Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet in Sam Mendes' Revolutionary Road
Kate Winslet, 34, and husband Sam Mendes, 44, have separated after nearly seven years of marriage. According to the couple's law firm, Schillings, the split was "entirely amicable and is by mutual agreement."
Winslet, who became an international star following her pairing with Leonardo DiCaprio in James Cameron's Titanic in 1997, won a Best Actress Academy Award for her role as a former Nazi guard in Stephen Daldry's controversial The Reader. She's been nominated for five other Oscars: Sense and Sensibility (1995, supporting), Titanic (1997, lead), Iris (2001, supporting), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004, lead), and Little Children (2006, lead).
Among Winslet's other screen credits are Heavenly Creatures (1994), Hamlet (1996), Hideous Kinky (1998), Quills (2000), Finding Neverland (2004), All the King's Men (2006), Revolutionary Road (2008), and an upcoming Peter Farrelly project in which she co-stars with Naomi Watts, Gerard Butler, and Elizabeth Banks.
Winslet is also set to play Joan Crawford's old Academy Award-winning role in an HBO remake of Mildred Pierce, opposite Evan Rachel Wood (in the old Ann Blyth part), Guy Pearce, and Melissa Leo. Todd Haynes will direct.
Additionally, Winslet is scheduled to appear in the all-star Contagion, slated for a 2011 release. To be directed by Steven Soderbergh, the thriller about a deadly epidemic will also feature Marion Cotillard, Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, and Laurence Fishburne.
Sam Mendes won a Best Director Oscar for American Beauty (1999), which stars Kevin Spacey and Annette Bening. Among Mendes' other screen credits are Road to Perdition (2002), with Tom Hanks and Paul Newman; Revolutionary Road, which reunited Winslet with DiCaprio — though grosses were only lukewarm; and the box-office disappointment Away We Go (2009). Next, Mendes is slated to direct the 23rd James Bond thriller.
For her role as a frustrated suburban housewife, Kate Winslet won a Golden Globe for Best Actress (drama) a little over a year ago. In her acceptance speech, she told Mendes: "Thank you for directing this film, babe, and thank you for killing us every single day and really enjoying us actually being in such horrific pain. But I can honestly say with my hand on my heart that I loved every second of working with you and it's made me love you more."
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