Editing Kate Winslet (section)

===Early work and breakthrough (1994–1996)===
Winslet was among 175 women to audition for [[Peter Jackson]]'s psychological drama ''[[Heavenly Creatures]]'' (1994), and was cast after impressing Jackson with the intensity she brought to her part.<ref name="Sibley2006">{{cite book |last = Sibley |first = Brian |title = Peter Jackson: A Film-maker's Journey |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=ljcdAQAAIAAJ |year = 2006 |publisher = HarperCollins Entertainment |isbn = 978-0-00-717558-1 |page = 243 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171030104133/https://books.google.com/books?id=ljcdAQAAIAAJ |archive-date = 30 October 2017}}</ref> The New Zealand-based production is based on the [[Parker–Hulme murder case]] of 1954, in which Winslet played [[Anne Perry|Juliet Hulme]], a teenager who assists her friend, Pauline Parker (played by [[Melanie Lynskey]]), in the murder of Pauline's mother. She prepared for the part by reading the transcripts of the girls' murder trial, their letters and diaries, and interacted with their acquaintances.<ref name="ways">{{cite news |last = Dening |first = Penelope |title = Winslet ways |work = [[Irish Times]] |url = https://www.irishtimes.com/news/winslet-ways-1.33997 |date = 9 March 1996 |access-date = 26 October 2017 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171101132225/https://www.irishtimes.com/news/winslet-ways-1.33997 |archive-date = 1 November 2017 |url-status = live }}</ref> She has said she learnt tremendously from the job.<ref name="hrinterview" /> Jackson filmed in the real murder locations, and the experience left Winslet traumatised.<ref name="premiere">{{cite journal |title = The New Passions of Kate Winslet |journal = [[Premiere (magazine)|Premiere]] |date = November 1999 |asin = B000A7IUZA |pages = 127–140 |last = Millea |first = Holly }}</ref> She found it difficult to detach herself from her character, and said that after returning home, she often cried.<ref name="ways" /> The film was a critical breakthrough for Winslet;<ref>{{cite web |url = https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/heavenly_creatures/ |title = Heavenly Creatures |date = 16 November 1994 |publisher = [[Rotten Tomatoes]] |access-date = 6 October 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141029003015/http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/heavenly_creatures/ |archive-date = 29 October 2014}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last = Masters |first = Tim |title = Kate Winslet: 'I wish I'd had help dealing with fame' |date = 3 April 2014 |publisher = BBC News |url = https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-26856910 |access-date = 26 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171027024550/http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-26856910 |archive-date = 27 October 2017}}</ref> [[Desson Thomson]], a reviewer for ''[[The Washington Post]]'', called her "a bright-eyed ball of fire, lighting up every scene she's in".<ref>{{cite news |author = Howe, Desson |title = Heavenly Creatures |newspaper = The Washington Post |url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/heavenlycreaturesrhowe_a02149.htm |date = 25 November 1994 |access-date = 2 February 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120319074913/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/videos/heavenlycreaturesrhowe_a02149.htm |archive-date = 19 March 2012}}</ref> Winslet recorded "Juliet's Aria" for the film's soundtrack.<ref>{{cite web |title = Heavenly Creatures (Original Soundtrack) |url = https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/heavenly-creatures-original-soundtrack/id385637044 |date = 1 January 1994 |publisher = [[BMG Rights Management]] |access-date = 6 November 2017 |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171106112553/https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/heavenly-creatures-original-soundtrack/id385637044 |archive-date = 6 November 2017}}</ref> Also that year, she appeared as Geraldine Barclay, a prospective secretary, in [[Royal Exchange, Manchester|the Royal Exchange Theatre]] production of [[Joe Orton]]'s farce ''[[What the Butler Saw (play)|What the Butler Saw]]''.<ref>{{cite journal |title = Venice Preserved |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=SGwIAQAAMAAJ |year = 1994 |journal = [[Plays and Players]] |page = 32 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171030104133/https://books.google.com/books?id=SGwIAQAAMAAJ |archive-date = 30 October 2017}}</ref>

