kate winslet

Kate never had a chance: she was born into a family of actors. Her parents were both stage actors, her grandparents on her mother's side ran a theatre, and her uncle was a well-known actor in London's West End theatre district. So it was inevitable that Kate would end up with some of the family talent. When she was 11 she got her first job dancing in a children's cereal commercial, and began taking acting lessons at about the same time. She landed a few roles on stage & in short-lived sitcoms, but her big break came when she was 17 and cast in "Heavenly Creatures," a film based on the real life story of two high scool girls who commit a grisly murder. Though the film received acclaim from critics, it was marketed modestly, and hence Kate didn't receive the star status she may have deserved.

It was her role as Marianne Dashwood in Ang Lee's "Sense and Sensibility" (co-starring another Golden Globe hopeful, Imelda Staunton) that brought her her first round of praise, for which she won a British Academy Award and was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress; her next came from her role in James Cameron's epic film "Titanic," alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in 1997, for which she received another Oscar nomination for Best Actress, making her a household name, as well as the youngest actress to ever receive two Academy nominations. Her third will hopefully come from this year's brilliant film "The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," directed by the incredible Michel Gondry and co-starring Jim Carrey. She also appears in the nominated film "Finding Neverland," directed by Marc Forster and co-starring Johnny Depp.

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