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Kathrin Romany Beckinsale (born 26 July 1973) is an English actress. She starred in the movies such as Pearl Harbor (2001), Underworld (2003) and Van Helsing (2004).
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Born | Kathrin Romany Beckinsale 26 July 1973 |
Occupation(s) | Actress, model |
Years active | 1991–present |
Height | 5 ft 7 in (170 cm) |
Spouse | Len Wiseman (2004–2016) |
Partner | Michael Sheen (1995–2003) |
Children | 1 |
Parent(s) | Richard Beckinsale, Judy Loe |
Relatives | Samantha Beckinsale (half-sister) Roy Battersby (stepfather) |
Kathrin Romany Beckinsale[1][2] was born in Chiswick, London, England. She is the only child of actor Richard Beckinsale and actress Judy Loe.[3] Her father was of one-quarter Burmese ancestry.[4]
She made her first television appearance at the age of four, in an episode of This is Your Life dedicated to her father.[5][6] When she was five years old, her 31-year-old father died suddenly of a heart attack. Beckinsale was deeply traumatised by the loss and "started expecting bad things to happen".[7] While she has seen her father "more on television than I have in life", "there are certainly enough memories for me not to feel that it's somebody I didn't know."[3]
Her widowed mother moved in with director Roy Battersby when Beckinsale was nine and she was brought up alongside his four sons and daughter.[8] She has a close relationship with her stepfather: "I couldn't have knitted a better one ... He wasn't pushy, he let me come to him."[3] She has a paternal half-sister, actress Samantha Beckinsale.
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