50 things you probably didn't know about Kate Winslet: How she came into showbiz, why she named her son 'Bear Blaze'

British born actress Kate Winslet made her big break on "Titanic" and has since gone on to become an Oscar-winning actress. Here are 50 interesting things about this starlet.

1. Kate Elizabeth Winslet was born October 5, 1975, in Reading, England.

2. She has two sisters, Anna Winslet and Beth Winslet (both actresses), and a brother, Joss.

3. Acting is literally in her blood. Both her parents, Roger Winslet and Sally Bridges-Winslet, are actors and she is the granddaughter of two theater managers (her maternal grandparents founded Reading Repertory Theatre).

4. Her first entry point into the acting world came in the form of a commercial for Sugar Puffs , a children's cereal at the age of 11.

5. She's had extensive acting training. Winslet began taking acting lessons at age 11 and she then went to a performing arts high school.

6. Winslet became a regular on stage as well as on the small screen.

7. Her big break came when she was just 17 years old. She was cast as an obsessive adolescent in Heavenly Creatures (1994).

8. Despite her role in the 1994 movie, she hadn't reached national fame. A year later, she was cast in Ang Lee's Sense and Sensibility alongside Emma Thompson and she won a British Academy Award and an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

9. Winslet followed up with two more period pieces, playing the rebellious heroine in Jude (1996) and Ophelia in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet (1996).

10. Where you most likely know this talented actress is from the critically acclaimed Titanic by James Cameroon in which she starred alongside Leonardo DiCaprio. The two actors have remained close since then.

11. After she was cast as Rose DeWitt Bukater in Titanic, she had roses sent to director James Cameron for casting her.

12. Winslet missed the premiere of Titanic (1997) because she was attending the funeral of close friend and former boyfriend, Stephen Tredre.

13. For her Titanic performance, she garnered a Best Actress nomination, making her the youngest actress to ever receive two Academy Award nominations.

14. After doing two period movies, Titanic and Sense and Sensibility, she had to wear corsets for a long period of time. "My top two rib bones on one side stick out more than the other side. It's bloody horrible," she told USA Today. "They do constrict your internal organs and when you take them off, my God, are you skinny...Then, after a few hours, it all flops back again."

15. She was known as the "Period Piece Babe" after her work in those two movies.

16. Winslet called Claire Danes "brilliant" as Juliet in William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, and toldUSA Today that she'd wanted to play opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in the movie. "But I knew I was too old."

17. What did she think of all the attention she got following Titanic? "Before Titanic yes...I had been nominated for an Academy Award, but I had never been sort of world-famous," she tells the New York Times. "When I thought about becoming an actress, I never had fantasies about being a movie star."

18. She turned down the lead roles in both Shakespeare in Love (1998) and Anna and the King (1999) in order to star in independent films.

19. Her next movies after the massive success were Hideous Kinky (1998) and Holy Smoke (1999).

20. Kate holds the distinction of being the youngest actor ever honored with four Academy Award nominations (she received her fourth at age 29).

21. In 1998, she married assistant director Jim Threapleton. They met on the set of her movie Hideous Kinky. They had a daughter, Mia Honey Threapleton, in October 2000. They later got divorced in 2001.

22. She recorded a song for the soundtrack for the movie Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001). Producers were so impressed at her efforts they have decided to release the ballad - called "What If?" - as a single. It reached the top ten in the United Kingdom, peaking at number six.

23. Her daughter's name Mia is Italian for "my".

24. Winslet was offered the role of Eowyn in The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002).

25. She later married director Sam Mendes in 2003 in a private ceremony whilst on holiday in the West Indies in May 2003.

26. She openly detests ultra-thin stars and spoke out against a 2003 GQ cover, where she had been digitally slimmed.

27. She gave birth to their son, Joe Alfie Winslet-Mendes, later that year.

28. Her daughter Mia had to be delivered by Cesarean section, which made Kate feel she hadn't given birth properly. She admitted to it only after giving birth to her son Joe (who had been delivered naturally).

29. Winslet sprained her ankle on the set of Romance & Cigarettes in May 2004.

30. Winslet was originally cast as Nola Rice in Woody Allen's Match Point in 2005, but dropped out at the last minute, so she could spend her time with her child. The role went to Scarlett Johansson.

31. Sam Mendes directed her in the Revolutionary Road in 2008 in which she reunited with Leonardo DiCaprio.

32. They had to shoot a sex scene in front of her husband/director Sam Mendes. She says it was "a profoundly weird experience," adding that she "had a total meltdown."

33. She won an Oscar for her role in The Reader in 2009 about a troubled woman with a Nazi past.

34. She is the third person in history to win two acting Golden Globes in the same year (Best Actress, Drama for Revolutionary Road and Best Supporting Actress for The Reader.)

35. Ss one of 9 actresses to have won the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, Critics' Choice Award, Golden Globe Award and SAG Award for the same performance.

36. Following seven years of marriage, Kate announced that she and Sam amicably separated in February 2010.

37. Winslet won Best Spoken Word Album for Children, Grammy Awards, shared with Graham Greene.

38. She's been chosen by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the World.

39. Winslet holds a unique position in Academy Awards history: Only twice have two actresses been nominated for playing the same character in the same film. The first two were Gloria Stuart and Kate in Titanic (1997). The second two were Judi Dench and Kate in Iris (2001).

40. Her favorite type of shoes to wear are boots because she says it makes her feel like she is "firmly on the ground."

41. She sold her North London home in Belsize Park to Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin.

42. Winslet was considered for the role of Bridget in Bridget Jones's Diary but it went to Renee Zellweger. The producers thought Winslet looked too young to portray the role.

43. She has appeared nude in over 15 movies and has said she feels comfortable in her own skin. She doesn't mind taking off her clothes in order to better convey the character.

44. She is 12 years older than Evan Rachel Wood, who played her daughter on Mildred Pierce in 2001.

45. Just one week after Ashlee Simpson's had an embarrassing "recorded song malfunction" on Saturday Night Live, Winslet hosted and she opened the show by singing and dancing live.

46. During an interview with Good Morning America to promote her film The Holiday (2006), they surprised her by showing a clip which was supposedly Winslet on the Sugar Puff Commercial in 1987. However, the girl in the clip shown was not her. Winslet did not point out the error because she did not want to embarrass the researcher and get the person fired. She was then praised by the media for her caring and consideration of other people.

47. Of all the movies she's done, she feels the most pride for her performance in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind which was released in 2004.

48. She is the official Celebrity Spokesperson for Lancôme.

49. She met her third husband, Ned Rocknroll while she was vacationing at Virgin Group billionaire Richard Branson's Caribbean-island home. The house caught on fire and she helped carry Branson's 90-year-old mother out.

50. She had her third child, a baby boy on December 2013. His name is Bear Blaze Winslet. In the clip below, Winslet shares how they came up with that name.

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