Statistics:
Name: Kate Beckinsale
Bate of Birth: July 26th, 1973
Birth Location: London, England, UK
Occupation: Actress / Modeling
Height: 5' 8"
Grandfather: Burmese
Father: Richard Beckinsale, actor; died 1979 of a heart
attack
Mother: Judy Loe, actress
Half-sister: Samantha Beckinsale, actress; older
Stepsiblings: has five
Daughter: Lily Sheen; born January 31, 1999; father, Michael
Sheen
1st Acting Appearance: Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
1st Hit: Brokedown Palace (1999)
Eye Colour: Brown
Natural Hair Colour: Dark Brown
Trivia:
-Studied French and Russian literature while a student
at Oxford.
- Studied at New College Oxford, but left to pursue her acting
career before completing her degree course.
- Her mother, 'Judy Loe (I)' is an actress, and her father Richard
Beckinsale was famous as a comedy actor.
- Attended grade/primary school at Flexlands Private School in
London, England, she took ballet there and it was at this young
age that her father died of a heart attack.
- Half-sister of Samantha Beckinsale.
- Got the lead female role in Pearl Harbor (2001) after Charlize
Theron pulled out to do Sweet November (2001).
- Lost out to 'Juliette Binoche' for a part in Wuthering Heights
(1992).
- Has a daughter, Lily Sheen (b. 31 January 1999), with Welsh
actor Michael Sheen.
- Suffers from stomach ulcers.
- According to an interview she gave on the UK show "The
Big Breakfast" (December 2001) she hates wearing knickers.
- Selected by Hello Magazine as England's Number #1 Beauty.(2002)
Interviews
"Gear" (USA), September 1998, Vol. 1, Iss. 1, pg. 36,
by: Aaron Hicklin, "New waif"
"Interview" (USA), July 1998, pg. 102-105, by: Dina
Rabinovitch, "Cutting Edge Kate"
Articles
"Cinema" (Hungary), August 2001, Iss. 117, pg. 32-33,
by: Heiko Rosner
"Current Biography" (USA), August 2001, Vol. 62, Iss.
8, pg. 3-8, by: Kate Stern, "Beckinsale, Kate"
"Premiere" (USA), June 1998, Vol. 11, Iss. 10, pg. 84-85,
by: Sean M. Smith, "Tempting Kate"
Pictorials
"Cinema" (Hungary), February 2002, Iss. 122, pg. 79,
"Szívkirálynõ"
"Cinema" (Hungary), April 1995, Iss. 41, pg. 8, "Kata,
a makrancos"
Magazine Cover Photos
"Total DVD" (Russia), January 2002, Vol. 1, Iss. 10
"Cinema" (Hungary), August 2001, Iss. 117
"Entertainment Weekly" (USA), 1 June 2001, Iss. 598
"Cinema" (Germany), June 2001, Iss. 277
"Premiere" (Russia), May 2001
"Premiere" (USA), May 2001, Vol. 14, Iss. 9
"Deluxe" (UK), November 1998, Iss. 6
