Kate Beckinsale Net Worth

Kate Beckinsale's Quotes

• If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!
• No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.
• Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, No one's being nice enough to me!
• I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
• 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.

Interesting Facts about Kate Beckinsale

1. Attended New College, Oxford, England where she studied French and Russian Literature, before dropping out in her third year to pursue acting.
2. Her mother, Judy Loe is an actress, and her father, Richard Beckinsale, was famous as a comedy actor.
3. Attended grade/primary school at Flexlands Private School in London, England, she took ballet there and it was at this young age that her father died of a heart attack.
4. Younger half-sister of Samantha Beckinsale.
5. Got the lead female role in Pearl Harbor (2001) after Charlize Theron pulled out to do Sweet November (2001).
6. Lost out to Juliette Binoche for a part in Wuthering Heights (1992).
7. Mother, with ex-boyfriend Michael Sheen (they dated from 1995 to 2003), of daughter Lily Mo Sheen (b. January 31, 1999).
8. Suffers from stomach ulcers.
9. According to an interview she gave on the UK show The Big Breakfast (1992) (December 2001), she hates wearing knickers.
10. Selected by Hello Magazine as England's Number #1 Beauty in 2002.
11. One of Kate's paternal great-grandmothers, Mary Mitchell, was born in Burma, to a white father, Thomas Mitchell, and a Burmese (Asian) mother, Ma Ninhe.
12. Married Len Wiseman on 9th May 2004 at the Bel-Air Hotel. Her daughter, Lily, received her own "wedding ring" from Wiseman.
13. Half sister-in-law of Richard Trinder.
14. Spent her teens reading French, Russian and German novels because of her studies, and completed A-levels in Russian, German and French, which resulted in her admission to Oxford University.
15. Won the prestigious WH Smith's Young Writers' competition for her poetry in 1986.
16. Ranked #63 on Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World" list in 2002.
17. Was in close competition for the role of Rachel Keller in The Ring (2002), but lost out because producers felt she looked too young.
18. Normally slender, she gained twenty pounds for roles in 2004 - ten pounds for Van Helsing (2004) and another ten pounds to portray the voluptuous Ava Gardner in The Aviator (2004).
19. Has played a vampire (Underworld (2003)) and a vampire hunter (Van Helsing (2004)).
20. Ranked #23 on Maxim's "Hot 100" list in 2005.