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Kate Winslet

Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born October 5, 1975 in Reading, Berkshire, England) is an English actress most famous for her role as Rose DeWitt Bukater in the 1997 blockbuster film Titanic.

Her career began on television, with a co-starring role in the BBC children's science-fiction serial Dark Season in 1991, followed by an appearance in an episode of the medical drama Casualty in 1993, also for the BBC.

Winslet's film career took off in 1994 when she performed her first leading role as Juliet Hulme in Peter Jackson's criticly acclaimed Heavenly Creatures. Since then she has acted in several films, such as Sense and Sensibility, Titanic, Iris, Finding Neverland, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, earning her four Oscar nominations and four Golden Globes.

Kate Winslet has also enjoyed a brief taste of success as a singer, with her single "What If" from the Christmas Carol: The Movie soundtrack. More recently her musical talents have been shown in her duet with "Weird Al" Yankovic on the Sandra Boynton CD "Dog Train."

On November 22, 1998 Winslet married director Jim Threapleton with whom she has a daughter named Mia Honey. After her divorce in 2001, she began a relationship with director Sam Mendes. Winslet married Mendes on May 24, 2003 on the island of Anguilla in the West Indies and their son Joe Alfie Winslet-Mendes was born on December 22, 2003.

On January 25, 2005 Winslet was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. She eventually lost to Hilary Swank. This tied her for the record for most Academy Award nominations for an actress before the age of 30. This nomination was preceded by nominations for Best Supporting Actress in Sense and Sensibility and Iris. Winslet was also nominated for Best Actress in Titanic, but lost to Helen Hunt. She was also nominated for a BAFTA for Best Actress in that film and in Finding Neverland, but lost to Imelda Staunton.

Her home town of Reading has named a street - Winslet Place - in her honour, built on the site of a demolished cinema.

Winslet is famous for her curvaceous figure, and the media, in England in particular, have enthusiastically documented her weight fluctuations over the years. Winslet, a former anorexic, has been outspoken about her refusal to lose weight in order to conform to the Hollywood "ideal". In February 2003, the British edition of GQ magazine published photographs of Winslet which had been airbrushed to make her look dramatically thinner than she really was; Winslet issued a statement saying that the alterations were made without her consent.

 

Selected Filmography

2006 Holiday


2006 Flushed Away Rita (voice)


2006 Little Children Sarah Pierce


2006 All the King's Men Anne Stanton


2005 Romance & Cigarettes Tula




2004 Finding Neverland Sylvia Llewelyn Davies


2004 Pride (TV) Suki (voice)


2004 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Clementine Kruczynski


2003 The Life of David Gale Bitsey Bloom


2001 Iris Young Iris Murdoch


2001 Christmas Carol: The Movie Belle (voice)




2001 Enigma Hester Wallace


2000 Quills Madeleine 'Maddy' LeClerc


1999 Holy Smoke Ruth Barron


1999 Faeries Brigid (voice)


1998 Hideous Kinky Julia


1997 Titanic Rose DeWitt Bukater




1996 Hamlet Ophelia


1996 Jude Sue Bridehead


1995 Sense and Sensibility Marianne Dashwood


1995 A Kid in King Arthur's Court Princess Sarah


1994 Heavenly Creatures Juliet Hulme


1991 Dark Season (TV series) Reet

female celebrities - Keira Knightley

Keira Knightley

Keira Knightley (born March 26, 1985 in Teddington, London, England) is an English actress. She is the daughter of Sharman Macdonald, a Scottish playwright, and Will Knightley, an English actor. Knightley has lived most of her life in Richmond upon Thames.

Career

She started to follow in her parents' footsteps at an early stage, making her film debut at the age of nine in A Village Affair (1994). Her first major theatrical appearance was as Sabé, Padmé Amidala's decoy in the 1999 release Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace. Knightley was cast because of her close resemblance to Natalie Portman, who played Padmé. Her first major starring role was as the daughter of Robin Hood in a made-for-TV Walt Disney Productions feature, Princess of Thieves, first telecast in 2001.

Knightley is best known for her breakthrough roles in Bend It Like Beckham and Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl. Bend It Like Beckham was especially physically demanding for Knightley in terms of the intense football training she underwent but opened the way for her into Hollywood. Her role in the blockbuster Pirates cemented her up-and-coming position in international cinema.

In 2004 Knightley appeared in the blockbuster King Arthur, which, although criticised for its numerous historical inaccuracies, was praised by critic Roger Ebert for "the considerable production qualities and the charisma of the actors, who bring more interest to the characters than they deserve", Knightley being described as looking "simultaneously sexy and muddy" fitting in with the current vogue for strong female action heroes (something which Knightley repeated in a modern setting in the 2005 film Domino).

Keira Knightley in King Arthur (2004).Knightley's dedication to developing herself as an actress rather than a movie star was noted by Time magazine in a 2004 feature. In July 2004, Knightley was voted by readers of Hello! magazine as the movie industry's most promising teen star. Additionally, Knightley was voted the sexiest movie star of all time by the readers of Empire magazine, leaving behind other stars such as Angelina Jolie, Halle Berry, Charlize Theron, Julia Roberts, Marilyn Monroe and Brigitte Bardot.

In 2005 Knightley starred in the title role of Tony Scott's film Domino inspired by the life of his friend Domino Harvey, a British born model-turned- L.A. bounty hunter who died in July 2005 of an overdose aged 35. Ebert commented that, although the movie is "fractured and maddening" it is also "alive", praising Knightley for her ability to play a diversity of roles. In contrast to Knightley's role in the same year of the regency englishwoman Elizabeth Bennett in a film adaption of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice with Donald Sutherland and Matthew Macfadyen. Recently opening at No.1 in the UK box office, it is her sixth film to do so in her career.

She is currently filming the sequels to the immensely popular Pirates of the Caribbean series, due for release in the summers of 2006 and 2007 respectively. She recently ended her relationship with Irish model Jamie Dornan. She has been awarded Personality Of The Year 2005 by Variety UK, and is widely tipped for either a Golden Globe or Academy Award nomination in 2006 for her portrayal of Elizabeth Bennet in Pride & Prejudice. Beside acting, Knightley is currently modelling for Asprey, a British luxury items company.

 

Filmography

2007 Pirates of the Caribbean 3 Elizabeth Swann Filming


2006 Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Elizabeth Swann Filming




2005 Kingdom Hearts 2 Elizabeth Swann (voice) Video Game


2005 Pride and Prejudice Elizabeth Bennet Completed


2005 Domino Domino Harvey


2005 The Jacket Jackie


2004 King Arthur Guinevere


2003 Love Actually Juliet




2003 Gaijin Kate Short film, animated


2003 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl Elizabeth Swann


2002 The Seasons Alter Helena Short film


2002 Doctor Zhivago Lara Antipova (née Guishar) Miniseries


2002 Pure Louise


2002 Thunderpants Music School Student




2002 Bend It Like Beckham Juliette 'Jules' Paxton


2002 New Year's Eve Leah Short film


2001 Deflation Jogger Short film


2001 The Hole Frances 'Frankie' Almond-Smith


2001 Princess of Thieves Gwyn Hood Television movie


1999 Oliver Twist Rose Fleming Miniseries




1999 Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace Sabé


1998 Coming Home Young Judith Dunbar Television movie


1996 Treasure Seekers The Princess Television movie


1995 Innocent Lies Young Celia


1994 A Village Affair Natasha Jordan


1993 Royal Celebration Little Girl Television movie

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