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My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has never set foot on the stage - she's quite shy. So it's a strange thing because people say, 'Oh, coming from acting parents,' when the idea of acting would literally make my mother just want to throw up.

My parents met because my father was an actor friend of one of my mom's brothers, but my mother has never set foot on the stage - she's quite shy. So it's a strange thing because people say, 'Oh, coming from acting parents,' when the idea of acting would literally make my mother just want to throw up.

Approximate author period: c. 1991 AD · modern

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Kate Winslet
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Approximate author period: c. 1991 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Kate Winslet: documented activity in 1991. Wikidata Q202765, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q202765 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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