Editing Kate Winslet (section)

==Early life==
Kate Elizabeth Winslet was born on 5 October 1975, in [[Reading, Berkshire|Reading]], Berkshire, to Sally Ann (née Bridges) and Roger John Winslet.<ref name=biography.com>{{cite web |url = http://www.biography.com/people/kate-winslet-9534599 |title = Kate Winslet Biography: Film Actress, Television Actress (1975–) |publisher = [[Biography.com]] ([[FYI (American TV channel)|FYI]]/[[A&E Networks]]) |access-date = 7 July 2016 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160717230735/http://www.biography.com/people/kate-winslet-9534599 |archive-date = 17 July 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first = Nick |last = Barratt |url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/12/05/lnickbarratt05.xml |title = Family detective: Kate Winslet |work = [[The Daily Telegraph]] |date = 5 December 2005 |location = London | access-date = 16 October 2021 |archive-date = 3 March 2008 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080303210601/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=%2Farts%2F2005%2F12%2F05%2Flnickbarratt05.xml |url-status=dead }}</ref> Her mother worked as a nanny and waitress, and her father, a struggling actor, took labouring jobs to support the family.<ref name="bedtime">{{cite news |url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/10528659/Kate-Winslet-I-dont-do-theatre-because-Im-not-prepared-to-miss-my-childrens-bedtime.html |title = Kate Winslet: 'I don't do theatre because I'm not prepared to miss my children's bedtime' |work = The Daily Telegraph |date = 3 January 2013 |access-date = 29 October 2017 |first = Chloe |last = Fox |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170728070142/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/10528659/Kate-Winslet-I-dont-do-theatre-because-Im-not-prepared-to-miss-my-childrens-bedtime.html |archive-date = 28 July 2017}}</ref><ref name="interrupted">{{cite news |first = Richard |last = Benson |title = Kate Winslet: girl interrupted |url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/3723192/Kate-Winslet-girl-interrupted.html |work = The Daily Telegraph |date = 12 December 2008 |access-date = 14 April 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110304174628/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/starsandstories/3723192/Kate-Winslet-girl-interrupted.html |archive-date = 4 March 2011}}</ref> Her maternal grandparents were both actors and ran the Reading Repertory Theatre Company.<ref name="hrinterview">{{cite news |last = Feinberg |first = Scott |url = https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/labor-day-star-kate-winslet-653268 |title = 'Labor Day' Star Kate Winslet on Defying Expectations, Onscreen and Off (Q&A) |work = [[The Hollywood Reporter]] |date = 11 November 2013 |access-date = 30 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160324201840/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/race/labor-day-star-kate-winslet-653268 |archive-date = 24 March 2016}}</ref> Winslet has two sisters, Anna and Beth, both of whom are actresses, and a younger brother, Joss.<ref name="bedtime" /> The siblings are of British, Irish, and Swedish descent.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/genealogy/kate-winslet-irish-roots | title=Kate Winslet discovers her Irish roots | website=Irish Central | date=6 August 2019 | access-date=12 August 2019 | quote=Kate Winslet can trace her roots back to Dublin. She learns about this link, courtesy of her paternal great-great-great-grandmother Eliza O'Brien... her roots are primarily British, Irish, and Swedish... The actress had long had a hunch her maternal ancestors were from Sweden but sadly was unable to confirm this before her mother, Sally, died| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190807180512/https://www.irishcentral.com/roots/genealogy/kate-winslet-irish-roots | archive-date=7 August 2019 | url-status=live }}</ref> The family had limited financial means; they lived on free meal benefits and were supported by a charity, the [[Actors' Charitable Trust]].<ref name="hrinterview" /> When Winslet was ten, her father severely injured his foot in a boating accident and found it harder to work, leading to more financial hardships for the family.<ref name="bedtime" /> Winslet has said her parents always made them feel cared for and that they were a supportive family.<ref name="bedtime" />

[[File:Redroofs Theatre School.jpg|thumb|The [[Redroofs Theatre School]] in [[Maidenhead]], where Winslet was educated|alt=A sign displaying the name of Redroofs Theatre School.]]
