Kate Winslet Says She’s a ‘Street Urchin Who Got Lucky’ 30 Years After Making Movie Debut
Kate Winslet Says She’s a ‘Street Urchin Who Got Lucky’ 30 Years After Making Movie Debut in 'Heavenly Creatures' (Exclusive) https://t.co/NofmoVYb0T
- People (@people) September 28, 2024
Thirty years after making her movie debut as a teenager in 1994’s 'Heavenly Creatures', Kate Winslet is reflecting on what she calls her unlikely rise to fame.
“I was kind of a little street urchin who got lucky, really. I'm a very unlikely success story, to be quite honest with you. I don't come from money. There isn't a great pedigree of performers behind me. I wasn't trained.”
Winslet was raised along with three sisters in a working-class household in southern England by Roger, a workaday actor who took odd jobs, and Sandra, a waitress and nanny.
Over the past three decades, Winslet has gone on to build an impressive résumé, including both blockbuster hits (1997’s Titanic) and acclaimed titles (2006’s Little Children). She won an Oscar (for 2008’s The Reader) and was nominated six other times.
She also took home two Emmys, in 2011 and 2021, for Mildred Pierce and Mare of Easttown, respectively.
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