Kate Beckinsale
Kathrin Romany Beckinsale (born 26 July 1973) is a British actress and model. She first gained notice while a student at Oxford University for her debut in the film adaptation of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Throughout the 1990s, she worked on both film and television, most notably by portraying the title character in the 1996 BBC television series Emma. She started film work in the United States in the late 1990s. She appeared in small-scale dramas The Last Days of Disco (1998) and Brokedown Palace (1999). In 2001, she garnered international recognition when she was cast as the romantic lead opposite Ben Affleck in her breakthrough film, Pearl Harbor (2001). She then starred in a number of films including the romantic comedy Serendipity (2001), Tiptoes (2003), The Aviator (2004), and Click (2006). Since playing the role of Selene in the Underworld film series (2003–2016), she has become known for her work in action films, including Van Helsing (2004), Whiteout (2009), Contraband (2012), and Total Recall (2012). In 2016, she received critical acclaim for her performance in the period comedy film Love & Friendship, for which she received a nomination for the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress in a Comedy. She returned in action films with Jolt (2021). She also starred in two television projects with The Widow (2019) and Guilty Party (2021).
88 acting credits
Acting · 88
The Daily Show
1996
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Conan
2010
Golden Globe Awards
1944
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
The View
1997
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Leute heute
1997
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
1992
Punk'd
2003
Chelsea Lately
2007
Wildcat
2025
Van Helsing
2004
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars
2012
Chelsea
2016
Off Camera with Sam Jones
2014
Pearl Harbor
2001
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars: UNTUCKED
2012
Live from E!
2002
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans
2009
Underworld
2003
Stolen Girl
2025
Underworld: Blood Wars
2016
Click
2006
Total Recall
2012
The Aviator
2004
Serendipity
2001
Underworld: Evolution
2006
Underworld: Awakening
2012
Extra
1994
Canary Black
2024
The Widow
2019
Stonehearst Asylum
2014
Jolt
2021
Vacancy
2007
Contraband
2012
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
The F Word
2017
Absolutely Anything
2015
Much Ado About Nothing
1993
Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly)
2014
Emma
1996
Brokedown Palace
1999
Guilty Party
2021
Farming
2018
Whiteout
2009
Tiptoes
2002
Everybody's Fine
2009
The Only Living Boy in New York
2017
Love & Friendship
2016
Haunted
1995
Devices and Desires
1991
Fool's Paradise
2023
Winged Creatures
2009
Laurel Canyon
2003
Nothing But the Truth
2008
The Trials of Cate McCall
2013
The Disappointments Room
2016
The Last Days of Disco
1998
Alice Through the Looking Glass
1998
Prisoner's Daughter
2023
The Night That Changed America: A Grammy Salute to the Beatles
2014
Prince of Jutland
1994
Uncovered
1995
The Patient
2025
Turnbuckle
2026
Cold Comfort Farm
1995
Snow Angels
2007
Shooting Fish
1997
The Face of an Angel
2014
The Golden Bowl
2000
Rachel's Dream
1992
White
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One Against the Wind
1991
Couples
1975
Twilight of the Dead
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Dynamo Is Dead
2023
Anna Lee: Headcase
1993
Rachel's Dream
1992
The Savior
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Republicans, Get in My Vagina!
2012
Marie-Louise ou la permission
1995