Nicky Hilton and David Katzenberg Split After Four Years

Sources have confirmed that Nicky Hilton has quietly split with longtime boyfriendDavid Katzenberg after four years of being together.  Evidently Hilton's parents were hoping she would eventually tie the knot with the son of DreamWork's Jeffrey Katzenberg, but just like most kids take pleasure in disappointing their parents, the Hilton girls are no different.  Sources claim that the split was amicable and happened after their work pushed them in different directions.  One friend divulged that "They broke up quietly after four years together. The main reason was that they have been busy with their work schedules, and it has made it difficult to spend time together." The friend adds, "Nicky has been back and forth traveling overseas a lot with her business. She has recently been in Asia promoting her jewelry line, and David is starting a new production company. Their schedules never seemed to match." Despite the split, the ex-couple have been talking and tweeting one another (how romantic?).  So there's no drama...really?  How very un-Hilton of them.  A source backs up this hard to believe claim stating, "There is no scandal or any third person -- they remain close friends, they have been friends since they were teenagers." Sorry to hear about the split Nicky, but look on the bright side -- you'll always have Paris.

David and Victoria Beckham Personal details

Already parents to three boys (Brooklyn, 12, Romeo, 8 1/2, and Cruz, 6 1/2), David and Victoria Beckham were understandably "over the moon" when their first daughter, Harper Seven, was born on July 10th in Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Hospital. And now that Victoria has finally had her first chance to dress her baby girl up in only the most luxurious and elegant attire, it seems like she's having so much fun that she's realized she doesn't want to be able to dress just one of her children nicely. So just two weeks after giving birth, the Beckhams have already decided they'd like to have one more child.

In a video from the Associate Press, David Beckham revealed that he and Victoria have always wanted a big family, and that five children was always a number they had in the back of their minds. And because his sons reacted so positively to the family's newest addition (he said "all the boys won't leave [Harper Seven] alone, which is amazing,"), he's pretty sure they're going to try and have another baby. Hopefully he/she will have Victoria's nose, too.

Hollywood Actress Salma Hayek personal details

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Salma Hayek Personal Details : Actress Name: Salma Hayek Actress Full Name: Salma Valgarma Hayek-Jimenez Date of Birth: September 2nd, 1966, Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz, Mexico Gender: Female Sexual Orientation: Straight Race or Ethnicity: Roman Catholic Religion: Hispanic Zodiac Sign: Virgo Nationality: Mexican Speaks: English, Arabic, Spanish and Portugese Family and Friends of Salma Hayek : Father: Sami Hayek Dominguez (Oil Company Executive) Mother: Diana Jimenez Hayek (Opera Singer) Brother: Sami Hayek (Designer) Husband: Francois-Henri Pinault (Businessman) Daughter: Valentina Paloma Pinault Stepson: Francois Stepdaughter: Mathide Boyfriend: Edward Norton (Actor), Josh Lucas (Actor), Richard Crenna Jr. (Actor), Edward Atterton (Actor) Good Friend: Penélope Cruz, Ashley Judd and Valeria Golino Frequently collaborates: Antonio Banderas and Robert Rodriguez Salma Hayek Education : High School: Ramtha's School of Enlightenment, Academy of the Sacred Heart, Grand Coteau, Louisiana University: Universidad Iberoamericana Salma Hayek Professional Details : Occupation: Actress, Director, Television and Film Producer Major Genres: Comedy, Drama, Talk-Show, Music Years active: 1988 - Present Debut Film: Un nuevo amanecer (1988) First Major Screen Credit: Desperado (1995) Career Highlights: Wild Wild West, Dogma, Timecode, El Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba, Desperado, Claim to Fame: As Frida Kahlo in the Movie "Frida" (2002) Salma Hayek Magazine Appearances : AD Magazine, American Cinematographer, Arena, Breakout!, Celebrity Sleuth, Cinema, Cosmopolitan, Detour, Elle, Empire, Entertainment Weekly, Entrevue, Flare, Flaunt, George, Glamour, GQ, Heart, Het Nieuwsblad, Hr Zu, In Style, Latin Scene, Marie Claire, Maxim, Parade, Premiere, Razor, Scene, Tele, To allo vima, Total Film, TV 14, TV Film, TV Hören und Sehen, Vanity Fair, Veronica, Video Magazine, Vox, White's Guide to the Movies Salma Hayek Music Video Appearances : 1. Will Smith "Wild Wild West" 2. ZZ Top "She's just killing me" 3. Prince "Te Amo Corazon" Salma Hayek TV commercial & Print ads Appearances : TV commercial: Revlon, Revlon's EveryLash mascara, Veracruz Touris, Head & Shoulders, Avon cosmetics line of products, Coca-Cola Print ads: March of Dimes, Dolce & Gabbana, Campari Italian bitters and Campari Passion campaign, Proctor & Gamble's Pampers diapers and their Pampers/UNICEF vaccination campaign Salma Hayek Other works : Posters for Hennes & Mauritz swimwear Halloween campaign for Coors Light beer Public service announcement for The ONE Campaign [www.one.org]  Salma Hayek Ranked : Ranked 8th of the 100 Sexiest Women by FHM Taiwan (2001) Ranked #12 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" Ranked #36 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006" Ranked #18 in FHM's 100 Sexiest Women in the World of 2007 Ranked #34 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2005 list Ranked #90 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2007 list Ranked #31 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World" (2002) Ranked #3 in AIM's "100 Hottest Brunettes" Ranked #17 by Entertainment Weekly in their list of the "25 Smartest People in TV" Made the cut to People magazine's 50 most beautiful people list twice in 1996 and 2003 Chosen by People (USA) magazine as one of the 50 most beautiful people in the world [1996] Favorite Things of Salma Hayek : Favorite Movies: It Happened One Night, The Graduate, Gone with the Wind and Casablanca Salma HayekHeight, Weight & Measurements : Salma Hayek Height: 5' 2" (1.57 m) Salma Hayek Weight: 115 lbs Salma Hayek Measurements: 36C-25-37 Salma Hayek Shoe Size: 7 Salma Hayek Hair Color: Black Salma Hayek Eye Color: Dark Brown Salma Hayek Build: Average  Owned by Salma Hayek : Pets a dog named Diva Production Company : Ventanarosa  Salma Hayek Pictures Salma Hayek favourite quotes

