Kate Beckinsale Biography

Daughter of Judy Loe and Richard Beckinsale, both English actors of television shows. She has studied in a private school to London: she came enrolled in young age from its parents to the private school London Flexlands, where she has studied dance and recitazione. During that Kate period lost its father because of an infarct.


The juvenile problem of the anorexia has not stopped it and after to have it resolved it has gone to study to the University of Oxford in which it has followed course of Russian, French and German literature and languages (), but after three years it has left the studies in order to dedicate themselves to the actress career, it has than it quickly capacity to the international reputation. Its first television apparition has been in the film of the 1991 One Against The Wind, but the film that has really given world-wide reputation to them has been Pearl Harbor (2001), in which it interpreted the part of the nurse Evelyn Johnson. The film of the consacrazione has been Underworld (2003), in which it has interpreted the role of the protagonist vampiro Selene to the taken ones with the enemies licantropi.

In the 1999 Kate Beckinsale it has had a daughter, Lily, from the relation with the actor Michael Sheen, that she has later on interpreted the part of Lucian in the Underworld film. Sul set of this film, but, the Beckinsale has known the director Len Wiseman, with which currently it is married.

2004 have been for Kate Beckinsale a year still more meaningful, for the escape of the films Van Helsing (in which it interprets the part of Anna) and The Aviator (in which it interprets the part of Grandmother Gardner).

In the 2006 Kate Beckinsale it is returned to dress the cloth of vampiro in the sequel of the film of 2003, still interpreting the part of the Selene protagonist in Underworld: Evolution and has been Co-protagonist in the film Changes your life with a click of the same year. In the 2007 Kate it has recited in Snow Angels and like protagonist in the film horror Vacancy, with to Luke Wilson.

For the 2008 Beckinsale it has begun the resumptions of the film Nothing But the Truth to October 2007, those of thriller the Whiteout will have beginning to you open them 2008 in Canada while those of the dramatic Winged Creatures 19 March 2008.

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