Happy Birthday Kate Beckinsale! One of her 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). Beckinsale 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, Beckinsale 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). Beckinsale then played actress Ava Gardner in Martin Scorsese’s The Aviator (2004). She returned as Selene in Underworld: Evolution (2006). Underworld: Rise of the Lycans (2009) was another horror action film for Beckinsale as Selene.
Beckinsale played Carrie Stetko investigating a murder in Antarctica, in Whieout (2009) based on the comic book by Greg Rucka and Steve Lieber. Beckinsale 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. Beckinsale 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). Beckinsale played Selene again in Underworld: Blood Wars (2017). She was in Marc Webb’s drama, The Only Living Boy in New York (2017). Beckinsale currently stars as Georgia Wells in The Widow. The story concerns Georgia uncovering the mystery of her husband’s death in the Congo. It is streaming on Amazon Prime. Happy Birthday Kate Beckinsale!
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