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Biographical
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Full
Name: |
Kate
Beckinsale Loe |
Height: |
5'
8" |
Birthplace: |
London,
England, UK |
Date
of Birth: |
July
26, 1973 |
Husband/Partner: |
Michael
Sheen |
Contact
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Personal
Quote: |
"No
one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't
think they're enslaved." |
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KATE
BECKINSALE was born 26 July 1973 in England, and has resided
in London for most of her
life. Her mother is Judy Loe, Ms. Loe has appeared in
a number of British dramas and sitcoms,
and continues to work as an actress, predominantly in
British television productions. Her
father was Richard Beckinsale, born in Nottingham, England,
UK. He starred in a number of
popular British television comedies during the 1970s,
most notably the television series
Rising Damp and The Lovers. He passed away in 1979. Kate
attended the public (private school
to U.S. readers) Godolphin and Latymer School in London
for her grade and primary school
education.
In her teens,
she twice won the British bookseller W. H. Smith Young
Writers' competition--once
for three short stories and once for three poems. After
a tumultuous adolescence, (a bout of
anorexia{cured} and a smoking habit which contiues to
this day) she gradually took up the
profession of acting. Her major acting debut came in
a World War II television movie called
One Against the Wind, filmed in Luxembourg during the
summer of 1991.It first aired on
American television that December.
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Kate
began attending Oxford University's New College in the
fall of 1991, majoring in French
and Russian literature. She had already decided that she
wanted to act, but to broaden her
horizons she chose university over drama school. While
in her first year at Oxford, Kate
received her big break in Kenneth Branagh's film adaptation
of Shakespeare's Much Ado About
Nothing. Kate worked in three other films while attending
Oxford, beginning with a part in
the medieval historical drama Prince of Jutland (1993),
cast as Ethel. The film was shot
during spring 1993 on location in Denmark, and she performed
her supporting part during New
College's Easter break.
Later in
the summer of that year, she performed as the lead in
the contemporary mystery drama
Uncovered (1994). Before she went back to school, Her
third year at university was spent at
Oxford's study-abroad programme in Paris, France, immersing
herself in the French language,
Parisian culture, and those awful French cigarettes.
A year away from the academic community
and living on her own in the French capital caused her
to re-evalate the direction of her
life. She faced a choice: continue with school, or concentrate
on her flourishing acting
career. After much thought, she chose the acting career.
And it has flourished ever since.
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Films:
Tiptoes (2003)
Laurel Canyon (2002)
Serendipity (2001)
Pearl Harbor (2001)
The Golden Bowl (2000)
Brokedown Palace (1999)
The Last Days of Disco (1998)
Shooting Fish (1997)
Haunted (1995)
Marie-Louise ou la permission (1995)
Uncovered (1994)
Prince of Jutland (1994)
Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
Made for
TV:
Emma (1997)
Cold Comfort Farm (1995)
Rachel's Dream (1992)
One Against the Wind (1991)
Direct to
Video:
The Best of George Michael (1999)
TV Shows:
Alice Through the Looking Glass (1998)
Devices and Desires (1991)
Cartoons/Voices:
Hercules (1998)
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