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Katherine Romani Beckinsale born 26 July 1973 is an English actress known for her roles in period, romance and action films. The only child of actors Richard Beckinsale and Judy Loe, Kate Beckinsale made her acting debut when she was only one year old,as an extra in the British daytime drama Couples (1975), in which her parents also appeared. She did not act again until almost adulthood, beginning in 1991 with a small voice role in an episode of the miniseries adaptation of P. D. James' Devices and Desires and a supporting role in the television film One Against the Wind starring Judy Davis and Sam Neill. In 1993, she co-starred in the Anna Lee pilot "Headcases" and made her theatrical film debut with the brief but important role of Hero in Kenneth Branagh's adaptation of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing while studying at Oxford University. Subsequently, he established himself in leading roles in several British costume dramas, such as Prince of Jutland (1994), Cold Comfort Farm (1995), Emma (1996) and The Golden Bowl (2000). He challenged himself with roles in films such as The Last Days of Disco (1998), Brokedown Palace (1999), Pearl Harbor (2001), Serendipity (2001), Tiptoes (2003), The Aviator (2004) and Click (2006).
Since playing Selene in the Underworld film series (2003–2016), Beckinsale has become known for her work in action films, including Van Helsing (2004), Whiteout (2009), Contraband (2012), Total Recall (2012), and Jolt (2021), while also earning praise for her roles in Snow Angels (2007), Nothing But the Truth (2008), Everybody's Fine (2009), Love & Friendship (2016), and The Only Living Boy in New York (2017). In recent years, she returned to television in the limited series The Widow (2019) and the abruptly cancelled dramedy Guilty Party (2021), also serving as an executive producer on the latter.
Katherine Romani Beckinsale was born on 26 July 1973 in the Chiswick district of London, the only child of actors Richard Beckinsale and Judy Loe.She has a half-sister from her father's first marriage, actress Samantha Beckinsale.Her father was of partly Burmese descent.Her parents did not marry until 1977, before Beckinsale started nursery school,when she made her first television appearance at the age of four in an episode of This Is Your Life dedicated to her father.When she was five, her father died suddenly of a heart attack at the age of 31; she was deeply shocked by the loss and "began to expect bad things to happen." When Beckinsale was nine, her widowed mother moved in with director Roy Battersby.She had a close relationship with her stepfather,who was a member of the Workers Revolutionary Party during his youth.She helped sell the Trotskyist newspaper The News Line as a young girl and said the home phone was tapped following Battersby's blacklisting by the BBC.Family friends included Ken Loach and Vanessa Redgrave
Beckinsale was educated at Godolphin and Latymer School, an independent school for girls in Hammersmith, West London, and was involved with the Orange Tree Youth Theatre.She was twice a winner of the WH Smith Young Writers' Award for both fiction and poetry. She has described herself as a "late bloomer": "All my friends were kissing boys and drinking cider long before me. I found it really depressing that we weren't having campfires and everyone was doing that sort of thing." At the age of fifteen she had a nervous breakdown and developed anorexia, and underwent four years of Freudian psychoanalysis.
Beckinsale studied Russian at schooland read French and Russian literature at New College, Oxford, and was later described by her contemporary Victoria Coren Mitchell as "very clever, a little mad and very charming". She became friends with Roy Kinnear's daughter Kirsty. She was involved with the Oxford University Dramatic Society, notably being directed by fellow student Tom Hooper in a production of A View from the Bridge at the Oxford Playhouse. As a modern languages student, she had to spend her third year abroad and studied in Paris. She then left university to concentrate on her budding acting career: "It was getting to the point
Beckinsale was in a relationship with Welsh actor Michael Sheen from 1995 to 2003. They met while cast in a touring production of The Seagull in early 1995 and began living together soon after. In 1997, she voiced an audiobook production of Romeo and Juliet. Their daughter, Lily Mo Sheen, was born in 1999. In 2001, Beckinsale said she was "embarrassed" that Sheen never proposed,but that she felt as though he was married.They broke up in early 2003, after filming for Underworld. Beckinsale and Sheen remain close friends.
Beckinsale met American director Len Wiseman while working together on 2003's Underworld.She convinced Wiseman to cast Sheen in the film, but Beckinsale and Wiseman fell in love while on set. Wiseman's then-wife Dana, a kindergarten teacher, accused her husband of infidelity with Beckinsale. Beckinsale and Wiseman married on May 9, 2004, in Bel-Air, California.They separated in November 2015. Wiseman filed for divorce in 2016, citing "irreconcilable differences";their divorce was finalized in November 2019.
In January 2019, Beckinsale was reported to be dating American comedian Pete Davidson, but by April they had "called time on their romance."
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