Kate Winslet wins best actress in mini-series Emmy

LOS ANGELES, Sept 19: British actress Kate
Winslet won the best actress in a mini-series Emmy on Sunday, for
her role in period drama "Mildred Pierce."

The Oscar-winning star plays a divorcee single mother who
opens a restaurant to survive in the Great Depression in the drama, for
which her English-born co-star Guy Pearce won best supporting actor Emmy
moments earlier.
Winslet gave a short acceptance speech saying she "didnt
think we were going to win anything" -- until her gong it had been having a
disappointing night -- before thanking her mother.
Winslet's success came on a big night for another British
period drama, "Downton Abbey."
The show won the best mini-series Emmy, while veteran
Maggie Smith won best supporting actress and Julian Fellowes, who wrote the
British period drama, best writer of a mini-series.
Brian Percival also won best director for "Downtown Abbey,"
which tells the story of the aristocratic Crawley family in the stately home of the
show's name.

-AFP