Kate Winslet & Stephen Tredre
“the age of 16, just 10 days after finishing her GCSEs, Kate Winslet began work on her first television drama, a BBC children’s science-fiction serial called Dark Season. While on the set she started a five-year romance with Tredre, a fellow actor and writer. “Stephen made me feel embraced,” she later revealed. “He was the most important person in my life, next to my family.”
The couple moved to London as her career took off, with more TV drama and then a film part, aged just 17, in Peter Jackson’s acclaimed movie Heavenly Creatures in which she played a teenage murderer. Next came a part as Emma Thompson’s younger sister in film Sense and Sensibility and then as Ophelia in Kenneth Branagh’s 1996 film of Hamlet. But in 1997, after Winslet had landed and filmed the part in Titanic which was to make her world famous, Stephen Tredre died of bone cancer. Winslet missed the Hollywood premiere of the film because she was at his funeral in London.” (.)
