Kate Beckinsale Height, Weight, Age, Affairs, Salary, Family, Net Worth

Kate Beckinsale Height, Weight, Age, Affairs, Salary, Family, Net Worth – Kathrin Romary “Kate” Beckinsale is a British actress. After some minor television roles, she made her film debut in Much Ado About Nothing while still a student at the University of Oxford.

Career and Lifestyle Info:

She appeared in British costume dramas such as Prince of Jutland (1994), Cold Comfort Farm (1995), Emma (1996), and The Golden Bowl (2000), 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 Days of Disco (1998) and Brokedown Palace (1999), she had starring roles in the war drama Pearl Harbor (2001) and the romantic comedy Serendipity. She followed those with appearances in The Aviator (2004) and Click (2006).

Since being cast as Selene in the Underworld film series (2003–present), Beckinsale has become known primarily for her work in action films, including Van Helsing (2004), Whiteout (2009), Contraband (2012), and Total Recall (2012). She also continues to make appearances in smaller dramatic projects such as Snow Angels (2007), Nothing but the Truth (2008), and Everybody’s Fine (2009). In 2016, she appeared in the film Love & Friendship.

Beckinsale has worked occasionally as a model. In 1997, she appeared in the music video for George Michael’s “Waltz Away Dreaming”. She starred opposite Orlando Bloom in a 2002 Gap television advertisement directed by Cameron Crowe. She appeared in a Diet Coke television advertisement in 2004, directed by Michael Gondry. She advertised Absolut Vodka in a 2009 print campaign photographed by Ellen von Unwerth. She has also promoted Lux shampoo in a Japanese television advertisement.

Family and Personal Info:

Beckinsale was born in Chiswick, London, England. She is the only child of actors Richard Beckinsale and Judy Loe.  She has an older paternal half-sister, actress Samantha Beckinsale, but they have not had regular contact.  Her father was of one quarter Burmese descent. She made her first television appearance at the age of four, in an episode of This is Your Life dedicated to her father. When she was five years old, her 31-year-old father died suddenly of a heart attack. Beckinsale was deeply traumatised by the loss and “started expecting bad things to happen.” Her widowed mother moved in with director Roy Battersby when Beckinsale was nine and she was brought up alongside his four sons and daughter.

Beckinsale had an eight-year relationship with actor Michael Sheen from 1995 until 2003. They met when cast in a touring production of The Seagull in early 1995 and moved in together shortly afterwards.

The British Heart Foundation has been Beckinsale’s charity of choice “ever since [she] was six years old” when her father, who had a congenital heart defect, died of a massive heart attack. She has also donated film memorabilia to the Epidermolysis Bullosa Medical Research Foundation, MediCinema, Habitat For Humanity and the Entertainment Industry Foundation.