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Name: Kathryn Bailey Beckinsale
Birthday: July 26, 1973
Birth Place: Finsbury Park, London, England
Current Residence: Venice, Ca
Hair Color: Brunette
Eye Color: Hazel
Height: 5'7 or 1.70cm
Parents: Judy Loe & Richard Beckinsale
Siblings: 1 sister ; Samantha Beckinsale
Spouse: Len Wiseman ; director
Children: Lily Mo Sheen ; 9 yrs old
Known For: Actress

- 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 Mo Sheen (b. 31 January 1999), with Welsh actor Michael Sheen.

- Suffers from stomach ulcers.

- According to an interview she gave on the UK show _"Big Breakfast, The" (1992)_ (December 2001), she hates wearing knickers.

- Selected by Hello Magazine as England's Number #1 Beauty.(2002)

- Richard Beckinsale's maternal grandfather - her great-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.

- 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).

- Named #23 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2005 list.

- Met Len Wiseman when he directed her in Underworld (2003).

- Ranked as #71 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement. (2005)

- She did not like Physical Education at school. It was also her worst subject.

- Was anorexic as a teenager

- Lives in Venice, California because it reminds her of London.

- Named #78 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006" supplement. (2006).

- Ranked #21 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2007 list.

- Director Stephen Sommers wanted Kate for the role of "Anna Valerious" in Van Helsing (2004). But Stephen fear that it was too similar in tone to Underworld (2003), a film that Kate started and was filming at the time. Eventually, her agent got Sommers to send the script and Kate immediately signed on.

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