See Kate Winslet’s best roles taken from real life below.
Lee Miller – Lee (2024)
Winslet played Lee Miller, a model who enlisted as a photographer during World War II in order to travel to the frontline; specifically, with the Allied forces during their advance through northwest France in August 1944.
There, she documented the realities of bloody conflict, and the effect it has not just on soldiers, but the families and individuals who exist around the bloody warfare.
Mary Anning – Ammonite (2020)
Mary Anning was a pioneering palaeontologist whose contributions to the field were largely unrecognised during her lifetime.
Anning’s groundbreaking fossil discoveries, especially of the Ichthyosaurus, helped reshape the understanding of prehistoric life, though she faced considerable gender-based barriers in her scientific community.
Joanna Hoffman – Steve Jobs (2015)
Joanna Hoffman was a key marketing executive at Apple and one of Jobs’ closest confidantes. For the role, Winslet mastered Hoffman’s Polish accent and portrayed her as strong and intelligent.
As Jobs’ trusted right hand, Hoffman often clashed with his visionary but volatile nature, showing her unwavering loyalty and calm under pressure in the chaos of product launches.
Sylvia Llewelyn Davies – Finding Neverland (2004)
In Finding Neverland, Winslet played Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, a widow whose children inspired J.M. Barrie to create the story of Peter Pan.
Sylvia’s emotional journey was deeply intertwined with the creation of Peter Pan, as she became a central figure in Barrie’s inspiration for the whimsical world of Neverland.
Iris Murdoch – Iris (2001)
Winslet played the young Iris Murdoch, the celebrated British novelist and philosopher, in a film that chronicles her life from her early years to her battle with Alzheimer’s disease.
The film explores the juxtaposition of her intellectual rigour with the devastating effects of Alzheimer’s on her later life.
Juliet Hulme – Heavenly Creatures (1994)
Winslet’s first film role was in Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures, in which she played Hulme, who was convicted alongside her best friend Pauline Parker of the 1952 murder of Parker’s mother in New Zealand.
The film outlines the obsessive and intense friendship between Hulme and Parker, culminating in their tragic, brutal crime.
