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Oscar winner Kate Winslet and her director husband of seven years, Sam Mendes, have taken the 'Revolutionary Road' and ended their marriage. While we'd love to believe that the couple amicably split because Kate is about to announce she's a lesbian, we'll just wish them both luck.
Oscar winner Kate Winslet and her director husband of seven years, Sam Mendes, have taken the 'Revolutionary Road' and ended their marriage.
Sam and Kate in Vanity Fair
The couple's attorney confirmed that The Reader star and American Beauty director split earlier this year.
Kate and Sam are saddened to announce that they separated earlier this year," attorney Keith Schilling said in a statement to Access Hollywood. "The split is entirely amicable and is by mutual agreement. Both parties are fully committed to the future joint parenting of their children. They ask that the media respect the privacy of the family."
The couple began dating in 2001 and married in 2003. They have a son together, six-year-old Joe, and Winslet has a nine-year-old daughter, Mia, from her previous marriage to Jim Treapleton.
Winslet and Mendes collaborated on 2008's Revolutionary Road, re-teaming her with Titanic costar Leonardo DiCaprio in the film based on Richard Yates' novel of fifties-era suburban marriage ennui.
While Winslet has signed on for Todd Haynes' HBO miniseries of the melodramatic noir classic Mildred Pierce, Mendes is currently working on the next James Bond flick starring Daniel Craig.
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Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP, Executive Producer of Entertainment for the Advocate Channel. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.
Tracy E. Gilchrist is the VP, Executive Producer of Entertainment for the Advocate Channel. A media veteran, she writes about the intersections of LGBTQ+ equality and pop culture. Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of The Advocate and the first feminism editor for the 55-year-old brand. In 2017, she launched the company's first podcast, The Advocates. She is an experienced broadcast interviewer, panel moderator, and public speaker who has delivered her talk, "Pandora's Box to Pose: Game-changing Visibility in Film and TV," at universities throughout the country.
