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Kate Winslet was destined to be an actress. Born in Reading in 1975, he parents were both stage actors and her grandparents ran a theatre company. Winslet's first acting role was in a Sugar Puffs advert aged only 11 and she then worked in television. Her first film role, in Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures, won her critical acclaim and Winslet followed it with appearances in Sense And Sensibility, Jude and Hamlet. International fame came in 1997 thanks to Titanic, in which she played the upper class Rose Dewitt alongside Leonardo DiCaprio. Always at home in British film, Winslet has appeared in Enigma, about code breaking in World War II, and Iris, about the writer Iris Murdoch. Recent appearances have included the Charlie Kaufman-scripted Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind and Finding Neverland, based on the life of JM Barrie.
