Kate Beckinsale is a textbook English beauty: flawless skin, tea rose cheeks, and a lovely, toothy grin. Thus, her first high-profile role, as a nurse in Pearl Harbor, seemed a little too predictable for some. "All they saw was this Chekhov-reading Brit who had, as they saw it, no edge. I tried hard to prove otherwise," Beckinsale has said.
When she starred in 2003's Underworld, a dark thriller rife with vampires and other creatures of the night, Beckinsale found her acting groove - and true love. "Yep, I fell in love with the director," ...more |
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