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.
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 daughte
r, 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 two years running, once for her short stories, once for poetry.
Ranked #63 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women In The World" (2002)
Shares a birthday with Sandra Bullock, Kevin Spacey and Jeremy Piven.
Was in close competition for the role of Rachel Keller in The Ring (2002), 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.
Personal Quotes
If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vita
l to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!
No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.
Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, No one's being nice enough to me!
"I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring",
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.
Apparently, I get facials and manicures all the time. I read this and think, 'Oh, I wish I did that!' I don't think I've had a facial since I was 19. When I shave my legs, I use my child's shampoo and a razor - if I can find one. If I did everything they said I did, I would never see Lily.
I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood does to you?
I think, at 19, I was very grown-up in certain ways and extremely not so in others. If I had come on to a movie set at that age and someone had said, 'You're a bit funny-looking, can you go on a diet?' - I might have jumped off a building. I just didn't have the confidence to put that into perspective at the time.
"I look at how Keira Knightley is coiffed when she attends events. I remember going to Cannes with Much Ado About Nothing (1993) when I was 18, and nobody told me, 'Oh, here's a make-up artist or, 'This person wants to dress you, what clothes are you wearing?' It just wasn't like that when I started. Nobody even told me I could bring a friend! I just sort of showed up in a very expensive pair of trousers I bought in Harvey Nichols, and something I bought in the Sock Shop at the airport. But Keira Knightley has like full hair and make- up and a proper outfit and I think, 'Wow, she's not going to have the before photos I had to endure!' She's really lucky".
"I don't think he liked being in a cage and wouldn't stop masturbating and humping his bowl." about her daughter's pet rabbit
"It's the only time my education has come in remotely handy." -on using her Russian literature studies for copying her "Van Helsing" script into Russian to acquire a Slavic accent.
She [Lily] already has some Americanisms: she says 'pants' instead of trousers and '
elevator' instead of lift. That's more than enough for me."
We had something recently when there were about 16 people in front of us taking pictures and Lily was enjoying the chance to legitimately shout at some grownups because normally she's not allowed. But even when she shouted they didn't stop. I find that shocking.
I didn't go looking to marry an American, it just kinda happened like that.
Salary
Pearl Harbor (2001)
$200,000
Kate Beckinsale Actress Movies,Photos,Videos and ...
Profile for actress Kate Beckinsale featuring her movies,pictures,videos,biography and fans. ... Kathryn Bailey "Kate" Beckinsale (born 26 July 1973) is an ...www.palzoo.net/Kate-Beckinsale -
Kate Beckinsale Glamorous Kate ... Your 24/7 for anything ...
Your 24/7 fan source for anything on Kate Beckinsale ... Kate, your newest & most updated 24/7 source for the British Actress Kate Beckinsale. ...kbeckinsale.com/Kate -
Kate Beckinsale Filmography
... Kate Beckinsale ... Actors: Kate Beckinsale, Gabriel Macht, Columbus Short, Alex ... Actors: Forest Whitaker, Kate Beckinsale, Guy Pearce, Dakota Fanning, ...www.fandango.com/katebeckinsale/filmography/p4911 -
Kate Beckinsale Fan // Fansite & Fanlisting ...
Fanlisting and fansite dedicated to Kate Beckinsale, with hundreds of pictures, as well as wallpapers, icons, and other downloads.www.katebeckinsalefan.com -
Kate Beckinsale - SideReel
Kate Beckinsale - Kathryn Bailey \"Kate\" Beckinsale (born 26 July 1973) is an ... Kate Beckinsale - out and about shopping candids in Los Angeles, January 27 ...www.sidereel.com/Kate_Beckinsale -
Kate Beckinsale - Movies, Kate Beckinsale Photos, Interviews ...
Info on actress Kate Beckinsale including interviews, photos, Kate Beckinsale movie news, and sites featuring Kate Beckinsale's films, biography, and photographs.movies.about.com/od/beckinsalekate/Beckinsale_Kate.htm -
Kate Beckinsale 
Kate Beckinsale is a British actress who starred in the hit movie Pearl Harbor ... Wikipedia: Kate Beckinsale. en.wikipedia.org. Back Next ...www.mahalo.com/Kate_Beckinsale -
Kate Beckinsale - Zimbio
Kate Beckinsale is an English actress. She's appeared in a number of films ... Kate Beckinsale on Filming in Antarctica: 'It Was Just a Different Level of Cold' ...www.zimbio.com/Kate+Beckinsale -
Kate Beckinsale Videos - Metacafe
One of the world's largest video sites, serving the best videos, funniest movies and clips. ... Kate Beckinsale on Ellen DeGeneres Show 12/10/08 (3 of 5) 11-Dec-08 ...www.metacafe.com/tags/kate_beckinsale -
Kate Beckinsale pictures, photos and wallpapers, galleries ...
Pictures of Kate Beckinsale, photos, gossip and news, wallpapers and more ... Mr X creates an Antarctic wasteland for Kate Beckinsale-starrer ...katebeckinsale.celebscentral.net
