How much is Kate Winslet worth?
| Net Worth: | $65 Million |
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| Profession: | Professional Actress |
| Date of Birth: | October 5, 1975 (age 47) |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Height: | 5 ft 6 in (1.69 m) |
About Kate Winslet
We first saw Winslet display her talents in the James Cameron epic Titanic, as well as smiling politely while she lost out on numerous Oscars. While Cameron enjoyed his new title as “King of the World”, his leading lady Kate Winslet’s career seemed doomed to nominee status. She was nominated for an Oscar in 1996, 1998, 2002, 2005, 2007, before finally winning “Best Actress in a Leading Role” in 2009, for her role as Hanna Schmitz, in The Reader.
Kate Elizabeth Winslet was born in Reading, England, one of three sisters, all the Winslet girls followed their grandparents’ footsteps into acting. Their maternal grandparents founded the Reading Repertory Theater and their uncle Robert Bridges was a fixture in London’s West End theatre district. Winslet studied acting at the Redroofs Theatre School where she got connected to her first movie role. Previous to this, Kate had already started performing professionally at age eleven. She danced opposite the Honey Monster in a commercial for a kids’ cereal. Ever interested in pursuing an acting career, she began acting lessons around the same time, which led to her formal training.
She had already been appearing regularly, landing bit parts in sitcoms. However, it was Kiwi director Peter Jackson who while casting for his third film, Heavenly Creatures, held an open call that had Winslet hired. She was cast as Juliet Hulme alongside Melanie Lynskey in the truth-based film about two young girls who conspired to murder one of their parents in New Zealand. Thanks to an Oscar nomination for “Best Screenplay”, the film caught some publicity and the young star caught the attention of Hollywood.
Still trying to lift herself out of obscurity, Winslet attended a cattle call audition the next year for Ang Lee’s Sense and Sensibility (1995). Giving it all that she had, Winslet made an immediate impression on the film’s star, Emma Thompson, eventually being cast over hundreds of other hopefuls. Her role as plucky Marianne Dashwood was well-received and she was rewarded with both a British Academy Award and an Oscar nomination for “Best Supporting Actress”. Winslet, now known for her period film appearances, was still barely recognized at all, but her roles as the rebellious heroine in Jude (1996) and Ophelia in Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet (1996) added to her repertoire.
She then finally hit the jackpot, something that indeed did seem inevitable for Winslet, of course she would not have been the one to have known that. In 1997, when James Cameron cast her to star alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, it was some of the biggest news in the industry. Everything about Titanic was big. One of the biggest budgets for a period piece, about the biggest ship, starring some of the biggest upcoming stars. The epic, which became the highest-grossing film of all time, also earned 14 Academy Award nominations, including one for Kate for “Best Actress”. While she did not win the nomination of course, she was already well prepared for that having had the Academy ultimately pass on her two years earlier, when she was nominated for “Best Actress in a Supporting Role” for Sense and Sensibility. Nevertheless, the role of Rose DeWitt Bukater made Winslet one of the biggest female stars, and the double nomination, made her the youngest actress to ever receive two Academy Award nominations at the time.
Unfortunately, just as everything was on the up and up, tragedy struck in her life. Her longtime boyfriend, Stephen Tredre, succumbed to cancer. Winslet chose to miss the Titanic premiere to attend his funeral and took a break from the mainstream, instead focusing on smaller, independent films. She turned down two roles that seemed made for her, Shakespeare in Love and Anna and the King but, during this period, Winslet also had met her first husband, director Jim Threapleton. They had fallen for each other on the set of Hideous Kinky, in 1998. The two married and had a daughter, Mia, in 2000. However the marriage only lasted a year, and soon after, Winslet met her second husband, American Beauty director Sam Mendes. The two married in 2003 and had a son, Joe, that same year.
