KATE WINSLET
Beautiful without being untouchably glamorous, warm without being cutesy, Kate Winslet is the kind of actress that women would actually want to befriend. Because she's so real and accessible in her performances, it's easy to empathize with her characters, even when they're having ill-advised affairs (Little Children, her Oscar-winning turn in The Reader) or acting like basket cases (Heavenly Creatures, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) or, you know, at the center of a terrible chick flick (The Holiday). Also: Winslet is, hands down, the best crier on the big screen. Just seeing her face start to screw up sends me running for a tissue. Dawnie Walton
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50 Actors We'd Watch in Anything (Part 1)
The first 25 performers -- like Alec Baldwin, Paul Rudd, and Kate Winslet -- whose name in the credits forces us to give even the most dubious TV or movie project the benefit of the doubt

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