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With a career spanning 30 years, Winslet has created an unmatched collection of powerful, complicated characters that are impossible not to be gripped by.

Now, she’s taking over the world - or at least a country – as a powerful and slightly unhinged ruler in Sky Atlantic series, The Regime.

In honour of this, here are the biggest and best films and TV shows from her career, all available now on Sky and NOW.

The Regime

The official synopsis reads:
“The darkly comedic six-episode series tells the story of life within the walls of a modern authoritarian regime as it begins to unravel.

“After not leaving the palace for quite some time, Chancellor Elena Vernham (Kate Winslet) has grown increasingly paranoid and unstable when she turns to a volatile soldier, Herbert Zubak (Matthias Schoenaerts), as an unlikely confidant.

“As Zubak’s influence over the chancellor continues to grow, Elena’s attempts to expand her power eventually result in both the palace and the country fracturing around her.”

Also starring: Guillaume Gallienne, Andrea Riseborough, Martha Plimpton, and Hugh Grant

Available now on Sky Atlantic

Discovering Kate Winslet

In season 16 of the Discovering Film series, episode two focuses on the life and career of Kate Winslet. Across 43 minutes, Discovering Kate Winslet delves into her humble beginnings in Reading, Berkshire, through to what makes her stand out among her peers as a force in Hollywood - with a celebration of her best performances from Heavenly Creatures to Titanic.

Available now on Sky Arts

Mare of Easttown

Set in a fictional Philadelphia town, Winslet stars as Marianne ‘Mare’ Sheehan – a former hometown hero turned troubled detective whose life is hanging on by a thread.

While her personal life is in tatters, including a divorce and a custody battle for her dead son’s child, Mare is forced to put things aside when a murder of a teenage mother rocks the community.

Told through seven episodes, the thrilling drama focuses on a whodunnit that digs up the past and puts Mare’s abilities and wits to the test.

Also starring: Evan Peters, Julianne Nicholson, Jean Smart, Angourie Rice, Guy Pearce, Cailee Spaeny and David Denman

Available now on Sky Atlantic

The Holiday

A Christmas classic, The Holiday stars Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz as Iris and Amanda, two women who, unhappy in their life, decide to swap homes for the festive season to get away from their separate issues.

Iris finds herself in Los Angeles, while Amanda lands in a picturesque English cottage, and both find their lives changing forever when they meet and fall in love with local men who show them how the other half live.

Also starring: Jude Law and Jack Black

Available now on Sky Cinema

Mildred Pierce

Mildred Pierce follows the life of a desperate mother in the middle of the Great Depression who, after discovering her husband has been unfaithful, is forced to figure out her own way in the world.

As she opens her own restaurant, Mildred has to juggle becoming a career woman while also dealing with her spoiled and entitled daughter.

The five-episode drama was so successful on its release in 2011, it took home 26 awards that year - with Winslet taking home lead actress gongs at the Golden Globes and the Primetime Emmys.

Also starring: Guy Pearce and Evan Rachel Wood

Available now on Sky Atlantic

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Joel and Clementine have the perfect relationship - until they don’t. Wrecked by the discovery Clementine has paid to have her memory of him wiped from her brain after their break-up, Joel opts to go through the same procedure. Only, as he goes through the memories, he begins to realise why they fell in love in the first place, and maybe the memory of love is something too precious to be deleted.

Winslet was nominated for an Oscar for her performance as Clementine, with the film winning Original Screenplay at the 2005 ceremony.

Also starring: Jim Carrey, Elijah Wood, Kirsten Dunst and Mark Ruffalo

Available now on Sky Cinema

The Life of David Gale

David Gale has dedicated his life fighting for the abolition of the death penalty, but finds himself facing just that following the rape and murder of another activist, Constance Hallaway. With just three days left before his execution, David attempts one final Hail Mary by granting journalist Bitsey Bloom (Winslet) an exclusive interview on his life.

But as her meetings with David continue, Bitsey soon finds herself falling down a rabbit hole of lies and deception as she begins to doubt David’s guilt - but is on a literal deadline to prove his innocence.

Also starring: Kevin Spacey, Laura Linney and Cleo King

Available now on Sky Cinema

Birds of a Feather

Some fun for the family, 2019 movie Birds Of A Feather is an animated comedy following Manou, a swift who struggles to fit in.

Raised by seagulls who he never blended with, Manou fights to earn the respect of the birds around him as he embraces who he really is.

Winslet stars as Blanche, the wife of strong-willed seagull colony leader Yves, who first takes Manou into the group.

Also featuring the voices of: Willem Dafoe, Josh Keaton, Cassandra Steen and Mikey Kelley

Available now on Sky Cinema

Extras

In a star-turn in Ricky Gervais’s sitcom, based around the life of a film and TV extra, Winslet plays a hilariously sent-up version of herself for an episode. Currently playing a nun in a Holocaust movie. Desperate to get the Oscar, Winslet uses her downtime to teach extra Maggie the advantages of phone sex in keeping her relationship alive.

Also starring: Ricky Gervais, Ashley Jensen and Stephen Merchant

Available now on Gold

Steve Jobs

This 2015 film covers the life of Steve Jobs as he creates and builds the Apple empire.

The story follows three key points of the company’s life - ending in 1998 with the unveiling of the iMac.

Winslet stars as Joanna Hoffman, one of the original members of the Macintosh team, joining the company in its infancy.

Directed by Danny Boyle and written by Aaron Sorkin, Steve Jobs was nominated for two Oscars at that year’s Academy Awards.

Also starring: Michael Fassbender, Seth Rogan, Jeff Daniels, Katherine Waterston and Michael Stuhlbarg

Available now on Sky Cinema