Oscar Winners’ Surprising TV Starts: From Kate Winslet’s Sci-Fi Turn to Heath Ledger’s Soap Opera Days (PHOTOS)

Kate Winslet was nominated for a whopping five Academy Awards before her 2009 win for The Reader. While many American fans were first introduced to the star in 1997’s Titanic, Kate’s career actually began on TV. The actress starred on six episodes of the short-lived sci-fi series Dark Season (1991), a story about three teens who must save their school from the evil Mr. Eldritch and computers that threaten to turn all of the students into mutants.