Winslet attended St Mary and All Saints' Church of England primary school.<ref name="school">{{cite news |url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/219717.stm |title = Titanic star in low-key wedding |publisher = [[BBC News]] |date = 22 November 1998 |access-date = 1 November 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150927062835/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/219717.stm |archive-date = 27 September 2015}}</ref> Living in a family of actors inspired her to pursue acting from a young age.<ref name="hrinterview" /> She and her sisters participated in amateur stage shows at school and at a local youth theatre, named Foundations.<ref name="bedtime" /><ref name="interrupted" /> When she was five, Winslet made her first stage appearance as [[Mary, mother of Jesus|Mary]] in her school's production of the [[Nativity play]].<ref name="true love">{{cite news |last = Hiscock |first = John |url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-blog/10316035/Kate-Winslet-I-still-absolutely-believe-in-true-love.html |title = Kate Winslet: 'I still absolutely believe in true love' |newspaper = The Daily Telegraph |date = 18 September 2013 |access-date = 1 November 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160609164757/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-blog/10316035/Kate-Winslet-I-still-absolutely-believe-in-true-love.html |archive-date = 9 June 2016}}</ref> She describes herself as an overweight child, and was called "blubber" by her schoolmates and was bullied for her appearance.<ref>{{cite magazine |last = Real |first = Evan |url = http://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity/a17803/kate-winslet-bullied-cbs-sunday-morning-interview/ |title = Kate Winslet Opens Up About Being Bullied as a Kid: "I Was Teased for How I Looked" |magazine = [[Marie Claire]] |date = 3 January 2016 |access-date = 30 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160930185313/http://www.marieclaire.com/celebrity/a17803/kate-winslet-bullied-cbs-sunday-morning-interview/ |archive-date = 30 September 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last = Berrington |first = Katie |url = http://www.vogue.co.uk/article/kate-winslet-reveals-revenge |title = Kate Winslet's "Sweet" Revenge |magazine = [[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]] |date = 23 September 2016 |access-date = 30 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170625182421/http://www.vogue.co.uk/article/kate-winslet-reveals-revenge |archive-date = 25 June 2017}}</ref> She said she did not let this stop her.<ref>{{cite news |url = http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/15176695._This_is_who_I_am__The_real_me__Kate_from_Reading___Hollywood_star_inspires_youngsters_with_speech/ |title = Kate Winslet, who is from Reading, took part in the WE Day arena tour |work = [[The Reading Chronicle]] |date = 23 March 2017 |access-date = 30 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170323194305/http://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/15176695._This_is_who_I_am__The_real_me__Kate_from_Reading___Hollywood_star_inspires_youngsters_with_speech/ |archive-date = 23 March 2017}}</ref>

At eleven, Winslet was accepted into the [[Redroofs Theatre School]], an [[Private schools in the United Kingdom|independent school]] in [[Maidenhead]]. The school also functioned as an agency and took students to London to audition for acting jobs.<ref name="bedtime" /><ref name="hrinterview" /> She appeared in a [[Sugar Puffs]] commercial and dubbed for foreign films.<ref name="hrinterview" /><ref name="premiere" /> At school, she was made [[head girl]], took part in productions of ''[[Alice's Adventures in Wonderland]]'' and ''[[The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe]]'', and played the lead role of [[Wendy Darling]] in ''[[Peter Pan (1954 musical)|Peter Pan]]''.<ref>{{cite news |last1 = Foster |first1 = Patrick |last2 = Ward |first2 = Victoria |title = Kate Winslet's school denies claims that teacher told her to settle for 'fat girl parts' |work = The Daily Telegraph |url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/12158177/Kate-Winslets-school-denies-claims-that-teacher-told-her-to-settle-for-fat-girl-parts.html |date = 15 February 2016 |access-date = 30 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170202105122/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/12158177/Kate-Winslets-school-denies-claims-that-teacher-told-her-to-settle-for-fat-girl-parts.html |archive-date = 2 February 2017}}</ref> She worked simultaneously with the Starmaker Theatre Company in Reading. She participated in over twenty of their stage productions, but was rarely selected as the lead due to her weight. Nonetheless, she played key roles as Miss Agatha Hannigan in ''[[Annie (musical)|Annie]]'', the [[Raksha (The Jungle Book)|Mother Wolf]] in ''[[The Jungle Book]]'', and Lena Marelli in ''[[Bugsy Malone]]''.<ref>{{cite news |title = Kate Winslet passed over for being too fat |work = The Daily Telegraph |url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/8336544/Kate-Winslet-passed-over-for-being-too-fat.html |date = 21 February 2011 |access-date = 13 March 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150403014108/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/8336544/Kate-Winslet-passed-over-for-being-too-fat.html |archive-date = 3 April 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first = Emma |last = Midgley |title = Reading charity celebrates birthday with Winslet film |publisher = BBC News |url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/berkshire/hi/things_to_do/newsid_9406000/9406539.stm |date = 24 February 2011 |access-date = 13 March 2015 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150403041030/http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/berkshire/hi/things_to_do/newsid_9406000/9406539.stm |archive-date = 3 April 2015}}</ref>

