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Kate Beckinsale
Kathryn Bailey Beckinsale - born 26 July 1973, in London
Wise words: "I dropped out of Oxford, and now I only speak Russian with the woman who gives me a bikini-wax. See what Hollywood does to you?"
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Kate Beckinsale - news / articles
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Kate Beckinsale: 'I'm the director at home' -
3 August 2012
-Kate Beckinsale enjoys the role reversal on film sets when her director husband Len Wiseman is in charge because at home she's the boss.-The actress met Wiseman on the set of Underworld and has since appeared in several of his films, including the new Total Recall remak
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Beckinsale took Underworld role to change nice girl image -
23 January 2012
-Kate Beckinsale took on her tough role in the hit Underworld franchise after she started to get typecast for "delicate" and "fragile" roles by Hollywood executives.-The beauty has played vampire warrior Selene since 2003, and the fourth installment, Underworld: Awakenin
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Beckinsale's letter landed her big break -
18 January 2012
-Kate Beckinsale won her big film break in John Schlesinger's period drama Cold Comfort Farm by writing the director a letter to convince him she was the right person for the role of Flora Poste.-The Underworld star had auditioned for the role and felt the part was hers
Kate Beckinsale - what members say
review by A customer from Bristol UK
Silent but wicked! 14 August 2004
review by from London, England
great! 24 April 2004
review by A customer from Birmingham, England
i think a must for James Herbert fans 21 October 2004
Kate Beckinsale - filmography
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Contraband
on DVD
(2012)
Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Mark Wahlberg, Ben Foster
Director: Baltasar Kormakur
Certificate: 
Chris Farraday abandoned his life of crime long ago, but after his brother-in-law, Andy, botches a drug deal for his ruthless boss, Tim Briggs, Chris is forced back into doing what he does best -- running contraband -- to settle Andy's debt. Things quickly fall apart and with only hours to reach ..read more »
 
67%
from 7,574 members
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Total Recall
on DVD
(2012)
Starring: Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Bill Nighy
Director: Len Wiseman
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As the nation states Euromerica and New Shanghai vie for supremacy, a factory worker (Farrell) begins to suspect that he's a spy, though he is unaware which side of the fight he's on.
64%
from 10,572 members
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Contraband - Blu-ray
(2012)
Starring: J.K. Simmons, Lukas Haas, Giovanni Ribisi
Director: Baltasar Kormakur
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Mark Wahlberg stars in this action thriller set in the cut-throat world of international smuggling. Once a professional criminal specialising in contraband goods and counterfeit money, Chris Farraday (Wahlberg) left his life of crime behind a long time ago and is now happily settled into family ..read more »
67%
from 4,165 members
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Underworld - Awakening - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Kate Beckinsale
Director: Mans Marlind, Bjorn Stein
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After being held in a coma-like state for fifteen years, vampire Selene (Kate Beckinsale) learns that she has a fourteen-year-old vampire/Lycan hybrid daughter, Nissa, and when she finds her they must stop BioCom from creating super Lycans that will kill them all.
65%
from 5,872 members
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Underworld - Awakening
on DVD
(2011)
Starring: Kate Beckinsale
Director: Mans Marlind, Bjorn Stein
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After being held in a coma-like state for fifteen years, vampire Selene (Kate Beckinsale) learns that she has a fourteen-year-old vampire/Lycan hybrid daughter, Nissa, and when she finds her they must stop BioCom from creating super Lycans that will kill them all.
66%
from 12,522 members
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The Jane Austen Collection - Blu-ray
(3 discs)
(2010)
Starring: Samantha Morton, William Beck, Billie Piper
Director: Iain B. MacDonald, Jon Jones, Diarmuid Lawrence
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Triple bill of television adaptations based on novels by Jane Austen. In 'Mansfield Park' (2007), at 10, Fanny Price (Billie Piper) goes to live at Mansfield Park, the estate of her aunt's husband, Sir Thomas (Douglas Hodge). Clever, studious, and a writer with an ironic imagination and fine moral ..read more »
69%
from 62 members
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Everybody's Fine
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell
Director: Kirk Jones
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A widower who realized his only connection to his family was through his wife sets off on an impromptu road trip to reunite with each of his grown children.
69%
from 11,365 members
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Whiteout
on DVD
(2009)
Starring: Patrick Sabongui, Paula Jean Hixson, Kate Beckinsale
Director: Dominic Sena
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Watch now: Unavailable
Action thriller based on the 1998 comic book by Greg Rucka and Steve Lieber. Kate Beckinsale stars as Carrie Stetko, the lone US Marshal assigned to Antarctica, who has been assigned to investigate the frozen continent's first murder case. With only days to go until the sun sets for six months, ..read more »
54%
from 15,217 members
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Fragments
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Soren Fulton, Kevin Durand, Embeth Davidtz
Director: Rowan Woods
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A moment of random violence erupts in an ordinary Los Angeles diner. The survivors find that the meanings of their lives have changed. No matter how much their families and friends attempt to understand, these individuals must follow their own paths to recovery seeking to regain trust in a world ..read more »
52%
from 2,326 members
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Vacancy
on DVD
(2007)
Starring: Kate Beckinsale, Luke Wilson, Frank Whaley
Director: Nimrod Antal
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A young married couple becomes stranded at an isolated motel and finds hidden video cameras in their room. They realize that unless they escape, they'll be the next victims of a snuff film.
