Kate Winslet and she gained further recognition for her performances in "Finding Neverland" (2004), "Little Children" (2006), "Revolutionary Road" (2008), and "The Reader" (2008). For playing a Nazi camp guard in the last of these, she won the BAFTA Award and Academy Award for Best Actress. In the 2010s, Winslet played a single mother in 1930s America in the miniseries "Mildred Pierce" (2011), joined the "Divergent" film series, and portrayed Joanna Hoffman in "Steve Jobs" (2015). She won a Primetime Emmy Award for the former and a third BAFTA Award for the latter. For her narration of a short story in the
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