While promoting ''Heavenly Creatures'' in Los Angeles, Winslet auditioned for the minor part of Lucy Steele for a [[Sense and Sensibility (film)|1995 film adaptation]] of [[Jane Austen]]'s novel ''[[Sense and Sensibility]]'', written by and starring [[Emma Thompson]]. Impressed by her reading, Thompson cast her in the much larger part of the recklessly romantic teenager [[Marianne Dashwood]].<ref name="one">{{cite news |last = Elias |first = Justine |title = Kate Winslet: No 'Period Babe' |date = 7 December 1995 |work = [[The New York Times]] |url = https://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/07/arts/film-kate-winslet-no-period-babe.html |access-date = 2 February 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121111140645/http://www.nytimes.com/1995/12/07/arts/film-kate-winslet-no-period-babe.html |archive-date = 11 November 2012}}</ref> The director [[Ang Lee]] wanted Winslet to play the part with grace and restraint&mdash;aspects that he felt were missing from her performance in ''Heavenly Creatures''&mdash;and thus asked her to practise [[tai chi]], read [[gothic literature]], and learn to play the piano.<ref name="one" /> David Parkinson of ''[[Radio Times]]'' considered Winslet to be a standout among the cast, and [[Mick LaSalle]] of the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'' took note of how well she portrayed her character's growth and maturity.<ref>{{cite news |last = Parkinson |first = David |url = http://www.radiotimes.com/film/8hfz/sense-and-sensibility/ |title = Sense and Sensibility |work = Radio Times |access-date = 1 September 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120829235909/http://www.radiotimes.com/film/8hfz/sense-and-sensibility |archive-date = 29 August 2012}}</ref><ref name="sfgate">{{cite news |url = http://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/A-Fine-Sensibility-Emma-Thompson-adapts-Jane-3018044.php |title = A fine 'Sensibility', Emma Thompson adapts Jane Austen's classic story |work = San Francisco Chronicle |date = 13 December 1995 |first = Mick |last = LaSalle |access-date = 31 August 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121026115337/http://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/A-Fine-Sensibility-Emma-Thompson-adapts-Jane-3018044.php |archive-date = 26 October 2012 }}</ref> The film grossed over $134&nbsp;million worldwide.<ref>{{cite web |url = https://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=senseandsensibility.htm |title = Sense and Sensibility (1995) |publisher = [[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date = 23 August 2012 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120725111841/http://boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=senseandsensibility.htm |archive-date = 25 July 2012 }}</ref> She won the [[Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role|Screen Actors Guild]] and [[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role|British Academy Film Award]] for Best Supporting Actress, and received an [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress|Academy Award]] nomination in the same category.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.sagawards.org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/2nd-annual-screen-actors-guild-awards |title = The 2nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards |publisher = [[Screen Actors Guild]] |access-date = 13 August 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140118090218/http://sagawards.org/awards/nominees-and-recipients/2nd-annual-screen-actors-guild-awards |archive-date = 18 January 2014}}<br />{{cite news |url = https://www.independent.co.uk/news/emma-thompson-adds-bafta-to-oscar-trophies-1306175.html |title = Emma Thompson adds Bafta to Oscar trophies |first = Marianne |last = Macdonald |work = The Independent |location = UK |date = 22 April 1996 |access-date = 13 August 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120126094103/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/emma-thompson-adds-bafta-to-oscar-trophies-1306175.html |archive-date = 26 January 2012}}<br />{{cite web |url = http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/oscarlegacy/1990-1999/68nominees.html |title = Nominees & Winners for the 68th Academy Awards |publisher = [[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |access-date = 13 August 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140201155958/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/oscarlegacy/1990-1999/68nominees.html |archive-date = 1 February 2014 }}</ref> Also in 1995, Winslet featured in the poorly received [[Walt Disney Pictures|Disney]] film ''[[A Kid in King Arthur's Court]]''.<ref>{{cite magazine|last1=Nashawaty|first1=Chris|title=24 Stars' Worst Movies|url=https://ew.com/gallery/24-stars-worst-movies/daniel-craig-a-kid-in-king-arthurs-court-1995|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|access-date=16 February 2018|date=2 December 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180217202832/http://ew.com/gallery/24-stars-worst-movies/daniel-craig-a-kid-in-king-arthurs-court-1995/|archive-date=17 February 2018|url-status=live}}</ref>

Winslet had roles in two period dramas of 1996&mdash;''[[Jude (film)|Jude]]'' and ''[[Hamlet (1996 film)|Hamlet]]''. As with ''Heavenly Creatures'', her roles in these films were those of women with a "mad edge".<ref name="ways" /> In [[Michael Winterbottom]]'s ''Jude'', based on the novel ''[[Jude the Obscure]]'' by [[Thomas Hardy]], she played Sue Bridehead, a young woman with [[suffragette]] leanings who falls in love with her cousin, Jude (played by [[Christopher Eccleston]]). The critic [[Roger Ebert]] believed the part allowed Winslet to display her acting range, and praised her for the defiance she brought to the role.<ref>{{cite news |last = Ebert |first = Roger |url = https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/jude-1996 |title = Jude Movie Review |date = 1 November 1996 |work = [[Chicago Sun-Times]] |access-date = 26 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171026214703/http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/jude-1996 |archive-date = 26 October 2017}}</ref> After unsuccessfully auditioning for [[Kenneth Branagh]]'s 1994 film ''[[Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (film)|Mary Shelley's Frankenstein]]'', she was cast in the part of [[Ophelia]], the doomed lover of the [[Prince Hamlet|title character]], in [[Hamlet (1996 film)|Branagh's adaptation]] of the [[William Shakespeare]] tragedy ''[[Hamlet]]''.<ref name="one" /> Twenty-year-old Winslet was intimidated by the experience of performing Shakespeare with established actors such as Branagh and [[Julie Christie]], saying the job required a level of intellect that she thought she did not possess.<ref name="ways" /> Mike Jeffries of ''[[Empire (magazine)|Empire]]'' believed that she had played the part "well beyond her years".<ref>{{cite news |last = Jeffries |first = Mike |url = https://www.empireonline.com/movies/hamlet-2/review/ |title = Hamlet Review |date = 1 January 1996 |work = Empire |access-date = 26 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171026215406/https://www.empireonline.com/movies/hamlet-2/review/ |archive-date = 26 October 2017}}</ref> Despite the acclaim, ''Jude'' and ''Hamlet'' earned little at the box office.<ref name="box office">{{cite web |url = https://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?id=katewinslet.htm |title = Kate Winslet Movie Box Office Results |publisher = Box Office Mojo |access-date = 26 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20171027024809/http://www.boxofficemojo.com/people/chart/?id=katewinslet.htm |archive-date = 27 October 2017}}</ref><ref name="rt">{{cite web |url = https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/kate_winslet/ |title = Kate Winslet |publisher = Rotten Tomatoes |access-date = 26 October 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20170830083345/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/kate_winslet |archive-date = 30 August 2017}}</ref>