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Hollywood Actress Salma Hayek Quotes - personal details

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And I highly recommend for all the women in the world, even if they're 71, you can never take for granted that he loves you. It's always good to flirt with him. It's a great sport.  At the beginning my career was hard. People were like, 'Who is this Mexican jumping bean?'  Before you do anything: think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.  Every woman who thinks she is the only victim of violence has to know that there are many more.  For me, I have to say that I like to work a lot too, but I like not working better. The perfect scenario is when you just worked and you know something's coming up, then you have four, five, six months off. But you know you're going to have a job later.  For my wrap present, Colin Farrell gave me a first edition book. I got so involved with this character and I was so sad when the movie was over that when I got home and I tried to read the book I got really emotional and I started crying.  Go for the style that fits your body type the best. Have your own voice in the way you dress.  How I would describe my characters is absolutely different from how I would describe myself.  I act tall!" "But look how short I am...I can't even act to be tall. I'm five-two. I can't even create the illusion that I am tall!  I aim for a lifetime full of movies.  I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.  I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.  I do have a Mexican accent, but that doesn't mean that I'm a Latin vamp.  I don't see women and think of them as competition or with judgment. Women really move me. I feel connected to all kinds of women. I am angry because I think we've been mistreated throughout history in different countries, including America. I admire women.  I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.  I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.  I have gotten a lot more attention than...other women that I find incredibly beautiful. And this has happened to me ever since I was a girl, when I was flat, had no teeth, was skinny and small as I could be. I always got more attention than anyone else. If I hadn't, I would have made sure I did.  I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.  I know the only reason that I haven't gotten many good parts is because I am Latin - and they tell it to my face a lot of times.  I proved to myself that if I believe in something and set my mind to it I could actually accomplish it.  I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.  I started having problems with certain beliefs. Like in Africa, where people are dying of AIDS and overpopulation, the Catholic Church is going over to convert them and take away the condoms! And I said, "Wait a minute!"  I started out in Hollywood at the same time as Jennifer Lopez. Before us, Latinas only had roles that were part of the backdrop, as the maid or the prostitute. We changed that. Of course, you're always looking for those Meryl Streep parts, but I am grateful for the things I did.  I think it's not a femme fatale when someone is not doing it to manipulate men or be like a black widow. She loves him. She does it out of love. She wants him so badly to stay with her.  I want to work for a long, long time and keep growing in my work, and if I am very lucky and very blessed, maybe somewhere along the line there will be one movie in there that becomes a classic.  I'd rather be a little heavier but nice, rather than skinny and bitchy.  If a man lets all of my dogs sleep in the bed with us, then that is the most romantic thing. You must love my dogs in order to love me. A man who is nice to my animals and doesn't shoo them away...well, that's the height of romance.  If I go on a diet and work out, I'm always in a bad mood. I'd rather be a little heavier but nice.  If you give me any problem in America I can trace it down to domestic violence. It is the cradle of most of the problems, economic, psychological, educational.  I'm a bit of an abstract figure that people can project their fantasies on. It's pretty much what we all are, otherwise we wouldn't be stars and people wouldn't be interested. But people project things on you that have nothing to do with what you really are, or they see a little something and then exaggerate it, and you can't really control that.  I'm good at working, but I'm very good at playing.  It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.  I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!  Life is tough; and if you have the ability to laugh at it, you have the ability to enjoy it.  My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.  My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!  My new movie, Fools Rush In, is a romantic comedy and the girl I play in that is very warm, very sweet.  No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.  People often say that "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder," and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. This empowers us to find beauty in places where others have not dared to look, including inside ourselves.  