Kate Winslet’sdaughter, actress Mia Threapleton, may not share her Oscar-winning mother’s last name, but she certainly shares her talent. At 24 years old, the buzzy up-and-comer is currently starring in Apple TV+’s The Buccaneers, which premieres its second season in June, and the new Wes Anderson movie The Phoenician Scheme, which arrived in theaters May 30.
“[It’s] been a wonderful thing,” Winslet said in 2021 of her daughter following in her footsteps. “I think I knew it was coming, I always suspected. And then a few years ago she turned around and said, ‘I think I would like to give it a go.’”
Keep reading to learn more about Threapleton’s career, the movies she’s made with her mom and more.
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Winslet’s daughter is actress Mia Threapleton, whose last name has allowed the starlet to have some anonymity in auditions — at least according to Winslet, who once referred to her daughter’s inconspicuous surname as “really great.”
“So that initial job out of the gate [in the 2020 movie Shadows], she slipped right under the radar and the people who cast her had absolutely no idea she was my daughter,” Winslet said. “And, of course, that was my biggest fear.”
Despite her mother being a famous actress, Threapleton insists she wasn’t surrounded by the film industry as a kid.
'I feel like it's a misconception about me, considering who my mother is, that I grew up going to set or that I would know anything about this world because of her and what she does,'” she told The Daily Mail. “That is not the case at all. I genuinely can count on not even two hands the amount of times I went to set as a kid. There were never scripts lying around the house.”
She shared a similar thought with The Hollywood Reporter. “She really kept her work very separate from family life,” Threapleton said. “Her work stayed in her office, and then when she was not in her office, she was ‘Mum.”
In an interview with The Sunday Times, Threapleton reportedly laughed nervously when the possibility that she might have gotten an "easy ride" came up. “I don’t really know how to answer that, to be honest," she said. As for the advice her mom gave her? “Read the damn script as many times as you can!”
What does Kate Winslet’s daughter do?
Winslet’s daughter is an actor, which she knew she wanted to be from the time she was 13 years old. When she told her mother, “She said, ‘Amazing, okay, I’m so excited for you,’ and I won’t ever forget what she said next,” Threapleton told Vanity Fair. “She said, ‘It’s really hard work, darling. It’s really hard work — but that’s why I love it.’”
Threapleton’s first role was a tiny part in the 2014 British period drama A Little Chaos, which starred her mother.
Yes. Threapleton is Winslet’s first-born child and only daughter.
Who is Mia Threapleton’s father?
Winslet shares her daughter with ex-husband Jim Threapleton, a painter-filmmaker to whom she was married for three years, from November 1998 to December 2001.
"I know lots of people who are not in the public eye who have gone through several marriages, I really do, and it's just those are the cards that life dealt me,” Winslet, who was also married to and divorced from director Sam Mendes, told WSJ Magazine. “I didn't plan on its being that way. And f--k me, it hasn't been easy, you know. No one really knows what has happened in my life. No one really knows why my first marriage didn't last; no one knows why my second didn't."
Threapleton was born Oct. 12, 2000, making her 24 years old. At the time of her birth, Winslet’s agent offered some backstory to the newborn’s name. “Kate and Jim [Threapleton] had drawn up a list of 10 names but when the baby was born, none of them seemed right,” he said. “Then ‘Mia’ came to them and it seemed just right. There is no family significance, they just thought it was a really beautiful name.”
How old was Kate Winslet when she had her daughter?
Winslet was 25 years old — and just two years out from the release of Titanic — when she became a mom, and she’s said that having her daughter young “saved” her from being consumed by media scrutiny. “When you have a child that is the only thing in your world that matters and you are able to look at the silly things and just say, ‘Well, I am not just going to read it and I am going to switch it off,’” she said during a Q&A with the Royal Television Society in 2023.
Winslet is mom to three kids: 24-year-old Mia Threapleton, whose dad is Jim Threapleton; 21-year-old Joe Mendes, who she shares with ex-husband Sam Mendes; and 11-year-old Bear Winslet, her child with current husband Edward Abel Smith.
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How old was Kate Winslet when she had her last child?
Bear was born on Dec. 7, 2013, when Winslet was 38 years old.
Threapleton has appeared in the following movies:
A Little Chaos (2014)Shadows (2020) I Am Ruth (2022)Firebrand (2023)Scoop (2024)Next up she’s the lead in Wes Anderson’s The Phoenecian Scheme, which is likely to be her breakout role. It’s a bit of a full-circle moment, given what a superfan she was of his film Moonrise Kingdom as a kid.
“That movie became an important piece of cinema to me,” she told Rolling Stone. “I don’t know how many times I’ve seen it, but I still watch it to this day. So, you know, when you go from that to, um, this… It’s surreal. A little crazy, to be honest.”
It's also worth noting that, when it comes to working with Anderson, Threapleton has beaten her mother to the punch.
Is Mia Threapleton on TV?
Threapleton stars in The Buccaneers, a period drama inspired by Edith Wharton's unfinished final novel. The show, which streams on Apple TV+, follows a group of wealthy American women navigating London's aristocratic circles.
Threapleton previously starred in Dangerous Liaisons on Starz.
What movie did Kate Winslet do with her daughter?
The pair starred in the Channel 4 drama I Am Ruth, playing a mother and daughter whose relationship is strained by the young woman’s obsession with social media. Winslet took home a BAFTA for her role in the film, saying in her acceptance speech that if she could “cut [the award] in half” she’d give the other half to her daughter. "There were days when it was agony for her to dig as deeply as she did into very frightening emotional territory sometimes,” she gushed. “And it took my breath away.”
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