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 Winslet had two critically acclaimed roles in 2008. After reading Justin Haythe's screenplay for "Revolutionary Road", an adaptation of Richard Yates's debut novel, Winslet recommended the project to her husband at the time, the director Sam Mendes, and her "Titanic" co-star Leonardo DiCaprio. The film traces the tribulations of a young married couple in 1950s suburban America. Winslet was attracted to the idea of playing a woman whose aspirations had not been met, and she read "The Feminine Mystique" to understand the psychology of unhappy housewives from the era. Mendes encouraged DiCaprio and Winslet to spend time together, and she