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‘Mare Of Easttown’
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Winner of four Emmy Awards including Best Actress In A Limited Series for Kate Winslet, “Mare Of Easttown” is a whodunit drama with the actress playing the struggling, titular Mare. A glamourous role it is not, but Winslet turns her grief and Pennsylvania accent into a performance unlike anything we have ever seen from the talented thesp.
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‘Heavenly Creatures’
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Kate Winslet’s first starring film role in Peter Jackson's "Heavenly Creatures" definitely caught the attention of audiences. Winslet was reportedly one of 175 actresses who auditioned for the role of Juliet Hulme in the real-life story of an obsessive friendship that led two young women to the murder one of their mothers.
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‘Titanic’
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Easily Kate Winslet's most famous role, "Titanic" made her a household name.
Director Dave Cameron originally wanted Gwyneth Paltrow or Claire Danes for the role but Winslet won him over.
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‘Revolutionary Road’
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More than a decade after “Titanic”, Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio reunited for the period marriage drama “Revolutionary Road”. Directed by her then-husband Sam Mendes, Winslet is on fire on screen as April Wheeler as she describes how she fell in love with Leo’s character Frank and grew to resent him.
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‘Extras’
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Winslet plays herself in an episode of “Extras”, Ricky Gervais’ dry comedy series about background actors showing audiences she can be pretty hilarious. “I’ve noticed that if you do a film about the Holocaust — guaranteed Oscar!” she quips in the episode while dressed as a nun on the set of a WWII drama.
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‘Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind’
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Arguably Winslet’s best performance in a career of excellent performances, “Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind” lets Winslet loose. Contradictory, charming, frenzied, heartbroken, loving and vengeful, Winslet’s performance as the shape-shifting Clementine Kruczynski is a thing of beauty to behold.
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‘Sense & Sensibility’
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Everyone in Ang Lee’s Jane Austen adaption is top form so it’s no wonder her performance as Marianne Dashwood led to Winslet being typecast in period dramas for years. Romantic and feminine, the role earned Winslet her first of seven Oscar nominations, to date.
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‘The Reader’
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As of 2021, her role as concentration camp guard Hanna Schmitz is the only performance that has earned Winslet an Oscar. Playing Hanna over two time periods as both the cold and illiterate seducer of a 15-year-old boy and a post-WWII war criminal racked by guilt over her involvement in the Holocaust, it’s no surprise the Academy and every critics circle practically threw awards at the actress.
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‘The Holiday’
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A rom-com even people who don’t like rom-coms can get behind, the home-swap Christmas movie has Winslet perfectly matched with Jack Black. Director Nancy Meyers wrote the screwball comedy with Winslet in mind, giving the actress a chance to show off more of her funny side.
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‘Mildred Pierce’
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Todd Haynes adapted the 1941 novel Mildred Pierce knowing the production would likely earn comparisons to Joan Crawford’s Oscar-winning turn in the 1945 film adaptation, but for Winslet, she offered a whole new dimension to the character. More closely resembling the Mildred in the novel, Winslet makes the entrepreneurial character’s ferocious drive a formidable on-screen performance.
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