Kate
Beckinsale

Born:
Kate Beckinsale Loe
July 26, 1973
London, England

Significant Other:
Michael Sheen, actor; acted together on stage in The Seagull (1995)

Grandfather: Burmese

Father: Richard Beckinsale, actor; died 1979 of a heart attack

Mother: Judy Loe, actress

Half-sister: Samantha Beckinsale, actress

Kate has five older stepsiblings

Daughter: Lily Sheen; born January 31, 1999; father, Michael Sheen

Education: Godolphin and Latymer School, London, England.
New College, Oxford University, Oxford, England; majored in French and Russian literature; dropped out after third year.

     First making an impression on international audiences with her role as the sweet, virginal Hero in Kenneth Branagh's 1993 Much Ado About Nothing, pale-skinned, fine-boned British actress Kate Beckinsale has since stepped beyond period pieces to prove that she is anything but a fragile English rose.
      The daughter of a BBC casting director and famed television actor Richard Beckinsale (known for roles on Porridge and Rising Damp,) Beckinsale was born July 26, 1973. After her father's death from a heart attack in 1979, the actress was raised by her mother. By her own account, Beckinsale's childhood and adolescence were fairly troubled, marked by struggles with anorexia. Beckinsale decided to follow in her father's acting footsteps while still a teenager, and in 1991 had her major television debut...

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