Kate WinsletKate Winslet has revealed that while the Golden Globes and Screen Actors Guild loved her performance in The Reader, her children were less impressed with her practising her accent at home.

This month Kate landed the Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe and SAG Awards trophies for playing former Nazi guard Hanna Schmitz in the film - and is nominated for the Best Actress award at next month’s Oscars - but she explained recently that her eight year old daughter Mia and five year old son Joe were less impressed.

She explained: “They got mightily fed up with me reading bedtime stories with a German accent. They said, ‘Mum, just be plain. Don’t do any funny stuff like voices. Just be regular’.

“Then I had to say, ‘But, I’m not regular and I’m never going to be regular. When you’re a teenager you’re going to know that it’s cool’.

“I used to try to hide them from being in the public eye and me being recognised in the street. Now I say to my daughter, ‘Do you know why people come up to us?’ She says, ‘Yes, because you do films and you are famous’.”

But while Mia is getting a handle on her family’s fame, some things still confuse the children - such as when Kate was made up to play the older version of her character in the film: “They saw the pictures and said ‘Is that Nana?’

“I said, ‘No, it’s me’. [They said] ‘Oh, you look yucky’.

“I took it as a compliment that they genuinely thought I looked old. Needless to say, I didn’t tell my mother.”