No more Miss Nice Girl

She's certainly no English rose - or shrinking violet either.

With flame-red hair, tiny skirt and shocking-pink bra, this is Kate Winslet in one of the less demure roles of her career.

The 30-year-old Titanic star renowned for her wholesome image underwent the transformation for her latest movie, Romance And Cigarettes.

In it she plays Tula, a working-class seductress who has a sordid affair with a married man, played by Sopranos star James Gandolfini.

Miss Winslet is seen wearing an array of tarty outfits - and spends the majority of the film's 115 minutes strutting around in a pair of four-inch-heeled, fuchsia PVC stilettoes.

In fact the only time she does not expose vast expanses of flesh is when her character 'covers up' with the help of a fluorescent pink feather-boa-rimmed jacket.

Although the actress, who is married to Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes, is happy to reveal her natural self, the publicity posters for Romance and Cigarettes feature a digitally-altered Miss Winslet.

The mother-of-two's shapely legs - seen as they really are in the film - were dramatically slimmed for the publicity shots, while her impressive cleavage was also reduced.

Romance And Cigarettes is released in the UK on March 24.