Kate Winslet Gets Star Today on Walk of Fame

Originally posted at 8:58 a.m. March 17, 2014.

Oscar- and Emmy-winning actress Kate Winslet was honored with the 2,520th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame today, four days before the release of her latest film, "Divergent."

"I feel very honored 20 years into my own career to be standing in such a poignant place and being celebrated in such a spectacular fashion," Winslet said.

Kathy Bates, a castmate of Winslet in "Titanic" and the 2008 drama "Revolutionary Road," was among those joining her at the ceremony in front of the W Hollywood Hotel near the famed intersection of Hollywood and Vine.

Born in Reading, England, on Oct. 5, 1975, Winslet grew up in a family of actors and began performing for British television when she was 13 years old. She made her film debut with a starring role in the 1994 drama "Heavenly Creatures" about a notorious New Zealand murder.

Winslet received the first of her six Oscar nominations in 1996 for her role in the adaptation of the Jane Austen novel "Sense and Sensibility." Her other Oscar nominations would come for her performances in "Titanic," "Iris" "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and "Little Children."

She won the best actress Oscar in 2009 for her portrayal of a Nazi concentration camp guard in "The Reader."

Winslet won an outstanding lead actress in a miniseries or movie Emmy in 2011 for her title role in the HBO miniseries "Mildred Pierce."

Winslet's other memorable films include "Jude"; the 1996 Kenneth Branagh-directed version of "Hamlet"; "Quills"; "Enigma"; "The Life of David Gale"; "Finding Neverland"; "All the King's Men"; "The Holiday"; "Contagion" and "Carnage."

Winslet is among 14 performers to receive an Oscar, Emmy and Grammy. She received her Grammy in 2000 for best spoken word album for children, "Listen to the Storyteller."

--City News Service