Kate Beckinsale


Kathrin Romary Kate Beckinsale is an English actress. After some minor television roles, she made her film debut in Much Ado About Nothing while still a student at Oxford University. She then appeared in British costume dramas such as Prince of Jutland , Cold Comfort Farm , Emma , and The Golden Bowl , in addition to various stage and radio productions. She began to seek film work in the United States in the late 1990s and, after appearing in smallscale dramas The Last Days of Disco and Brokedown Palace , she had a breakout year in 2001 with starring roles in the war drama Pearl Harbor and the romantic comedy Serendipity. She built on this success with appearances in the Martin Scorceses The Aviator and the comedy Click .

Kathrin Romary Beckinsale was born in Chiswick, London, England. She is the only child of actor Richard Beckinsale and actress Judy Loe. Her father was of onequarter Burmese descent. She made her first television appearance at the age of four, in an episode of This is Your Life dedicated to her father. When she was five years old, her 31yearold father died suddenly of a heart attack. Beckinsale was deeply traumatised by the loss and started expecting bad things to happen. Her widowed mother moved in with director Roy Battersby when Beckinsale was nine and she was brought up alongside his four sons and daughter. She has a close relationship with her stepfather, who was a member of the Workers Revolutionary Party during her childhood. Beckinsale helped to sell The News Line, a Trotskyist newspaper, as a child and has said the household phone was tapped following Battersbys blacklisting by the BBC. Family friends included Ken Loach and Vanessa Redgrave. Beckinsale has a paternal halfsiste

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