999, "Hideous Kinky" and "Holy Smoke!," which co-starred Harvey Keitel. (Photo by Frank Micelotta/ImageDirect)]
Kate's Kid In 2000, Winslet gave birth to a daughter, Mia Threapleton. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
Kate in 'Quills' Winslet went back to the period dramas with a role in the 2000 film "Quills" about the Marquis de Sade, opposite Geoffrey Rush (pictured) and Joaquin Phoenix. (Photo: Fox Searchlight)
Winslet as a Wri... In the 2001 biopic "Iris," based on the life of the British novelist Iris Murdoch, Winslet played the author in her younger years while Dame Judi Dench portrayed her in the second half of her life. Winslet garnered her third Academy Award nomination for her work. (Photo: Miramax)
Winslet Weds Aga... After divorcing Threapleton in 2001, Winslet married another director, Sam Mendes, in 2003. The two had a son, Joe, together later that year. (Photo by Dave Hogan/Getty Images)
Kate's Curves Winslet has been considered 'curvy' in the super-skinny world of Hollywood celebs, but in 2003 she appeared on the cover of GQ magazine looking suspiciously gaunt. It turned out the editors had digitally carved off some of Kate's curves and the actress was not pleased.
Kate and Carrey In 2004, Kate starred opposite Jim Carrey in the freewheeling fantasy film "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," earning herself another Academy Award nomination. (Photo: Focus Features)
Kate & Johnny In 2004, Winslet also starred with Johnny Depp in "Finding Neverland," based on the true story of "Peter Pan" author J.M. Barrie and his muses. (Photo by Dave Hogan/Getty Images)
Quiet for Kate Winslet has been fairly quiet in recent years, only appearing in a few films like the poorly received 2006 movie "All the King's Men" with Sean Penn. (Photo: Columbia)
'Little Children... Kate's portrayal of a single mom who has an affair with a married man in the 2006 film "Little Children" garnered the actress her fifth Academy Award nomination... but still no win. She is the youngest actress to receive five Academy Award nominations. (Photo: New Line Cinema)
Un'Fair' Critici... Kate Winslet, who appears on the cover of Vanity Fair this month, responded angrily to suggestions that she was airbrushed. Her rep told People magazine, "Kate is furious at suggestions that her body has been airbrushed...She is in terrific shape and what you see is how she looks or she would never have agreed to pose for those shots."