All All. Sign In. Sexiest Women in Hollywood My favourites. There are many gorgeous women who've graced both the small and silver screen. This is a list of my personal favourites. List activity. Kate Beckinsale. Her mother is Judy Loe , who has appeared in a number of British dramas and sitcoms and continues to work as an actress, predominantly in British television productions.
Her father was Richard Beckinsale , born in Nottingham, England. He starred in a number of popular British television comedies during the s, most notably the series Rising Damp , Porridge and The Lovers He passed away tragically early in at the age of 31, when Kate was five years old, and her mother Judy Loe never remarried, and her grandmother moved in to help her mother.
Kate attended the private school Godolphin and Latymer School in London for her grade and primary school education. In her teens she twice won the British bookseller W. Smith Young Writers' competition - once for three short stories and once for three poems. After a tumultuous adolescence a bout of anorexia - cured - and a smoking habit which continues to this day , she gradually took up the profession of acting.
It first aired on American television that December. She had already decided that she wanted to act, but to broaden her horizons she chose university over drama school. Kate worked in three other films while attending Oxford, beginning with a part in the medieval historical drama Royal Deceit , cast as Ethel. The film was shot during the spring of on location in Denmark, and she filmed her supporting part during New College's Easter break.
Later in the summer of that year she played the lead in the contemporary mystery drama Uncovered Before she went back to school, her third year at university was spent at Oxford's study-abroad program in Paris, France, immersing herself in the French language, Parisian culture and French cigarettes.
