Kate Winslet

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Kate Elizabeth Winslet was born on Oct. 5, 1975, in Reading, Berkshire, England. She is an English-born actress and occasional singer. She won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the 2008 movie The Reader. She has won awards from the Screen Actors Guild, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, Hollywood Foreign Press Association. She can do drama, comedy, period, contemporary. She recieved somewhat large recognition for her role as one of the Dashwood sisters in Sense and Sensibility.

She's also one of my biggest favorite actresses!!

Raised in Berkshire, she studied drama since she was young. Her 2 biggest movie successes have been Flushed Away in 2006, where she did the voice of a rat named Rita, and The Holiday in 2006, where her character switches places with Cameron Diaz's character.

She got her start on TV, on the BBC show Dark Season. Her first movie role was in the Peter Jackson movie Heavenly Creatures, where she won the role over 175 girls to play Juliet Hulme, who helps in the murder of hte mother of her best friend, Pauline Parker(Melanie Lynskey). Winslet noted: "With Heavenly Creatures, all I knew I had to do was completely become that person. In a way it was quite nice doing [the film] and not knowing a bloody thing." Never knew she talked like that, lol!

The following year, she auditioned for the role of Lucy Steele in the movie based on Jane Austen's book Sense and Sensibility. This movie also starred Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman. She instead got the role of Marianne Dashwood. In order to prepare for the role, she had to read Austen-era Gothic novels and poetry, and learn to play the piano to make herself graceful. Director Ang Lee was worried about her getting a little too into the role, so he suggested that she learn tai chi.

In 1997, she starred in the James Cameron movie Titanic, about the ill-fated cruise ship. In the movie, she was to play shy, sensitive 17 year Rose DeWitt-Bukater, a socialite who survives the sinking of the RMS Titanic. In 2004, she starred alongside Johnny Depp in Finding Neverland, based on the life of J.M. Barrie, the man behind the story of Peter Pan. Her role was as Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, whose sons inspired Barrie to write Peter Pan.

In 2006, she starred alongside Cameron Diaz, Jude Law and Jack Black in The Holiday. In this movie, she plays Iris Simpkins, a society column editor for London-based newspaper The Daily Telegraph, who switches households with Amanda Woods(Cameron Diaz), a workaholic whose company makes movie trailers in L.A. And that same year, she starred in the movie Flushed Away, where she provides the voice of Rita, a sewer scavenging rat who helps Roddy St. James(Hugh Jackman) escape Ratropolis and get back to 'Uptop' as they call it, or Kensington.

On Nov. 22, 1998, she met Jim Threapleton, who she met on the set of the movie Hideous Kinky. They both have a daughter, Mia Honey Threapleton. They divorced on Dec. 13, 2001. After that, she began seeing director Sam Mendes. And shortly after, they married, and had a son, named Joe Alfie Winslet.

She now runs a charity called The Golden Hat, which eliminates barriers for people with autism.

Helena Bonham-Carter

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Helena Bonham Carter was born on May 26, 1966, in Golden Greers, London, England. She does film, stage and TV, and is currently with American director Tim Burton. She has an unusual style, referred to as 'shabby-chic', and her main style influences are Vivienne Westwood and Marie Antoinette, and was chosen by Marc Jacobs to be the face for thw autumn/winter advertising line for 2011

Filmography:

• 1983: A Pattern with Roses- Netty Bellinger


• 1985: A Room with a View- Lucy Honeychurch


• 1986: Lady Jane- Lady Jane Grey.


• 1987: Maurice- Lady at cricket match


• 1987: A Hazard of Hearts- Serena Staverley


• 1988: The Mask- Iris


• 1988: Six Minutes with Ludwig- The Star


• 1989: Francesco- Chiara Offreduccio


• 1989: Getting It Right- Lady Minerva Munday


• 1990: Hamlet- Ophelia


• 1990: The Early Life of Beatrix Potter- Beatrix Potter


• 1991: Where Angels Fear to Tread- Caroline Abbott


• 1991: Brown Bear's Wedding- White Bear(animated movie)


• 1992- Howard's End- Helen Schlegel


• 1993: Dancing Queen- Pandora/Julie


• 1994: May Shelley's Frankenstein- Elizabeth Frankenstein


• 1994: Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald- Marina Oswald


• 1994: A Dark Adapted Eye- Faith Severn(adult)


• 1994: Butter- Dorothy


• 1995: Mighty Aphrodite- Amanda Weinrib


• 1995: Margaret's Museum- Margaret MacNeil


• 1995: Jeremy Hardy Gives Good Sex- Herself(voice)


