Sir Samuel Alexander Mendes CBE (born 1 August 1965) is an English film and stage director, producer and screenwriter. In theatre, he is known for his dark re-inventions of the stage musicals Cabaret (1994), Oliver! (1994), Company (1995), and Gypsy (2003). He directed an original West End stage musical for the first time with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2013).
For directing the play The Ferryman, Mendes was awarded the Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play in 2019.
Kate Winslet and Husband Edward Abel Smith (a.k.a. Ned Rocknroll)’s Relationship Timeline
usmagazine.comKate Winslet is confident she found The One in husband Edward Abel Smith, formerly known as Ned Rocknroll.The Oscar winner was previously married Jim Threapleton from 1998 to 2001, welcoming daughter Mia in 2000.
Following their split, she met director Sam Mendes and they wed in 2003. That same year, she gave birth to their son, Joe.
The duo announced their separation in 2010 and finalized their divorce in 2011.“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. I didn’t plan on its being that way. And f—k me, it hasn’t been easy, you know,” Winslet told WSJ Magazine in 2015. “No one really knows what has happened in my life.
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