People say we're all identical, but Jennifer Lopez is an American. She's from New York. She doesn't have an accent. Some of these Latin people - their Spanish is pathetic. They learned it when they became famous as Latinos.  Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven.  So you have to keep waiting and then they give you the script and it's terrible. Then you have to go to the rewrite and they're very upset because you didn't like it. I went through that for seven years.  Some men have a silly theory about beautiful women - that somewhere along the line they'll turn into a monster. That movie gave them a chance to watch it happen.  There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.  There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.  There's a lot about the character. It doesn't always happen, but there are some characters you really create a relationship with, almost as if they were your friend. And you never get into their heads again or think like them.  They offered me that film before I did Frida and I said, no, I'm not capable of directing. Then after seeing Julie direct, I was inspired by it. She motivated me to do it, because we don't have role models as woman for directors.  What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.  When I finally decided to leave school and pursue acting, my parents didn't take it very lightly. My friends thought that it was the tackiest thing they'd ever heard of. Acting was really beneath them. They couldn't believe that I would want to become an actress. Not now, of course.  When I first came to Hollywood I was told to go out with an agent because it was good for my career. So I went to a party with him because it was good for my 'career.' Well, he thought the whole thing was a big date. Needless to say, I was very upset.  When it is important for you to say something and you find a vehicle to say it, then go for it. It is so rare when that happens so I think every minute spent fighting for it is always worth it. Even if nothing ends up happening, it's still worth the fight.  You can be a thousand different women. It's your choice which one you want to be. It's about freedom and sovereignty. You celebrate who you are. You say, "This is my kingdom."  You know how macho boys get when they're all together? Well, the set of Desperado was like that. They were all trying to put me down, saying, 'Bring on the stuntwoman, Salma can't do that.' But I did everything. The scene where Antonio and I jump across two buildings was great. They put cables on us and it really was like flying. I didn't want to stop. I kept saying, 'Can we do it one more time?' I had a blast!  Explaining how her dog alerted her to a gas leak in her home:  I had a headache and went to lie down when Diva woke me up grabbing my sleeve in her mouth and trying to pull me out of the house. Then I realised the gas was on!  On her daughter Valentina:  She's a little dictator! She is unique, magical - definitely the most colourful person I've ever met. I feel so connected to her, but at the same time, we are completely different. I discover something new about her every day.  On her singing and dancing Diana Ross imitation in Velocity:  It was easy! I watched a tape of her and studied what she did. I memorized it really fast and that was it. I really do love Diana Ross. I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her. I only knew what she looked like from my mom's albums covers. "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" has got to be one of my favorite songs ever.  On her six Oscar nominations for her work on Frida:  Very, very excited. I am very excited that we have six Oscar nominations. I am also excited that other friends of mine are nominated for other movies and for Felipe Fernandez del Paso who is the production designer in the movie. He is a very old friend. Felipe was on the set of Teresa - the TV show I did in Mexico. He would come and visit me and now we are going to the Oscars together!  On working with Colin Farrell:  I was a little bit worried about working with Colin. I was like, "I'm going to have to set him straight!" [But he was] never a problem. Always on time, always showed up--but always showed up passionate about the job; passionate about work; eager in the rehearsal.  Responding to the critics who were saying that she was showing a lot of skin in the movie "After the Sunset":  We were in the Bahamas! What do you want me to wear, clothes? It was hot in there! (laughs) Are you complaining?  Revealing she is addicted to breastfeeding:  I'm like an alcoholic. It is like, I don't care if I cry, I don't care if I am fat, I am just going to do it for one more week, one more month, and then when I see how much good it is doing her and I can't stop. The myth that says you lose all this weight when you breastfeed! That is so not true! It's like, please, will everyone stop telling me I look really well.  Revealing she might not necessarily marry boyfriend Francois-Henri Pinault:  I don't have a need for marriage. You want to grow old with someone, you want to have a partner and to have children - we have all those things. Some people need the commitment. Maybe we'll just have the party!

