Place of Birth:
Chiswick, London, England, UK
Date of Birth:
7/26/1973
Kathrin Romany Beckinsale (born 26 July 1973) is a British actress and model. She first gained notice, while a student at Oxford University, for making 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).
Underworld
Pearl Harbor
Underworld: Evolution
Vacancy
The Aviator
Whiteout
Van Helsing
Much Ado About Nothing
Tiptoes
Cold Comfort Farm
Emma
Shooting Fish
Serendipity
Click
Everybody's Fine
Laurel Canyon
Snow Angels
The Golden Bowl
Nothing But the Truth
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Winged Creatures
One Against the Wind
Total Recall
The Last Days of Disco
Brokedown Palace
Uncovered
Haunted
Underworld: Awakening
Contraband
Canary Black
The Trials of Cate McCall
The Face of an Angel
Absolutely Anything
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
Anna Lee: Headcase
Prince of Jutland
Stonehearst Asylum
Republicans, Get in My Vagina!
The Disappointments Room
Dynamo is Dead
Underworld: Blood Wars
Love & Friendship
Marie-Louise ou la permission
Stolen Girl
The Patient
The Only Living Boy in New York
Rachel's Dream
Farming
Fool's Paradise
Jolt
The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles
Prisoner's Daughter