Kate Beckinsale Trivia
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Birth Name: Kate Beckinsale
Date of birth: 26 July 1973
Place of birth: London, England, UK
Nickname: Kate
Height: 5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
Spouse: Len Wiseman (9 May 2004 – present)
- 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 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” (1992) (December 2001), she hates wearing knickers.
- Selected by Hello Magazine as England’s Number #1 Beauty.(2002)
- Her maternal grandfather was Burmese.
- June 2003: Engaged to director Len Wiseman.
- Married Len Wiseman on 9th May 2004 at the Bel-Air Hotel. Her daughter, Lily, received her own “wedding ring” from Wiseman.
- Half sister-in-law of Richard Trinder.
- Spent her teens reading French, Russian and German novels because of her studies, and completed A-levels in Russian, German and French, which resulted in her admission to Oxford University.
- Won the prestigious WH Smith’s Young Writers’ competition two years running, once for her short stories, once for poetry.
- Ranked #63 in Stuff magazine’s “102 Sexiest Women In The World” (2002)
- Shares a birthday with Sandra Bullock, Kevin Spacey and Jeremy Piven.
- Was in close competition for the role of Rachel Keller in The Ring (2002), but lost out because producers felt she looked too young.
- Normally slender, she gained twenty pounds for roles in 2004 – ten pounds for Van Helsing (2004) and another ten pounds to portray the voluptuous Ava Gardner in The Aviator (2004).
- Has played a vampire (Underworld (2003) and a vampire hunter (Van Helsing (2004).
- Was listed as a potential nominee on the 2005 Razzie Award nominating ballot. She was suggested in the Worst Actress category for her performance in the film Van Helsing (2004), she failed to receive a nomination however.
- As of 2009, Beckinsale’s movies have grossed a total of $801,678,915 in the US.
- Beckinsale is Esquire magazine’s Sexiest Woman Alive 2009.
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