Kate Winslet personal details

Kate Elizabeth Winslet (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress and occasional singer. She has received multiple awards and nominations. She is the youngest person to accrue sixAcademy Award nominations, and won the Academy Award for Best Actress for The Reader(2008). Winslet has been acclaimed for both dramatic and comedic work in projects ranging fromperiod to contemporary films, and from major Hollywood productions to less publicised indie films. 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.

Raised in Berkshire, 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 subsequent work in a supporting role in Sense and Sensibility (1995) and for her leading role in Titanic (1997), the highest grossing film at that time.

Since 2000, Winslet's performances have continued to draw positive comments from film critics, and she has been nominated for various awards for her work in such films as Quills (2000), Iris(2001), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), Finding Neverland (2004), Little Children(2006), The Reader (2008) and Revolutionary Road (2008). Her performance in the latter prompted New York magazine critic David Edelstein to describe her as "the best English-speaking film actress of her generation". The romantic comedy The Holiday and the animated film Flushed Away (both 2006) were among the biggest commercial successes of her career.

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. Winslet has a daughter with her former husband, Jim Threapleton, and a son with her second husband, Sam Mendes, from whom she is separated. She lives inNew York City.

1991–1997

Winslet's career began on television, with a co-starring role in the BBC children's science fiction serial Dark Season.^[7] This role was followed by appearances in the made-for-TV movie Anglo-Saxon Attitudes in 1992, the sitcom Get Back, and an episode of the medical dramaCasualty in 1993.^[7]

Winslet at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival

In 1992, Winslet attended a casting call for Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures in London. Winslet auditioned for the part of Juliet Hulme, a teenager who assists in the murder of the mother of her best friend, Pauline Parker (played by Melanie Lynskey). She won the role over 175 other girls.  The film included Winslet's singing debut, and her a cappella version of "Sono Andati", an aria from La Bohème, was featured on the film's soundtrack.  The film was released to favourable reviews in 1994 and won Jackson and partner Fran Walsh a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Winslet was awarded an Empire Award and a London Film Critics Circle Award for British Actress of the Year for her performance.  The Washington Post writer Desson Thomson commented: "As Juliet, Winslet is a bright-eyed ball of fire, lighting up every scene she’s in. She's offset perfectly by Lynskey, whose quietly smoldering Pauline completes the delicate, dangerous partnership." Speaking about her experience on a film set as an absolute beginner, Winslet noted: "With Heavenly Creatures, all I knew I had to do was completely become that person. In a way it was quite nice doing [the film] and not knowing a bloody thing."^[14]

The following year, Winslet auditioned for the small but pivotal role of Lucy Steele in the adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility, featuring Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant, and Alan Rickman.^[15] She was instead cast in the second leading role of Marianne Dashwood.^[15] Director Ang Lee admitted he was initially worried about the way Winslet had attacked her role in Heavenly Creatures and thus required her to exercise tai chi, read Austen-era Gothic novels and poetry, and work with a piano teacher to fit the grace of the role.^[15] Budgeted at US$16.5 million ($23.8 million in current year dollars) the film became a financial and critical success, resulting in a worldwide box office total ofUS$135 million ($194.5 million) and various awards for Winslet, winning her both a BAFTA and a Screen Actors Guild Award, and nominations for both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe.