In 1991, within two weeks of finishing her [[GCSE]] examinations, Winslet made her screen debut as one of the main cast members of the [[BBC]] science fiction television series ''[[Dark Season]]'' written by [[Russell T Davies]].<ref name="golden">{{cite news |first = Paul |last = Vallely |title = Kate Winslet: The golden girl |work = [[The Independent]] |url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/kate-winslet-the-golden-girl-1418269.html |date = 17 January 2009 |access-date = 3 December 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20100322230023/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/kate-winslet-the-golden-girl-1418269.html |archive-date = 22 March 2010}}</ref><ref name="bbcprofile">{{cite news |title = Profile: Kate Winslet |url = http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7867946.stm |publisher = BBC News |date = 23 February 2009 |access-date = 3 December 2009 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20090930040239/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7867946.stm |archive-date = 30 September 2009}}</ref> Her part was that of Reet, a schoolgirl who helps her classmates fight against a sinister man distributing free computers to her school.<ref name="CornellDay2015">{{cite book |last1 = Cornell |first1 = Paul |last2 = Day |first2 = Martin |last3 = Topping |first3 = Keith |title = The Classic British Telefantasy Guide |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=hAcaCgAAQBAJ&pg=PP28 |date = 30 July 2015 |publisher = Orion |isbn = 978-0-575-13352-5 |page = 28 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171030104133/https://books.google.com/books?id=hAcaCgAAQBAJ&pg=PP28 |archive-date = 30 October 2017}}</ref><ref name="DochertyMcGown2003">{{cite book |last1 = Docherty |first1 = Mark J. |last2 = McGown |first2 = Alistair D. |title = The Hill and Beyond: Children's Television Drama – An Encyclopedia |url = https://archive.org/details/hillbeyondchildr0000mcgo |url-access = registration |date = 26 April 2003 |publisher = British Film Institute |isbn = 978-0-85170-878-2 |pages = [https://archive.org/details/hillbeyondchildr0000mcgo/page/237 237]–238}}</ref> She did not earn much from the job and, at age sixteen, lack of funds forced Winslet to leave Redroofs.<ref name="bedtime" /> To support herself, she worked at a delicatessen.<ref name="hrinterview" /> In 1992, she had a small part in the television film ''Anglo-Saxon Attitudes'', an adaptation of [[Anglo-Saxon Attitudes|Angus Wilson's satirical novel]].<ref name="Roberts2009">{{cite book |last = Roberts |first = Jerry |title = Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=kW8j6sHvrewC&pg=PA327 |date = 5 June 2009 |publisher = Scarecrow Press |isbn = 978-0-8108-6378-1 |page = 327 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171030104133/https://books.google.com/books?id=kW8j6sHvrewC&pg=PA327 |archive-date = 30 October 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last = Wiegand |first = David |title = DVD review: 'Anglo-Saxon Attitudes' |work = [[San Francisco Chronicle]] |url = http://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/DVD-review-Anglo-Saxon-Attitudes-3205486.php |date = 13 July 2008 |access-date = 26 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171027024612/http://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/DVD-review-Anglo-Saxon-Attitudes-3205486.php |archive-date = 27 October 2017}}</ref> Winslet, who weighed {{convert|13|st|3|lb|kg lb}} at the time, played the daughter of an obese woman. During filming, after hearing an off-hand comment from the director [[Diarmuid Lawrence]] about the likeness between her and the actress who played her mother, Winslet became motivated to lose weight.<ref name="unsinkable">{{cite magazine |last = Lipsky |first = David |title = The Unsinkable Kate Winslet |url = https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/features/the-unsinkable-kate-winslet-19980305 |magazine = [[Rolling Stone]] |date = 5 March 1998 |access-date = 26 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171026214719/http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/features/the-unsinkable-kate-winslet-19980305 |archive-date = 26 October 2017}}</ref> She next took on the role of the young daughter of a bankrupt self-made man (played by [[Ray Winstone]]) in the television sitcom ''[[Get Back (TV series)|Get Back]]'' (1992–1993).<ref>{{cite news |last = Leith |first = William |title = It's a funny business |url = https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/its-a-funny-business-1552507.html |access-date = 25 September 2010 |newspaper = [[The Independent]] |date = 20 September 1992 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121109045710/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/its-a-funny-business-1552507.html |archive-date = 9 November 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last = Chagollan |first = Steve |title = Walk of Fame Honoree Kate Winslet Keeps Raising the Bar |url = https://variety.com/2014/film/news/walk-of-fame-honoree-kate-winslet-keeps-raiding-the-bar-1201128903/ |access-date = 26 October 2017 |newspaper = [[Variety (magazine)|Variety]] |date = 17 March 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171027024539/http://variety.com/2014/film/news/walk-of-fame-honoree-kate-winslet-keeps-raiding-the-bar-1201128903/ |archive-date = 27 October 2017}}</ref> She also had a guest role in a 1993 episode of the medical drama series ''[[Casualty (TV series)|Casualty]]''.<ref>{{cite news |title = Casualty's Oscar links |url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/proginfo/tv/2011/wk9/feature_casualty.shtml |publisher = BBC News |date = 26 February 2009 |access-date = 26 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121111221324/http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/proginfo/tv/2011/wk9/feature_casualty.shtml |archive-date = 11 November 2012}}</ref>