Kate Winslet Trivia

1. On October 5th 1975 a star was born to Sally and Roger Winslet. In which country was Kate born?

From Quiz Great Kate!

Answer: England

Kate was born in Reading England and attended St. Marys Primary School before moving on to the Redroofs Theater School in Maidenhead, Berkshire. Kate always had a flare for acting even in the early primary grades. One of her earliest roles was as Beauty in the Primary School play, "Beauty and the Beast." My next door neighbor, Jack, got the part of the Beast, and got to kiss her in the play. To this day, he talks about nothing else.

From Quiz Kate Winslet

Answer: Sense and Sensibility

She was the youngest actress ever to be nominated for two Academy Awards- first for "Sense and Sensibility" (1995) then "Titanic" when she was 20 and 22 years old. She made Oscar history again by racking up five nominations before she was 32 years old. With her subsequent nomination for Best Actress for "Reader" (2008), she became the youngest actress to receive 6 Oscar nominations.

From Quiz Life and Career of Kate Winslet

Answer: Elizabeth

Her parents' names are Roger and Sally Winslet.

From Quiz Kate Winslet

Answer: England

Kate was born on October 5, 1975 in Berkshire, England.

From Quiz Great Kate!

Answer: Breakfast cereal

Kate auditioned for the role in an advertisement for Sugar Puffs breakfast cereal. She got to work with film director Tim Pope who called her a natural and gifted actress. Interestingly enough, breakfast was never Kate's favorite meal of the day. These days she tries to eat healthy but in many interviews she calls her favorite food -- pizza!

From Quiz Kate Winslet

Answer: Elizabeth

Her middle name is Elizabeth. Her first name is not short for anything such as Katherine or Kathleen either. Her full first name is Kate. She was born on October 5th, 1975 in Reading, England to father Roger and mother Sally, both stage actors but they also had other jobs to provide for their family. Kate's sisters, Beth and Anna, are also working actors. Her younger brother Joss is probably the only Winslet who did not enter into the acting realm. Kate's first role was that of Mary in a Nativity play at school when she was five years old. At age eleven, she began attending the acting school Redroofs in Maidenhead, England.

From Quiz Life and Career of Kate Winslet

Answer: October 5, 1975

She was born in Reading, England to parents Roger and Sally.

From Quiz Kate Winslet

Answer: Heavenly Creatures

Kate played Juliet Hulme (who is now a mystery novelist who goes by the name of Anne Perry) in this true story.

From Quiz Great Kate!

Answer: Sense and Sensibility

I am not sure that Kate had even read a Jane Austen novel before earning the part of Marianne Dashwood in the 1995 Big Screen adaption of "Sense and Sensibility." Originally, she had only planned on auditioning for the smaller role of Lucy Steele, but director Ang Lee decided to cast her in a role that would ultimately earn her the nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

From Quiz Kate Winslet

Answer: The Face in the Lake (1999)

Kate won the Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album for her work in the animated 75-minute production of "Listen to the Storyteller" (1999).

From Quiz Great Kate!

Answer: Titanic

"Titanic" was a titanic success for Kate as she got to work alongside one of her most favorite co-stars Leonardo DiCaprio, and one of the world's most respected directors in James Cameron. Kate's amazing performance earned her an Oscar nomination for Best Actress and officially announced to the acting world that she was a force to be reckoned with. Incidentally, I could not help but notice in this movie she had grown a tad more voluptuous since the days we used to go swimming as kids at the local pool.

From Quiz Kate Winslet

Answer: She attended a funeral

Kate missed the premiere of "Titanic" because she was attending the funeral of her close friend and former boyfriend, Stephen Tredre. In an interview with Parade Magazine, she revealed that Stephen's death "was unbelievably heartbreaking," she says. "All I have left is that we remained very close until the end."

From Quiz Life and Career of Kate Winslet

Answer: Sugar Puffs

Kate has 3 siblings named Anna, Beth, and Joss.

From Quiz Kate Winslet

Answer: Sense and Sensibility

The oscar went to Mira Sorvino for 'The Mighty Aphrodite' (1995).

From Quiz Great Kate!

Answer: Anna and the King

I was sad that Kate rejected the lead role in the movie "Shakespeare in Love," which actually became one of my favorite movies of all-time. Interestingly, "Anna and the King" was a movie role she rejected in favor of playing a single mother in the hippy romance "Hideous Kinky." Of Kate's siblings, Joss is the youngest and the only one of the four to not have the acting bug. Younger sister Beth and older sister Anna are both actresses. Anna used to sit at my table in 4th grade and we were married in the school library during recess shortly before the end of the school year.

From Quiz Life and Career of Kate Winslet

Answer: Heavenly Creatures

In this movie Kate plays the part of Juliet Hulme, who is very close to Pauline Parker (played by Melanie Lynskey). Their parents try to separate them, which does not make the girls happy. This film is based on the true story of the Parker-Hulme murder.

From Quiz Kate Winslet

Answer: Titanic & The Titanic

The Oscar went to Helen Hunt for 'As Good as it Gets' (1997).

