Actress Kate Winslet and her husband Sam Mendes have split up, their lawyers have announced.

“Kate and Sam are saddened to announce that they separated earlier this year,” said a statement by lawyers Schillings.

Winslet, 34, and director Mendes, 44, married in a low-key private ceremony in the Caribbean in 2003.

It was Winslet’s second marriage, following her divorce from film director Jim Threapleton after three years of marriage.

The statement added: “The split is entirely amicable and is by mutual agreement.

“Both parties are fully committed to the future joint parenting of their children. They ask that the media respect the privacy of the family.”

The couple have one child together, Joe, while Winslet has a daughter, Mia, from her first marriage.

Winslet won an Oscar for best actress for her role in The Reader in 2009.

The actress shot to global stardom in 1997 as the romantic heroine in James Cameron’s Titanic – until recently the most successful movie of all time.

Mendes, an acclaimed director of both stage and film, won a best director Oscar for American Beauty in 2000. He also directed Road to Perdition (2002) and Revolutionary Road (2008).