Kate Beckinsale
- Born: 26 Jul, 1973
Petite and pretty, with dark hair, pale skin and flashing eyes, Kate Beckinsale made a strong film debut as the virginal Hero in Kenneth Branagh's sun-dappled adaptation of "Much Ado About Nothing" (1993). Although she was a screen novice, the actress projected the requisite intelligence and star quality that deemed her one to watch. As the daughter of comic Richard Beckinsale (who died when she was five years old) and actress Judy Loe, it was perhaps inevitable that she would eventually find her way to the limelight. Beckinsale, however, spent a good portion of her teen years struggling with an eating disorder (of which she has spoken frankly in interviews) before she decided to try her hand at acting. After a bit part in the BBC mystery "Devices and Desires" (1991), s...
FAMILY & COMPANIONS
- father Richard Beckinsale: born in 1947; died of a heart attack in 1979
- mother Judy Loe: born c. 1948
- half-sister Samantha Beckinsale: older
- step-siblings : has five
- daughter Lily Sheen: born on January 31, 1999; father, Michael Sheen
- Edmund Moriarty: dated while at Cambridge
- Michael Sheen: born on February 5, 1969; acted together on stage in "The Seagull" (1995); no longer together as of January 2003
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