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.
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). 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 (2001), 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.
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