Kate Beckinsale Biography, Filmography, Pictures

12 November

Kate Beckinsale Biography, Filmography, Pictures

Author: Sami / Category: B, Celebrity Biography

Kate Beckinsale Biography, Filmography, Pictures Kathryn Bailey “Kate” Beckinsale (born July 26, 1973) is an English actress, famous mostly for her role in the films, Pearl Harbor (2001), Underworld (2003-2006, Van Helsing (2004) and Click (2006).

Beckinsale was born in Finsbury Park, London, daughter of actor Richard Beckinsale and actress Judy Love, attending Godolphin and Latymer School in London. As a teen, she won twice the W.H. Smith Young Writers’ competition. Following a turbulent adolescence, including a period of anorexia and smoking habit, she began a career in acting.

Her debut in acting came with a TV film, One Against the Wind in 1991. Beckinsale started studying French and Russian literature at New College, Oxford University in 1991, but she did not finish her degree.

In her first year at Oxford, Beckinsale got a role in Kenneth Branagh’s film, an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing. While she was studying in Oxford, she also appeared in three other films. Her last year of studies she spent in Paris; she then decided to leave school and work on her acting career. Beckinsale had roles in a couple of low-profile films in 1998, such as Shooting Fish and The Last Days of Disco, also appearing in TV films, including the satire Cold Comfort Farm (1995) that had impressive reviews in the United States.