Kate Winslet’s successful Hollywood career, from ‘Titanic’ to ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’

Kate Winslet's career has been full of immense success. Through her time acting, she has been nominated for many Oscar awards and has put on unforgettable performances in a long lineup of films.

Kate Winslet was born Oct. 5, 1975, in Reading, Berkshire, England. Winslet grew up in a family of entertainers and quickly began to follow the same path as her parents by pursing a career in acting.  (SC/Mirrorpix via Getty Images) Before acting in "Titanic," Winslet had already received an Oscar nomination for her role in "Sense and Sensibility" (1995). Though Winslet had a handful of roles that helped establish her fame prior to "Titanic" (1997), this film, in which she starred opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, heavily contributed to her international acclaim. She was also nominated for an Oscar for "Titanic."  (CBS via Getty Images) In the years following "Titanic," Winslet continued to steadily act in movies such as "Hideous Kinky" in 1998, "Holy Smoke" in 1999 and "Quills" in 2000. In 2001, Winslet was in "Iris" (a scene from the movie is pictured above), based on the true love story between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley. (James Whatling/UK Press/Newsmakers) Winslet shared the screen with DiCaprio again in 2008 for the movie "Revolutionary Road," based on the novel by Richard Yates.  (Kevin Winter/Getty Images) In 2009, Winslet earned her first Oscar. Her Academy Award win was for her role in the movie "The Reader."  (Kevin Winter/Getty Images) Winslet was in the action-packed movie "Divergent" in 2014. This movie was based on the young adult novel written by Veronica Roth. Winslet returned for the second film in the series, "Insurgent" the following year, and the final film, "Allegiant," in 2016.  (Dave M. Benett/WireImage) Winslet was nominated for a seventh Oscar in 2016 for her role in the 2015 movie "Steve Jobs." Michael Fassbender played the co-founder of Apple in the film.  (Karwai Tang/WireImage) "Collateral Beauty" (2016) (which Winslet can be seen shooting in the photo above), "The Mountain Between Us" (2017), "Wonder Wheel" (2017) and "Ammonite" (2020) are among the movies the actress has starred in.  (Alessio Botticelli/GC Images) In 2022, Winslet reunited with "Titanic" director James Cameron, this time for a very different role in "Avatar: The Way of Water."  (David M. Benett/Dave Benett/WireImage) Ashlyn Messier is a writer for Fox News Digital. 

By 1994, Winslet had earned her first major acting role in Peter Jackson's "Heavenly Creatures" and, soon after, was in the 1995 film "Sense and Sensibility," based on the book by Jane Austen. This role earned Winslet her first Oscar nomination for best actress in a supporting role.