Mia Threapleton steals Kate Winslet's red carpet style as she channels her mum's iconic Oscars gown for her Cannes debut

Daily Mail​

19-05-2025

For her first major red carpet, a 22-year-old Kate Winslet stepped out in an emerald green Givenchy gown at the 1998 Oscars.
And more than two decades later, her 24-year-old daughter, Mia Threapleton, wore a strikingly similar Oscar De La Renta dress yesterday at the Cannes Film Festival for the premiere of her film The Phoenician Scheme.
Mia sported an emerald green embroidered dress and looked the spitting image of her mother as she posed alongside the film's director Wes Anderson.
Kate's 1998 gown was custom designed by Givenchy chief designer Alexander McQueen. She said: 'It was like an embroidered sculpture. I have to be honest, the dress was not entirely comfortable to wear or to sit down in. But it was worth it because he had made it.'
Mia is starring in her first major feature. Ahead of making her debut at Cannes, she told The Sunday Times: 'I'm going to be like a little shaking leaf!'
After playing a maid in the Netflix hit Scoop, Mia stars as Liesl in the dark comedy alongside a stellar cast including Tom Hanks, Bill Murray and Willem Dafoe.
Kate, 49, had her daughter with her first husband, the director Jim Threapleton, from whom she split in 2001.
Mia explained how she had first told her mother she wanted to follow in her footsteps and be an actress herself at just ten years old.
She signed herself up to online casting sites at the age of 15, out of her desire to do it 'on my own'.
She added that Kate has been nothing but supportive of her career, while also making sure that she was aware of the difficulties that come with the job.
Mia said: 'She was very, very encouraging. But she always – I mean, always – emphasised the hard work that goes into it.'
The Phoenician Scheme is the most the star-studded film that has premiered at this year's Cannes so far, but this is no surprise with legendary director Anderson at the helm.
Leading the cast is Benicio del Toro, who plays wealthy businessman Zsa-zsa Korda, who appoints his only daughter, a nun as the sole heir to his estate.
However, as Korda embarks on a new enterprise, they soon become the target of scheming tycoons, foreign terrorists and determined assassins.
Mia stars Sister Liesl, and she joins Michael Cera, Riz Ahmed, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Richard Ayoade, Jeffrey Wright, Scarlett Johansson, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rupert Friend and Bill Murray.
The film is set to be released in the US on May 30, with hopes it could become Anderson's next big Oscars contender, following his success with The Grand Budapest Hotel in 2014.