Kate Winslet

"I saw my whole life as if I'd already lived it...an endless parade of parties and cotillions, yachts and polo matches...always the same narrow people, the same mindless chatter. I felt like I was standing at a great precipice, with no one to pull me back, no one who cared...or even noticed."

-- Rose DeWitt Bukater

KATE WINSLET (Rose DeWitt Bukater) first received international acclaim for her performance in Peter Jackson's "Heavenly Creatures," in which she starred as a teenage girl whose intense relationship with an equally imaginative school friend leads to murder. Her promise was confirmed with her performance as the impetuous Marianne in Ang Lee's "Sense and Sensibility," opposite Emma Thompson, for which she won a SAG and BAFTA award for Best Supporting Actress and an Academy Award® nomination, all in 1996.

Most recently she received universal praise for her portrayal of the heart-rending and determined Sue Bridehead in Michael Winterbottom's "Jude" and as the tortured Ophelia in Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of "Hamlet." Winslet will next star in the independent feature film "Hideous Kinky," filming on location in Morocco last fall.