Kate Beckinsale
Birthday: 1973-07-26 | Place of Birth: Chiswick, London, England, UKKathryn Bailey "Kate" Beckinsale (born 26 July 1973) is an English actress. Born in Finsbury Park, London, Beckinsale is the daughter of actor Richard Beckinsale, who died from a heart attack in 1979, and actress Judy Loe. She has a paternal half-sister, Samantha, who is also an actress. Her paternal grandfather was half Burmese, and she has said that she was "very oriental-looking" as a child. She first gained notice, while a student at Oxford University, for making her debut in the film adaptation of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Throughout the 1990s, she worked on both film and television, most notably by portraying the title character in the 1996 BBC television series Emma. In 2001, Beckinsale garnered international recognition when she was cast as the romantic lead opposite Ben Affleck in her breakthrough film, Pearl Harbor (2001). Since then, she has portrayed a variety of characters in projects such as Underworld (2003), The Aviator (2004), and Van Helsing (2004). In 2008, she earned a Critic's Choice Award nomination for her performance in Nothing But the Truth.
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as Beth Burgess
as Lindy
as Georgia Wells
as Ingrid Carpenter
as Johanna
as Selene
as Dana Barrow
as Lady Susan Vernon
as Catherine
as Simone Ford
as Cate McCall
as Eliza Graves
as Kate Farraday
as Lori Quaid
as Selene
as Amy
as Carla Davenport
as Carrie Stetko
as Rachel Armstrong
as Amy Fox
as Annie Marchand
as Donna Newman
as Selene
as Anna Valerious
as Ava Gardner
as Carole
as Alex
as Selene