• 1996: Twelfth Night: Or What You Will- Olivia


• 1996: Portrait Chinois- Ada


• 1997: the Petticoat Expeditions- the narrator


• 1997: Keep the Aspidistra Flying- Rosemary


• 1997: The Wings of the Dove- Kate Croy


• 1998: Merlin- Morgan Le Fay


• 1998: Sweet Revenge- Karen Knightly


• 1998: The Theory of Flight- Jane Thatchard


• 1999: Fight Club- Marla Singer


• 1999: Women Talking Dirty- Cora


• 1999: The Nearly Complete and Utter History of Everything- Lily


• 2000: Carnivale- Milly(voice)


• 2001: Planet of the Apes- Ari


• 2001: Novocaine- Susan Ivey


• 2001: Football- Mum


• 2002:  The Heart of Me- Dinah


• 2002: Live from Baghdad- Ingrid Formanek


• 2002: Till Human Voices Wake Us- Ruby


• 2003: Big Fish- Jennifer Hill/The Witch


• 2003: Henry VIII- Anne Boleyn


• 2004: Series of Unfortunate Events- Beatrice Baudelaire


• 2005: Conversations with Other Women- Woman


• 2005:  Magnificent 7- Maggie Jackson


• 2005: Wallace and Gromit:Curse of the Were-Rabbit- Lady Tottington


• 2005: Corpse Bride- Emily the Corpse


• 2005: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory- Mrs. Bucket


• 2006: Sixty Six- Esther Reubens


• 2007: Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix- Bellatrix LeStrange


• 2007: Sweeney Todd: Demon Barber of Fleet Street- Mrs. Lovett


• 2009: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince- Bellatrix LeStrange


• 2009: Terminator:Salvation- Dr. Serena Kogan


• 2009: Enid- Enid Blyton


• 2009:  The Gruffalo- Mother Squirrel


• 2010: Alice in Wonderland- Red Queen


• 2010: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, pt.I and pt.II- Bellatrix LeStrange


• 2010: The King's Speech- Queen Elizabeth

As Bellatrix LeStrange from Harry Potter

Her and her partner Tim Burton

As Mrs. Lovett

As the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland

As Queen Elizabeth in The King's Speech

Peliculas(Movies)

When it comes to movies, alot of people will say that they have one favorite movie when they really have like 3 or 4 or more faves. When it comes to me, I have no real favorite genre of movie or one favorite movie, I like all kinds, the only kind of movies I don't watch are ones that look stupid. Most of the movies I watch mostly have one thing in common with the other-- they'll most likely have either Jet Li or Chow Yun-fat in them, those 2 are my favorite actors, people around me wonder why 2 of my favorite actors are Chinese-born actors and I simply tell them that they are good actors and you never hear anything bad about them.


Another thing I've noticed is that some musicians are branching out in to movies, like Mick Jagger from the Rolling Stones, he's done a little acting, my dad says he isn't the world's best actor, I think wrong. I think he's a pretty cool actor, you just have to give him a chance, although some of the movies he's been in have been a little on the weird side, like Bent, he was a gay man who wore women's clothing, Freejack, he played a futuristic mercenary, The Man from Elysian Fields, he played the manager of a male escort service, Performance, he played a bisexual ex-rockstar named Turner. And Jon Bon Jovi does acting too, he's so sexy. But when it does come to movies, I'll watch just about anything, and at home almost every time my dad can't find something on, he'll turn to the enormous rack of movies we have, almost each shelf has one kind of movie or other or is devoted to one actor or another, like one shelf has nothing but Jet Li and Chow Yun-fat movies, another is split between Johnny Depp and Sylvester Stallone, another shelf has nothing but scary movies and so on and so forth.


Here are some of the movies I watch:
     

And when it comes to non-martial arts movies, I watch:
     




And when it comes to movies, almost everyone has that one actor or actress they love watching,even if the movie totally sucks. Most of the actors I like most people either think is weird or have no clue as to who they are, like Jet Li, Chow Yun-fat, Sylvester Stallone, Kate Winslet, Halle Berry, Mariska Hargitay. And there are also other actors I like, like Daniel Radcliffe from Harry Potter, he's pretty attractive. He's a megahottie. He's my favorite one in the Harry Potter movies.
             
Those are just some of the actors I like. But this blog hopefully lets you see what kind of movies I like, my favorite actors and actresses,etc.