Kate Winslet Career Retrospective

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Kate Winslet Career Retrospective

Kate Winslet

Monday, November 17, 2025

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Join us for a 90-minute Career Retrospective of actor Kate Winslet, moderated by David Canfield, The Hollywood Reporter.

BIO:

Academy Award® winner and seven-time nominee Kate Winslet has brought to life some of cinema’s most captivating and memorable roles. Her resume consists of critically and commercially acclaimed work as well as a span of awards and honours that illustrate Winslet’s talent and solidify her a permanent place in cinema history.

Upcoming, Winslet will step into a powerful new chapter as she is set to release her remarkable directorial debut GOODBYE, JUNE written by her son Joe Anders for Netflix. In addition to directing, Winslet also produces and stars alongside a star-studded cast of Toni Collette, Johnny Flynn, Andrea Riseborough, Timothy Spall, and Helen Mirren. The film is a present day, fictional drama, set in England. A touching, yet humorous story which sees a fractured group of siblings pull together under sudden and trying circumstances. She will also be seen reprising her role as the the tribal matriarch ‘Ronal’ in James Cameron’s third Avatar film, AVATAR: FIRE AND ASH which will be released globally on December 19, 2025. She was first seen as ‘Ronal’ in the 2022 Avatar sequel AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER. She is also set to star and produce the new HBO series TRUST, based on Hernan Diaz’s best-selling novel, to be directed by Todd Haynes.

Last year, Winslet was seen starring in LEE, which she also served as a producer. The film follows a decade in Lee Miller’s life as she embarks on a mission to expose the hidden truths of the Nazi Regime. For her portrayal of Miller, Winslet was nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama, she was honoured with the CineMerit award at Munich Film Festival and the Golden Icon award at the Zurich Film Festival. She also starred in, and executive produced THE REGIME, for HBO, a limited series directed by Stephen Frears and Jessica Hobbs. Her performance as Chancellor Elena Vernham garnered her a Golden Globes nomination for Best Actress in a Limited Series.

Winslet starred in I AM RUTH, which was a part of Dominic Savage’s female led anthology series 'I AM...' I AM RUTH, which premiered in 2022, was feature-length contemporary story of our times, and saw Winslet star alongside her real-life daughter, Mia Threapleton. For her performance she won the BAFTA award for Best Actress and the series won the BAFTA for Best Single Drama.

She stared in the 2021 award winning HBO limited series MARE OF EASTTOWN, in which she played the title role of Mare Sheehan. The series was a massive global hit and Winslet also served as Executive Producer. Winslet received Primetime Emmy, SAG, Critics’ Choice, and Golden Globe Awards for Best Actress for the role.

She received her first Academy Award® nomination at the age of 19 for her role as ‘Marianne Dashwood’ in Ang Lee’s SENSE AND SENSIBILITY (1995). Winslet was also nominated for a Golden Globe and went on to win the BAFTA and Screen Actors Guild Awards for her performance. At 22, she starred as Rose in James Cameron’s TITANIC (1997), a global phenomenon that secured her second Academy Award® nomination and made her the youngest actress ever to be nominated for two Academy Awards®.

Winslet won her first Academy Award® – after six previous nominations – for her powerful performance as Hannah Schmitz, an illiterate former SS guard, in Stephen Daldry’s THE READER (2008). Her portrayal earned her widespread acclaim, including a Golden Globe®, SAG, BAFTA, and Critics’ Choice Award, among many others.

Other career highlights include the Richard Eyre film IRIS (2001), in which she played the young ‘Iris Murdoch’ to Judi Dench’s older portrayal and received her third Academy Award® nomination in addition to a Golden Globe and BAFTA nomination. She went on to star as ‘Clementine’ in cult classic ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (2004), for which she received her fourth Academy Award®, and a Golden Globe® and BAFTA nominations for Best Actress. She starred opposite Patrick Wilson in Todd Field’s LITTLE CHILDREN (2006) for which she received her fifth Academy Award® nomination for Best Actress. Winslet played the title role in HBO’s mini-series MILDRED PIERCE (2011) for which she won Emmy®, Golden Globe® and SAG Awards as Best Actress. She played the role as Joanna Hoffman in STEVE JOBS (2015) alongside Michael Fassbender, directed by Danny Boyle. The role won her a Golden Globe® and a BAFTA award, along with her seventh Academy Award® nomination.

Winslet has starred in many other films including REVOLUTIONARY ROAD, THE DRESSMAKER, AMMONITE, ALL THE KING’S MEN, A LITTLE CHAOS, BLACKBIRD, CONTAGION, COLLATERAL BEAUTY, THE DIVERGENT SERIES, ENIGMA, FINDING NEVERLAND, HEAVENLY CREATURES, HAMLET, HIDEOUS KINKY, HOLY SMOKE, JUDE, THE HOLIDAY, THE LIFE OF DAVID GALE, TRIPLE NINE, THE MOUNTAIN BETWEEN US and WONDER WHEEL.

Photo credit: Alexi Lubomirski