Beckinsale Developed A Reputation As An Action Star Following An Appearance As
After some minor television roles, she made her film debut in Much Ado About Nothing (1993) while still a student at Oxford University. Beckinsale developed a reputation as an action star following an appearance as a vampire in 2003′s Underworld and has since starred in many action films such as Van Helsing (2004), Underworld: Evolution (2006), Whiteout (2009), Contraband (2012) and Underworld: Awakening (2012). When she was five years old, her 31-year-old father died suddenly of a heart attack. in her teens, she twice won the W. H. Smith Young Writers’ competition–once for short stories and once for poetry–and was presented with the prize by poet Ted Hughes. I found it really depressing that we weren’t making camp fires and everyone was doing grown-up stuff.” “I loathed being a teenager.” She had a nervous breakdown and developed anorexia at the age of fifteen and underwent Freudian psychoanalysis for four years.
