My skin still crawls if you call me a movie star. I get embarrassed. I think, don't be ridiculous. Maybe it's because I'm British. To me, Julia Roberts that's a movie star. But when people do call me one, that, I think, is an enormous compliment but, my God, is that a responsibility!

Awards and nominations
Winslet won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in The Reader (2008). She later said the role was difficult for her as Kate Winslet was naturally unable "to sympathise with an SS guard.

She has won awards from the Screen Actors Guild British Academy of Film and Television Arts and the Hollywood Foreign Press Association among others and has been nominated twice for an Emmy Award for television acting winning once for her role as Mildred Pierce in the 2011 mini-series of the same name. In 2012 Kate Winslet received the Honorary César Award for her life and acting career. Kate Elizabeth Winslet CBE (born 5 October 1975) is an English actress and singer.