Winslet's No Nun, Rep Says

ByABC News
June 11, 2001, 8:34 PM

June 7 -- Kate Winslet may be a polite person, a caring mother, and a great actress, but she's no Mother Teresa.

Winslet's rep is denying reports that the Brit actress has desires to portray the late nun in an upcoming Indian-produced biopic. Indian media recently reported that the Titanic star was in talks to play the Nobel Prize-winning nun, who died in 1997, in a feature film to be directed by Rajiv Nath.

But Winslet's rep told Reuters that Winslet, who has just wrapped a film about author Iris Murdoch, has no plans to do a Mother Teresa film.

She may, however, appear in another film opposite Australian actor Geoffrey Rush.

Winslet and Rush, who received a Best Actor Oscar nomination for his portrayal of the Marquis de Sade, first shared billing in Quills. They are now in talks to appear in The Magician's Wife, which is scheduled to lens in September.

Reuters contributed to this story.