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It was October 5, 1975, when a little girl was born in Reading, U.K., to a working-class family of artists. Her father, Roger Winslet<\/a>, and her sisters Beth Winslet<\/a> and Anna Winslet<\/a> were actors.<\/p>\n

In an interview for The New York Times in 2009<\/a>, she shared that she always knew that acting was her destiny, but she never dreamt about the red carpet, awards, money or fame. She just wanted to act. No one, not even she, knew at that time that the shy and self-insecure Kate Winslet, was about to become one of Hollywood\u2019s biggest young stars.<\/p>\n

Before becoming our beloved Rose<\/b><\/h4>\n

Kate didn\u2019t feel pretty when she was a child. She used to be called \u201cchubby,\u201d and as Entertainment Weekly<\/a> wrote, an early drama teacher told her that, as an actress, she could only aspire for \u201cfat girl parts.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing told something like that, at such a young age, when your brain is developing, I\u2019m sure that impacts you later in your life,\u201d said Natallie Shakeri, progressive degree student at USC.<\/p>\n

Winslet was only 14 at the time, but an insecurity in her physical appearance accompanied her throughout her childhood.<\/p>\n

Because, even with all her insecurities, she always loved acting. \u201cI would always feel quite smug about the fact that I had this one thing that I really loved, and I didn\u2019t have to go anywhere or do anything to be able to do it,\u201d shared Winslet in the same interview with The New York Times<\/a>. \u201cI knew that nobody else had any understanding of how great that feeling \u2013 acting \u2013 was.\u201d<\/p>\n

Guided by this inner passion, she started auditioning and pursuing an acting career from the age of 12, with not much success until she got cast for her first movie, \u201cHeavenly Creatures<\/a>\u201d <\/i>(1994), at 17 years old. Directed by Peter Jackson, this was Winslet\u2019s first major role in her successful career that was just starting.<\/p>\n

As she shared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert<\/a> in 2017, when she received the call that gave her the news that she got the part as Juliet Hulme in Jackson\u2019s movie, she was working at a restaurant and making a turkey sandwich.<\/p>\n

After her great debut, she starred in movies like \u201cSense and Sensibility<\/a>\u201d (1995), \u201cJude<\/a>\u201d (1996) and \u201cHamlet<\/a>\u201d (1996). She received an Academy Award Nomination in 1995 for Best Supporting Actress in \u201cSense and Sensibility.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTitanic\u201d: The tip of the iceberg of her career<\/b><\/h4>\n

It was 1997 when the opportunity of Winslet life arrived. As the Independent<\/a> wrote, obsessed with the story of the real Titanic ship, James Cameron decided to create a movie exploring not only the tragedy behind its sinking, but also adding a drama element surrounding an impossible romance between two young people of opposite social classes. Among many options, Cameron saw something special in Kate Winslet that made him decide on her as the movie\u2019s main character.<\/p>\n

Winslet got the part of Rose DeWitt Bukater, the American socialite, Titanic sinking survivor and Jack Dawson\u2019s (played by Leonardo DiCaprio<\/a>) first impossible but true love. Despite Dawson and Bukater\u2019s tragic ending, \u201cTitanic\u201d not only gave Winslet and DiCaprio the biggest professional opportunity of their acting careers, but also, as People<\/a> wrote, a long-lasting friendship that continued over the years.<\/p>\n

To this day, \u201cTitanic\u201d remains one of the highest-grossing movies of all time. It reached $28,638,131<\/a> at the box office<\/a> at its domestic opening, and went on to receive 16 Academy Awards nominations in 1998 and won 11 of them<\/a>, including Best Director and Best Picture.<\/p>\n

Isabella Lyons, a graduate student at the Annenberg School, remembers watching Titanic when she was a kid and feeling impressed by it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was a gymnast when I first watched it, and I had my floor routine with the song \u2018My Heart Will Go On, \u2019the movie\u2019s main theme. I also think it has prompted young kids to educate themselves on the story of the real Titanic ship,\u201d Lyons said.<\/p>\n

But this amount of success was not easy to handle for 22-year-old Kate. She has stated in The New York Times<\/a> not having been prepared for fame at all.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Titanic\u2019 was huge and overwhelming. My life was completely upside down. I didn\u2019t know who I was. I was not remotely equipped to be a famous person. I didn\u2019t know what to do or how to cope at all,\u201d Winslet said for The New York Times<\/a> in 2009. After her great break, she decided to stay back from the big screen for some years.<\/p>\n

Throughout a more than 30-year-long career, Winslet has given audiences memorable characters and stories, including the messy and impulsive Clementine Kruczynski in \u201cEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind<\/a>\u201d (2004), the column editor Iris Simpkins in \u201cThe Holiday<\/a>\u201d (2006), and the police detective Mare Sheehan in the miniseries \u201cMare of Easttown<\/a>\u201d (2021).<\/p>\n

For Winslet, no fame, recognition or financial success made her forget where she came from.<\/p>\n

\u201cI really would work for nothing, and I don\u2019t particularly want to be famous. The sort of financial side of it to me is an absolute bonus, and it means that I can take care of people that I love,\u201d shared a mature 22-year-old Winslet in an interview for The Insider, in 1997<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Her fight for respectful media coverage of women<\/b><\/h4>\n

At the height of her career, Winslet suffered body shaming and verbal attacks from the press as a young woman.<\/p>\n

In an interview for \u201c60 Minutes\u201d in 2024<\/a>, she remembered being verbally attacked by a reporter at the 1998 Golden Globe Awards, who stated that the dress she was wearing needed to be bigger to fit her.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I could turn back the clock, I would have used my voice in a completely different way. I would have said to journalists: \u2018Don\u2019t you dare treat me like this. I\u2019m a young woman, my body is changing, I\u2019m figuring it out. Don\u2019t make this any harder than it already is,\u2019 she admitted in an interview in 2022.<\/a><\/p>\n

At the age of 51, Winslet is married to Edward Abel Smith, better known as Ned Rocknroll, has three kids \u2013 her daughter, Mia Threapleton, is also an actress \u2013 and has expanded her career into directing. As her passion for acting remains as alive as ever, so does her advocacy for body positivity and women\u2019s fair media.<\/p>\n

Edited by Camille Culbertson, Andriana Yatsyshyn and Sammie Yen.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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