Kate Winslet was in the spotlight a lot last year around this time, as she picked up an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in The Reader and two Golden Globes during awards season, so she said she kept a low profile for most of the rest of the year.

Kate Winslet attends the 2009 Bambi Awards in Berlin, Germany. She was named best international actress this year. (Photo Agency)

She didn’t want to become old news, and kept herself plenty busy with home stuff. She told the Daily Mail newspaper: “I was in hiding a little bit, just doing family stuff and very little work. To be honest, I felt so over-exposed this time last year with the Golden Globes and the Oscar. It was fantastic and everything, but I was sick of me, let alone what other people must have felt.”

However, Kate is ready to get back to work and presented an award at the Golden Globes ceremony last Sunday and will do the same at the Academy Awards in March. Discussing her upcoming projects, Kate is shooting a mini-series for US TV channel HBO based on the James M. Cain novel Mildred Pierce.

She revealed: “We’re doing it from the book, not the film version with Joan Crawford. It’s such a deliciously meaty role and we cover a lot of ground, with Mildred raising her two girls during the Depression era. She runs her own business and, of course, there are men. And because it’s a mini-series for HBO we can really explore the characters and go into the kind of things you could only hint at when the film was made in 1945.”

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