Kate Winslet

Profession: Actress
Place/Date of Birth: Reading , 05 October 1975

They have named the 7lb 3oz boy Joe, who arrived while they were staying at their second home in New York. Kate phoned her mum and dad at 4am to tell them the news. They are planning to fly over there to see their new grandchild soon.

Kate married Sam in May 2003, and she already has daughter Mia, aged three. Mia is apparently ’delighted to have a baby brother’.

Kate Winslet is pregnant - 25/07/03
Belsize Park residents Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes are expecting their first child together.

The couple are said to be "utterly delighted" the baby is due early in the New Year.

The Titanic star already has a two-year-old daughter Mia from her first marriage to Jim Threapleton.

Kate and director Sam Mendes married in May at a ceremony in the West Indies.

A spokeswoman for the couple said: "She was expecting when they got married but they didn’t know at the time. The pregnancy was in its very early stages."

Kate and Sam are currently enjoying a holiday in Tuscany.

Country living - 03/07/03
Newlyweds Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes have finally been given the go ahead to start work on their Cotswold country manor.

The pair bought the house last year but Cotswold District Council initially turned down their planned renovations preventing them from moving in.

A spokesperson for the council said that amended plans had now been passed but there was "certain conditions" attached to the approval.

Secret Marriage! - 10/06/03
Kate Winslet and Sam Mendes have got married while on holiday in the West Indies.

The wedding was so low key that Kate’s mother revealed she had ’no idea’ that Kate was planning to get married! The secretive pair successfully managed to elude the press and released a statement ’’This is to formally announced that Sam Mendes and Kate Winslet married in late May, in a very small ceremony whilst on holiday in the West Indies.’

The only guests to witness the couple exchange vows were three friends and Kate’s two and a half year old daughter Mia, from her first marriage to Jim Threapleton. I’m sure there wasn’t a plate of sausage and mash in sight at the reception this time either...

Winslet’s song and dance - 19/05/03
Kate Winslet is to star opposite Sopranos star James Gandolfini in all-singing, all-dancing spectacular called Romance And Cigarettes.

The movie is a tale of one man’s infidelity and redemption. Susan Sarandon will also star in the movie.

Kate has never starred in a musical but two years ago she provided one of the voices for the animated version of A Christmas Carol and released a single from the soundtrack, What If?

Winslet must wait - 04/04/03
Belsize Park residents Kate Winslet and director boyfriend Sam Mendes are facing a wait of two more years before they can move into their ?3.3 million country home...

The mansion is plagued with damp and local authorities are concerned that renovation of the listed building may breach rules.

Titanic star Kate had hoped to be ensconced in the Cotswolds, with boyfriend Sam by the end of the year.

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Biography

Kate Elizabeth Winslet was born on October 05, 1975 in Reading UK. Kate is not the only actor in the Winslet family. Both of her sisters, Anna and Beth and her father and grandparents are or have worked as actors. Kate also has a younger brother Joss. Kate at the age 11 in 1986 began taking acting lessons in Maidenhead and she secured her first acting role in a Sugar Puffs advert dancing with the Honey Monster.

She continued in a performing arts school and followed graduation with roles in the British television drama Shrinks (1988), followed by appearances in the television series Casualty (1989), Dark Season (1991), Get Back (1992), and Anglo-Saxon Attitudes (1993) and theatrical roles including Pandora in the musical Adrian Mole, Wendy in Peter Pan, Sarah in A Game of Soldier, and Geraldine in What the Butler Saw.

Before she was a big movie star, Kate worked in a deli. She was actually in the middle of making a pastrami sandwich when she received the call that she’d been cast in the film "Heavenly Creatures." Kate Winslet got worldwide recognition when she was cast alongside side Leonardo Di Caprio to play ill fated lovers on board the Titanic, the film was a huge commercial success and won 11 Academy Awards.

She dated writer/actor Stephen Tredre for 4 and 1/2 years. The couple remained close even after their breakup. Sadly, Stephen died in 1997 after he lost his battle with cancer. Kate missed the U.S. premiere of "Titanic" to sing at his funeral in England. Kate also had a brief fling with fellow actor Rufus Sewell, however that all changed when Kate met and fell in love with Jim Threapleton, The couple met in 1997 on the set of "Hideous Kinky," where Jim was 3rd Assistant Director.

Kate married Jim Threapleton in 1998 they were married at the Anglican All Saints’ Church in Reading, near the Winslet family home, on November 22, 1998. Kate wore a beautiful white gown designed by Alexander McQueen, and the church was decorated with white and yellow roses. The ceremony was planned in absolute secrecy - not even the 170 guests knew the exact location! (This was in case any invitations happened to stray.)

They were told only to meet the carriages that would transport them to the church. The press didn’t get wind of the wedding until the very last minute, and they arrived just in time to catch some footage of Kate and Jim leaving the church. The wedding was followed by a reception at the Crooked Billet Pub, where the guests feasted on bangers and mash, a favourite dish of Kate’s. Later, the newlyweds headed off to their honeymoon on Scotland’s West Coast.

On October 12, 2000, Kate and Jim welcomed their first child, a little girl named Mia!
(Written 2001)
February 2008