Kate Winslet filmography

Filmography

Heavenly Creatures Juliet Hulme

A Kid in King Arthur's Court Princess Sarah

Sense and Sensibility Marianne Dashwood

Jude Sue Bridehead

Hamlet Ophelia

Titanic Rose DeWitt Bukator

Heavenly Creatures:
Peter Jackson -

Pauline Parker - Melanie Lynskey
Juliet Hulme - Kate Winslet
Honora Parker - Sarah Peirse
Hilda Hulme - Diana Kent
Henry Hulme - Clive Merrison
Herbert Rieper - Simon O'Connor

Heavenly Creatures is more than just another film. Maybe because it was based on the real life events that shocked the 1950 New Zelandese society. Maybe because its issue brings down to a deep reflection over a lot of values that people don't feel at ease discussing. This brilliant film takes us on a journey through the lives of two young girls: Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker.

Juliet is a very spoiled girl, as she is the daughter of a rich family that has just moved into town. Her exuberant ways (sometimes near hysteria) would earn her teacher's disapproval and her schoolmates' indifference. As we later realise, part of this behaviour is due to the lack of support and affection she receives from her family. However, someone admires her in secret: Pauline. As Pauline first meets Juliet during gymnastic lessons, she understands that the two of them have a whole lot in common.

Pauline is, however, quite different from Juliet. Her ways are much more reserved and she does not dare to question any authority. Her family is not as rich or as odd as Juliet's which is why later, Pauline will start wishing she was Juliet's sister. They eventually become best friends and share the same interests and passions for Mario Lanza, Orson Wells, writing stories, etc. Together, they enter an imaginary world called Fourth Dimension, where all the stories they write are real. With time, this friendship becomes so deep that the line between it and love is almost invisible.

It's like if there was no one else in the world but them. All that mattered was that small world of imagination they had created and where only they could enter. Pauline even writes a poem entitled The Ones That I Worship, in which she congratulates herself and Juliet for being such wonderful creatures, unlike everyone else.

Separate, at first for Juliet's tuberculoses, and later for their parents, the two girls fight for their relation, now with an unknown name: love or friendship ? And, all the sudden, an idea strikes Pauline: maybe her mother would have to die, so they could be together, as sisters and lovers.

And I shall say nothing more. It's up to you to find out what will happen now.

A Kid in King Arthur's Court:
- Gillies MacKinnon -

Calvin Fuller - Thomas Ian Nicholas
King Arthur - Joss Ackland
Lord Belasco - Art Malik
Princess Katey - Paloma Baeza
Princess Sarah - Kate Winslet
Master Kane - Daniel Craig
Ratan - David Tysall
Merlin - Ron Moody

This movie is a small and nice movie just to entertain. Kate has a small role as Princess Sahra, King Arthur's eldest daughter who is about to marry a vilain she does not love.

The story is mainly about a young boy who is the tipical looser in everything until he enters on a quest through the past to save King Arthur and his crown.

As she said herself, it's a film that allowed her to be princess and wear a fancy dress for sometime.

Sense and Sensibility:
- Ang Lee -

Based on the novel Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen.
Screenplay written by Emma Thompson.

Elinor Dashwood - Emma Thompson
Marianne Dashwood - Kate Winslet
Edward Ferrars - Hugh Grant
Coronel Brandon - Alan Rickman
John Willowghby - Greg Wise
Margaret Dashwood - Emilie François
Mrs. Dashwood - Gemma Jones
Fanny Dashwood - Harriet Walter

The film begins with the death of Mr. Dashwood. To his son and daughter-in-law, he leaves a house and some money. But to his three daughters and second wife, he can only afford to leave 500 pounds a year, which leaves them near ruin. Despite the promisse made to his dying father, Mr.Dashwood's son decides not to help his half-sisters and step-mother, much due to his wife's gread.

Elinor is the eldest of the Dashwood sisters. She is probably in her early twenties. Everything she does is controled by her head and never by her heart. Very reserved, she is the type of person who'd rather suffer in silence than doing something that would hurt someone. After her father's death, she assumes a leading role on the solving of all the family's problems.

Marianne is the middle sister and is in her late teens. Marianne is the total opositte of her sister. Impulsive and passionate, she can not understand her sister's behaviour. She is not affraid of showing her emotions which sometimes brings her quite an amount of troubles.

The youngest sister is Margaret and she's around her early teens. She's got a kid's temperament and sometimes hides under the furniture to escape problems.

