Actors of "Titanic": major and minor roles

James Cameron's famous film The Titanic, filmed in 1997, became a cult catastrophe of all time. A touching love story of a third-class passenger Jack Dawson and aristocrat Rosa DeWitt Bewakeeter against the backdrop of a sinking luxury liner hardly left anyone indifferent. And, probably, everyone at least once, but watched this Oscar-winning film.

The film was worked by everyone: the director, the crew, the animation studio, and the actors of the Titanic, whose names everyone knows today. Some of them were still only a rising star, and someone already became famous for the whole world, but the work in the film-catastrophe became, perhaps, the most loud and memorable in their career.

"Titanic": actors and roles

So, who are these actors who "drowned" along with the luxury liner? Who became known to the whole world? After all, shooting in this film has brought popularity to everyone without exception.

The actors of the Titanic, who played the main roles, were Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet. Working in the film brought them world fame, multi-million royalties and invitations to shoot in the most popular films.

In the movie "Titanic" played a lot of talented actors. Each role was original in its own way, amazing, unique and complex.

Rose and Jack

When director James Cameron came up with the scenario of a catastrophe, he believed that the main pair of the Titanic, Jack Dawson and Rosa DeWitt Beechater, are fictional characters. Imagine his surprise when, after completing work on the script, he found out that the passenger ship J. Dawson was actually floating on the sunken liner. The passenger was Joseph Dawson. He was an American, was born in 1888 and died during the shipwreck.

The character of Rosa Dewitt Bewaker is partly written off from the biography of the Californian actress Beatrice Wood, who lived to 105 years old and died in 1998. Why was the main character called Rosa? Probably, because that's the name of the only woman saved from the drowned "Titanic" (Rosa Abbot). Of course, the life stories of Rosa Abbot and Rosa DeWitt Bewakeather are completely different. But something they shared was that both survived thanks to being able to stay on the surface of the water, catching on to the drifting "raft".

So, the main actors of the "Titanic" - Leonardo DiCaprio, who played Jack, and Kate Winslet - Rose. This pair will always remain in the hearts of the audience.

Applicants for the role of Roses and Jack

Today it is impossible to imagine that someone else could play unfortunate lovers from a sinking ship. But there were other applicants.

On the role of Jack Dawson audited famous actors :

1. Matthew McConaughey. It was he who had to play Jack. His candidacy has even been approved in the actors of the Titanic. But James Cameron wanted Jack Dawson to become a young and still unknown to Leo DiCaprio.
2. Christian Bale is a world celebrity who could "drown" with the Titanic. But the director did not want both Americans to play British actors. After all, the role of Rosa has already been approved by a British actress.
3. Macaulay Culkin - the main character of the films "Alone at home." He also wanted to enroll in the actors of the Titanic. But it was not approved.

As a result, the role of Jack Dawson was chosen by the young Leonardo DiCaprio. And this role made him the most popular actor of the planet, and also the most desired man in the whole world.

As for the role of Rosa Dewitt Bjukeyter, here, too, not everything was decided unambiguously. The original contender was all known Gwyneth Paltrow. And only later James Cameron, as in the case of the role of Jack, preferred the less famous Kate Winslet. Due to this role, Kate also became a megapopular actress.

Main roles

So, who else, besides the couple in love, made Cameron's film Oscar-winning? Who are these famous actors of the Titanic?

Caledon Hockley is the rich and cruel fiancé of Rosa. His name came from the name of two small Canadian cities, which are located in Ontario, Caledon and Hockley. In this state, the relatives of the director of the Titanic live. The role of Hockley in the film was played by actor Billy Zane. Alas, this role is the actor's only bright work.

Ruth Dewitt Bewakeather is Rosa's mother. It was played by British actress Francis Fisher.

Molly Brown - "unsinkable Molly." Kathy Bates, who played it, was a laureate of the prize long before the Titanic. In 1991, she received an Oscar for her work in the film "Misery."

Thomas Andrews is the chief designer of the liner. This role in the film was performed by Canadian actor Victor Garber. And coped with it one hundred percent. At one glance, he was able to convey all the experiences of his character. And the last phrase of his hero: "Forgive me, young Rose, for the fact that I could not build a stronger ship" - above all praise.

Bruce Ismay is an English businessman from the White Star Line. The role of this unpleasant and avid person was perfectly played by British actor Jonathan Hyde. This role became the most famous in his career.

Spicer Lovejoy, Hockley's assistant, was played by David Warner.

Actors of the film "Titanic", who played secondary roles

Gloria Stewart is an aged Rose. According to the scenario, she should have been 101 years old. The actress at that time turned 87 years old. She became the oldest actor nominated for an Oscar.

Suzy Amis played the granddaughter of Rosa, Lizi Calvert.

Bill Paxton played the role of Brock Lavett, the treasure hunter, who in 1996, along with his team, descended to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in search of the sunken liner and the jewel "Heart of the Ocean".

Bernard Hill was remembered for the role of Captain Smith, who heroically went to the bottom with his ship.

Evan Stewart played an officer, William Murdoch, who also died during the crash, and Scott J. Anderson - caretaker Frederick Fleet, who first noticed the approaching iceberg.

Actors of the movie "Titanic" Danny Nucci and Jason Berry played the roles of friends of Jack Dawson - Fabrizio and Tommy, who, just like their friend, did not survive in the disaster.

Interesting facts about the actors

David Warner, who played Lovejoy, is the only person who "sank" on the Titanic twice. The first time - in 1979 on the set of the film "Save the Titanic."

Gloria Stewart - the only one of all the actors of the Titanic, who lived during a real catastrophe in 1912.

Kate Winslet during the filming in the water abandoned the wetsuit and earned herself pneumonia.

Drawing Roses did not draw Leonardo DiCaprio, and the director James Cameron. It is his hands that draw a portrait in the film. As they say, a talented person is talented in everything.

Originally, the role of Captain Smith was to be played by Robert De Niro. However, right before the shooting, he got to the hospital, and he had to be replaced by another actor.