Kate Beckinsale

Beckinsale met Michael Sheen in 1995 and dated him for the next eight years. The couple has a daughter named Lily Mo Sheen. The couple broke up after she fell in love with Len Wiseman.

After moving to Las Vegas with her daughter, she married Wiseman in 2004 and he directed her in two movies after their marriage.

She has been part of several charitable organisations like The British Heart Foundation and Habitat for Humanity and has raised funds for Women’s Cancer Research Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre.

Kate Beckinsale was born in London, England to Richard Beckinsale and Judy Loe, both of whom are actors.

At the age of five, she lost her young father. Her mother later moved in with Roy Battersby and Beckinsale grew up with his children maintaining a strong bond with her stepfather.

While studying at the Godolphin and Latymer School in Hammersmith, West London, she was associated with the Orange Tree Youth Theatre.

She studied French and Russian Literature at New College, Oxford winning the WH Smith Young Writers Award twice in fiction and poetry.

As part of the Oxford University Dramatic Society, she was cast in the production of ‘A View from the Bridge’ at the Oxford Playhouse, stepping into her budding acting career.

Beckinsale appeared for the first time on television in 1991, playing a minor role in an ITV adaptation of P. D. James’ ‘Devices and Desires’. The same year, she also appeared in the film ‘One against the Wind’. The next year, she was seen in a 30-minute Channel 4 short film called ‘Rachel’s Dream’.

In 1993, she did a role in the ITV detective series, Anna Lee. The same year, she got a role in the film adaptation of ‘Much Ado about Nothing’ garnering a lot of critical appreciation for her work. She shot this film during a vacation while studying at Oxford.

In 1994, she played a romantic role in ‘Prince of Jutland’ and then starred in a murder mystery ‘Uncovered’.

In 1995, while in Paris, she starred in the French film ‘Marie-Louise Ou La Permission’. The same year, she left Oxford and was seen in films like ‘Cold Comfort Farm’ and ‘Haunted’.

In 1995, itself she made her professional stage debut with ‘The Seagull’ at Theatre Royal, Bath. The next year, she starred in plays like ‘Sweetheart’ at the Royal Court Theatre and ‘Clocks and Whistles’ at the Bush Theatre.

‘Pearl Harbor’ is one of the most famous films which catapulted Beckinsale’s career to great heights. Although the film did not receive much critical praise, it was a huge commercial success and garnered $449,220,945 at the box office.