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Kate Beckinsale was born July 26th 1973 in London England. Her parents are actress Judy Loe and the late actor Richard Beckinsale (b.1947 d.1979). Her career began with the 1991 made for T.V. mini series Devices and Desires. In 1998 she was in The Last Days of Disco with actress Chloe Sevigny. She starred in Pearl Harbor with Jaime King.
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Kate Beckinsale is an English actress. Beckinsale is the daughter of Judy Loe (a stage actress) and the late Richard Beckinsale, a well-known television actor who died in 1979, at the age of 31. Kate's paternal great-grandfather was Burmese, and Beckinsale claims that she was "very oriental looking" as a child. Beckinsale won first prizes in several young writing competitions.
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Synposis: In Click, Michael Newman (Adam Sandler) is a family man with a busy career as an architect leaving minimal time for his wife Donna (Kate Beckinsale) and two kids. Unable one day to determine which of his many remotes turns on the television, he decides that a universal remote control will solve all of his problems. On Michael's search for the perfect device, he meets Morty (Christopher Walken), who gives him a one-of-a-kind remote with magical powers that allow him to perform TiVo-like functions. As Michael fast-forwards through annoying quarrels with his wife and mutes the barks and begging of Sundance, the family dog, he begins to feel in control of his career and personal life. However, when the remote starts to override his choices, Michael begins to truly appreciate and embrace the life he already has -- the good, the bad and the ugly.
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In her teens Kate Beckinsale was anorexic, weighing 70 pounds at the age of 15. At 18, Beckinsale co-starred with Judy Davis and Sam Neill in the mini-series One Against the Wind. Her first film was Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing,. By the age of 20, she became the first member of her family to take her acting career beyond the British Isles. After several roles playing innocent girls, she took a sexually provocative part in Haunted, then demanded a body double for the film's nude scenes. In The Aviator, she played Ava Gardner to Leonardo DiCaprio's Howard Hughes.
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Kate Beckinsale was born on July 26, 1973, to two seasoned British television actors, and spent most of her life in London. Her half-sister, Samantha, is ... an actress; they only met briefly when Kate was very young and didn't cross paths again until 1995.
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Kate Beckinsale is poised for major stardom. Already a huge hit in Britain, her role in what looks to be 2001's summer blockbuster, Pearl Harbor, has her set to be Hollywood's next big thing. The road to stardom... hasn't been easy.
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