Kate Winslet's 10 Best Roles

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Holy Smoke, 1999
Few people saw this mystical, whimsical story of a young Australian woman's journey of self-discovery (for those interested in Winslet's post-Titanic period of exploration, it makes a great double feature with her somewhat similarly themed 1998 movie Hideous Kinky). Nevertheless, Winslet counts her collaboration with writer-director Jane Campion on this film as a seminal experience. "Jane taught me a great lesson — you don't have to have the audience like you," she says. "And that has really stood me in very good stead, because the desire to be liked and appreciated is not what acting is about."

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