• Name: Kate Beckinsale
  
• Birth Name: Kate Beckinsale
  
• Height: 5' 8"
  
• Sex: F
  
• Nationality: British
  
• Birth Date: July 26, 1973
  
• Birth Place: London, England, UK
  
• Profession: actress
  
• Education: Godolphin and Latymer School in London, England
  
•   : New College, Oxford University in Oxford, England (majored in French and Russian Literature; dropped out after third year)
  
• Relationship: Len Wiseman (director; met while filming Underworld; engaged on June 14, 2003; married on May 9, 2004), Michael Sheen (actor; born on February 5, 1969; together 1995-2003), Edmund Moriarty (dated while at Oxford)
  
• Father: Richard Beckinsale (actor; born on July 6, 1947; married in 1977; died on March 19, 1979 of a heart attack)
  
• Mother: Judy Loe (actress; born on March 6, 1947)
  
• Half Sister: Samantha Beckinsale (actress; born on July 23, 1966; mother: Margaret Bradley)
  
• Step Mother: Margaret Bradley (married in 1965; divorced in 1971)
  
• Daughter: Lily Sheen (born on January 31, 1999; father: Michael Sheen)
  

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• On joining vampire movie VAN HELSING: "One of the reasons I actually decided to do Van Helsing was that people didn't think I could play sexy. Len told me much later that when he wanted me to do Underworld, all the executives at the studio, 'But she's just not sexy - she's like someone's mom.'"
• "People should realize women aren't just whores or virgins. I want to see women who are real human beings."
• "Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, No one's being nice enough to me!"
• "I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring"
• "With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person."
• "If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!"
• "No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved."

• London Critics Circle Film Awards: British Supporting Actress of the Year, THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO (1999)
• Catalonian International Film Festival: Best Actress, SHOOTING FISH (1997)

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