Kate Winslet Overview 
Kate Elizabeth Winslet, known as Kate Winslet, was an English actor, who was born on 5 October 1975, in Reading, Berkshire, England, to Sally Anne and Roger John Winslet. As one of the most popular actors in Hollywood, she achieved colossal success in less than a decade and has won a number of awards for her extensive contribution to world cinema. She has also managed to draw positive comments from critics and audiences from around the world by some of her memorable films, including Titanic, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Finding Neverland, The Reader, Quills, Iris, The Holiday, and Flushed Away. Beside her acting career, she has also achieved international recognition for her mezzo-soprano voice, which she used for the film Christmas Carol: The Movie.
Most Iconic Roles
In 1997, Kate WInslet was seen as a 17-year-old first-class passenger on the ill-fated RMS Titanic in the James Cameron’s movie Titanic. Her portrayal of Rose DeWitt Bukater, turned out to be one of her most memorable and iconic performances. She played the love interest of Jack Dawson, played by Leonardo DiCaprio, who is a third-class passenger. The movie is considered to be one of her biggest commercial successes to date and she was nominated for a number of high-profile awards and went on to earn several honors for her performance. With its success powered by packs of teenage girls who consumed the tale of Jack and Rose over and over again, it was widely credited as having brought that demographic to the moviegoing power and the second-highest grossing film in the U.S., behind Avatar.
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Her Titanic Impact
The Titanic movie made a colossal impact on Kate Winslet's life. She did not go to Hollywood and was living in a three bedroom flat in North London with. When she would walk from her front door to the big grocery store three blocks away and do her shopping, she suddenly could not do that. She also said that she did not see it coming. She remember before the film came out people would say to her that her life is about to change and she would feel almost defiant that her life was not going to change. She would feel almost offended that they would think that someone as strong as her could actually allow for her life to be changed in such a dramatic way. But yeah, her life did change very much.
Kate Winslet continued that one thing that was very hard and it remains hard for her and extremely challenging as a person is that she hates feeling misunderstood. And of course with the press, that happens almost all the time. So with Titanic, it happened every day that she would be misquoted and misunderstood. At least she knew she was not prepared. Suddenly, the Hollywood floodgates opened and it was extremely flattering, but she had to navigate the way quite stealthily because she was not ready to be that famous. She was not grown up and sophisticated enough to know how to cope with all of that.
Titanic Boost Her Career
Titanic may have told the tragic tale of a sinking ship, about the RMS Titanic, which sank into the Atlantic Ocean on April 15, 1912 after hitting an iceberg. But, the film itself was anything but. Made for $210 million, James Cameron's epic sailed to a massive profit of $2.2 billion globally and earned 11 Oscar nominations at the 70th annual Academy Awards. Titanic was one of the most commercially and critically successful films ever, and of course, was the eternal love between its two stars, Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, went on to become humongous stars.
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Today, Titanic's impact on pop culture is as massive as ever. So it's worth asking, how much money did Kate Winslet actually make for her iconic role as Rose? Though the exact number is unconfirmed, IMDb reports the actor earned $2 million for the role. That may not seem like a boatload, considering the film's massive budget and success, but given that she was a relative newcomer at the time. To date, Winslet is worth $65 million, according to Celebrity Net Worth. Aside from a massive boon to her career, she also got a lifelong friendship with Leonardo DiCaprio, who reportedly earned $2.5 million per MTV. Wow! her Titanic salary may not have been so big to speak. But its ripple effect could not be denied.