Q 01/05

Kate Winslet was born in which English town?

A) Maidenhead

B) Oxford

C) Reading

D) Slough

Answer · why

C) Reading

Her maternal grandparents ran the Reading Repertory Theatre Company.

Q 02/05

Winslet's first stage role, aged five, was which nativity figure?

A) An angel

B) A shepherd

C) Mary

D) A wise man

Answer · why

C) Mary

She went on to play Wendy Darling in Peter Pan at drama school.

Q 03/05

Which theatre school did Winslet enrol in at age eleven?

A) Sylvia Young

B) Italia Conti

C) Redroofs

D) RADA

Answer · why

C) Redroofs

The Maidenhead school doubled as an agency and took pupils to London auditions.

Q 04/05

As a child Winslet appeared in a TV commercial for which breakfast cereal?

A) Frosties

B) Weetabix

C) Sugar Puffs

D) Coco Pops

Answer · why

C) Sugar Puffs

Drama school also had her dubbing foreign films.

Q 05/05

Winslet's 1991 screen debut Dark Season was written by which future Doctor Who showrunner?

A) Steven Moffat

B) Chris Chibnall

C) Russell T Davies

D) Mark Gatiss

Answer · why

C) Russell T Davies

She played Reet, a schoolgirl fighting a man handing out sinister free computers.