Kate Beckinsale Biography

Kate Beckinsale Biography

Date of Birth
26 July 1973, Finsbury Park, London, England, UK

Birth Name
Kathrin Romany Beckinsale

Height
5' 7" (1.70 m)


Kate Beckinsale Biography

Kate Beckinsale was born on twenty six July 1973 in England, and has resided in London for many of her life. Her mother is Judy Loe, who has appeared during a range of British dramas and sitcoms and continues to figure as an actress, predominantly in British tv productions. Her father was Richard Beckinsale, born in Nottingham, England. He starred during a range of standard British tv comedies throughout the Seventies, most notably the series "Rising Damp" (1974), "Porridge" (1974) and "The Lovers" (1970). He kicked the bucket tragically early in 1979 at the age of thirty one.

Kate attended the non-public college Godolphin and Latymer college in London for her grade and first college education. In her teens she twice won the British bookseller W.H. Smith Young Writers' competition - once for 3 short stories and once for 3 poems. once a tumultuous adolescence (a bout of anorexia - cured - and a smoking habit that continues to the present day), she gradually took up the profession of acting.

Her major acting debut came during a TV film regarding World War II known as One Against the Wind (1991) (TV), filmed in Luxembourg throughout the summer of 1991. It 1st aired on yankee tv that December. Kate began attending Oxford University's New school within the fall of 1991, majoring in French and Russian literature. She had already determined that she wished to act, however to broaden her horizons she selected university over drama college. whereas in her 1st year at Oxford, Kate received her huge break in Kenneth Branagh's film adaptation of William Shakespeare's a lot of Ado regarding Nothing (1993). Kate worked in 3 alternative films whereas attending Oxford, starting with a vicinity within the medieval historical drama Royal Deceit (1994), solid as Ethel. The film was shot throughout the spring of 1993 on location in Denmark, and he or she filmed her supporting half throughout New College's Easter break. Later within the summer of that year she played the lead within the modern mystery drama Uncovered (1995). Before she went back to high school, her third year at university was spent at Oxford's study-abroad program in Paris, France, immersing herself within the French language, Parisian culture and French cigarettes.

A year far from the tutorial community and living on her own within the French capital caused her to re-evaluate the direction of her life. She faced a choice: continue with college or focus on her flourishing acting career. once a lot of thought, she selected the acting career. within the spring of 1994 Kate left Oxford, once finishing 3 years of study. Kate appeared within the BBC/Thames tv satire Cold Comfort Farm (1995) (TV), filmed in London and East Sussex throughout late summer 1994 and that opened to spectacular reviews within the us, grossing over $5 million throughout its yankee run. it absolutely was re-released to U.K. theaters within the spring of 1997.

Acting on the stage consumed the primary a part of 1995; she toured in England with the Thelma Holts Theatre Company production of Anton Chekhov's "The Seagull". once turning down many mediocre scripts "and going nearly berserk with boredom", she waited seven months before another attention-grabbing role was offered to her. Her huge movie of 1995 was the romance/horror movie Haunted (1995), starring opposite Aidan Quinn and John Gielgud, and filmed in West Sussex. during this film she wished to play "an object of desire", not like her past performances where her characters were a lot of less the siren and a lot of the worldly innocent. Kate's 1st film project of 1996 was the British ITV production of Jane Austen's novel Emma (1996) (TV). Her last film of 1996 was the comedy Shooting Fish (1997), filmed at Shepperton Studios in London throughout early fall. She played the a part of Georgie, an altruistic con artist. She had a daughter, Lily, in 1999 with actor Michael Sheen.

Spouse
Len Wiseman     (9 May 2004 - present)

Trivia

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.

Her mother, Judy Loe is an actress, and her father, Richard Beckinsale, was famous as a comedy actor.

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.

Younger half-sister of Samantha Beckinsale.

Got the lead female role in Pearl Harbor (2001) after Charlize Theron pulled out to do Sweet November (2001).

Lost out to Juliette Binoche for a part in Wuthering Heights (1992).

Has a daughter, Lily Mo Sheen (b. 31 January 1999), with Welsh actor Michael Sheen.

Suffers from stomach ulcers.

According to an interview she gave on the UK show "The Big Breakfast" (1992) (December 2001), she hates wearing knickers.

Selected by Hello Magazine as England's Number #1 Beauty.(2002)

Richard Beckinsale's maternal grandfather - her great-grandfather - was Burmese.

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.

Half sister-in-law of Richard Trinder.

Spent her teens reading French, Russian and German novels because of her studies, and completed A-levels in Russian, German and French, which resulted in her admission to Oxford University.

Won the prestigious WH Smith's Young Writers' competition for her poetry in 1986.

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/I), but lost out because producers felt she looked too young.

