I found it really depressing that we weren't making camp fires and everyone was doing stuff like that." She had a nervous breakdown and developed anorexia at age fifteen, and underwent Freudian psychoanalysis for four years. She has described herself as a "late bloomer": "All of my friends were kissing boys and drinking cider way before me. She was twice a winner of the WH Smith Young Writers Award for both fiction and poetry. īeckinsale was educated at Godolphin and Latymer School, an independent school for girls in Hammersmith, West London, and was involved with the Orange Tree Youth Theatre. Family friends included Ken Loach and Vanessa Redgrave. She helped to sell The News Line, a Trotskyist newspaper, as a little girl and has said the household phone was tapped following Battersby's blacklisting by the BBC. She has a close relationship with her stepfather, who was a member of the Workers Revolutionary Party during her youth. When she was five, her 31-year-old father died instantly of a heart attack she was deeply traumatised by the loss and "started expecting bad things to happen." Her widowed mother moved in with director Roy Battersby when Beckinsale was nine, and she was brought up alongside his four sons and daughter. Her parents did not marry until 1977, prior to Beckinsale starting nursery school, when she made her first television appearance at age four, in an episode of This Is Your Life dedicated to her father. Her father was partly of Burmese descent. She has an older paternal half-sister, actress Samantha Beckinsale, but they are not in regular contact. 2.6 2016–present: Love & Friendship and beyondīeckinsale was born on 26 July 1973 in the Chiswick district of London, the only child of actors Richard Beckinsale and Judy Loe.She also starred in two television projects with The Widow (2019) and Guilty Party (2021). She returned in action films with Jolt (2021).
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In 2016, she received critical acclaim for her performance in the period comedy film Love & Friendship, for which she received a nomination for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress in a Comedy. For the two first films she received positive reviews. She continues to make appearances in smaller dramatic projects such as Snow Angels (2007), Nothing but the Truth (2008), and Everybody's Fine (2009).
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Since playing the role of Selene in the Underworld film series (2003–2016), Beckinsale has become known for her work in action films, including Van Helsing (2004), Whiteout (2009), Contraband (2012), and Total Recall (2012). All these films established her as a protagonist in Hollywood. She followed those with starring roles in The Aviator (2004) and Click (2006). After appearing in small-scale dramas The Last Days of Disco (1998) and Brokedown Palace (1999), she starred in the war drama Pearl Harbor (2001), the romantic comedy Serendipity, and Tiptoes (2003). She appeared in British costume dramas such as Prince of Jutland (1994), Cold Comfort Farm (1995), Emma (1996), Shooting Fish (1997) (a contemporary romantic crime comedy) and The Golden Bowl (2000), in addition to various stage and radio productions.īeckinsale started film work in the United States in the late 1990s. After some minor television roles, her film debut was Much Ado About Nothing (1993) while a student at the University of Oxford. Kathrin Romany Beckinsale (born 26 July 1973) is an English actress and model.