Kate Beckinsale is the daughter of actors Judy Loe and Richard Beckinsale. As a teenager she joined a youth theatre in Chiswick, London. She studied French and Russian literature at Oxford University. As a college student, she acted in movies such as Much Ado About Nothing. She found fame starring in the US movie Pearl Harbour. She has played a range of characters from Ava Gardner in The Aviator to a vampire warrior in the Underworld movies.
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