Some facts about actress Kate Winslet

1. Kate Winslet is an English actress who won the Academy Award for Best Actress in 2008 for The Reader.
2. Name at birth: Kate Elizabeth Winslet
3. Kate was born in Reading, Berkshire on October 5, 1975.
4. Kate Winslet is the youngest person to accrue six Academy Award nominations.
5. Her children refer to close friend Leonardo DiCaprio as "Uncle Leo". 
6. Currently, Kate lives in New York City.
7. Parents: Sally Anne and Roger John Winslet
8. Kate's astrological sign is Libra.
9. She is 5' 6½" (1.69 m) tall.
10. Her Chinese zodiac sign is the Rabbit.
11. In 1994, Kate made her film debut in Heavenly Creatures.
12. Was offered the role of Eowyn in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002).
13. Kate was born in the same year and on the same day as actress Parminder Nagra.
14. Kate has a nephew, George. 
15. On the day she had to film the straitjacket scene in Hamlet (1996), she learned she had won the role of Rose in Titanic (1997).