In 1996, Winslet starred in both Jude and Hamlet. In Michael Winterbottom's Jude, based on the Victorian novel Jude the Obscure byThomas Hardy, she played Sue Bridehead, a young woman with suffragette leanings who falls in love with her cousin, played by Christopher Eccleston. Acclaimed among critics, it was not a success at the box office, barely grossing US$2 million ($2.8 million) worldwide. Richard Corliss of Time magazine said "Winslet is worthy of [...] the camera's scrupulous adoration. She's perfect, a modernist ahead of her time [...] and Jude is a handsome showcase for her gifts." Winslet played Ophelia, Hamlet's drowned lover, in Kenneth Branagh's all star-cast film version of William Shakespeare's Hamlet. The film garnered largely positive reviews and earned Winslet her second Empire Award.^[12][20]

In mid-1996, Winslet began filming James Cameron's Titanic (1997), alongside Leonardo DiCaprio.^[21] Cast as the sensitive seventeen-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater, a fictional first-class socialite who survives the 1912 sinking of the RMS Titanic, Winslet's experience was emotionally demanding.^[22] "Titanic was totally different and nothing could have prepared me for it. ... We were really scared about the whole adventure. ... Jim [Cameron] is a perfectionist, a real genius at making movies. But there was all this bad press before it came out, and that was really upsetting."^[22] Against expectations, the film went on to become the highest-grossing film of all time, grossing more thanUS$1.843 billion ($2.6 billion) in box-office receipts worldwide,^[23] and transformed Winslet into a commercial movie star.^[24] Subsequently, she was nominated for most of the high-profile awards, winning a European Film Award.^[12][25]

[edit]1998–2003

Shot prior to the release of Titanic, Hideous Kinky, a low-budget hippie romance, was Winslet's sole film of 1998.^[26] Winslet had rejected offers to play the leading roles in Shakespeare in Love (1998) and Anna and the King (1999) in favour of the role of a young English mother named Julia who moves with her daughters from London to Morocco hoping to start a new life.^[26][27] The film garnered generally mixed reviews and received only limited distribution,^[28] resulting in a worldwide gross of US$5 million ($6.6 million).^[29] Despite the success ofTitanic, the next film Winslet opted to star in was Holy Smoke! (1999), featuring Harvey Keitel, another low-budget project—much to the chagrin of her agents, who felt "miserable" about her preference of arthouse movies.^[14][22] Feeling pressured, Winslet has said she "never saw Titanic as a springboard for bigger films or bigger pay cheques", knowing that "it could have been that, but would have destroyed [her]."^[30] The same year, she voiced Brigid in the computer animated film Faeries.^[31]

In 2000, Winslet appeared in the period piece Quills with Geoffrey Rush and Joaquin Phoenix, a film inspired by the life and work of theMarquis de Sade. The actress served as somewhat of a "patron saint" of the film for being the first big name to back it, accepting the role of achambermaid in the asylum and the courier of The Marquis' manuscripts to the underground publishers.^[32] Well-received by critics, the film garnered numerous accolades for Winslet, including nominations for SAG and Satellite Awards.^[12] The film was a modest arthouse success, averaging US$27,709 ($35,337) per screen its debut weekend, and eventually grossing US$18 million ($23 million) internationally.^[33]

In 2001's Enigma, Winslet played a young woman who finds herself falling for a brilliant young World War II code breaker, played by Dougray Scott.^[34] It was her first war film, and Winslet regarded "making Enigma a brilliant experience" as she was five months pregnant at the time of the shoot, forcing some tricky camera work from the director Michael Apted.^[34] Generally well-received,^[35] Winslet was awarded a British Independent Film Award for her performance,^[12] and A. O. Scott of The New York Times described Winslet as "more crush-worthy than ever."^[36] In the same year she appeared in Richard Eyre's critically acclaimed film Iris, portraying novelist Iris Murdoch. Winslet shared her role with Judi Dench, with both actresses portraying Murdoch at different phases of her life.^[37] Subsequently, each of them was nominated for an Academy Award the following year, earning Winslet her third nomination.^[12] Also in 2001, she voiced the character Belle in the animated motion picture Christmas Carol: The Movie, based on the Charles Dickens classic novel. For the film, Winslet recorded the song "What If", which was released in November 2001 as a single^[38] with proceeds donated to two of Winslet's favourite charities, the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and the Sargeant Cancer Foundation for Children.^[38][39] A Europe-wide top ten hit, it reached number one in Austria, Belgium, and Ireland,^[40] number six on the UK Singles Chart,^[41] and won the 2002 OGAE Song Contest.^[42]

