Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress and occasional singer. She is noted for having played diverse characters over her career, but

probably best-known for her critically acclaimed performances as Marianne Dashwood in

Sense and Sensibility, Rose DeWitt Bukater in Titanic, Clementine Kruczynski in

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Sarah Pierce in Little Children, April Wheeler in Revolutionary Road, and

Hanna Schmitz in The Reader.Winslet has been nominated for six Academy Awards and

won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in The Reader. She has won awards from the

Screen Actors Guild, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, as well

as being nominated for an Emmy. At the age of 22, she became the youngest actress to receive two Oscar

nominations; at age 33, she is now the youngest actor of either sex to receive six nominations. David Edelstein of

New York Magazine hails her as "the best English-speaking film actress of her generation".

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