‘The Reader’ gives Kate Winslet her first Oscar, for best actress

April 30th, 2009 NEW YORK - She won the Best Actress Oscar earlier this year, but Kate Winslet hasn't always been so popular. The stunning star has opened up about being nicknamed 'blubber' when she was in school because of her chubby looks.

April 29th, 2009 LONDON - Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet says she is concerned about the pressures and criticisms young starlets have to go through in the showbiz. 'It's really, really tough.

April 21st, 2009 LONDON - Oscar winning actress Kate Winslet has been named the 'Ultimate Natural Beauty' in a new poll. The 'Titanic' star was given the title for having 'a classic English rose complexion without needing lots of make-up to look stunning', reports the Sun.

April 21st, 2009 LONDON - British Oscar winning actress Kate Winslet has topped the list of Ultimate Natural Beauty by beating movie legend Audrey Hepburn. Winslet was declared as having 'a classic English rose complexion without needing lots of make-up to look stunning'.

February 25th, 2009 LONDON - Oscar winner Kate Winslet has accepted that she is obsessed with her first Oscar gong and just can't put it down. Since accepting her Best Actress trophy for 'The Reader' Sunday night, the 33-year-old has been inseparable from her mark of achievement and wouldn't let go of it at the Academy Awards parties, reprots dailymail.co.uk.

February 24th, 2009 LONDON - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Monday congratulated the makers of 'Slumdog Millionaire', which won eight Academy Awards, including for Best Picture and Best Director for Danny Boyle. 'I would like to congratulate Danny Boyle and all those who worked on 'Slumdog Millionaire' on winning an incredible eight Academy Awards,' Brown said.

February 24th, 2009 LONDON - Playboy moghul Hugh Hefner has offered Oscar-award winning British actress Kate Winslet a spot on the cover of his magazine with a nude spread inside. 'There's no question we wouldn't be interested in Kate.

February 18th, 2009 LONDON - British actress Kate Winslet has been nominated for Oscar for her role in 'The Reader', but she was fourth choice for the part. Dailymail.co.uk reports that producer Harvey Weinstein revealed there were three other actresses considered for the part of the concentration camp guard Hanna Schmitz.

February 11th, 2009 LONDON - Oscar nominated actress Kate Winslet has been getting fashion tips from her eight-year-old daughter Mia Honey. Winslet revealed this when she appeared on a TV show.

February 10th, 2009 LONDON - Actress Kate Winslet was supported by her family along with her 30-member entourage when she won a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) award recently. 'It's fantastic to win an award at home and to share it with my mum and dad,' mirror.co.uk quoted Winslet as saying.

February 5th, 2009 LONDON - British actress Kristin Scott Thomas was baffled when Kate Winslet won a Golden Globe for 'The Reader'. She feels that Winslet's part was too big to be recognised as a supporting role.

January 31st, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood actresses Kate Winslet and Penelope Cruz have struck up a surprisingly close friendship in the run-up to this year's Oscars despite only having met three times. The unlikely pair, who are both competing in this year's Best Supporting Actress category, have been offering each other phone support daily in the countdown to the prestigious show, reports contactmusic.com.

January 27th, 2009 LONDON - Actress Kate Winslet, one of the most successful actresses in Hollywood, says she had a difficult childhood and her family lived from hand to mouth. Thesun.co.uk quoted her as saying: 'We didn't get a VCR until I was 12 and it was second-hand from some friend of my dad's down at the pub.

January 3rd, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood actress Eva Mendes has confessed she is envious of British actress Kate Winslet for the roles she gets. Mendes says she greatly admires the acting skills of 33-year-old Winslet and wants to do the kind of roles the latter has done or is being offered, reports dailymail.co.uk.

December 29th, 2008 LONDON - British actress Kate Winslet spied on elderly people from the corner of cafes to prepare for her role as a weary pensioner in new movie 'The Reader'. Winslet underwent a complete transformation to play a former Nazi concentration camp guard.