Her next film role was in the 2003 drama The Life of David Gale, in which she played an ambitious journalist who interviews a death-sentenced professor, played by Kevin Spacey, in his final weeks before execution. The film underperformed at international box offices, garnering only half of its US$ 50,000,000 budget,^[43] and generating mostly critical reviews,^[44] with Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Timescalling it a "silly movie."^[45]

[edit]2004–2006

Following The Life of David Gale, Winslet appeared with Jim Carrey in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), a neosurrealistic indie-drama by French director Michel Gondry. In the film, she played the role of Clementine Kruczynski, a chatty, spontaneous and somewhatneurotic woman, who decides to have all memories of her ex-boyfriend erased from her mind.^[46] The role was a departure from her previous roles, with Winslet revealing in an interview with Variety that she was initially upended about her casting in the film: "This was not the type of thing I was being offered [...] I was just thrilled that there was something he had seen in me, in spite of the corsets, that he thought was going to work for Clementine.”^[47] The film was a critical and financial success.^[48] Winslet received rave reviews for her Academy Award-nominated performance, which Peter Travers of Rolling Stone described as "electrifying and bruisingly vulnerable."^[49]

Winslet at the 61st British Academy Film Awards.

Her final film in 2004 was Finding Neverland. The story of the production focused on Scottish writer J. M. Barrie (Johnny Depp) and his platonic relationship with Sylvia Llewelyn Davies (Winslet), whose sons inspired him to pen the classic play Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up. During promotion of the film, Winslet noted of her portrayal "It was very important for me in playing Sylvia that I was already a mother myself, because I don’t think I could have played that part if I didn’t know what it felt like to be a parent and have those responsibilities and that amount of love that you give to a child [...] and I've always got a baby somewhere, or both of them, all over my face."^[50] The film received favourable reviews and proved to be an international success, becoming Winslet's highest-grossing film since Titanic with a total of $118 million worldwide.^[51][52]

In 2005, Winslet appeared in an episode of BBC's comedy series Extras as a satirical version of herself. While dressed as a nun, she was portrayed giving phone sex tips to the romantically challenged character of Maggie.^[53] Her performance in the episode led to her first nomination for an Emmy Award.^[12] InRomance & Cigarettes (2005), a musical romantic comedy written and directed by John Turturro, she played the character Tula, described by Winslet as "a slut, someone who’s essentially foulmouthed and has bad manners and really doesn’t know how to dress."^[54] Hand-picked by Turturro, who was impressed with her display of dancing ability in Holy Smoke!, Winslet was praised for her performance,^[54] which included her interpretation of Connie Francis's "Scapricciatiello (Do You Love Me Like You Kiss Me)".^[55] Derek Elley of Variety wrote: "Onscreen less, but blessed with the showiest role, filthiest one-liners, [and] a perfect Lancashire accent that's comical enough in the Gotham setting Winslet throws herself into the role with an infectious gusto."^[56]

After declining an invitation to appear in Woody Allen's film Match Point (2005), Winslet stated that she wanted to be able to spend more time with her children.^[57] She began 2006 with All the King's Men, featuring Sean Penn and Jude Law. Winslet played the role of Anne Stanton, the childhood sweetheart of Jack Burden (Law). The film was critically and financially unsuccessful.^[58][59] Todd McCarthy of Variety summed it up as "overstuffed and fatally miscast [...] Absent any point of engagement to become involved in the characters, the film feels stillborn and is unlikely to stir public excitement, even in an election year."^[60]

Winslet fared far better when she joined the cast of Todd Field's Little Children, playing Sarah Pierce, a bored homemaker who has a torrid affair with a married neighbour, played by Patrick Wilson. Both her performance and the film received rave reviews; A. O. Scott of The New York Times wrote: "In too many recent movies intelligence is woefully undervalued, and it is this quality—even more than its considerable beauty—that distinguishes Little Children from its peers. The result is a movie that is challenging, accessible and hard to stop thinking about. Ms. Winslet, as fine an actress as any working in movies today, registers every flicker of Sarah’s pride, self-doubt and desire, inspiring a mixture of recognition, pity and concern that amounts, by the end of the movie, to something like love. That Ms. Winslet is so lovable makes the deficit of love in Sarah’s life all the more painful."^[61] For her work in the film, she was honored with a Britannia Award for British Artist of the Year from BAFTA/LA, a Los Angeles-based offshoot of the BAFTA Awards.^[62] and nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress, and at 31, became the youngest actress to ever garner five Oscar nominations.^[63]

