New Faces Of 1996

Here Are 10 New Stars We Predict Will Brighten Up The Year. We Wish They May, We Wish They Might If Only So They'll Prove Us Right.

NEWSWEEK

From the magazine issue dated Jan 15, 1996

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KATE WINSLET

Drama Queen

KATE WINSLET JUST ADORES Emma Thompson -- good God, she's absolutely one of her greatest friends! Last night her "Sense and Sensibility" sister banged on her hotel-room door while holding a glass of red wine and shouting, "Let me in, you cow, and give me a bloody cigarette." Brilliant!

Winslet, 20, hugs everyone. Feels everything ferociously. Speaks so heatedly her cheeks turn red. And drinks cappuccinos back to back -- decaffeinated, fortunately. She grew up near London, and apprenticed on British TV. Last year she appeared in the riveting true story "Heavenly Creatures," playing a New Zealand girl who helped beat her friend's mother to death with a brick. You'd think it was impossible to get all the way into the minds of girls like that. "Well, we were pretty bloody far in and it was frightening," says Winslet, blinking back tears. "We couldn't just put the brick down and have a cup of tea."