Line #1 Trivia/KateBeckinsale


1	* AwesomeDearBoy: Stephen Sommers was reluctant to ask her to do ''Film/VanHelsing'', fearing it was too similar to ''Film/Underworld2003''. However she signed on at once.
2	* ContractualPurity: Early on in her career, she took so many ActionGirl roles precisely to stop people from thinking she was a "corset queen" in various period dramas. It had the effect of making people more familiar with her action movies, and therefore forgetting that she got her start in period dramas.
3	* CostumeBacklash: She despised the corset she had to wear for ''Film/VanHelsing'' and said she wanted to burn it at the end of filming.
4	* DyeingForYourArt:
5	** She was on a diet of chicken and broccoli to be able to fit into Selene's SpyCatsuit in ''Underworld''.
6	** She gained 20 lbs to play Ava Gardner in ''Film/TheAviator''.
7	** She also had to gain 10 lbs for ''Film/VanHelsing''.
8	* FakeAmerican: She is British, but in films is frequently cast as American characters due to her pulling off a flawless American accent. She gets to switch between the two in ''Film/TotalRecall2012'', where Lori starts off seemingly American as part of her cover, but switches to Kate's natural accent on a FaceHeelTurn.
9	* FunnyCharacterBoringActor: Inverted. She's known for playing {{English Rose}}s or humorless {{Action Girl}}s. Offscreen she's a huge prankster and loves fart jokes.
10	* NoStuntDouble: She performed her own stunts for ''Serendipity''.
11	* PlayingAgainstType: ''Love & Friendship'', an adaptation of Jane Austen's ''Literature/LadySusan'', has her playing a conniving manipulator who's also a rather cruel mother.
12	* RealLifeRelative: Her daughter Lily Mo Sheen plays the younger Selene in ''Underworld: Evolution'', and appears as an extra in ''Click''.
13	* RomanceOnTheSet: She met her husband, director Len Wiseman, on the set of ''Underworld''.
14	* StarDerailingRole: ''{{Film/Whiteout}}'' dented her momentum a bit, but the flopping of ''Film/TotalRecall2012'' seems to have killed her time as an A-lister, not helped by now being in her forties.
15	* StarMakingRole: Her role as the vampire hunter Selene in the film ''Underworld'' made her a star.
16	* TypeCasting:
17	** In both ''Film/VanHelsing'' and ''{{Film/Underworld 2003}}'', she plays an ActionGirl whose love interest turns into a werewolf in the third act.
18	** She plays Americans in 1940s period pieces in ''Film/TheAviator'' and ''Film/PearlHarbor''.
19	* UnderageCasting: In ''{{Film/Click}}'', she plays Donna across twenty years.
20	* WagTheDirector: ''Underworld'' seems to be constantly trying to get Selene nude - with a shower scene in the first film, and Selene having FullFrontalAssault in ''Awakening'' (albeit with ShouldersUpNudity and ToplessnessFromTheBack). Kate however prefers not to do nudity, so the scene in the first film was taken out completely, the one in ''Awakening'' was lessened to Selene finding her suit immediately after escaping, and the sex scene in ''Evolution'' having fades to avoid showing her fully nude.

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