Kate Beckinsale
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Birth Name: Kathryn Bailey Beckinsale
Birth Date: July 26, 1973
Birth Place: London, England, UK
Height: 5′ 8″
Sex: Female
Hair: Naturally Brown
Eyes: Brown
Nationality: British
Profession: Actress
Education: Godolphin and Latymer School in London, England
New College, Oxford University in Oxford, England (majored in French and Russian Literature; dropped out after third year)
Relationship: Michael Sheen (actor; born on February 5, 1969; together 1995-2003), Edmund Moriarty (dated while at Oxford)
Husband/Wife: Len Wiseman (director; met while filming Underworld; engaged on June 14, 2003; married on May 9, 2004)
Father: Richard Beckinsale (actor; born on July 6, 1947; married in 1977; died on March 19, 1979 of a heart attack)
Mother: Judy Loe (actress; born on March 6, 1947)
Half Sister: Samantha Beckinsale (actress; born on July 23, 1966; mother: Margaret Bradley)
Step Father: Roy Battersby (stepfather, British TV director, m. Loe 6-Mar-1997)
Step Mother: Margaret Bradley (married in 1965; divorced in 1971)
Daughter: Lily Sheen (born on January 31, 1999; father: Michael Sheen)
Claim to fame: Feature film debut as a heroin in Kenneth Branagh’s film version of Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
Kate Beckinsale Short Biography
Kathryn Bailey “Kate” Beckinsale (born 26 July 1973) is an English actress. She first gained notice, as a student at Oxford University, for making her debut in the film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. Throughout the 1990s, she worked on both film and television, most notably by portraying the title character in the 1996 BBC television series Emma. In 2001, Beckinsale garnered international recognition when she was cast as the romantic lead opposite Ben Affleck in her breakthrough film, Pearl Harbor (2001). Since then, she has portrayed a variety of characters in projects such as Underworld (2003), The Aviator (2004), and Van Helsing (2004). In 2008, she earned a Critic’s Choice Award nomination for her performance in Nothing But the Truth.
Early life
Born in Finsbury Park, London, Beckinsale is the daughter of actor Richard Beckinsale, who died from a heart attack in 1979, and actress Judy Loe. She has a paternal half-sister, Samantha, who is also an actress. Her paternal great-grandfather was half Burmese, and she has said that she was “very oriental-looking” as a child.
Beckinsale attended the Godolphin and Latymer School, an all-girls’ independent school in London. In her teens, Beckinsale twice won the W. H. Smith Young Writers’ competition—once for three short stories and once for three poems. After a rebellious adolescence, including a period of anorexia and starting a smoking habit, she followed in the footsteps of her parents and began her acting career. Her first role was in One Against the Wind, a television film about World War II that was first aired in 1991. Having gained three language A levels, Beckinsale studied French and Russian literature at New College, Oxford University, though she did not finish her degree. She thought that having an academic background studying foreign language and literature would broaden her range of acting roles.
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