57%
from 24,167 members
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Click - Blu-ray
(2006)
Starring: Rachel Dratch, Henry Winkler, Julie Kavner
Director: Frank Coraci
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Comedy starring Adam Sandler. Michael Newman (Sandler) is married to the beautiful Donna (Kate Beckinsale) with two terrific kids, Ben (Joseph Castanon) and Samantha (Tatum McCann). But he doesn't get to see them much because he's putting in long, hard hours at his architectural firm in the elusive ..read more »
65%
from 4,353 members
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Click
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Rachel Dratch, Henry Winkler, Julie Kavner
Director: Frank Coraci
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Comedy starring Adam Sandler. Michael Newman (Sandler) is married to the beautiful Donna (Kate Beckinsale) with two terrific kids, Ben (Joseph Castanon) and Samantha (Tatum McCann). But he doesn't get to see them much because he's putting in long, hard hours at his architectural firm in the elusive ..read more »
64%
from 50,154 members
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Underworld: Evolution - Blu-ray
(2006)
Starring: Bill Nighy, Tony Curran, Danny McBride
Director: Len Wiseman
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Thriller sequel starring Kate Beckinsale. In the Underworld, Vampires are a secret clan of modern aristocratic sophisticates whose mortal enemies are the Lycans (werewolves), a shrewd gang of street thugs who prowl the city's underbelly. No one knows the origin of their bitter blood feud, but the ..read more »
71%
from 3,439 members
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Underworld: Evolution
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Bill Nighy, Tony Curran, Danny McBride
Director: Len Wiseman
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Thriller sequel starring Kate Beckinsale. In the Underworld, Vampires are a secret clan of modern aristocratic sophisticates whose mortal enemies are the Lycans (werewolves), a shrewd gang of street thugs who prowl the city's underbelly. No one knows the origin of their bitter blood feud, but the ..read more »
65%
from 55,723 members
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The Aviator
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Fast-paced biopic documenting the life of one of the most colourful Americans of the 20th century, Howard Hughes. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Hughes, the son of a Texan inventor who dies and leaves him with a small fortune. Hughes moves to Los Angeles to become a Hollywood film producer and produces ..read more »
61%
from 79,030 members
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Van Helsing - Blu-ray
(2004)
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Roxburgh
Director: Stephen Sommers
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Mega-budget action adventure starring Hugh Jackman as the eponymous Gabriel Van Helsing, monster hunter extraordinaire. Van Helsing is sent on a mission by the Vatican to Transylvania to hunt down the evil Count Dracula (Richard Roxburgh), accompanied only by the faithful friar Carl (David Wenham). ..read more »
62%
from 2,249 members
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Van Helsing
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Hugh Jackman, Kate Beckinsale, Richard Roxburgh
Director: Stephen Sommers
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Mega-budget action adventure starring Hugh Jackman as the eponymous Gabriel Van Helsing, monster hunter extraordinaire. Van Helsing is sent on a mission by the Vatican to Transylvania to hunt down the evil Count Dracula (Richard Roxburgh), accompanied only by the faithful friar Carl (David Wenham). ..read more »
58%
from 54,274 members
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Underworld - Blu-ray
(2003)
Starring: Bill Nighy, Erwin Leder, Richard
Director: Len Wiseman
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Len Wiseman's directorial debut sees vampires battle with werewolves. Two underground communities, the sophisticated Death Dealers (vampires), and the feral Lycans (werewolves), have been battling for supremacy and hidden from the mortal world for centuries. That is until one night when one of ..read more »
72%
from 2,946 members
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Tiptoes
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Patricia Arquette, Peter Dinklage, Gary Oldman
Director: Matthew Bright
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Off-beat romantic comedy starring Gary Oldman, Kate Beckinsale and Matthew McConaughey. When Steven (McConaughey) finds out that his fiancée Carol (Beckinsale) is pregnant, he decides he should tell her the truth about his family. Introducing her to his brother Rolfe (Oldman), Carol learns that ..read more »
44%
from 704 members
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Underworld
on DVD
(2003)
Starring: Bill Nighy, Erwin Leder, Richard
Director: Len Wiseman
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For centuries, two races have evolved hidden deeply within human culture - the aristocratic, sophisticated Vampires, and the brutal, feral Lycans (werewolves). To humanity, their existence is no more than a whisper of a myth. But to each other, they are lifelong mortal rivals, sworn to wage a ..read more »
65%
from 43,659 members
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Laurel Canyon
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Alessandro Nivola, Imaad Wasif, Natascha McElhone
Director: Lisa Cholodenko
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Jane (Frances McDormand) is a record producer trying to come up with a song for her band, whose lead singer Ian (Alessandro Nivola) is her younger lover. When Jane's son Sam (Christian Bale) and his fiance Alex (Kate Beckinsale) turn up, people begin to explore their relationships and realise the ..read more »
53%
from 5,058 members
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Pearl Harbor - Blu-ray
(2001)
Starring: Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Jon Voight
Director: Michael Bay
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Watch now: Unavailable
