| Kate Beckinsale  AKA Kate Beckinsale-Loe
Born: 26-Jul-1973
Birthplace: London, England
Gender: Female
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Actor Nationality: England
Executive summary: Pearl Harbor In her teens Kate Beckinsale was anorexic, weighing 70 pounds at the age of 15. At 18, Beckinsale co-starred with Judy Davis and Sam Neill in the mini-series One Against the Wind. Her first film was Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing,. By the age of 20, she became the first member of her family to take her acting career beyond the British Isles. After several roles playing innocent girls, she took a sexually provocative part in Haunted, then demanded a body double for the film's nude scenes. In The Aviator, she played Ava Gardner to Leonardo DiCaprio's Howard Hughes. In Laurel Canyon, she kissed Frances McDormand in a swimming pool.
Beckinsale's father was a popular actor on British television, starring in Bloomers, Porridge, and three other 1970s sit-coms, until his death at the age of 31. Her mother is also a familiar face on British television, as a regular in a dozen series, most recently Casualty, Holby City, and Space Island One. Her stepsister, Samantha Beckinsale, played a firefighter in the long-running ensemble action show London's Burning, and has starred in five other British series and several films. Her stepfather, Roy Battersby, has worked for decades as a TV director. Father: Richard Beckinsale (actor, b. 6-Jul-1947, d. 19-Mar-1979)
Mother: Judy Loe (actress, b. 6-Mar-1947)
Father: Roy Battersby (stepfather, British TV director, m. Loe 6-Mar-1997)
Sister: Samantha Beckinsale (half-sister from father's first marriage, British actress)
Boyfriend: Edmund Moriarty (British actor, dated early 1990s)
Boyfriend: Michael Sheen (actor, dated 1995-2003, one daughter)
Daughter: Lily Sheen (b. 31-Jan-1999)
Husband: Len Wiseman (film director, engaged 14-Jun-2003, m. 9-May-2004)
High School: Godolphin and Latymer School (1991)
University: New College, Oxford University (dropped out)
Appendectomy
Laser Eye Surgery 2005
Endorsement of Coca-Cola
Burmese Ancestry Paternal Great Grandfather
Risk Factors: Anorexia, Smoking, Appendicitis
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
The Only Living Boy in New York (27-Jul-2017)
Underworld: Blood Wars (24-Nov-2016)
The Disappointments Room (9-Sep-2016)
Love & Friendship (23-Jan-2016)
Absolutely Anything (12-Aug-2015)
Stonehearst Asylum (14-Jun-2014)
The Trials of Cate McCall (28-Nov-2013)
Total Recall (2-Aug-2012) · Lori Quaid
Underworld: Awakening (19-Jan-2012) · Selene
Contraband (12-Jan-2012) · Kate Farraday
Everybody's Fine (3-Nov-2009)
Whiteout (9-Sep-2009) · Carrie Stetko
Nothing But the Truth (8-Sep-2008) · Rachel Armstrong
Winged Creatures (24-Jun-2008) · Carla Davenport
Vacancy (20-Apr-2007)
Snow Angels (19-Jan-2007)
Click (23-Jun-2006) · Donna Newman
Underworld: Evolution (12-Jan-2006)
The Aviator (17-Dec-2004)
Van Helsing (3-May-2004) · Anna Valerious
Tiptoes (8-Sep-2003) · Carol
Underworld (8-Sep-2003) · Selene
Laurel Canyon (18-May-2002) · Alex
Serendipity (13-Sep-2001)
Pearl Harbor (21-May-2001)
The Golden Bowl (14-May-2000) · Maggie Verver
Brokedown Palace (13-Aug-1999) · Darlene Davis
The Last Days of Disco (29-May-1998) · Charlotte
Alice Through the Looking Glass (1998) · Alice
Shooting Fish (22-Aug-1997)
Emma (16-Feb-1997)
Haunted (30-Nov-1995)
Cold Comfort Farm (1-Jan-1995) · Flora Poste
Uncovered (May-1994)
Royal Deceit (23-Feb-1994) · Ethel
Much Ado About Nothing (7-May-1993) · Hero
One Against the Wind (1-Dec-1991)
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