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Kate Beckinsale
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Born: Jul 26, 1973
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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, who 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. 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 th...[MORE]
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Kate Beckinsale Nude and Sexy
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