SUSSEX star Kate Winslet kept her pregnancy a secret from fellow crew members on her newest film release.

Winslet, who is married to Richard Branson’s nephew Ned Rocknroll, was already pregnant with her third child when she made A Little Chaos but she only told the director and fellow star Alan Rickman.

“I didn't tell anybody I was pregnant,” she said.

“Actually, Alan knew because I felt I had to tell him, but I didn't tell anybody else. First of all, it was the early stages of pregnancy, but also because I really knew that there would be so many things that they wouldn’t let me do.

"I thought, ‘For goodness sake, I’ll be damned if anyone else is going to be flinging themselves into that sluice gate, I’m doing it.”.

“My poor husband did actually come to work that night and he was sort of hovering there with hot water bottles and blankets, and he was extremely worried about me. Of course, I had a great time.''

The actress has also just finished the upcoming movie Steve Jobs with Michael Fassbender. Winslet, who lives in West Wittering, appears to be in a happy place.

She already has a daughter Mia, 14, from her marriage to Jim Threapleton and Joe, 11, from her marriage to Sam Mendes.

“I don't feel I’m so much in the public eye as perhaps I once was 20 years ago, or even 10 years ago,” said Winslet, who famously appeared alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in the 1997 blockbuster Titanic.

“I think it has quietened down a lot for me now. I’m older, my life is what it is – that's not really as interesting to people as say the more tabloid, juicy stuff of one's 20s. And I think that as you get older, you learn to really not care.

“It’s one of the great things about approaching 40,” she adds. “You really do learn to exist within yourself. It’s been quite liberating for me, actually, to have come to that place in life.”

Background

Kate Winslet was born in Reading and will be 40 on October 5.

Her first film was Heavenly Creatures in 1994.

She did not win an Oscar for Titanic in 1997, though she was nominated.

She won an Oscar when she was nominated for the sixth time for The Reader.