Meet Kate Winslet’s 3 Children! Everything to Know About Mia, Joe and Bear
- - Meet Kate Winslet’s 3 Children! Everything to Know About Mia, Joe and Bear
Emma KershawDecember 29, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Kate Winslet and Mia Threapleton attend the 2023 BAFTA Television Awards on May 14, 2023 in London, England ; Joe Anders and Kate Winslet attend the "Goodbye June" screening on December 08, 2025 in New York City. -
Kate Winslet is a proud mother to daughter Mia Threapleton and sons Joe Anders and Bear Blaze
Two of the three kids have followed in their mom's footsteps and taken an interest in the entertainment industry
The Oscar-winning actress has even worked with both Mia and Joe
Kate Winslet is passing on her talents to her children!
The Oscar-winning actress became a mother in 2000 when she welcomed daughter Mia Threapleton, with her ex-husband Jim Threapleton.
Winslet later expanded her family with the birth of her son Joe Alfie Mendes, who now goes by Joe Anders, with her ex-husband Sam Mendes. In 2013, she welcomed her third child, Bear Blaze, with her husband, Edward Abel Smith, whom she's been married to since 2012.
While raising her three kids, Winslet mostly kept them out of the spotlight. However, as they've gotten older, both Joe and Mia have chosen to follow their mother's footsteps in the entertainment industry.
In 2025, Joe and his mom worked together on the movie Goodbye June — which marked her directorial debut and his first screenplay adapted into a major film.
“I think what I've honestly learned about my kids is like, they're just such good people,” Winslet told PEOPLE in December 2025. “They're great people. They're extremely talented.”
Here's everything to know about Kate Winslet's three children.
Mia Honey Threapleton, 25
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Mia Threapleton and Kate Winslet at the BAFTA Television Awards on May 14, 2023.
Winslet shares her oldest child and only daughter, Mia Honey Threapleton, with ex-husband Jim Threapleton. Mia was born on Oct. 12, 2000, and her parents split 11 months later.
Now an adult, Mia is following in her famous mom's footsteps by gracing the screen.
Making her feature film debut in the 2020 movie Shadows, Mia spoke to Variety about her role in the post-apocalyptic thriller.
"I never actually spent much time around sets that my mum was working on. It was always a special treat. It's a very different experience when it is happening to you, and not just something I was getting to observe from time to time," she told the outlet. "I really understand why my mum has always impressed on us how hard the work is. She is right! And I loved every second of it."
Winslet revealed in 2021 that her daughter had begun acting without anyone noticing due to their different last names.
"[She's] 20 and acting," Winslet told Scottish TV host Lorraine Kelly in 2021. "She's away now in the Czech Republic about to start on a TV series over there."
Winslet also said that she "suspected" that Mia would become an actress.
"What's great for her is she has a different surname," Winslet added. "So she slipped under the radar and the people who cast her had absolutely no idea that she was my daughter ... that was important for her self-esteem, of course."
In 2022, the mother-daughter duo got the opportunity to share the screen in the film I Am Ruth.
The Avatar actress later said on BBC One's Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that she was "blown away" by Mia's performance in the movie, adding that her daughter "didn't need my help at all."
Winslet continued, "Sometimes I could introduce her to a technical trick here and there. Just little things I picked up along the way, like changing an eye line ... Little things like that, that no one teaches you. And she appreciated that stuff."
The film later won a TV BAFTA for Best Single Drama in 2023. (Winslet also won the Best Leading Actress award for her role.) Winslet and Mia walked the red carpet together at the awards show.
Joe Alfie Mendes, 22
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Joe Anders and Kate Winslet attend Netflix's "Goodbye June" LA Tastemaker event at CAA on November 15, 2025 in Los Angeles, California.
The actress welcomed her second child and first son, Joe Alfie Mendes, on Dec. 22, 2003. Winslet shares Joe — who now goes by the stage name Joe Anders — with her ex-husband Sam Mendes, whom she married in 2003 and divorced in 2010.
Joe was born in New York City, and has slowly eased into the public eye with his emergence into the entertainment industry.
Speaking of how the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns were affecting her kids, the Ammonite star told Jimmy Kimmel during an interview, "My daughter's 20 and my son is 17 ... my little guy is 7, but yeah, I think it's hard on all of them but he's very musical so [Joe is] able to Zoom with his mates and make a lot of music."
In 2025, Joe and Winslet turned their personal relationship into a working relationship and collaborated on the Christmas film Goodbye June. The movie marked a milestone for both of them, as it was Winslet's first time directing and Joe's first time screenwriting.
"When it came to the point of the screenplay being ready, I was going to produce it. I was going to play the character of Julia, and I knew that we were in a position to find a director. And I suddenly couldn't let it go," she said of the project in a December interview on Jimmy Kimmel Live!. "And I said to him, look, I would love to direct it because when you give it to a director, it becomes theirs, which is exactly the right thing that should happen. But I didn't want that for him."
Winslet added that her son was "very smart about film" and created a "fantastic" environment of working together.
"We would read it through together and figure out what should stay and what should go and what was funny and what wasn't funny enough or etc. And that process was glorious," she shared. "And we learned different things about one another in this working capacity."
Bear Blaze Winslet, 12
Marc Piasecki/Getty Kate Winslet and husband Ned Rocknroll attend the 'Prix de Diane Longines 2014' at Hippodrome de Chantilly on June 15, 2014 in Chantilly, France.
Winslet's youngest child, Bear Blaze, whom she shares with her husband Edward Abel Smith, was born on Dec. 7, 2013. During an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2014, Winslet shared the meaning behind her son's unique name.
The Emmy-winning actress explained that Bear's middle name refers to the house fire Winslet escaped in August 2011 while on vacation in the Caribbean, the same weekend that she met Smith.
"The house burned down and we survived," she said. "But we wanted something of the fire, and so Blaze was the name that we came up with."
During a 2021 appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Winslet told the talk show host that her then-7-year-old son had already settled on his future career path.
"The other day my son was very funny. He turned to me and said, 'Mum, I've got a confession to make,' " she recalled during the interview.
"He said, 'I'm just gonna come out with it. I'm just gonna say it,' and I'm like, 'Oh my God, the drama.' He looks at me and says, 'I want to be an actress,' " she shared as she and Kimmel burst into laughter.
Winslet said she started to laugh at her son's response to which Bear replied, "It's not funny, I want to be an actress. Sign me up."
"What do you do with that, honestly? It's hilarious, it made me laugh," Winslet admitted of her son's statement.
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