Meet Kate Winslet’s 21-year-old son, Joe Anders, who has scripted her Netflix directorial debut – the Titanic actress’ child with ex-husband Sam Mendes wrote forthcoming film Goodbye June

May 10 , 2025

Kate Winslet’s son with Sam Mendes, Joe Anders, has written a script for a film she’s now directing and starring in. Photos: WireImage

Kate Winslet is working behind the camera as well as in front of it for new Netflix project Goodbye June – which has been written by Joe Anders, her talented young son with Sam Mendes

Kate Winslet is making her directorial debut – and it may surprise you to learn that her son, Joe Anders, has played a key role in the production.

British actress Kate Winslet in 2021’s Mare of Easttown. Photo: TNS

The Academy Award-winning actress, 49, is directing, producing and starring in Goodbye June, a contemporary family drama being made for Netflix, as reported by Variety. Toni Collette, Johnny Flynn and Helen Mirren will star alongside Winslet in the film – which was written by Anders.

The movie is set in present-day England and follows the story of a “fractured group of siblings [who] pull together under sudden and trying circumstances”, according to the synopsis.

Joe Anders pictured in 2023: the 21-year-old has written a film titled Goodbye June, which has been picked up by Netflix. Photo: Getty Images

Here’s what we know about Kate Winslet’s 21-year-old son.

Joe Anders was born in New York

Actress Kate Winslet has three children. Photo: AFP

Joe Anders was born in New York City on December 22, 2003, to Kate Winslet and her ex-husband, director Sam Mendes, per People magazine.

Winslet also has a daughter, Mia Honey Threapleton, 24, whom she shares with her first ex-husband, Jim Threapleton, and Bear Blaze Winslet, whom she welcomed with her third and current husband, Edward Abel Smith, on December 7, 2013.

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