Happy Birthday Kate Beckinsale!

Happy Birthday Kate Beckinsale!  One of Kate’s early film roles was as Hero, one of the romantic figures in Kenneth Branaugh’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s comedy, Much Ado About Nothing (1994).  She starred in the horror film Haunted (1995).  Kate had the lead role in the tv movie of Jane Austen’s novel Emma (1996).  She was Lt. Evelyn Johnson in Michael Bay’s Pearl Harbor (2001).  Next, Kate was in the romance Serendipity (2001).  She began the role of Selene, the vampire Death Dealer caught up in the war between Lycans and vampires in Underworld (2003).  The next year, she starred as Anna Valerious, taking on Dracula and the other Universal Monsters in Van Helsing (2004).  Kate then played actress Ava Gardner in Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator (2004).  

Kate Beckinsale at Underworld panel, Comic Con, 2003, photo by the author.

She returned as Selene in Underworld: Evolution (2006).  Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009) was another horror action film for Kate as Selene.  Kate played Carrie Stetko investigating a murder in Antarctica, in Whiteout (2009) based on the comic book by Greg Rucka and Steve Lieber.  Kate returned as Selene in Underworld: Awakening picking up after humans captured her and has to save her daughter.  In 2012, she was in the remake of the sci fi action film Total Recall as Lori Quaid. Kate starred in the sci fi comedy Absolutely Anything (2015) written and directed by Terry Jones.  She played Lady Susan Vernon in another adaptation of a Jane Austen novel in Love & Friendship (2016).   Kate played Swelene again in Underworld: Blood Wars (2017).  She was in Marc Webb’s drama, The Only Living Boy in New York (2017).  Happy Birthday Kate Beckinsale!  

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