She followed Little Children with a role in Nancy Meyers' romantic comedy The Holiday, also starring Cameron Diaz, Jude Law, and Jack Black. In it she played Iris, a British woman who temporarily exchanges homes with an American woman (Diaz). Released to a mixed reception by critics,^[64] the film became Winslet's biggest commercial success in nine years, grossing more than US$205 million worldwide.^[65] Also in 2006, Winslet provided her voice for several smaller projects. In the CG-animated Flushed Away, she voiced Rita, a scavenging sewer rat who helps Roddy (Hugh Jackman) escape from the city of Ratropolis and return to his luxurious Kensington origins. A critical and commercial success, the film collected US$177,665,672 at international box offices.^[66]

[edit]2007–present

Winslet at the 81st Academy Awards in February 2009

In 2007, Winslet reunited with Leonardo DiCaprio to film Revolutionary Road (2008), directed by her husband Sam Mendes. Winslet had suggested that both should work with her on a film adaptation of the1961 novel of the same name by Richard Yates after reading the script by Justin Haythe.^[67] Resulting in both "a blessing and an added pressure" on-set, the reunion was her first experience working with Mendes.^[68] Portraying a couple in a failing marriage in the 1950s, DiCaprio and Winslet watched period videos promoting life in the suburbs to prepare themselves for the film,^[68] which earned them favorable reviews.^[69] In his review of the film, David Edelstein of New York magazine stated that "[t]here isn’t a banal moment in Winslet’s performance—not a gesture, not a word. Is Winslet now the best English-speaking film actress of her generation? I think so."^[1] Winslet was awarded a Golden Globe Award for Best Actressfor her performance, her seventh nomination from the Golden Globes.^[12]

Also released in late 2008, the film competed against Winslet's other project, a film adaptation of Bernhard Schlink's 1995 novel The Reader, directed by Stephen Daldry and featuring Ralph Fiennes and David Krossin supporting roles. Originally the first choice for her role, she was initially not able to take on the role due to a scheduling conflict with Revolutionary Road, and Nicole Kidman replaced her.^[70] A month after filming began, however, Kidman left the film due to her pregnancy before filming of her had begun, enabling Winslet to rejoin the film.^[70] Employing a German accent, Winslet portrayed a former Nazi concentration campguard who has an affair with a teenager (Kross) who, as an adult, witnesses her war crimes trial.^[71] She later said the role was difficult for her, as she was naturally unable "to sympathise with an SS guard."^[72]While the film garnered mixed reviews in general,^[73] Winslet received favorable reviews for her performance.^[73] The following year, she earned her sixth Academy Award nomination and went on to win the Best Actress award, theBAFTA Award for Best Actress, a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress, and a Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress.^[12]

In 2011, Winslet headlined in the HBO miniseries Mildred Pierce, a small screen adaptation of James M. Cain's 1941 novel of the same name, directed by Todd Haynes.^[74] Co-starring Guy Pearce and Evan Rachel Wood, she portrayed a self-sacrificing mother during the Great Depression who finds herself separated from her husband and falling in love with a new man, all the while trying to earn her narcissistic daughter's love and respect. Broadcast to moderate ratings,^[75] the five-part series earned generally favorable reviews,^[76] with Salon.comcalling it a "quiet, heartbreaking masterpiece".^[77]

Winslet has been cast in the Steven Soderbergh disaster film Contagion, which is scheduled to be released in October 2011.^[78] She will also join Jodie Foster and Christoph Waltz in Roman Polanski's adaptation of the play God of Carnage, which is scheduled to begin filming in Paris in February 2011,^[79] and star alongside Josh Brolin in Jason Reitman's adaptation of Joyce Maynard's 2009 novel Labor Day.^[80]

[edit]Personal life

While on the set of Dark Season, Winslet met actor-writer Stephen Tredre, with whom she had a four-and-a-half-year relationship.^[81] Winslet and Tredre remained close after their separation in 1995.^[82] He died of bone cancer during the opening week of Titanic, causing her to miss the film's Los Angeles premiere to attend his funeral in London.^[83] She and Titanic co-star Leonardo DiCaprio have remained close friends since the filming.^[84]

On 22 November 1998, Winslet married director Jim Threapleton, whom she met while on the set of Hideous Kinky in 1997.^[85][86] They have a daughter, Mia Honey Threapleton,^[86] who was born on 12 October 2000 in London.^[85] Winslet and Threapleton divorced on 13 December 2001.^[87]

