Kate Winslet is an English actress known for her work in independent films, particularly period dramas, and often portrays angst-ridden women.
She was born on 5 October 1975 in Reading, Berkshire, England, to Sally Anne (nee Bridges) and Roger John Winslet. She is currently 45 years old. Winslet has two sisters, Anna and Beth, both are actresses, and a younger brother, Joss.
She is widely prominent in the film industry worldwide for playing the lead role in the 1997 hit movie Titanic, which propelled her to international stardom.
Kate Winslet Dotes Over Her Husband Edward Abel Smith (Stay-Home Dad)
Kate Winslet seems to be all lovey-dovey with her significant other, Edward Abel Smith, who she wed nine years ago.
Kate gushed over her husband, Edward – formerly known as Ned Rocknroll – during a recent interview with The New York Times, calling him “the superhot, superhuman, stay-at-home dad.”
The couple shares a 7-year-old son together named Bear Blaze. Kate said, “He looks after us, especially me. I said to him earlier, like, ‘Neddy, could you do something for me?’ He just went, ‘Anything’. He is an absolutely extraordinary life partner.”
The actress continued, “I’m so, so, so lucky. For a man who is severely dyslexic, as he is, he’s great at testing me on lines. It’s so hard for him to read out loud, but he still does it.”
Kate revealed that Abel “didn’t particularly plan on meeting and marrying a woman who is in the public eye and therefore having been so judged,” but he handles it well. She praised him and revealed that he focuses on ‘calming energy.’ “He’s vegan, does yoga, breath work and cold water swims,” Kate revealed to The New York Times.
Kate Winslet Married Life And Kids
While Kate Winslet has a wonderful career in the entertainment industry, she has had a tumultuous love life off-screen.
Kate went on to marry and have children with three different men – Jim Threapleton, Sam Mendes, and Edward Abel Smith. She usually keeps her love life and children out of the spotlight even though she has shared a few things about her three marriages over the years.
After becoming a household name by playing in the 1997 film Titanic, Kate flowed with the requests to star in various roles. Her roles in the indie film Hideous Kinky allowed her to meet her first husband, filmmaker Jim Threapleton.
A year after meeting on set, the couple tied the knot in November 1998 when Winslet was just 23 years old. They welcomed their daughter, Mia Honey Threapleton together, two years later. Mia, now 20, has been following her mother's footsteps by being under the radar with a different surname than her mother herself. And Kate is proud of her daughter for making her own path for her own career and without Kate’s Hollywood connection.
Unfortunately, Kate and Jim's relationship didn’t last long. The pair got divorced in December 2001. Kate told Index magazine in 2004, of her first marriage, that her “relationship with Mia’s dad was a mess,” she revealed to have become a completely different person after half a year in marriage, and she was also not allowed to become more famous than she already is by her then-husband.
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Months after her divorce, the actress went on to date Hollywood director Sam Mendes in 2001 after he approached her about a role in a play he was directing. She eventually turned down the role, and the pair began dating instead. Two years later, while on holiday in Anguilla, the couple spontaneously decided to get married.
Their marriage brought up quite the controversy in public, and Kate was accused of having an affair while in her first marriage, and she later confirmed to have only met him after about “four or five months” of her split with Jim.
In December 2003, the couple welcomed their son, Jon Mendes, who is now 17 years old. The pair went on to work together in the 2008 film Revolutionary Road alongside actor Leonardo DiCaprio.
However, in early 2010, the couple decided to walk their separate ways. The second time around of her divorce, she told Wall Street Journal in 2015 that she “know lots of people who are not in the public eye who have gone through several marriages, I really do, and it’s just those are the cards that life dealt me. I didn’t plan on its being that way.”
After the divorce, she moved to Sir Richard Branson's private Caribbean island, Necker Island, in 2011, where she helped carry Sir Branson’s 90-year-old mother to safety while the house was on fire by being struck by lightning.
Kate Winslet and her husband, Edward Abel Smith (©: Metro)
The event led her to meet Branson’s nephew, Edward Abel Smith (who had legally changed his name to Ned Rocknroll back in 2008), who was also staying on Necker Island at the time. She told ET that he was quite the peculiar man and wanted to pick that man as her significant other as they hit off right together after their first meeting.
So, in 2012, she tied the knot with Smith in an intimate New York ceremony which reportedly included just 12 guests and Winslet’s two children. In 2013, the couple welcomed their son Bear Winslet, and they have been together like ever since their marriage.
Ned Rocknroll later changed his name back to Edward Abel Smith in 2019 in the interest of his family. And there’s a reason for that, as Winslet explained during a virtual interview in early-2021, on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
With raising their son, Bear, having the last name “Rocknroll” became a bit tiresome for them. She recalled, “I got to the point where I’m like, you know, I’m filling in doctors’ forms and it says ‘mother’s name’ and ‘father’s name’, and I’m like, ‘Honey … are we going to keep going?’” And she continued, “And he’s like, ‘Yeah, you’re right. I’ll change it back.’ So, he changed it back.”
Net Worth And Career Of Kate Winslet
With a household name she has created herself, Kate has been involved in several projects in the entertainment industry, which gave her lots of wealth to her name. She has an estimated net worth of $65 million as of 2021.
The report further adds that Kate purchased a property in West Sussex for 3.3 million pounds, which was sold for 2 million pounds later in 2014. Reportedly, she currently lives in her 4.1 million pounds beachside home in West Wittering. In addition, a report published in allcelebritylifestyle.com claims that Kate owns a BMW 6 Series, Land Cruiser, and Aston Martin DB5.
Considering all the assets she owns in her name, it is quite a massive net worth for the actress in the industry. However, several sources noted that Winslet’s parents were working class, and getting food on the table was a struggle.
Despite being a newcomer in the acting field, she gained massive success after her role in the 1997 blockbuster, commercially and critically successful film Titanic. The film also gained a massive profit of $2.2 billion globally, per THR. Though the exact number is unconfirmed, IMDb reports the actress earned $2 million for the role. And it further became a huge investment for her as she went to have a number of small and big roles in several entertainment industry projects.
Kate began her acting career when she first tasted success at just 11 years old. She started auditioning for commercial roles after being accepted into a theater school. And when she entered her teen years, she was cast in a British series called Dark Season. Finally, in 1994, she was cast in Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures. Then followed one of the biggest breakthroughs in her acting career from James Cameron’s Titanic in 1997, where she played the lead role.
Kate had her fame skyrocketed from the movie Titanic. Since then, she has displayed her grace with her performances in several indie films over the decades. Some of her most iconic work includes The Reader, Revolutionary Road, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and more.
Her appearances don’t only involve films only, but TV shows too, some being Get Back, Anglo Saxon Attitudes, Being Mick, and Mare of Easttown, to name a few. And being one of Hollywood’s most recognizable actresses, she has not shown any sign of stopping to work for the moment.
She has accumulated 91 awards and has been honored with 162 nominations throughout her career as of 2021, in which one of the wins being an Oscar award. Winslet won the Oscar for Best Actress for The Reader (2008).