Birthday: Oct 5, 1975

Birthplace: Reading, Berkshire, England

Biography: Katherine Elizabeth Winslet is a BAFTA Award-winning English actress. She is noted for having played a wide range of diverse characters over her career. Though her best known role may be that of Rose DeWitt Bukater in the highest-grossing film of all time, Titanic (1997), she was also highly regarded for her first role as Juliet Hulme in Heavenly Creatures (1994). Although Winslet has not won an Academy Award, she has been highly favoured by the Academy, and holds two records in that area: the y... ... (read more...) oungest person to receive two Oscar nominations, and the most Oscar nominations of any actor before the age of 30 (having received a total of four nominations by that age). In addition, there have been only two occasions where two actors playing the same character have both been nominated for an Oscar; Winslet was a nominee in both instances.