Following her separation from Threapleton, Winslet began a relationship with director Sam Mendes,^[87] and she married him on 24 May 2003 on the island of Anguilla.^[85] Their son, Joe Alfie Winslet Mendes, was born on 22 December 2003 in New York City.^[85] Winslet and Mendes announced their separation in March 2010.^[88]

Mendes was scheduled to fly on American Airlines Flight 77, which was hijacked on 11 September 2001 and subsequently crashed into the Pentagon.^[89] In October 2001, Winslet was on a flight with her daughter, Mia, when a passenger who claimed to be a terrorist stood up and shouted, "We are all going to die".^[89] As a result of these incidents, Winslet and Mendes never fly together on the same aircraft as they fear leaving their children parentless.^[89]

Winslet's weight fluctuations over the years have been well documented by the media.^[81][85] She has been outspoken about her refusal to allow Hollywood to dictate her weight.^[84][90] In February 2003, the British edition of GQ magazine published photographs of Winslet that had been digitally altered to make her look dramatically thinner.^[85] Winslet issued a statement that the alterations were made without her consent, saying, "I just didn't want people to think I was a hypocrite and that I'd suddenly lost 30 lbs. or whatever".^[91] GQ subsequently issued an apology.^[90] She won a libel suit in 2009 against the British tabloid The Daily Mail after it printed that she had lied about her exercise regimen.^[92] Winslet stated that she had requested an apology to demonstrate her commitment to the views that she has always expressed regarding women's body issues, namely that women should accept their appearance with pride.^[92]

Winslet narrated the documentary A mother's courage: talking back to autism, which was generally released on September 24, 2010, after airing on HBO in April of the same year. Her involvement in the documentary led to her founding the non-profit organization The Golden Hat, whose mission is to eliminate barriers for people with autism.^[93][94] In 2011, Winslet received the Yo Dona award for Best Humanitarian Work for her work with The Golden Hat.^[95]

[edit]Awards and nominations

Winslet won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Reader (2008). She won two Golden Globe Awards in the same year: Best Actress (Drama) for Revolutionary Road and Best Supporting Actress for The Reader. She has won two BAFTA Awards: Best Actress for The Reader, and Best Supporting Actress for Sense and Sensibility (1995). She has earned a total of six Academy Awardnominations, seven Golden Globe nominations, and seven BAFTA nominations.^[90][96][97]

She has received numerous awards from other organisations, including the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actress for Iris (2001) and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role for Sense and Sensibility and The Reader. Premiere magazine named her portrayal of Clementine Kruczynski in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind(2004) as the 81st greatest film performance of all time.^[98]

[edit]Academy Award nomination milestones

Winslet was 26 when she received her third Academy Award nomination, for Iris, just missing the mark of Natalie Wood, who received her third nomination at age 25.^[99] She set the mark as the youngest actor to receive five nominations, at age 31, for Little Children (2006). She surpassed Bette Davis, who was 33 when she received her fifth nomination for her performance in The Little Foxes (1941).^[100] With her Best Actress nomination for The Reader, Winslet became the youngest actor to receive six Oscar nominations. At age 33, Winslet passed the mark Davis, one year older, set with Now, Voyager (1942).^[101]

Winslet received Academy Award nominations as the younger versions of the characters played by fellow nominees Gloria Stuart, as Rose, in Titanic (1997)^[102] and Judi Dench, as Iris Murdoch, in Iris.^[103] These are the only instances of the younger and older versions of a character in the same film both yielding Academy Award nominations, thus making Winslet the only actor to twice share an Oscar nomination with another for portraying the same character.^[102]

When she was not nominated for her work in Revolutionary Road, Winslet became only the second actress to win a Golden Globe for Best Actress (Drama) without getting an Oscar nomination for the same performance (Shirley MacLaine was the first for Madame Sousatzka[1988], and she won the Golden Globe in a three-way tie). Academy rules allow an actor to receive no more than one nomination in a given category; as the Academy nominating process determined that Winslet's work in The Reader would be considered a lead performance—unlike the Golden Globes, which considered it a supporting performance—she could not also receive a Best Actress nomination forRevolutionary Road.^[104]

[edit]Awards for other work

In 2000, Winslet won a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for Listen To the Storyteller.^[105][106] She was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for playing herself in a 2005 episode of Extras.^{[107]http://ime2myself.blogspot.com/}