Winslet’s next big role was opposite rising star Leonardo DiCaprio in 1997’s Titanic, the top-grossing movie of all time by a nautical mile. Love the movie or hate it - you’ve most likely seen it. Following Titanic, Winslet retained her art-house credentials, turning down scripts from America, choosing instead to star in a modest British film, Hideous Kinky. Winslet starred as a flaky yet driven hippie who decamps to Morocco with two daughters in the early 1970s. In Jane Campion's 1999 film, Holy Smoke, Winslet plays Ruth, a young woman who goes to India with a friend and meets a guru (Harvey Keitel).
In 2000, it was back to petticoats as Winslet portrayed a laundress who colludes with the incarcerated Marquis de Sade to help smuggle out his writings in Quills. In 2003, a year before the release of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.In 2006 she voiced the streetwise Rita, a rat living in a vast sewer metropolis stumbled upon by a pampered pet mouse Rody (Hugh Jackman), in the animated comedy Flushed Away. Her role in Little Children earned her another Academy Award nomination.
REVOLUTIONARY ROAD
with Leonardo Dicaprio
In her latest release, chick flick The Holiday, Winslet stars with Cameron Diaz as a woman so totally over men she decides to house-swap and take a break in America.Titanic star Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet will once again team up as a couple in the upcoming film Revolutionary Road, scheduled to open in 2008 or 2009.