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It’s a boy for Winslet and Mendes

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From Associated Press

Actress Kate Winslet and her husband, director Sam Mendes, are the parents of a baby boy.

Joe Mendes was born Dec. 22 in New York. He weighed 7 pounds, 13 ounces, Winslet’s publicist Jennifer Allen said Friday. No other details were released.

It is the first child for the couple, who were married in May.

“The couple is overjoyed,” Allen said.

Winslet has a 3-year-old daughter, Mia, from her previous marriage to Jim Threapleton.

Winslet, 28, was nominated for Academy Awards for her roles in “Titanic,” “Sense and Sensibility” and “Iris.” Mendes, 38, won the best-director Oscar for 1999’s “American Beauty.”

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