Full Name: Kathrin Romany Beckinsale
Birthdate: July 26, 1973
Birthplace: London, England, UK
Height: 5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
Family: Richard Beckinsale (Father), Judy Loe (Mother), Samantha Beckinsale (Sister), Len Wiseman (Husband), Lily Sheen (Daughter)

- Kate studied French and Russian literature while she was a student at Oxford.
- Kate studied at New College Oxford, but left to pursue her acting career before completing her degree.
- Kate’s mother, Judy Loe is an actress, and her father, Richard Beckinsale, was famous as a comedy actor.
- Kate attended grade/primary school at Flexlands Private School in London, England. She took ballet lessons there and it was at this young age that her father died of a heart attack.
- Kate’s half-sister of Samantha Beckinsale.
- Kate landed the lead female role in Pearl Harbor (2001) after Charlize Theron pulled out to do Sweet November (2001).
- Kate lost out to Juliette Binoche for a part in Wuthering Heights (1992).
- Kate has a daughter, Lily Mo Sheen (b. 31 January 1999), with Welsh actor Michael Sheen.
- Kate suffers from stomach ulcers.
- According to an interview Kate gave on the UK show “The Big Breakfast” (1992) (December 2001), she hates wearing knickers.
- Kate was selected by Hello Magazine as England’s Number #1 Beauty. (2002)
- Richard Beckinsale’s (Kate’s father) maternal grandfather – her great-grandfather – was Burmese.
- Kate got engaged to director Len Wiseman in June 2003.
- Kate married Len Wiseman on May 9, 2004 at the Bel-Air Hotel. Her daughter, Lily, received her own “wedding ring” from Wiseman.
- Kate is half sister-in-law of Richard Trinder.
- Kate 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.
- Kate won the prestigious WH Smith’s Young Writers’ competition two years running, once for her short stories, once for poetry.
- Kate was ranked #63 in Stuff magazine’s “102 Sexiest Women In The World.” (2002)
- Kate shares a birthday with Sandra Bullock, Kevin Spacey and Jeremy Piven.
- Kate was in close competition for the role of Rachel Keller in The Ring (2002), but lost out because producers felt she looked too young. The role of Rachel Keller went to the actress Naomi Watts.
- Kate who is normally slender, had to gain 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).
- Kate has played a vampire (Underworld (2003)) and a vampire hunter (Van Helsing (2004)).
- Kate was listed as a potential nominee on both the 2005 and 2007 Razzie Award nominating ballots. She was as a suggestion in the Worst Actress category on the 2005 ballot for her performance in the film Van Helsing (2004) and again two years later in the same category for her roles in the films Click (2006/I) and Underworld: Evolution (2006). She failed to receive either nomination.
- Kate was named #23 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2005 list.
- Kate met, now husband, Len Wiseman when he directed her in Underworld (2003).
- Kate was ranked as #71 in FHM’s “100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005″ special supplement. (2005)
- Kate did not like Physical Education at school. It was also her worst subject.
- Kate was anorexic as a teenager
- Kate now lives in Venice, CA because it reminds her of London.
- Kate was named #78 in FHM magazine’s “100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006″ supplement. (2006).
- Kate replaced Sarah Jessica Parker after she dropped out from the film Vacancy (2007).
- Kate ranked #21 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2007 list.
- Director Stephen Sommers wanted Kate for the role of “Anna Valerious” in Van Helsing (2004). But Stephen feared that it was too similar in tone to Underworld (2003), a film that Kate started and was filming at the time. Eventually, her agent got Sommers to send the script and Kate immediately signed on.
- Kate ranked as #12 in FHM’s “100 Sexiest Women 2008″ (2008).
- Kate ranked as #10 in FHM’s “100 Sexiest Women in the World”.
- Kate had an emergency appendectomy in January, 2004.