Kate Winslet weds hubby No3 Ned Rocknroll in secret
British Oscar-winning actress Kate Winslet has married for the third time, her publicist confirmed on Thursday.
The 37-year-old, best known for her starring role in the 1997 blockbuster “Titanic”, married Ned RocknRoll, a nephew of music and aviation tycoon Richard Branson.
The private ceremony was attended by Winslet’s two children from previous marriages and “a very few friends and family”, according to the publicist, and took place in New York earlier this month.
“The couple had been engaged since the summer,” Winslet’s spokeswoman said in a statement.
Winslet has been nominated for six Academy Awards and won once for her lead role in “The Reader”.
Her other notable performances include Iris Murdoch in “Iris”, Clementine Kruczynski in “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” and April in “Revolutionary Road”.
That film was directed by Sam Mendes, whom Winslet wed in 2003 and divorced seven years later. Her first marriage was to Jim Threapleton, which lasted from 1998 to 2001.
According to online reports, RocknRoll had his name changed by deed poll from Ned Abel Smith and is an executive for Branson’s space flight venture Virgin Galactic.
The Sun newspaper said the New York wedding was so secret that even the couple’s parents did not know about it.
Hollywood actor Leonardo DiCaprio, who co-starred with Winslet in Titanic and Revolutionary Road, gave her away, the newspaper said.
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Iconic ... Kate met Leonardo DiCaprio while filming smash-hit movie Titanic, 1997
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Best pals ... Kate with Titanic and Revolutionary Road co-star Leonardo DiCaprio — who gave her away
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| Date ... Kate Winslet and Ned Rocknroll leave Claridges in March |
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| Kept mum ... Kate with parents Roger and Sall |
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| Family outing ... Ned goes for a walk with Kate and her kids Joe and Mia |
KATE'S HUSBANDS
No1 JIM THREAPLETON 1998 - 2001
KATE met “ordinary bloke” Jim in 1997 while filming Hideous Kinky, on which he
was assistant director.
They married in November 1998 in Kate’s home town of Reading, and held their
reception in a pub.
Their daughter Mia Honey was born in 2000 but they split the following year.
Jim, 39, directed his first film Extraordinary Rendition in 2007, and is now
married to special needs teacher Julie Vuorinen.
No2 SAM MENDES 2003 - 2010
OSCAR winners Kate and Sam, 47, married “on a whim” while holidaying on the Caribbean island of Anguilla in May 2003.
Their son Joe Alfie was born seven months later and the family lived together in New York before the couple announced their amicable split in 2010.
No3 NED ROCKNROLL 2012 - ??
NED, 34, is Sir Richard Branson’s nephew and works as an executive for the tycoon’s space flight venture Virgin Galactic.
He was called Ned Abel Smith before changing his name by deed poll a few years ago.
Princess Beatrice was among the guests at his first wedding in 2009, when he married heiress Eliza Pearson in an open-air pagan ceremony. Ned and Eliza, 24, divorced after just under two years of marriage.