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 first place." The film received mainly negative reviews. "Variety" found her performance "one-note" while "The Hollywood Reporter" described her as "one-dimensional." "USA Today" remarked she "spends much of the movie strutting down hallways and looking relentlessly, though blandly, nasty." The "New York Post" asserted Beckinsale "vastly overstays her welcome." The film has grossed $198 million from a production budget of over $200 million. In 2014, Beckinsale starred in the legal thriller "The Trials of Cate McCall" opposite Nick Nolte and James Cromwell. The film received negative reviews and was released as a Lifetime movie. She next appeared in the little-seen