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).

Has played a vampire (Underworld (2003)) and a vampire hunter (Van Helsing (2004)).

Was listed as a potential nominee on both the 2005 and 2007 Razzie Award nominating ballots. She was listed as a suggestion in the Worst Actress category on the 2005 ballot for her performance in the film Van Helsing (2004) and again two years later in the same category for her roles in the films Click (2006/I) and Underworld: Evolution (2006). She failed to receive either nomination.

Named #23 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2005 list.

Met Len Wiseman when he directed her in Underworld (2003).

Ranked as #71 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement. (2005)

She did not like Physical Education at school. It was also her worst subject.

Was anorexic as a teenager

Lives in Venice, California because it reminds her of London.

Named #78 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006" supplement. (2006).

Replaced Sarah Jessica Parker after she dropped out from the film Vacancy (2007).

Ranked #21 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2007 list.

Director Stephen Sommers wanted Kate for the role of "Anna Valerious" in Van Helsing (2004). But Stephen feared that it was too similar in tone to Underworld (2003), a film that Kate started and was filming at the time. Eventually, her agent got Sommers to send the script and Kate immediately signed on.

Ranked as #12 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women 2008" (2008).

Ranked as #10 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World".

Had an emergency appendectomy in January, 2004.

Esquire magazine's "Sexiest Woman Alive" in 2009.

According to her interview on "LIVE! with Kelly" (1988) (aka "Live with Regis and Kelly") that when she was working on Everybody's Fine (2009), she had never heard nor had a canoli before until the film's star, Robert De Niro introduced her to it.

Aged six, a school report found she had the reading age of an eleven-year-old and an IQ of 152.

Ranked #14 in the 2011 Ask Men list of the top 99 "most desirable" women.

Ranked #3 in the 2010 Ask Men list of the top 99 "most desirable" women.

Ranked #21 in the 2011 FHM Australia list of "100 Sexiest Women in the World".

Ranked #41 in the 2010 FHM UK list of "100 Sexiest Women in the World".

Voted #22 on Ask men's top 99 'most desirable' women of 2012.

Personal Quotes

If somebody had told me years ago that sharing a way of humour was therefore very important to partnerships, I may have avoided plenty of sex!

No one is additional enslaved than a slave who does not suppose they are enslaved.

Everybody likes the underdog, as a result of everyone seems like the underdog. notwithstanding how successful you're, you usually suppose, No one's being nice enough to me!

I attempt to take many vitamins and that i do not drink. I do smoke, though, i would be insufferable if I did not smoke, you'd ought to push me off a balcony i would be therefore boring".

With each project you are doing, you bring out a neighborhood of yourself, and it looks to be quite a decent approach of expanding someone.

Apparently, i buy facials and manicures all the time. I browse this and suppose, 'Oh, I would like I did that!' i do not suppose I've had a facial since i used to be nineteen. after I shave my legs, i take advantage of my child's shampoo and a razor - if I will realize one. If I did everything they said I did, i might never see Lily.

I dropped out of Oxford, and currently I solely speak Russian with the girl who offers me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood will to you?

I think, at 19, i used to be terribly grown-up in sure ways in which and very not therefore in others. If I had come back on to a movie set at that age and somebody had said, 'You're a trifle funny-looking, are you able to maintain a diet?' - i'd have jumped off a building. I simply did not have the arrogance to place that into perspective at the time.

"I investigate how Keira Knightley is coiffed when she attends events. I bear in mind about to Cannes with a lot of Ado regarding Nothing (1993) after I was eighteen, and no-one told me, 'Oh, here's a make-up artist or, 'This person needs to decorate you, what garments are you wearing?' It simply wasn't like that after I started. no one even told me I may bring a friend! I simply form of showed up {in a|during a|in an exceedingly|in a terribly} very expensive combine of trousers I bought in Harvey Nichols, and one thing I bought within the Sock look at the airport. however Keira Knightley has like full hair and make- up and a correct outfit and that i suppose, 'Wow, she's not about to have the before photos I had to endure!' She's extremely lucky".

I don't suppose he liked being during a cage and would not stop masturbating and humping his bowl. regarding her daughter's pet rabbit.

"It's the sole time my education has are available remotely handy." -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing" script into Russian to accumulate a Slavic accent.

She [Lily] already has some Americanisms: she says 'pants' rather than trousers and 'elevator' rather than elevate. that is quite enough on behalf of me."

We had one thing recently when there have been regarding sixteen individuals in front people taking photos and Lily was enjoying the possibility to legitimately shout at some grownups as a result of normally she's not allowed. however even when she shouted they did not stop. I realize that stunning.

I didn't go looking to marry an American, it just kinda happened like that.

Salary
Pearl Harbor (2001)     $50,000