Kate
Beckinsale Loe was born on July 26th, 1973,
in London to two seasoned British television actors, and has spent
most of her life in her
place of birth. She made her acting debut in a television WWII
drama called One Against the Wind and was soon cast in a short
corporate film about industrial accidents. In 1991, Kate attended
Oxford University's New College, where she majored in French and
Russian Literature. She already knew that she was going to pursue
a career in drama, but in order to broaden her horizons she decided
to attend a regular university rather than a school geared towards
drama and other fine arts.
In 1992, Kate Beckinsale landed the role of Hero
in the film adaptation of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing (co-starring
Kenneth
Branagh, Emma Thompson,
and Keanu Reeves). Upon receiving three more roles in European productions,
Kate dropped out of her studies. Up next for Kate was a role in the
1994 BBC television satire, Cold Comfort Farm (with Ian McKellen),
which opened to rave reviews in American art-house theaters and was
a smash hit by indie standards. She continued performing in British
theater for the next few years and added some more films to her resum,
including Emma, Haunted, and Marie-Louise ou la permission.
In 1998, Kate Beckinsale returned
to American shores in the film Brokedown Palace, with Claire Danes
and Bill Pullman,
and
starred
in the indie
films Shooting Fish and The Last Days of Disco, co-starring Chlo?
Sevigny. After a role in The Golden Bowl, Kate had a stellar year,
being cast in the $150-million Touchstone pic, Pearl Harbor and the
romantic comedy Serendipity, co-starring John Cusack. Kate also starred
in the thriller Underworld, in which she plays a vampire warrior
playing an assistant vampire hunter to Hugh Jackman in Van Helsing.
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Anna Paquin
Actress
It was in New Zealand in 1991 that
Anna Paquin became an actress by chance. Director Jane
Campion was looking for a little girl to play a key role
in The Piano, set to film in New Zealand, and a newspaper
advertisement was run announcing an open audition.
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Claire
Danes Movie Actress
When she is not working, Claire Danes likes
spending time on her school studies, especially the humanities and science.
She tries to keep up her interest in dance, and wants to continue with
her new enthusiasm for surfing while she's living in Los Angeles.
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Cobie
Smulders Television Actress
As a child Cobie Smulders wanted to be either a doctor or a marine biologist
but started to gain an interest in acting in high school, appearing in
several school productions. Discovered by a modelling agency in her teens,
she started to model internationally, including in locations such as Paris,
Japan, Milan, Greece, and Germany.
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Courtney
Thorne Smith TV Actress
Courtney Thorne Smith first appeared as Stacy Hamilton on Fast Times, the
television series spin-off of the successful teen movie Fast Times at Ridgemont
High.
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Jennifer
Aniston Movie and Television Actress
In 2000, after a widely publicized
battle with NBC, Aniston and her fellow cast members negotiated
a salary of $750,000 per episode. The show won its first
Emmy for its 8th season in 2002. That same year, Aniston
received a Best Actress Emmy for her role as Rachel. Jennifer
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Eva Mendes
Model and Actress
Eve Mendes attended California State
University, Northridge and majored in marketing. Her debut
in acting came because she needed a little extra spending
money and appeared as an extra on various films. One day
she caught the eye of an agent who convinced her to pursue
acting more steadily. Eva
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Movie
Actress Keira Knightley
She was born in Teddington, south-west
London. Her name would become Keira as her Hollywood career
took off, the change shamelessly breaking the golden rule
of "I before E except after C" but making the
name more easily pronounceable on a worldwide basis. Keira
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