Divergent Kate Winslet as Jeanine

Divergent - Kate Winslet as Jeanine

Veronica Roth has created a great villian in Jeanine and we are excited to say that Kate Winslet will be playing the role! This Academy Award nominated actress is bringing some major star power to the cast and may bring in some movie goers that may not have considered the series otherwise (and boy have these people been missing out!).

On this page, we'll give you a short biography including her early life and
talk about her children (including one that was technically in the Divergent movie!). We'll also discuss some of the movies that she is best known for and barely skim the surface of the awards she has been nominated for.

Who Plays Jeanine in Divergent? Kate Winslet!

Kate Winslet played Jeanine in the Divergent Movie. Jeanine is the evil, conniving leader of the Erudite faction in the Divergent series by Veronica Roth. She was not the first person I pictured for the role because many of the characters she has previously played have been very easy-going and less calculated and mean! However, she has done a wonderful job of assuming this role and is sure to wow and scare audiences when they watch the movie.

Kate Winslet as Jeanine in the Divergent movie.

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Kate's Personal Life

Kate Winslet was born on October 5, 1975 in Reading, England. Her maternal grandparents founded the Reading Repertory Theatre which they managed. Her parents were also actors. Because of this strong background, she began acting at the age of seven. Her first role was in a cereal commercial. Since then, she has been in many different movies and has won many different acting awards (see next section).

She currently has three children from three different marriages. Her oldest is her son named Joe (born in 2003) and his father is Sam Mendes (Oscar award-winning director of American Beauty). Her second child's name is Mia and her father is Jim Threapleton, an assistant director for a movie she was in called Hideous Kiky. She is now married to Ned Rocknroll. She was actually pregnant with their child, Bear (born in December 2013), while she was filming Divergent! Watch the movie and you will see that they hid her belly a lot.

Other Movies You May Know Kate Winslet From:

Titanic

The most famous role that Kate is known for is her starring portrayal of the young Rose DeWitt in the movie Titanic. She played a strong, wealthy woman who falls in love with a less fortunate young man (Jack, played by Leonardo DiCaprio) just before the Titanic crashed. This movie is often listed as one of the greatest movies of all time, She was nominated for an Academy Award for her role in it. The photo of the movie on the right will direct you to Amazon where you can learn more.

Sense and Sensibility

She won another Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Sense and Sensibility in 1995. She played the sensible Marianne Dashwood and her co-stars were famous, well-known actors like Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman. You can learn more about this classic movie by clicking the photo on the right which will direct you to Amazon.

Other Fun Facts

She sang a song in the 2001 British version of A Christmas Carol called "What If" that was a top ten single in Britain. She had even more Academy Award nominations for her roles in the movies "Elegy for Iris" and "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" with Jim Carrey.

Summary

While we certainly appreciate her love of being in artistic movies, we are glad she has decided to join the cast of a sure-to-be blockbuster series and are looking forward to seeing her play the role of Jeanine in all of the Divergent movies.

Learn More About Kate Winslet's Co-Stars in Divergent

If you would like to know more about all of the other actors in the Divergent movie like Shailene Woodley or Theo James, click the following link to get to our full list: Divergent Cast Members.