Kate Winslet is in Cork to take cookery course at Ballymaloe

The Oscar-winner is taking a course run by bestselling author and TV chef Rachel Allen — and they are just half an hour's drive from the last port of call of the real-life Titanic

Already a highly-regarded actor, Kate Winslet became a superstar on the release of 'Titanic' in 1997. Now Ms Winslet is visiting part of County Cork near Cobh, the last port of call of the real-life Titanic. Picture: Yui Mok/PA

Oscar-winning actor Kate Winslet is currently in east Cork enrolled in a course at Ballymaloe Cookery School.

Ms Winslet was seen in the nearby village of Ballycotton with Rachel and Isaac Allen of Ballymaloe this week.

Ms Winslet and a female friend stayed this week at both Ballymaloe House and nearby Ballyshane Coastal Retreats, a private 20-acre coastal property with rental accommodation, it is understood.

TV chef and bestselling cookbook author Rachel Allen is running the €865 two-and-a-half day cookerycourse that actor Kate Winslet is taking. 

She is enrolled in a cookery course with TV chef and bestselling cookbook author Rachel Allen.

Ms Allen is running a sold-out €865 two-and-a-half day cookery course in Ballymaloe called ‘Cooking for Family and Friends’ between Wednesday and Friday this week.

Ms Winslet shot to international fame in her lead role as Rose in 1997 film Titanic, the highest-grossing blockbuster film at that time, opposite Leonardo DiCaprio, 

The subject of the film has a deep connection to the area Ms Winslet is visiting. 

The Cork Harbour town of Cobh, just half an hour’s drive from Ballyshane, was the last port visited by the Titanic on April 11, 1912, three days before it struck an iceberg and sank with the loss of more than 1,500 lives.

Brought to life in the 1997 blockbuster, some of the last extant photos of the Titanic were taken by Frank Browne who disembarked at Cobh, Co Cork — near where 'Titanic' star Kate Winslet is visiting. 

Ms Winslet last hit TV screens in her crime drama Mare of Easttown.

She is currently starring in a new comedy series, The Regime, written by one of Succession’s screenwriters, Will Tracy. It will air on Sky/Now from April 8.

In The Regime, Ms Winslet plays an authoritarian chancellor of an unnamed central European country with significant wealth in natural resources but a flatlining economy and an angry populace on the brink of revolt. Hugh Grant plays the country’s imprisoned former leader.

Ms Winslet also has a new film coming out later this year, Lee, about Lee Miller.

Kate Winslet is starring in the new HBO series 'The Regime' which airs on Sky Atlantic and Now from April 8. 

Miller, once a model and muse of avant-garde artist and photographer Man Ray, became a serious war correspondent in the Second World War, capturing some of the most important and iconic images of that time.

Kate Winslet's acting awards include an Oscar, a Grammy, two Primetime Emmy awards, five Baftas, and five Golden Globes. In 2009 and 2021, she was named one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people. 

As well as the family cookery course that Kate Winslet is attending, Ballymaloe Cookery School also runs professional certificate courses such as this one with school co-founders Rory O'Connell and Darina Allen. File picture: Denis Minihane

One of the most respected actors in the industry, Ms Winslet has used her voice and her platform to challenge misogyny and gender stereotypes, critiquing restrictive and unhealthy attitudes towards the female body in Western society and the film industry.

The British actress has some Irish ancestry on her father’s side.