Kate Winslet sparkles low-cut LBD at pre-Baftas party

She's one of the darlings of the acting world, and it's easy to see why.

Kate Winslet was her glowing best as she hosted a pre-Bafta party held at the St Martin's Lane hotel last night.

The 28-year-old actress was on sparkling form in a fitted LBD with a plunging neckline coupled with a pair of black peep toe heels.

Glowing: Kate Winslet hosts a pre-Bafta party with Harpers Bazaar and Lancome, at the St. Martin's Lane Hotel in London

The party, organised by Harper's Bazaar and Lancome, comes ahead of this Sunday’s BAFTA Awards show to be held at the Royal Opera House in London’s Covent Garden.

Leo and Kate reunited for another steamy romp...

Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet share a passionate kiss as they reunite on screen for the first time since Titanic.

The pair star in upcoming film drama Revolutionary Road as warring spouses in a 1950s-set movie based on the novel by Richard Yates.

Back together: Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet have reunited to play lovers once more, but with director husband Sam Mendes behind the camera

Passion: Leo and Kate share a steamy clinch in 50s-themed drama Revolutionary Road

DiCaprio, 33, plays Frank Wheeler while 32-year-old Winslet, is his wife, April, in the New York and Connecticut-based film.

Yates' 1961 book describes how a young couple get married for the wrong reasons and find themselves torn between their own desires and pressures to conform in Fifties America and raise their two children.

The pair's on-screen car romp is reminiscent of their clinch in the blockbuster Titanic, below, which also took place in a car

It is the first time the actors have appeared opposite each other since the blockbuster Titanic, which was released in the UK ten years ago.

The film, directed by Winslet's husband Sam Mendes, is due for release in the US on December 26 and in the UK on January 30 next year.

Winslet – who has been nominated for an Oscar five times - recently told how being directed in sex scenes by her husband was a strange experience.

She told Entertainment Weekly magazine earlier this year: ‘I just kept saying, "This is too...weird."

‘And Leo was like: "Oh, get over it." ‘And I'm going: "Yeah - a little reminder: You're my best friend. He's my husband. This is a bit weird."

The duo play warring spouses in the 1950s-set movie based on the novel by Richard Yates

Kate Winslet

Kate Elizabeth Winslet, born 5 October 1975, is a BAFTA Award-winning English actress. She is noted for having played a wide range of diverse characters over her career. Though her best known role may be that of Rose DeWitt Bukater in the highest-grossing film of all time, Titanic (1997), she was also highly regarded for her first role as Juliet Hulme in Heavenly Creatures (1994).

Although Winslet has not won an Academy Award, she has been highly favoured by the Academy, and holds two records in that area: the youngest person to receive two Oscar nominations, and the most Oscar nominations of any actor before the age of 30 (having received a total of four nominations by that age). In addition, there have been only two occasions where two actors playing the same character in the same film have both been nominated for an Oscar; Winslet was a nominee in both instances (for "Titanic" and "Iris").

On November 22, 1998, Winslet married director Jim Threapleton. The two have a daughter, Mia Honey, who was born on October 12, 2000. After a divorce in 2001, Winslet began a relationship with director Sam Mendes, whom she married on May 24, 2003, on the island of Anguilla in the Caribbean. Their son, Joe Alfie, was born on December 22, 2003.

The media, particularly in England, have enthusiastically documented her weight fluctuations over the years. Winslet has been outspoken about her refusal to lose weight in order to conform to the Hollywood ideal. In February 2003, the British edition of GQ magazine published photographs of Winslet which had been digitally enhanced to make her look dramatically thinner than she really was; Winslet issued a statement saying that the alterations were made without her consent.

She has exceptionally big feet which she claims to have inherited from her mother. (She was bullied and teased about them as a child, as well as for being obese). Her feet are so big in fact (size US 11, although she is only 5'6" 1/2 tall) that she mostly wears heavy-duty men's workboots. She claims she likes wearing them since they make her feel as though her feet are "firmly on the ground".

"Demanded" the role of Rose DeWitt Bukater in Titanic, insisting to director James Cameron, "I am Rose. I don't even know why you're seeing anyone else!"

Is good friends with actress Emma Thompson and has been since they filmed Sense and Sensibility together. Thompson said that if Winslet slimmed herself down to movie-star shape, Thompson would never speak to her again.
Winslet has earned four Oscar nominations and four Golden Globe nominations, as well as one BAFTA Award and three further BAFTA nominations. Premiere Magazine named her performance as Clementine Kruczynski in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind the 81st greatest film performance of all time.

She has also received numerous awards and nominations from other organizations, including the Screen Actors Guild and the Evening Standard British Film Awards.

Winslet won the Los Angeles Film Critics' Association (LAFCA) award for Best Supporting Actress for Iris. For Holy Smoke!, she was Best Actress runner-up at both the New York Film Critics' Circle (NYFCC) and the National Society of Film Critics (NSFC). Winslet was also NYFCC's Best Actress runner-up for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

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Kate Winslet's butt auction

Kate Winslet is auctioning off her butt.

The British actress has sketched a portrait of her curvy behind for the upcoming Paint4Poverty charity auction.

Potential bidders can view and make an offer for Winslet's pencilled posterior at website www.paint4poverty.com. The highest bid currently stands at £450.

The 'Little Children' actress is one of 60 celebrities to donate a drawing or painting to the event, which takes place later this month.

Other stars include jazz musician Jamie Callum, Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant and British TV presenter Chris Tarrant.
Online bidding will end on October 11 at 5pm (GMT), and the artwork will then be auctioned at Bath's Guildhall, in England, on October 13.

All web bids will be listed with the auctioneer and included in the final sale.