kate winslet Early life and english actress

Kate Elizabeth Winslet 5 October 1975 is an English actress and occasional singer. She has received multiple awards and nominations. She is the youngest person to accrue six Academy 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 from period 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 for more than 12 years until 2010.
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 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 in New York City.
Contents
* 1 Early life
* 2 Career
o 2.1 1991–1997
o 2.2 1998–2003
o 2.3 2004–2006
o 2.4 2007–present
* 3 Personal life
* 4 Awards and nominations
o 4.1 Academy Award nomination milestones
o 4.2 Awards for other work
* 5 Filmography
* 6 References
* 7 External links
Early life
Born in Reading, Berkshire, Winslet is the daughter of Sally Anne (née Bridges), a barmaid, and Roger John Winslet, a swimming pool contractor. Her parents were "jobbing actors", which led Winslet to comment that she "didn't have a privileged upbringing" and that their daily life was "very hand to mouth". Her maternal grandparents, Linda (née Plumb) and Archibald Oliver Bridges, founded and operated the Reading Repertory Theatre, and her uncle, Robert Bridges, appeared in the original West End production of Oliver!. Her sisters, Beth and Anna Winslet, are also actresses.
Raised in an Anglican household, Winslet began studying drama at the age of 11 at the Redroofs Theatre School, a co-educational independent school in Maidenhead, Berkshire, where she was head girl.At the age of 12, Winslet appeared in a television advertisement directed by filmmaker Tim Pope for Sugar Puffs cereal. Pope said her naturalism was "there from the start".
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Actress Sally Field

I like her. I really like her. Because even though Sally Field risked being typecast as a goofy yet sweet ingenue as the result of her sixties TV shows "Gidget" and "The Flying Nun" (the latter being notable for being set in Puerto Rico, a rare locale for American sitcoms), she proved herself as a versatile actress in the movies in the seventies and eighties.

Two of her best known roles are title role in 1979's Norma Rae, about a mill worker in the South who fights for the unionization of her factory, and as Emma in the 1985 romantic comedy Murphy's Romance. Both movies were directed by Martin Ritt. Places in the Heart, from 1984, in which she played a Texas widow trying to hold onto her farm and family - and for which she won the Oscar that confirmed how much we like her - was directed by Robert Benton.

And, of course, she was in 1994's Forrest Gump as the title character's mother.

These days, Sally Field has come full circle in a return to television, playing Nora Walker (wasn't that the name of the mom in the Who's Tommy?) in the ABC series "Brothers & Sisters." But she hasn't abandoned cinema completely; as of this writing, she is to play Mary Todd Lincoln in a movie version of Doris Kearns Goodwin's biography of Abraham Lincoln.

Maybe what's good gets a little bit better . . .. :-)

Singer/actress Linda Eder

Linda Eder achieved fame as a Broadway musical performer in the least likely set of circumstances - she starred in the New York production of Jekyll and Hyde, a musical based on the Robert Louis Stevenson novel that had toured around the country before debuting on Broadway in 1997.

Raised in Minnesota, Ms. Eder, a daughter of immigrants from Austria and Norway, has also appeared in Svengali and in the world premiere of Camille Claudel, a musical about the famed French sculptress.

She's also released about a dozen solo albums.

Actress Hope Davis

Hope Davis is an actress who has been in numerous films along with a smattering of television work. She notably appeared in 2002's About Schmidt and in American Splendor, a biographical picture from 2003 about the late cartoonist Harvey Pekar. (She played Pekar's wife Joyce Brabner, who is also a cartoonist.)

The New Jersey-born Ms. Davis has also been a presence in theater, and she appeared a Broadway production of God of Carnage with Marcia Gay Harden, James Gandolfini and Jeff Daniels. Her performance as a mother of an unruly boy got her a Tony Award nomination for Best Leading Actress in a Play.

Fashion model Pat Cleveland

Hello Cleveland! :-D

In the word of elite fashion modeling, Pat Cleveland is an unbridled force of nature. At times outlandish, other times outrageous, she's always out on life's stage with a healthy attitude. A fixture on runways and in print ads, she's also inspired a line of department store mannequins. Which is ironic, as she's probably one of the liveliest models of all time.

She writes poetry, and she also keeps a blog, Being Pat.

"Fashion gives you that extra something," she once said in a quote that sums her up nicely. "It helps make the world an interesting place to live in because it is part of life. Thank God for fashion."

Actress Bonnie Bedelia

Bonnie Bedelia is mainly known for her roles in the action movies Die Hard and Presumed Innocent, but her breakthrough role was as drag racer Shirley Muldowney in the 1983 biographical picture Heart Like a Wheel.

She now plays family matriarch Camille Braverman in the NBC drama series "Parenthood."

Fun fact: Her full name is Bonnie Bedelia Culkin, and yes, she's Macaulay Culkin's aunt.

Actress Khandi Alexander

Off we go into a new year with new subjects. So who do we have as my first beautiful woman for 2011?

I . . . want Khandi! :-D

Khandi Alexander is best known for two roles on broadcast television - as Catherine Duke in the NBC sitcom "NewsRadio" and as Dr. Alexx Woods in the CBS hit CBS drama "CSI: Miami."

Currently, she appears on the HBO series "Treme."

One little-known fact about Khandi Alexander is that she's a trained dancer and choreographer, and she choreographed Whitney Houston's concerts for four years (1988 to 1992).