Kate Elizabeth Winslet CBE is an English actress. Known for her work in independent films, particularly period dramas, and for her portrayals of headstrong and complicated women, she has received numerous.
Winslet studied drama at the Redroofs Theatre School. Her first screen appearance, at age 15, was in the British television series Dark Season (1991). She made her film debut playing a teenage murderess in Heavenly Creatures (1994), and went on to win a BAFTA Award for playing Marianne Dashwood in Sense and Sensibility (1995).
Who is Kate Winslet’s husband Sam Mendes?
Sam Mendes and Kate Winslet were married in 2003, two years after they first met – when Mendes approached the actress about starring in a play at the Donmar Warehouse, where he was artistic director at the time. The actress later revealed that they tied the knot on a whim, while on holiday in Anguilla.
After less than two years together, Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes married spontaneously in the presence of three friends in May 2003 on the Caribbean island of Anguilla, according to The Guardian. At the time, Winslet was two months pregnant with the couple’s only child, a son Joe, who was born that December. “We hadn’t been planning to do it,” Winslet revealed.
