Kate Beckinsale Kate Beckinsale Kathrin Romary Beckinsale (born 26 July 1973) is a British actress. After some minor television roles, she made her film debut in "Much Ado About Nothing" (1993) while still a student at the University of Oxford. She appeared in British costume dramas such as "Prince of Jutland" (1994), "Cold Comfort Farm" (1995), "Emma" (1996), and "The Golden Bowl" (2000), in addition to various stage and radio productions. She began to seek film work in the United States in the late 1990s and, after appearing in small-scale dramas "The Last Days of Disco" (1998) and "Brokedown Palace" (1999), she
Kate Beckinsale Beckinsale and Wiseman deny getting together while "Underworld" was shooting. They married on 9 May 2004 in Bel-Air, California. Beckinsale and Wiseman announced their separation in November 2015, and Wiseman filed for divorce in 2016. Beckinsale is a smoker. When she was nine, her mother moved in with Roy Battersby, and his sons introduced her to cigarettes. She does not drink alcohol. She frequently reveals very personal details of her life in interviews. "...I've never been drunk even. I've never taken drugs. I've never had a one-night-stand..."<br> In 2007, she appeared alongside David Schwimmer in the sixth of the Writers