Kathrin Romary Beckinsale is an English actress and model. Her film debut was Much Ado About Nothing while a student at Oxford. After her role as Selene in the Underworld film series, she is known for her work in action films, including Van Helsing and Total Recall. In 2016, she received critical acclaim for her performance in the period comedy film Love & Friendship.
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Kathrin Romary Beckinsale is an English actress and model. Her film debut was Much Ado About Nothing while a student at the University of Oxford. She appeared in British costume dramas such as Prince of Jutland and Cold Comfort Farm. After her role as Selene in the Underworld film series, she is known for her work in action films, including Van Helsing and Total Recall. In 2016, she received critical acclaim for her performance in the period comedy film Love & Friendship. She had a nervous breakdown and developed anorexia at the age of 15 and underwent Freudian psychoanalysis for four years. She is the only child of actors Richard Beckinsales and Judy Loe. She has an older paternal half-sister, actress Samantha Beckinsles, but they are not in regular contact. Her father was of Burmese descent and she has a close relationship with her step-father, who was a member of the Workers Revolutionary Party during her youth. She was educated at Godolphin and Latymer School, an independent school for girls in Hammersmith, West London and was involved with the Orange Tree Youth Theatre. She became friends withRoy Kinnear’s daughter Kirsty. In 1992, she starred alongside Christopher Eccleston in Rachel’s Dream, a 30‑minute Channel 4 short. In 1993, she appeared in the pilot of the ITV detective series, Imogen Stubbs, starring Anna Lee Stubbs. She attended the Cannes Film Festival’s film premiere and remembered it as an overwhelming experience.
As a Modern Languages student, she was required to spend her third year abroad, and studied in Paris. She then decided to quit university to concentrate on her burgeoning acting career. She was later described by a contemporary, journalist Victoria Coren Mitchell, as \”whip-clever, slightly nuts, and very charming\”. She was twice a winner of the WH Smith Young Writers Award for both fiction and poetry. She started film work in the United States in the late 1990s, and, after appearing in small-scale dramas The Last Days of Disco and Brokedown Palace, she starred in the war drama Pearl Harbor, the romantic comedy Serendipity, and Tiptoes. She followed those with appearances in The Aviator and Click. She has appeared in smaller dramatic projects such as Snow Angels, Nothing but the Truth, and Everybody’s Fine. She was inspired by the performances of Jeanne Moreau. She made her television debut with a small part in an ITV adaptation of P D James’ Desires and Desires in 1991. She also appeared in an episode of This is Your Life dedicated to her father, which was screened on Channel 4 in 1992. She helped to sell The News Line, a Trotskyist newspaper, as a little girl and has said the household phone was tapped following Roy Battersby’s blacklisting by the BBC. She described herself as a ‘late bloomer’ as a child. She said: ‘All of my friends were kissing boys and drinking cider way before me’
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