'Motherhood Made Me A Better Actress' Kate Winslet

Kate Winslet claims being a mother has helped her become a better actress.The 'Titanic' beauty says she would never have been able to star in 'Finding Neverland' - the life story of 'Peter Pan' author J.M. Barrie - if she didn't have daughter Mia, four, and baby son Joe.Kate, who plays Sylvia Llewelyn Davies, the mother of the four boys who inspired Barrie, said at the Venice Film Festival: "I don't think I could have played Sylvia if I wasn't a mother.There is a physicality involved in being a parent that you don't know about until you are one. I remember playing a mother before I became one myself and found it frustrating because I didn't really know what it felt like."When you have a lot of children - like Sylvia did - you just bundle them on your hip, or on your back, or into the stroller and get on with it. Being a mother myself was invaluable." The 29-year-old beauty married director Sam Mendes last May before giving birth to Joe in December. She divorced Mia's father, Jim Threapleton, in 2001