~terry
Sun, Oct 27, 2002 (21:16)
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KATE WINSLET: Known affectionately as "Corset Kate" for her reprising role in costume dramas, Kate Winslet is best
known for her Academy Award nominated performances as Rose Dewitt Bukater in 1997's "Titanic" and Marianne Dashwood in
the 1995 "Sense and Sensibility" adaptation. Born in 1975 in Reading, England, Winslet's first acting role was in a
cereal commercial at the age of eleven. She followed the lead of her family by taking acting lessons and pursuing a
career on stage (her parents are stage actors, her maternal grandparents managed a repertory theatre, and her late
uncle Robert Bridges acted in several West End productions).
In 1991, after graduating from a performing arts high school, Winslet took a handful of stage roles, and then landed
small roles on British television sitcoms. At the age of seventeen, Winslet took her first role in a feature film,
"Heavenly Creatures," in which she played a fantasy-prone New Zealand schoolgirl caught up in a deadly friendship.
Winslet followed up the art-house production by playing a princess in the Disney family feature, "A Kid in King
Arthur's Court." She then landed the plum role of the hopelessly romantic Marianne Dashwood in "Sense and Sensibility,"
a part which gained her widespread critical acclaim. She is recently separated from her husband, director Jim
Threapleton, with whom she has a daughter, Mia. Kate Winslet's period filmography includes:
Neverland (2003)
Therese Raquin (2002)
Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001)
Quills (2000)
Titanic (1997)
Jude (1996)
Hamlet (1996)
Sense and Sensibility (1995)
A Kid in King Arthur's Court
~autumn
Mon, Oct 28, 2002 (15:19)
#1
I didn't know Therese Raquin had been made into a film. How do you close this tag??
~gomezdo
Mon, Oct 28, 2002 (16:42)
#2
And Judi Dench in it as well, with David Bowie producing . That's interesting.
Also, a musical based on it called "Thou Shalt Not" with music by Harry Connick, Jr opened and closed in the blink of an eye on Broadway earlier this year. My friend's wife was the assistant lighting designer for it. Thank God she was paid up front. ;)
Did you ever see the version years ago, I think on Masterpiece Theater? I see there's also a 2 part miniseries version coming out too. Popular subject, eh?
~autumn
Wed, Oct 30, 2002 (16:46)
#3
No, no, and no! Plays? Movies? TV miniseries? I am so out of it! It was a great novel.
~gomezdo
Wed, Oct 30, 2002 (17:19)
#4
Agreed.
~wolf
Thu, Jul 21, 2005 (11:39)
#5
Therese Raquin? will have to look that one up. i loved quills, but i'm a fan of geoffrey rush--he's really good. kate just seems to fit in period roles but i liked her in eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.