Kate Beckinsale

Born in London in 1973, Kate comes from a family of artists through and through. She is the daughter of actors Richard Beckinsale – now deceased – and Jody Loe, and her sister Samantha, the result of her father’s first marriage, is also dedicated to acting.

A lover of books and writing, at a very young age she won the prestigious WH Smith’s Young Writers Award two years in a row, first for a story and then for a poem.

His first role, with which he became known in the United Kingdom, was in the telefilm One Against the Wind , with Sam Neill and Judy Davis . Although the film was remarkably successful – it won an Emmy and a Golden Globe for Davis – she Kate preferred to continue studying to obtain a more complete training. While studying Russian and French Literature, she continued to receive not inconsiderable offers—which she fortunately accepted—such as the role of Hero in Much Ado About Nothing , Kenneth Branagh ‘s adaptation of Shakespeare’s play. Another early work of hers was La tabla de Flandes , a mediocre adaptation of the novel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte .

After three years of her career, she dropped out of college and decided to focus on her acting career; After an appearance in the television production The Daughter of Robert Poste , which in the United States managed to raise some five million dollars, and whose story would be released two years later in British theaters, the proposals that Kate received in the following years would be of much less interest than the works he had done at the beginning: Haunted ,  Like a fish in water , The Last Days of Disco , Broken Dreams , a kind of remake of The Midnight Express , etc. 

Finally, with the arrival of the new millennium, new possibilities also arrived. The young Londoner, already installed in Hollywood, began to star in large and successful productions such as Pearl Harbor and Serendipity , both from 2001; The Aviator , where she had the privilege of working under Martin Scorsese , and where she played Ava Gardner herself ; the fantastic film Van Helsing , where she helped a monster hunter that included practically all the characters in the literature of the genre; the also fantastic Underworld , of which the sequel would later be made Underworld: Evolution, and which narrates the bloody war between lycanthropes and vampires; and Click , a comedy with some dramatic elements in which Beckinsale played a wife who watches her family fall apart, in a bad reimagining of the masterful How Beautiful It Is to Live! . Papers, the latter, for which she was about to be nominated for those unfortunate lists that “reward” the worst performers.

In other types of rankings, undoubtedly more pleasant, Kate has held various positions as the most beautiful, sexiest or most desired woman. However, some filmmakers do not share this extremely thin beauty canon, or simply due to script requirements, the young Londoner has been forced, on several occasions, to gain a few kilos to be able to play her role. These are the cases of Van Helsing (a fighter has to be fibrosilla) or The Aviator (you cannot eliminate the curves of the “most beautiful animal in the world”).

The truth is that Kate Beckinsale is not bad at putting on a scared face, as she did years ago ( Haunted , Broken Dreams ) and in 2007 she agreed to star in the thriller Dead End Room , along with Luke Wilson . The same year she also released the romantic drama Snow Angels .

Several of her latest works are pending release in Spain: Winged Creatures , where she shares a script with Forest Whitaker , and Nothing But the Truth , where she puts herself in the shoes of a reporter who rats out a CIA agent but without revealing his source, which That will bring you a lot of trouble. Whiteout and Everybody’s Fine will be released in 2009 , both in post-production.