- Hated the PEARL HARBOR experience because director Michael Bay bluntly explained she was picked for the film because she wasn't beautiful.
- Voted the most beautiful actress in Britain in a poll carried out by UCI Cinemas to mark the release of TROY. (2004)
- Is featured in an advertising campaign for Diet Coke.
- Is keen to avoid Hollywood's obsession with plastic surgery, rubbishing reports she's had breast implants. (April 13, 2004)
- Was rushed to hospital Thursday night after falling ill on route to the Sundance Film Festival in Utah. (January 23, 2004)
- Is desperate to wed her new lover, Len Wiseman, but Sony Pictures bosses are insisting she can't take the time off from promoting UNDERWORLD, the Wiseman-directed film which brought them together. (September 24, 2003)
- Was left stunned after demanding her breasts be enhanced on the posters for her new film UNDERWORLD, because artists made them too big. (September 17, 2003)
- Hated the tight-fitting leather suit she wore for new movie UNDERWORLD because it was too hot, too cold and she couldn't go to the toilet. (September 16, 2003)
- Has had her complaint against a British tabloid which published pictures of her with lover Len Wiseman and daughter Lily rejected -- Beckinsale contended the pictures were published without her consent and affected her daughter's welfare. (August 1, 2003)
- Has pulled out of several promotional interviews for her new movie UNDERWORLD, fearing questions about her relationship with the film's director Len Wiseman - The actress also canceled a high-profile Maxim cover shoot, reportedly embarrassing her publicist Lisa Kasteler so much she sent flowers to apologize to the magazine's West Coast editor Claudia Nicolayevsky. (July 25, 2003)
- Is set to star in Martin Scorsese's AVIATOR where she will play Ava Gardner. (June 5, 2003)
- After seven years and one child together, Beckinsale and her longtime partner and fellow thespian, Michael Sheen, split in January, a breakup confirmed this week by the actress' publicist Lisa Kasteler -- No reason was given for the breakup. (March 12, 2003)
- During PEARL HARBOR. (2001) filming, a gust of wind lifted Kate Beckinsale and Catherine Keller's skirts revealing more than the film crew expected to see. Both had been instructed to lose their underpants for a particular scene so that their panty lines were not visible on camera.
- Got the lead female role in PEARL HARBOR. (2001) after Charlize Theron pulled out to do SWEET NOVEMBER. (2001)
- Lost out to Juliette Binoche for a part in WUTHERING HEIGHTS. (1992)
- Suffers from stomach ulcers.
- According to an interview she gave on the UK show THE BIG BREAKFAST. (December 2001) she hates wearing knickers.
- Selected by Hello Magazine as England's Number #1 Beauty. (2002)
- Her maternal grandfather was Burmese.
- Hand-delivered a pleading letter to director John Schlesinger in Paris in the middle of the night, having failed the audition for the role of Flora Poste in COLD COMFORT FARM. She later won the part after all.
- Was paid $200,000 for PEARL HARBOR. (2001)
- Nominated for Best Female Performance at MTV Movie Awards for PEARL HARBOR. (2002)
Quotes- "People should realize women aren't just whores or virgins. I want to see women who are real human beings."
- "Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, No one's being nice enough to me!"
- "I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring"
- "With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person."
- "If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!"
- "No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved."
Awards- London Critics Circle Film Awards: British Supporting Actress of the Year, THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO (1999)
- Catalonian International Film Festival: Best Actress, SHOOTING FISH (1997)
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