Q 01/05

Kate Winslet was born in which English town?

A) Maidenhead

B) Oxford

C) Reading

D) Slough

Answer · why

C) Reading

Reading, where her mother's parents ran the repertory theatre company; her father was a jobbing actor, and she has said the family relied on free meal...

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

Mary, in her primary school's nativity play, was her first part; by her own account the school years that followed were harder, with classmates bullyi...

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

Redroofs, a fee-paying stage school in Maidenhead, was her own idea: she talked her reluctant parents into it at eleven, and its in-house agency sent ...

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

Sugar Puffs gave her a first pay cheque soon after she started stage school: she danced in the advert opposite the cereal's mascot, the Honey Monster.

Q 05/05

Winslet's first television drama, Dark Season (1991), was written by which future Doctor Who showrunner?

A) Russell T Davies

B) Chris Chibnall

C) Steven Moffat

D) Mark Gatiss

Answer · why

A) Russell T Davies

Russell T Davies wrote it as a BBC children's science-fiction serial; on its set the fifteen-year-old Winslet met the actor Stephen Tredre, who became...