16th Mar 10
Winslet and Mendes announce their separation
by Adam Richards
British Oscar-award winning actress Kate Winslet and her husband Sam Mendes have announced that they have separated after almost seven years of marriage.
The separation, which took place earlier this year, has left the couple saddened but entirely amicable, according to a spokesman.
Winslet, 34, and Mendes, 44, married 7 years ago in 2003 and were one of the film industry’s best-known couples. It was the Reading-born actress’s second marriage.
A spokesman for legal firm Schillings said that Kate and Sam are saddened to announce that they have separated earlier in the year.
He went on to say that the split was entirely amicable and by mutual agreement. Both parties are fully committed to the future of joint parenting of both of their children.
Winslet, who won the Oscar last year for her role in The Reader, was not with her husband at either the BAFTAs or the Academy Awards.
It has been reported that she is in Mexico at the moment, while Mendes is said to be in New England. He is also the winner of an Oscar, picking up the best director award for American Beauty in 2000.
The couple got married in a secret ceremony in the Caribbean in May 2003 and have one son named Joe aged six.
Winslet has a daughter from a previous marriage to assistant director Jim Threapleton.
The couple worked together on the fourth film of Mendes, Revolutionary Road in 2008, and described the experience as exhilarating to work with his wife.
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