Winslet-Oscar Fashion Report Card 2009

Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress. Winslet is also known as occasional singer. Kate Winslet is the youngest person to accrue six Academy Award nominations, and achieved the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Reader (2008). Winslet is highly regarded for her performances in several films and has received multiple award nominations. She has won awards from the Screen Actors Guild, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association among others, and has been nominated for an Emmy Award for television acting.

Winslet studied drama from childhood, and began her career in British television in 1991. She made her film debut in Heavenly Creatures (1994), for which she received her first notable critical praise. She achieved recognition for her leading role in Titanic (1997), the highest grossing film for more than 12 years until 2010.

Winslet was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children in 2000. She has been included as a vocalist on some soundtracks of works she has performed in, and the single "What If" from the soundtrack for Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001), was a hit single in several European countries.