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Kate
Beckinsale Bomis Ring
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Kate Beckinsale
| Birthdate: |
July
26, 1973 |
| Birthplace: |
London,
England |
| Occupation: |
Actor |
| Quote: |
"With
every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems
to be quite a good way of expanding a person." --Premiere,
June 1998
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Claim to Fame: Feature
film debut as Hero in Kenneth Branagh's film version of Much Ado About
Nothing (1993)
Significant
Other(s):
Edmund Moriarty;
dated while at Oxford
Michael Sheen, actor; acted together on stage in The Seagull (1995)
Family:
Grandfather:
Burmese
Father: Richard Beckinsale, actor; died 1979 of a heart attack
Mother: Judy Loe, actress
Half-sister: Samantha Beckinsale, actress; older
Stepsiblings: has five
Daughter: Lily Sheen; born January 31, 1999; father, Michael Sheen
Factoids:
As a teenager,
Beckinsale twice won the W. H. Smith Young Writers' Competiton, once for
several short stories, and again for her poetry
Education:
Godolphin and
Latymer School, London, England
New College, Oxford University, Oxford, England; majored in French and
Russian literature; dropped out after third year
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