Kate Winslet "Sense and Sensibility" (1995) and "Steve Jobs" (2016). She has also won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries for "Mildred Pierce" (2011), and the Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for narrating the children's audiobook "Listen to the Storyteller" (1999). She is among the few actresses to win three of the four major American entertainment awards (EGOT). Kate Winslet Kate Elizabeth Winslet, (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress. She is particularly known for her work in period dramas and tragedies, and is often drawn to portraying troubled women. Winslet is
Ann Blyth budgeted "Bowery to Broadway" (1944), a showcase of Universal musical talent. On loan to Warner Brothers, Blyth was cast "against type" as Veda Pierce, the scheming, ungrateful daughter of Joan Crawford in "Mildred Pierce" (1945). Her dramatic portrayal won her outstanding reviews, and she received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Blyth was only 16 when she made the Michael Curtiz film. (Crawford won the Best Actress award for that film.) After "Mildred Pierce", Blyth sustained a broken back while tobogganing in Snow Valley, and was not able to fully capitalize on the film's success She