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| Name: | Kate Beckinsale |
| Birth Name: | Kate Beckinsale |
| Height: | 5' 8" |
| Sex: | F |
| Nationality: | British |
| Birth Date: | July 26, 1973 |
| Birth Place: | London, England, UK |
| 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: | Len Wiseman (director; met while filming Underworld; engaged on June 14, 2003; married on May 9, 2004), Michael Sheen (actor; born on February 5, 1969; together 1995-2003), Edmund Moriarty (dated while at Oxford) |
| 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 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 Hero in Kenneth Branagh's film version of Much Ado About Nothing (1993) |
| Contact: | Click here |
| KATE BECKINSALE GOSSIP, NEWS & TRIVIA |
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- Denied rumors that she went to England for a secret tryst with a friend, insisting he's friend's husband and they've just had a baby. (January 7, 2006)
- Is glad movie bosses have dumped plans for a doll version of her UNDERWORLD: REVOLUTION character Selene - because the last ones made her look like a transsexual. (January 6, 2006)
- Says she strips for her director husband Len Wiseman on a webcam when they are working apart. (December 13, 2005)
- Almost quit THE AVIATOR (2004) after she began to doubt her acting career.
- Says she would consider a return to university to finish studying. (December 20, 2004)
- Is threatening to quit the movie industry, because she's fed up with reading so many false stories about herself. (2004)
- Use internet cameras to communicate with her husband when he's away.
- Denied having plastic surgery to boost her bust size, pointing to pregnancy as the cause of her apparently unsightly scars. (2004)
- Hated the PEARL HARBOR experience because director Michael Bay bluntly explained she was picked for the film because she wasn't beautiful.
- Voted the most beautiful actress in Britain in a poll carried out by UCI Cinemas to mark the release of TROY. (2004)
- Is featured in an advertising campaign for Diet Coke.
- Is keen to avoid Hollywood's obsession with plastic surgery, rubbishing reports she's had breast implants. (April 13, 2004)
- Is desperate to wed her new lover, Len Wiseman, but Sony Pictures bosses are insisting she can't take the time off from promoting UNDERWORLD, the Wiseman-directed film which brought them together. (September 24, 2003)
- Was left stunned after demanding her breasts be enhanced on the posters for her new film UNDERWORLD, because artists made them too big. (September 17, 2003)
- Hated the tight-fitting leather suit she wore for new movie UNDERWORLD because it was too hot, too cold and she couldn't go to the toilet. (September 16, 2003)
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