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The gorgeous English star of the movies Underworld and Click, Kate Beckinsale, has hit the American scene fast and hard. Rated as "England's #1 Beauty" by Hello Magazine in 2002, Kate seemed to be destined for the stars from the start. She was born to a pair of actor parents and has a half-sister who is also in show business. Kate was born knowing that she would grow up to act, and she has proved to us all that she is more than ready to dazzle.

Kate Beckinsale was born to Judy Loe, a lady of the stage and television, and the late Richard Beckinsale, a well-known television actor, on July 26th, 1973 in London, England. Kate won several writing awards as a young child (one for her short stories and one for poetry), and upon completing school, chose to follow the family business of show business. Her father passed away from a heart attack while she was attending the primary school, Flexlands Private School, where she studied ballet.

Kate struggled with anorexia in here teens, but excelled at her studies. She won high marks in Russian, German, and French, all of which she read frequently through her teen years. These studies later led to her acceptance to Oxford University.

Kate's first movie, a television film entitled One Against the Wind aired in 1991 while she was attending New College at Oxford University. At Oxford Kate studied French and Russian literature in an attempt to broaden her acting horizons, but never finished a degree.

After pursuing at least one big-screen film (Much Ado About Nothing), Kate moved her studies to Paris and finally left school to concentrate on acting in 1994, after three years of study. She chased her career from television to the stage and back to the silver screen, appearing in several films including Cold Comfort Farm in 1995, Shooting Fish in 1998, and The Last Days of Disco that same year. By 1999 she was ready to hit the American scene, and did not let the flop Brokedown Palace keep her from success. Kate bounced back, scoring a role in Pearl Harbor, the highest grossing film of 2001, when Charlize Theron pulled out of the role to do Sweet November.

In 2003, around the time of the release of Underworld, Kate split with her long-time beau, Welsh actor Michael Sheen, with whom she has a daughter (Lily Mo Sheen, born January 31st, 1999). Shortly after the split, Kate became engaged to the director of Underworld, Len Wiseman. The two were married on May 9th, 2004 in Bel-Air, California, with daughter Lily receiving a "wedding ring" from Wiseman as a part of the ceremony.

Despite her hot Hollywood roles, Kate is a family woman, both down to earth and outspoken. She spends a good deal of time with her daughter, Lily, and, apparently, still speaks Russian with the waxer at the salon. It seems that the most beautiful woman in England is just as down-home as the girl next door.

The innocent faces English beauty known for her distinguished image in the glamour world, Kate Beckinsale revealed the reason behind delay in having a child. To contactmusic she told 'I could not see myself trying to breastfeed one moment, and rushing off to do a love scene the next!". Read More

The sweet virginal Hero in Kenneth Branagah’s ‘Much About Nothing ‘(1993), Kate Beckinsale is going through a dry phase in her sex life. According to contactmusic, Beckinsale is ‘starved’ of sex. The pale skinned and fine boned British actress has threatened her husband, Len Wisemen, a well known work alcoholic director, to not to spend too much time at work. Beckinsale claims that Wiseman is spending too much of time away from home for the making of the sequel ‘Live Free or Die’ of the movie ‘Die Hard’. And in this process, Wiseman is ignoring Kate to a great extent. The actress tells contactmusic that "I've felt so lonely because Len has been a virtual stranger for several months now. He basically comes home to sleep. "I've told him he's going to have to make it up to me. "I won't let him out of bed for a month."

The skinny holllywood actress who came into prominence because of her role as the charming, virginal Hero in Kenneth Branagh’s Much Ado About Nothing (1993), Kate Beckinsale has been held ‘irresponsible’ by the parents of anorexic sufferers. This is due to Kate’s claim that ‘eating disorder is the consequence of an unhealthy home life’. According to contactmusic, the fine boned British actress who herself was an anorexic at one time, gave vent to a dispute when she likened sufferers of “anorexia, alcoholism and drug abuse in teens” to “crack whores”. Beckinsale was brought up by her mother after the death of her father when she was just five years old. But when she was speaking her heart, there arose a big controversy on April 24, 2007. It is said that she infuriated the relatives of anorexia sufferers. Ros, whose 19 year old daughter, Sophie died last year in 2006 from anorexia said "(Beckinsale) has been totally flippant and does not really know what she is talking about. She is not giving anorexia the status it deserves as a mental illness. "I think she needs to go to an eating disorder unit and speak to some of the girls there, where she would find out it is not always about what is happening in the home. "They look up to celebrities and if they are thin, the girls take that on board and think if they look skinnier, they will have friends and live better lives. She has been completely irresponsible."

The Underworld and Click star, the English girl who is titled “England’s number 1 beauty” by Hello Magazine, Kate Beckinsale has quite recently bagged an opportunity to once again appear as a tough girl onscreen. Nowadays she is engaged in talks to become the lead star in the Joel Silver produced action thriller “Whiteout” which is also a production of Dark Castle entertainment.

The Whiteout is extracted from a series of graphic novels. It is the creation of Greg and Rucka and the famous artcist Steve Lieber. The project is about a US Marshal working at the Antarctica’s Mc Murdo Station which is known as Carrie Stetko who has to catch a murderer before the sunset for six month there.

Besides the gorgeous English girl will also be a part of an ensemble drama titled “Winged Creatures”. Along with Kate Forest Whitaker, Guy Pearce and Dakota Fanning will also be seen. The Winged Creatures will be produced by Robert Salerno though his Unruly Films. It is a story of the survivors of a brutal restaurant murder who are abandoned to God’s grace to understand mortality and their connection to society. This project will appear on screen in the month of March this year (2007).