Kate Winslet is one of the
UK's finest and most successful young actresses, a point proven in 1998 when she
became the youngest actress ever to be twice nominated for Oscars (for her roles
in Sense And Sensibility and Titanic). Yet she's more than just a celebrity thespian,
having for the most part shunned major Hollywood productions in favor of smaller,
more interesting, and often British pieces. Having at school weighed 185 pounds
and suffered the nickname Blubber, she has also famously decried the pressures
put upon young women by society and the film industry in particular.
Kate
Elizabeth Winslet was born on October 5th, 1975, in Reading, Berkshire.
With
Kate just past her 10th birthday, her father suffered a bad accident while on
the water. Attempting to steer a large canal boat through a lock in France, his
foot was caught in a whipping coil of rope and nearly severed. It was only the
speed of the helicopter ambulance and the skill of the micro-surgeons that kept
it attached. Kate and the others were told that, after a year of rehabilitation,
her father would be back to normal, playing with them as usual. The fact that
he was not and never would be, she said later, would cause a lingering feeling
of bitterness and betrayal.
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