British actress Kate Beckinsale, known for her role in the movie Pearl Harbor, has still not gotten over the pain of her cat's death. 50-year-old British actress Kate Beckinsale continues to mourn the death of her 19-year-old cat Clive, who she lost in June.
The actress said that she keeps a small coffin with her cat's ashes in her bed at night.
Beckinsale had special costumes made for Clive, her Persian cat, during the holidays. She was dressing and posing in harmony with her cat.
Who is Kate Beckinsale?
Born in London on July 26, 1973, Kate Beckinsale's parents are also actors. She received awards in the fields of literature and poetry at a young age. Kate started acting in TV series and then began her career working on the big screen.
Kathrin Romany Beckinsale (born 26 July 1973) is an English actress. Beckinsale has gained acclaim for her roles in both action films, romance films, and period dramas. She made her film debut in Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing (1993) while a student at the University of Oxford. She gained prominence taking leading roles in numerous British costume dramas such as Prince of Jutland (1994), Cold Comfort Farm (1995), Emma (1996), and The Golden Bowl (2000). She challenged herself taking roles in films such as The Last Days of Disco (1998), Brokedown Palace (1999), Pearl Harbor (2001), Serendipity (2001), Tiptoes (2003), The Aviator (2004) and Click (2006).
Kate Beckinsale, who attracted attention with the 2001 movie Pearl Harbor; had the opportunity to work with names such as Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, and Jon Voight. Continuing to take part in Hollywood productions, Kate starred in films such as 2001's Serendipity and 2003's Underworld.
She was among the 100 Sexiest Women in the World in 2005 and 2006 and is known as one of the most beautiful women in England.
How did Kate Beckinsale become famous?
Kate Beckinsale was born on July 26, 1973 in London, England. Her mother, Judy Loe, and her father, Richard Beckinsale, who died in 1979 at the age of 31, were both television actors. Her father, Richard, was born in Nottingham and starred in television comedies such as 'Rising Damp' and 'Porridge' in the 1970s. Beckinsale also had a half-sister named Samantha Beckinsale from her father's previous marriage. Her grandparents were Burmese. She spent most of her life in London.
The actress was enrolled in a private school called Godolphin and Latymer School. Thanks to her increasing interest and talent in literature, she won the W H Smith Young Writers Competition twice with her short stories and poems. Beckinsale had a troubled youth. She struggled with anorexia for a while and started smoking at a young age. The actor's first experience, who decided to follow in her family's footsteps after overcoming this period, was 'One Against The Wind', a television production about the Second World War, shot in 1991. Meanwhile, she was also very successful in her school life. In 1991, she began studying French and Russian literature at Oxford University. She thought that knowing a foreign language and having a foundation in literature would help her in acting.
During her first year at Oxford, Beckinsale received an offer to star in the film 'Much Ado About Nothing', a Shakespeare adaptation directed by Kenneth Branagh. While she was attending school in 1994, she starred in the dramas 'Prince Of Jutland' and 'Uncovered'. The actress, who has been in Paris for the last year to carry out her academic studies, chose to drop out of school in her third year and concentrate on acting. She acted in low-budget films, television films, and theater plays such as Cold Comfort Farm (1994), Emma (1996), Shooting Fish (1998), and The Last Days Of Disco (1998). In 1995, she took part in the theater adaptation of Anton Chekov's 'The Seagull' and was on tour in England with the team called Thelma Holts Theater Company for about 6 months.
Released in 1995, 'Haunted' played an important role in the actor's career. The first important American film in Beckinsale's career was 'Brokedown Palace' (1999). Although this film did not make much of a financial return, it paved the way for Beckinsale. In 2001, she took on an important role in Pearl Harbor, one of the most notable productions of the year. Later, she starred in American productions such as 'Serendipity' (2001), 'Underworld' (2003), and 'Van Helsing' (2004), which did not receive very good marks from critics. She also played the role of Ava Gardner in the globally acclaimed movie 'The Aviator' (2004), and she gained approximately 10 kilos for this role.
In 2005 and 2006, Beckinsale was ranked 78th and 71st in FHM Magazine's '100 Sexiest Women in the World'. She was chosen as the most beautiful woman in England by many magazines.
In January 2006, she also took on the role of a vampire in 'Underworld: Evolution', the sequel to the movie Underworld. Both films in this series were directed by Beckinsale's husband, Len Wiseman. The film was number one at the box office with $26 million in its first week.
One of the films in which Beckinsale starred was 'Click'. She shared the leading roles with Adam Sandler in this movie. What came next was 'Snow Angels'. In addition, Beckinsale was signed instead of Sarah Jessica Parker for the movie 'Vacancy', which was released in 2007. That film was followed by the shooting of the movie 'April 23'.
Beckinsale was with actor Michael Sheen, with whom she starred in Underworld, for a long time, and the couple has a daughter named Lily Mo Sheen, born on January 31, 1999. Beckinsale, who started dating Len Wiseman, the director of the movie Underworld, in June 2003, 3 months after breaking up with Sheen, got married to the director on May 9, 2004, in Bel-Air, California.