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Kathrin Romary "Kate" Beckinsale (born 26 July 1973) is an English actress. After some minor television roles, she made her film debut in ''Much Ado About Nothing'' (1993) while still a student at Oxford University. She then 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 had a break-out year in 2001 with starring roles in the war film ''Pearl Harbor'' and the romantic comedy ''Serendipity''. She built on this success with appearances in the biopic ''The Aviator'' (2004) and the comedy ''Click'' (2006). Beckinsale appeared in the ''Underworld'' film series and has since starred in many action films, including ''Van Helsing'' (2004), ''Whiteout'' (2009), as well as ''Contraband'', and ''Total Recall'' (all in 2012). She also makes occasional appearances in smaller dramatic projects such as ''Snow Angels'' (2007), ''Winged Creatures'' (2008), ''Nothing but the Truth'' (for which she earned a Critic's Choice Award nomination in 2008), and ''Everybody's Fine'' (2009). ==Early life== Kathrin Romary Beckinsale〔''Births, Marriages & Deaths Index of England & Wales, 1916–2005.''; at ancestry.com〕 was born in London, England. She is the only child of actor Richard Beckinsale and actress Judy Loe. Her father was of one-quarter Burmese descent.〔 〕 She made her first television appearance at the age of four, in an episode of ''This is Your Life'' dedicated to her father. 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". 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."〔 Her widowed mother moved in with director Roy Battersby when Beckinsale was nine and she was brought up alongside his four sons and daughter. She has a close relationship with her step-father: "I couldn't have knitted a better one ... He wasn't pushy, he let me come to him."〔 She has a paternal half-sister, actress Samantha Beckinsale, but they have not had regular contact.〔 Beckinsale was educated at Godolphin and Latymer School, an independent (fee-paying) school for girls located in Hammersmith, West London and was involved with the Orange Tree Youth Theatre. She was a two-time winner of the WH Smith Young Writers Award for both fiction and poetry.〔(Kate Beckinsale: English pearl )〕 She has described herself as a "late bloomer": "All of my friends were kissing boys and drinking cider way before me. I found it really depressing that we weren't making camp fires and everyone was doing grown-up stuff." "I loathed being a teenager." She had a nervous breakdown and developed anorexia at the age of 15 and underwent Freudian psychoanalysis for four years.〔 Beckinsale read French and Russian literature at New College, Oxford, and was later described by a contemporary, journalist Victoria Coren, as "whip-clever, slightly nuts, and very charming". She was involved with the Oxford University Dramatic Society, most notably being directed by fellow student Tom Hooper in a production of ''A View from the Bridge'' at the Oxford Playhouse. She spent her third year in Paris as part of her compulsory year abroad as a Modern Languages student, after which she decided to quit university to concentrate on her burgeoning acting career: "It was getting to the point where I wasn't enjoying either thing enough because both were very high pressure. I was burning out and I knew I had to make a decision."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kate Beckinsale」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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