She has provided narration for several audiobooks, and received critical acclaim for her performance of the song "What If" for the soundtrack of Christmas Carol: The Movie She is the co-founder of the Golden Hat Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to promoting awareness and acceptance of autistic individuals. Kate Winslet performing underwater motion-capture on the set of the Avatar sequels. In , it was confirmed that Winslet had been cast as Ronal , a member of the Metkayina clan , in the upcoming Avatar sequels.
This would mark the first time she has worked with James Cameron in 20 years following her role in Titanic. Though the details of her character are scarce, Winslet has described Ronal as a "water goddess" and stated that she would perform a "birthing ceremony"- an on-set photo appears to depict her doing just that. She insisted on doing all of her own stunts and performances for the underwater motion-capture used during filming for the sequels; to accomplish this, she learned to free-dive and was able to hold her breath in apnea for record time of 7 minutes, 14 seconds, beating prolific action movie actor Tom Cruise's record of six minutes in an underwater scene from Mission Impossible 5 Winslet stated she greatly enjoyed the experience, and worked closely with performers from Cirque du Soleil, who had previously worked with James Cameron to create Toruk - The First Flight.
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Select a City Close. Your current city: Mumbai Mumbai search close. All Bombay Times print stories are available on. Winslet attracted even more attention with her next role in Ang Lee's film adaptation of the Jane Austen novel Sense and Sensibility The actress proved she could hold her own across from screen legends such as Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman. As the winsome Marianne Dashwood—the "sensibility" of the movie—Winslet earned an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress.
The film also earned high praise from critics. In a similarly high-brow role, Winslet starred with Christopher Eccleston in Jude , a modern interpretation of the Thomas Hardy novel Jude the Obscure. She then appeared as Ophelia in Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet , and landed squarely on the A-list of leading ladies with her performance as Rose DeWitt, the heroine of James Cameron 's record-breaking blockbuster Titanic The film won numerous Academy Awards, including best picture and best director, and scored Winslet her second Academy Award nomination, this time for best actress.
Her co-star, Gloria Stuart, also earned a nod in the supporting actress category for her portrayal of the older Rose DeWitt; the two actresses became the first ever to earn nominations for playing two versions of the same character. On the heels of her first blockbuster hit, Winslet made two somewhat unlikely choices for her next projects: Hideous Kinky and Holy Smoke In Hideous Kinky , Winslet played a free-spirited single mother who brings her two daughters on a spiritual quest to Marrakech.
The film's frank depiction of the sexual connection between Barron and PJ Waters played by Harvey Keitel displayed Winslet's talent for portraying physical and emotional nudity onscreen. Winslet then returned to a period drama in with the film Quills , a movie about the French novelist Marquis de Sade. In the movie, Winslet portrayed the laundress who helps the Marquis Geoffrey Rush smuggle his illicit writings out of an insane asylum during his commitment there.
A song from the movie, "What If," featured Winslet as the lead vocalist and became a Top 10 single in Britain. Her most notable film that year was Iris , a screenplay based on the John Bailey book Elegy for Iris.
Winslet played the young Iris Murdoch, an unconventional student. Judi Dench played the older Iris, whose husband Jim Broadbent tries to help her as she struggles with the growing effects of her Alzheimer's disease. All three Iris stars earned Academy Award nominations, making it the second time Winslet and a co-star both earned nominations for playing different versions of the same character.
Barrie 's inspiration for his best-known work, Peter Pan. In the film, Winslet played the widowed mother of four boys whom Barrie befriended. Again playing a maternal role, Winslet starred in Little Children as a frustrated suburban woman who gets involved with a married man. She earned yet another Academy Award nomination for this film.
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