Kate Winslet
Early life of Kate Winslet
Kate Winslet was born on October 5, 1975 in Reading, Berkshire, England to Roger
John Winslet and Sally Ann Bridges. Her father was swimming-pool contractor and her
mother was a barmaid, though both of them shared a common interest of acting. She had
two sisters-Beth Winslet and Anna Winslet, who were also into the same profession of
acting. Raised as an Anglican, Winslet started studying drama at 11 at the Redroofs Theatre
School, Berkshire. Here she soon became the head girl and was cast as a spokesperson for a
cereal in television commercials.
Acting career of Kate Winslet
In 1991, she started her career on television by co-starring in Dark Season, a
children's science fiction serial on the BBC. Subsequently, she appeared in the made-for-TV
`Anglo-Saxon Attitudes' in 1992. Then once again for the BBC, she did an episode of the
medical drama `Casualty' (1993)