Kate Elizabeth Winslet, (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress. She made her movie debut as Juliet Hulme in Peter Jackson's "Heavenly Creatures" (1994). She is best known for her starring role in the American movie, "Titanic". Winslet is the second of four children, her sisters are the actresses Anna and Beth Winslet and her brother is Joss Winslet, her mother Sally Anne is a barmaid and her father Roger John Winslet is a swimming pool contractor. Her maternal grandparents Linda and Oliver Bridges founded the Reading Repertory Theatre and her uncle is the actor Robert Bridges, Her maternal great-grandmother Florence Theodelinda Lidman, was the daughter of a Swedish immigrant.