Jerry Bruckheimer's sprawling tale of love blossoming amidst the chaos of war. Rafe McCawley (Ben Affleck) is a gung-ho US pilot whose determination to fly against the enemy leads him to Europe and active service in the Battle of Britain. His girlfriend Evelyn (Kate Beckinsale) is left waiting at ..read more »
63%
from 2,751 members
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Serendipity - Blu-ray
(2001)
Starring: Molly Shannon, Bridget Moynahan, Jeremy Piven
Director: Peter Chelsom
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John Cusack and Kate Beckinsale star as Jonathan and Sara, two young people who meet by chance one Christmas in New York and spend a memorable evening wandering around the city together. When they part at the end of the night, they decide to let fate take charge of their future and make no plans to ..read more »
68%
from 315 members
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Pearl Harbor
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Jon Voight
Director: Michael Bay
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Jerry Bruckheimer's sprawling tale of love blossoming amidst the chaos of war. Rafe McCawley (Ben Affleck) is a gung-ho US pilot whose determination to fly against the enemy leads him to Europe and active service in the Battle of Britain. His girlfriend Evelyn (Kate Beckinsale) is left waiting at ..read more »
61%
from 10,988 members
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The Golden Bowl
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Uma Thurman, Jeremy Northam, Madeleine Potter
Director: James Ivory
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Merchant-Ivory adaptation of the Henry James novel about European nobility and American wealth at the end of the 19th century. Italian prince Amerigo (Jeremy Northam) is set to marry American heiress Maggie Verver (Kate Beckinsale), and must therefore break with his longtime mistress Charlotte (Uma ..read more »
55%
from 1,049 member
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Serendipity
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Molly Shannon, Bridget Moynahan, Jeremy Piven
Director: Peter Chelsom
Certificate:
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On a bustling shopping day in the winter of 1990, Jonathon Trager meets Sara Thomas. Two strangers amid the masses in NYC, their paths collide in the mad holiday rush as they fall victim to a mutual attraction. Despite the fact that each is involved in another relationship, Jonathon and Sara spend ..read more »
66%
from 15,732 members
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Brokedown Palace
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Bill Pullman, Jacqueline Kim, Daniel Lapaine
Director: Jonathan Kaplan
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Alice Marano (Claire Danes) and Darlene Davis (Kate Beckinsale) are childhood friends who graduate from high-school together. They celebrate by holidaying in Thailand, where they meet attractive young Australian backpacker Nick. Darlene sleeps with him, much to Alice's displeasure, but the girls ..read more »
64%
from 1,879 member
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The Last Days Of Disco
(1998)
Starring: Chloe Sevigny, Kate Beckinsale
Director: Whit Stillman
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Its the early 80s and disco is drawing to a close. Two ambitious women who work in publishing transform themselves into disco queens and spend their evenings clubbing. They meet a charming 'bi-sexual' who lands the club and his friends in trouble with the law.
64%
from 264 members
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Shooting Fish
on DVD
(1997)
Starring: Dan Futterman, Jane Lapotaire, Claire Cox
Director: Stefan Schwartz
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Twenty-somethings Dylan (Dan Futterman) and Jez (Stuart Townsend) live in a converted gasometer and conduct various scams in order to acquire enough money to purchase their own stately home. Their dreams of wealth are interrupted by the arrival of Georgie (Kate Beckinsale), who teams up with the ..read more »
67%
from 3,609 members
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Jane Austin's Emma
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Guy Henry, James Hazeldine, Mark Strong
Director: Diarmuid Lawrence
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Andrew Davies, who adapted 'Middlemarch' and 'Pride and Prejudice' for the BBC, takes on Jane Austen's 'Emma' for ITV. Kate Beckinsale stars as the eponymous heroine who is intent on finding partners for everyone - but only if she thinks they are the right coupling. Her efforts create confusion, ..read more »
68%
from 3,226 members
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Haunted
(1995)
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Kate Beckinsale, John Gielgud
Director: Lewis Gilbert
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Professor David Ash is invited to Edbrook to calm the fears of the elderly nanny of the Mariell family. Nanny Tess is seeing things, and Ash's book debunking such phenomenon makes him a good choice to set her mind at ease and convince her she is just tired and stressed. But soon after arriving ..read more »
65%
from 476 members
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Cold Comfort Farm
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Joanna Lumley, Rufus Sewell, Freddie Jones
Director: John Schlesinger
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Flora Poste (Kate Beckinsale) is the recently orphaned London society girl who ignores the advice of her mentor Mrs Smiley (Joanna Lumley) and moves to the country to live with relatives on their farm. An aspiring novelist, Flora soon realises that there is plenty of material for her stories on the ..read more »
70%
from 2,729 members
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Uncovered
(1994)
Starring: Kate Beckinsale, John Wood
Director: Jim McBride
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When art restorer Julia (Kate Beckinsdale) discovers a painting linked to centuries old murders, she finds that a new wave of murders might have been triggered. As more people start to die, she tries to find the reason behind the murders, and the killer.
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from 12 members
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