From Quiz Great Kate!

Answer: A Christmas Carol

Kate has always had the voice of a nightingale and once made a teacher cry in Primary School with a beautiful rendition of "Away in a Manger." "Christmas Carol: The Movie" was directed by Jimmy Murakami and featured the voices of Simon Callow, Nicholas Cage, Jane Horrocks, and also little sister Beth Winslet. The song "What If," hit the number one spot in Ireland, Austria, and Belgium. It also earned a top 10 spot in England, Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. All the proceeds from the single were donated by Kate to the Sargent Cancer Care for Children Charity and the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.

From Quiz Kate Winslet

Answer: She gave birth to her first child

Kate had her first child, daughter Mia, with first husband Jim Threapleton on this date. Her second marriage with Sam Mendes produced Joe Alfie Winslet-Mendes, who was born in December 2003.

From Quiz Life and Career of Kate Winslet

Answer: 2003

They were married in May and Kate gave birth to a son named Joe in December.

From Quiz Great Kate!

Answer: Taught her in primary school

The Reverend John Mortiboys was the lone male teacher at our Primary School and had taught Anna, Kate and Beth in his class. He had also baptized Kate when she was young. Kate's marriage to Jim Threapleton lasted for three years and they have a daughter (Mia Honey) together. In 2003, Kate married Sam Mendes with whom she shares a son (Joe Alfie). Sadly, Kate's second marriage ended in divorce in 2010.

From Quiz Kate Winslet

Answer: April Wheeler and Hanna Schmitz

Kate won Best Supporting Actress for her performance in "The Reader" (2008), in which she played Hanna Schmitz. She won Best Actress for playing the role of April Wheeler in "Revolutionary Road" (2008). It was only the third time in Golden Globes history that an actor or actress had received two awards on the same night. Sigourney Weaver in 1989 was the first, and Joan Plowright in 1993 was the second.

From Quiz Life and Career of Kate Winslet

Answer: Redroofs

She began attending Redroofs at the age of 11.

From Quiz Great Kate!

Answer: Johnny Depp

"Finding Neverland" earned rave reviews and focused on the story of J.M. Barrie (Johnny Depp) and the friendship he establishes with Sylvia Llewelyn Davies (Kate Winslet) and her children. It is the children who inspire him to write the "Peter Pan" stories centered on a boy who refuses to grow up. The film earned over $110 million in worldwide revenue. The role of Sylvia was especially profound for Kate because it deals with the close relationship she has with her children.

From Quiz Kate Winslet

Answer: Both were born in the same small, local hospital

Fortuitously, Mendes and Winslet were born in the same hospital, in the same English town of Reading, England - a decade apart. In "Vanity Fair" magazine, Winslet said "We were [expletive] born in the same hospital! Every time we have to drive past it, when we go to visit my parents, I can feel myself say, 'O.K., I'm not going to say it today.' And Sam can feel me grinning, and he's like, 'Go on, say it.' And I'm like, 'Mia, Joe ... we were born there!' Every time I have to tell the story."

From Quiz Life and Career of Kate Winslet

Answer: Jim Threapleton

Kate and Jim were married in 1998 and divorced in 2001.

From Quiz Great Kate!

Answer: Revolutionary Road

"Revolutionary Road" is arguably one of the most depressing movies Kate has appeared in. This being said many will argue that Kate seems to attract depressing movie roles. Some of the heart-breaking stories she appears in include "Titanic," "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," "Finding Neverland," "Jude," and "Mildred Pierce." Although many might think Kate to be a negative and depressing person in real-life, she is actually the complete opposite. A faithful daughter, mother, and sister, Kate regularly gives her time and resources to charity events and good causes.

From Quiz Kate Winslet

Answer: Hideous Kinky

After "Titanic" Kate Winslet dashed off to Morocco to star in the low-budget $3 million "Hideous Kinky" (1998). Winslet tells EW Online, 'It was very important to me to let people know that I wasn't just going to ride on the crest of the wave forever and just do lots and lots of Hollywood movies." She committed to the film just prior to the release of "Titanic" when she was getting nervous about the impending publicity. 'I really wanted to ground myself because I knew things were going to go bananas when "Titanic" was released,' she said. 'People said, 'You know, this is really going to change your life.' And I thought, 'Well, I don't want my life to change. I like me, and I like the way things are.' I knew doing "Hideous Kinky" would be grounding before all the madness of 'Titanic' happened.'

From Quiz Life and Career of Kate Winslet

Answer: Best Foreign Actress

She won this for her role in "Heavenly Creatures" (1994).

From Quiz Great Kate!

Answer: The Reader

Kate always dreamed BIG and even in the 4th grade told everyone that one day she would be a famous movie actress. In 2008, she co-starred with Ralph Fiennes and David Kross in "The Reader" directed by Stephen Daldry. The film is set in Germany and focuses on the life of Hanna Schmitz who has an affair with a young boy (Michael Berg) who many years later is the lawyer in a war crimes trial where Hanna is being forced to defend herself. Aside from the Best Actress Academy Award, the film also earned an Oscar for Best Picture.

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