The main story of the film is built over the relation of Elinor and Marianne with two men they began to fall in love with. Elinor falls in love with Edward Ferrars, her stepbrothers' wife (Fanny) ' s brother, a reserved and peaceful man just like her. Marianne falls in love with John Willowghby, who shares the same impulsive temperament. There is also another man who falls in love with Marianne: Coronel Brandon. He's much older and reserved than Willowghby which is probably why Marianne ignores him during almost the entire film.

At the beginning everything seems to work out just fine. But problems appear when Edward's family sends him to London in order to prevent him from marrying Elinor, once she's poor. Willowghby is also sent to London leaving Marianne heart-broken. Later Marianne finds out he was to marry someone else, because of money. Also Edward was already secretely engaged (for 5 years) with a young girl called Lucy Steele. Being a man of his word, he couldn't leave Lucy Steele, although he loved Elinor.

It comes to a time when we doubt that the two sisters will ever find true happiness. What do you think ? I'm not telling anything more!

Jude:
- Michael Winterbottom -

Based on the novel ``Jude the Obscure'' by Thomas Hardy.
Screenplay by Hossein Amini.

Jude Fawley: Christopher Eccleston
Sue Bridehead: Kate Winslet
Phillotson: Liam Cunningham
Arabella: Rachel Griffiths
Jude's Aunt: June Whitfield
Little Jude: Ross Colvin Turnbull
Jude as a Boy: James Daley

Jude Fawler was born in a small and poor village. When his teacher left to go to the university, he told him the words that would change his life: "You'll have to get up early and work hard. You'll have to read books while your friends play. Then you can be anything you want!"

Jude spend his childhood and adolescence dreaming about going to the University. He studied hard, read a lot of books, learned Latin ... But one day he met a girl, Arabella, and he was later forced to marry her because she told him she was pregnant.

After month of an unhappy marriage, Arabella left him and he decided to go to University. That's when he met Sue, his cousin. They soon discover they are in love with each other, but Sue, afraid of this love, leaves to marry Jude's teacher (yeah, the same that had left town), that they had found and with whom Sue was working now. But this was also an unhappy marriage. So, Sue leaves and goes with Jude.

But Sue was still afraid of loving and being loved. Her feelings were confused. Although she loved Jude and wanted to be with him, she was afraid of breaking the barriers between friendship and love. Finally, to prevent Jude from leaving her, she decides to overcome her fear.

Arabella returns to scene. She had a baby, after all, but she had hidden it from Jude. The young boy goes to live with Jude and Sue and they have two more babies. However, their relation was not well seen because they were not married. They soon find themselves with no home, no money, no job.

One day, in despair, Sue shouts at young Jude (the boy had his father's name). When he asks why they can't find a home, she answers: because we're too much. The boy, still too young to understand the situation, assumes that the cause of their misery is him and his brothers. And he hangs all three of them.

And this is it. If you want to know if Jude and Sue will ever be happy, rent the movie.

Hamlet:
- Kenneth Branagh -

Adapted from William Shakespeare's play.

Hamlet - Kenneth Branagh
Claudius - Derek Jacobi
Gertrude - Julie Christie
Ophelia - Kate Winslet
Polonius - Richard Briers
Player King - Charlton Heston
Horatio - Nicholas Farrell

The tragic story of Hamlet as we all know it. Kate plays the role of Ophelia.

Titanic:
- James Cameron -

Rose DeWitt Bukator - Kate Winslet
Jack Dawson - Leonardo DiCaprio
Caledon Hockley - Billy Zane
Rose DeWitt Bukator (old) - Gloria Stuart
Fabrizzio - Dani Nucci
Molly Brown - Cathy Bates
Ruth DeWitt Bukator - Frances Fisher

Rose DeWitt Bukator is an aristocrat girl of 17 years old who is about to marry a man she doesn't love (Caledon Hockley) just for the money, in order to save the family from ruin.

If on the outside she is everything a polite girl should be, on the inside she was a living volcano, with a young spirit eager to be free.

When she boards on the Titanic with the purpose of returning to America and get married she meets Jack Dawson, an adventurer boy without money or family but with very noble feelings.

There's a spark between them but neither her mother or her fiancé are willing to let her have a relation with a person from such a lower class. Behind the romance, the tragedy of the Titanic disaster is shown with such a detail and realism that we feel we are on the big ship, sinking.

What will happen to Rose and Jack ? Will they ever be together ? Find all that out by seeing the movie.

COMING SOON:

- Hideous Kinky

Kate's a hippie mother travelling through Africa with her two daughters.

Kate plays the role of a young australian girl who joins a cult.

- Johnny Hit and Run Pauline