Kate Beckinsale
Kate Beckinsale
Kathrin Romary "Kate" Beckinsaleis an English actress. After some minor television roles, she made her film debut in Much Ado About Nothingwhile still a student at the University of Oxford. She then appeared in British costume dramas such as Prince of Jutland, Cold Comfort Farm, Emma, and The Golden Bowl, in addition to various stage and radio productions. She began to seek film work in the United States in the late 1990s and, after appearing in small-scale dramas The Last...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionMovie Actress
Date of Birth26 July 1973
CityLondon, England
Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, No one's being nice enough to me!
My best feature is unfortunately a private matter, although I'm told it is spectacular. But you can't really walk it down the red carpet. What can I say?
I am used to wearing corsets. Even when I was first starting out it was either Shakespeare or Chekov. Everything that I was doing involved corsets. I guess I am just not destined to breathe that deeply.
Were I not married to the director, I'm not sure I'd know anything about the 'Underworld' sequel.
I grew up as an only child and my mother was also an only child, so we were both very passionate about reading. I think I passed that on to my daughter, who went plowing through 'Harry Potter' and every other book possible!
When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.
No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gone to present at the Golden Globes, come home, whipped the dress off and read to my daughter wearing gazillion-dollar earrings. That’s how it goes in my house, and I wouldn’t have it any other way,
I feel like my brain is more geared towards a novel than it is to a movie.
I must say, I am thrilled with my fan base. For some reason some of them are quite young, so they are quite frightened.
I don't have a big career plan. I just like to see how things come out, and I just try to keep going in different directions.
I don't tend to do much with my lips. My lips are naturally very pink, so if I add any more colour, it looks like I've been smacked in the mouth!
Given that I can't sing like Freddie Mercury, obviously I'm not going to pursue it as a career. What would be the point?
Where possible, if there's something that is highly likely to kill you, the studios won't insure us to do [the stunts]. But where we are insurable, Len likes to make us do that. He likes to see actors' faces and have everybody know that that is them doing it. Yeah, I definitely got some bruises on this one.