Name
Kate Beckinsale
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1973-07-26 (53 years old)
Place of Birth
Chiswick, London, England, UK
Biography
Kathrin Romany Beckinsale (born 26 July 1973) is a British actress and model.
She first gained notice while a student at Oxford University for her debut in the film adaptation of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Throughout the 1990s, she worked on both film and television, most notably by portraying the title character in the 1996 BBC television series Emma.
She started film work in the United States in the late 1990s. She appeared in small-scale dramas The Last Days of Disco (1998) and Brokedown Palace (1999). In 2001, she garnered international recognition when she was cast as the romantic lead opposite Ben Affleck in her breakthrough film, Pearl Harbor (2001). She then starred in a number of films including the romantic comedy Serendipity (2001), Tiptoes (2003), The Aviator (2004), and Click (2006).
Since playing the role of Selene in the Underworld film series (2003–2016), she has become known for her work in action films, including Van Helsing (2004), Whiteout (2009), Contraband (2012), and Total Recall (2012).
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. She returned in action films with Jolt (2021). She also starred in two television projects with The Widow (2019) and Guilty Party (2021).
Known For
6.423
Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last ...
6.935
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test...
6.855
Vampires and werewolves have waged a nocturnal war against each other for centuries. But a...
6.963
Although strangers Sara and Jonathan are both already in relationships, they realize they ...
6.606
As the war between the vampires and the Lycans rages on, Selene, a former member of the De...
7.217
A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1...
- 2003 Underworld as Selene
- 2001 Pearl Harbor as Evelyn Johnson
- 2006 Underworld: Evolution as Selene
- 2007 Vacancy as Amy Fox
- 2004 The Aviator as Ava Gardner
- 2009 Whiteout as Carrie Stetko
- 2004 Van Helsing as Anna Valerious
- 1993 Much Ado About Nothing as Hero
- 2002 Tiptoes as Carol
- 1996 Emma as Emma Woodhouse
- 1995 Cold Comfort Farm as Flora Poste
- 1997 Shooting Fish as Georgie
- 2001 Serendipity as Sara Thomas
- 2006 Click as Donna Newman
- 2009 Everybody's Fine as Amy
- 2003 Laurel Canyon as Alex
- 2007 Snow Angels as Annie Marchand
- 2000 The Golden Bowl as Maggie Verver
- 2008 Nothing but the Truth as Rachel Armstrong
- 1998 Alice Through the Looking Glass as Alice
- 2009 Winged Creatures as Carla Davenport
- 1991 One Against the Wind as Barbe Lindell
- 2012 Total Recall as Lori Quaid
- 1998 The Last Days of Disco as Charlotte
- 1999 Brokedown Palace as Darlene Davis
- 1995 Uncovered as Julia
- 1995 Haunted as Christina Mariell
- 2012 Underworld: Awakening as Selene
- 2012 Contraband as Kate Farraday
- 2024 Canary Black as Avery Graves
- 2013 The Trials of Cate McCall as Cate McCall
- 2014 The Face of an Angel as Simone Ford
- 2015 Absolutely Anything as Catherine
- 2009 Underworld: Rise of the Lycans as Selene
- 1993 Anna Lee: Headcase as Thea Hahn
- 2014 Stonehearst Asylum as Eliza Graves
- 2012 Republicans, Get in My Vagina! as Woman #3
- 1994 Prince of Jutland as Ethel
- 2016 The Disappointments Room as Dana Barrow
- 2023 Dynamo Is Dead as Self
- 2016 Underworld: Blood Wars as Selene
- 2016 Love & Friendship as Lady Susan Vernon
- 1995 Marie-Louise ou la permission as Marie-Louise
- 2025 Stolen Girl as Maureen
- 2025 The Patient as Dr. Rose
- 2017 The Only Living Boy in New York as Johanna
- 1992 Rachel's Dream as Rachel
- 2018 Farming as Ingrid Carpenter
- 2023 Fool's Paradise as Christiana Dior
- 2021 Jolt as Lindy
- 2014 The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles as Self
- 2023 Prisoner's Daughter as Maxine
- 2025 Wildcat as Ada
- Soon Turnbuckle
- Soon The Savior as Jordyn Parker
- Soon White as Barbara
- Soon Twilight of the Dead
- 2001 Beyond the Movie: Pearl Harbor as Evelyn Stewart
- 2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live! ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1996 The Daily Show ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark ( 1 episode )
- 2003 Punk'd ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1997 The View ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1992 The Tonight Show with Jay Leno ( 4 episodes )
- 1951 Hallmark Hall of Fame ( 1 episode ) as Barbe
- 1993 Late Night with Conan O'Brien ( 2 episodes ) as Self - Guest
- 2021 Guilty Party ( 10 episodes ) as Beth Burgess
- 1988 LIVE with Kelly and Mark ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2002 Live from E! ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1975 Couples ( 2 episodes ) as Child
- 1991 Devices and Desires ( 1 episode ) as Young Alice Mair (voice)
- 1992 Rachel's Dream ( 1 episode ) as Rachel
- 2007 Chelsea Lately ( 3 episodes ) as Herself
- 2016 Chelsea ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2017 The F Word ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1997 Leute heute ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1944 Golden Globe Awards ( 1 episode ) as Self - Presenter
- 2014 Late Night with Seth Meyers ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2009 Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2019 The Widow ( 8 episodes ) as Georgia Wells
- 2007 The Graham Norton Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2014 Off Camera with Sam Jones ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2014 Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly) ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2010 Conan ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2014 The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 2012 RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest Judge
- 2012 RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars: UNTUCKED ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest Judge
- 2003 Jimmy Kimmel Live! ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2015 The Late Late Show with James Corden ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 1994 Extra ( 1 episode ) as Self - Guest
- 2003 The Ellen DeGeneres Show ( 2 episodes ) as Self
