| |  "With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person." ----- Kate Beckinsale
| Kate Beckinsale Bio
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"If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex"
 Kate Beckinsale is an English actress who got her start in film with the 1993 film "Much Ado About Nothing". She's the daughter of Judy Loe, a stage and television actress, and Richard Beckinsale, a television actor who died in 1979 at the age of 31. She attended Godolphin and Latymer School and won two times an award for the best young writer.
 In 1991, Kate Beckinsale left for Oxford University's New College, where she majored in French and Russian literature. She already knew that she was going to be an actress, but in order to broaden her horizons, she decided to attend a regular university rather than drama school.
She made her television debut in 1991 in a drama called "One Against the Wind".
In 2002 Kate Beckinsale was chosen by the English magazine Hello! as "England’s #1 Beauty".
| | Kate Beckinsale Career |
 "As a mother, you feel much more vulnerable. And when you're vulnerable, you're a much better actress."
 In 1996 appeared in made-for-television movie Emma made after Jane's Austin's book. After this she had some small roles in movies like "Shooting Fish" "The Last Days of Disco" and "Cold Comfort Farm". Her first successful American role was in 2001 in "Pearl Harbor" and after this she had a lot of roles in big budget movies like: Serendipity (2001), Underworld (2003) Van Helsing (2004), The Aviator (2004) , Underworld: Evolution(2006). She also appeared in the 2006 comedy Click starring Adam Sandler.
In 2007, Kate Beckinsale revisited the darker side we saw in Underworld when she appeared in the 2007 horror flick Vacancy alongside Luke Wilson.
In 2008 she acted in action thriller “Whiteout” besides taking part in ensemble drama “Winged Creatures” alongside Forest Whitaker, Dakota Fanning, and Jennifer Hudson among others.
| | Vital Stats |  Started her acting career in 1993, winning so far two prices for the roles in "Shooting Fish" (1997) and "The Last Days of Disco" (1998). | | Birth name: Kathryn Bailey Beckinsale | | Eye color: Brown | | Height: 5'8" | | Nickname(s): Kate | | Notable feature(s): Emotive eyes | | Education: Kate attended the private school Godolphin and Latymer School in London for her grade and primary school education. In her teens she twice won the British bookseller W.H. Smith Young Writers' competition. | Family: Judy Loe (mother),
Richard Beckinsale (father)
Samantha Beckinsale (half-sister)
Richard Trinder (half-brother-in-law)
Len Wiseman (husband).
 Daughter
Lily Mo Sheen
Born in 31 January 1999
Lily Mo Sheen is daughter of Kate Beckinsale and her ex-partner and co-star Michael Sheen.
Now little Lily lives with her mother and actual husband Len Wiseman. |
"My priority is my daughter and acting takes a back seat to that."
----- Kate Beckinsale  HusbandLen Wiseman (Director)
After the break-up of actor Michael Sheen, Kate became involved with the director of Underworld, Len Wiseman.
In June 2003, Beckinsale became engaged to Wiseman, and the two were married on 9 May 2004 at the Hotel Bel-Air California. |
| | Resides in: Venice, California | Personal interests/hobbies:
--- Writing
--- Fitness
--- Reading literature
| Charities: EB Medical Research Foundation
Causes supported:
--- Children
--- Health
| Other: Suffered from anorexia as a teenager, suffers from stomach ulcers
Good friend with Victoria Beckham and Eva Longoria.
She is a declarate smoker. The only time when she quit smoking when she was pregnant.
| | Kate Beckinsale's Prices and nominations |
--- 1997 Best Actress for the role in Shooting Fish (1997) at Catalonian International Film Festival
--- 1999 London Critics Circle Film Awards - British Supporting Actress of the Year for the role in Comedy/Drama The Last Days Of Disco.
--- 2001 Nominated at Teen Choice Award for the role in Pearl Harbour.
--- 2002 Nominated at Saturn Awards - Best Actress for the role in Serendipity and later in 2004 for the role in Underworld.
--- 2004 Nominated at Teen Choice Award for the role in Van Helsing.
--- 2005 Nominated at Guild Screen Awards for the role in The Aviator - Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.
--- 2006 Nominated at Teen Choice Award for the role in Click and later in 2007 for the role in Vacancy
| | Kate Beckinsale Trivia | --- Attended grade/primary school at Flexlands Private School in London, England, she took ballet there and it was at this young age that her father died of a heart attack.
--- Studied French and Russian literature while a student at Oxford.
--- Studied at New College Oxford, but left to pursue her acting career before completing her degree course.
--- According to an interview she gave on the UK show "The Big Breakfast" (1992) (December 2001), she hates wearing knickers.
--- Got the lead female role in Pearl Harbor (2001) after Charlize Theron pulled out to do Sweet November (2001).
Salary she got for Pearl Harbor (2001) was about $200,000
--- She was selected by Hello Magazine as England's Number #1 Beauty. (2002)
--- June 2003: Engaged to director Len Wiseman.
--- Married Len Wiseman on 9th May 2004 at the Bel-Air Hotel. Her daughter, Lily, received her own "wedding ring" from Wiseman.
--- Ranked #63 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women In The World" (2002)
--- Was in close competition for the role of Rachel Keller in The Ring (2002), but lost out because producers felt she looked too young.
--- Has played a vampire (Underworld and Underworld: Evolution) and a vampire hunter (Van Helsing).
--- Normally slender, she gained twenty pounds for roles in 2004 - ten pounds for Van Helsing (2004) and another ten pounds to portray the voluptuous Ava Gardner in The Aviator (2004).
| | Kate Beckinsale's Last 3 Movies | | |
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