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
Kate Winslet Thompson cast her for the much larger part of the recklessly romantic teenager Marianne Dashwood. The director Ang Lee wanted Winslet to play the part with grace and restraintaspects that he felt were missing from her performance in "Heavenly Creatures"and thus asked her to practice tai chi, read gothic literature, and learn to play the piano. David Parkinson of the "Radio Times" found Winslet to be a standout among the ensemble cast, and Mick LaSalle of the "San Francisco Chronicle" took note of how well she had portrayed her character's growth and maturity. The film grossed over US$134 million worldwide.