In 2000, Winslet found herself back in period dress playing the role of Marquis de Sade’s chambermaid and accomplice in Quills. She then went on to appear in Iris which earned her another Oscar nomination, and Finding Neverland which earned her her highest paycheck at the time, following by two more Oscar nominations. Kate holds the distinction of being the youngest actor ever honored with four Academy Award nominations (she received her fourth at age 29). In the year 2016, she had been nominated for an Oscar seven times, winning one of them.
After losing out three more times for Iris, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and Little Children, it looked as if she was doomed to an “always the bridesmaid never the bride” fate. However, after being cast as Hanna Schmitz in the 2008 film, The Reader, delivering a performance that nobody could deny, as well as playing the role of April Wheeler in Holocaust drama Revolutionary Road, sentiment shifted. Winslet won an Oscar for “Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role”, for The Reader. As well as was nominated for both pictures at the Golden Globes, winning again, for The Reader.
Like so many Oscar-winning actresses before her, Winslet’s marriage fell victim to the “Oscar curse” the following year when she and Mendes filed for separation. In 2012, she married Edward Abel Smith and despite her acting career slowing down, she made notably appearances in 2013’s Labor Day, 2017’s The Mountain Between Us, 2020’s Ammonite, as well as will be appearing in 2022’s Avatar: The Way of Water.
Winslet’s Total Net Worth
Kate Winslet was paid $2 million dollars for her role as Rose DeWitt Bukater, in major box-office success Titanic. While she had already been noted as a star actress, even being nominated for an Academy Award two years earlier for Sense and Sensibility, her major commercial success was still to come. In 2004, her role as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies in Finding Neverland earned her close to $10 million, and her endorsements with Lancôme, and other major brands, have added to her career earnings. In total, Kate Winslet has earned estimated total career income of $115 million dollars.
Of that amount, $8-13 million is expected to have been paid in business related costs. The remainder, $104.5 million, will have been taxed at a rate of around 48% as Kate Winslet has been residing between the United Kingdom and California, US for tax purposes. After tax, it is estimated that her career earnings are at around $54.34 million dollars, having paid $50.16 million dollars in taxes.
Kate Winslet married Jim Threapleton in 1998 and were divorced three years later, in 2001. There was talk at the time that Kate was to divide her fortune in half when the couple divorced. In the end she parted with a reported $4 million. They share one child together, Mia Honey Threapleton, and remain friends.
Kate later married Sam Mendes in 2003 and they divorced eight years later, in 2011. In the surfacing of the divorce, a statement was released that “the split is entirely amicable and is by mutual agreement. Both parties are fully committed to the future joint parenting of their children.” There was a transfer of assets that took place, including Mendes signing over his share of the couple’s multi-million dollar Chelsea penthouse.
Mendes was worth an estimated $20-30 million at the time, Kate was likely worth a similar amount. During their marriage it seems that Winslet was the higher earning of the two. As they seemed to be residing between London, England and California, US, an equal division of assets is generally the guideline. However “mutual agreement” in the circumstances is being taken to infer that neither party paid spousal support and asset transfers were made only for the convenience of each party. In 2012, Kate married Edward Abel Smith and they remain together.
In her personal life, Kate Winslet is estimated to have spent $5-7 million dollars of her career earnings, including her donations, but also probably possesses assets valued at around $1-2 million, not including investment assets. In her investments, some of her career income will have been converted into various instruments. The returns of which are being estimated to be around $15-22 million dollars. Therefore, it is estimated that Kate Winslet has a net worth of around $65 million dollars.
Summing-Up
Winslet has been nominated not once, not twice, but seven times for an Academy Award in an acting category. While she seemed that she would be forever “the bridesmaid and never the bride” she broke the spell when she won the Academy Award for her role of Hanna Schmitz, in The Reader. She then had another curse to contend with, the so called “Oscar curse” when she separated from her then-husband Sam Mendes. Winslet soon found love again however, and despite no doubt paying some heavy divorce settlements, her major career earnings from her acting and advertising roles have kept her sitting pretty. Something that has allowed her to take on roles that she is as serious about, as she did when we fell in love with her as Rose DeWitt Bukater in Titanic.
