Kate beckinsdale biography

British actress (born )

Samantha-Jane Beckinsale (born 23 July ),^{[citation needed]} known professionally as Samantha Beckinsale and Sam Beckinsale, is a British actress.

She played firefighter Kate Stevens in London's Burning.

Early life

Beckinsale is the only daughter of actor Richard Beckinsale and his first wife, Margaret (née Bradley).

Kate beckinsale biography

They divorced when Beckinsale was a young child and she did not see her father for years. Samantha was unaware that her father was Richard Beckinsale until she was 11&#;&#; the same year he married actress Judy Loe.^[1] Beckinsale and her father reconnected and spent time together, before his death in ^[2] She is half-sister of Kate Beckinsale, her father's daughter with Loe.^[3] She studied drama at Clarendon College, Nottingham.

Television

In , Beckinsale was chosen by LWT to play firefighter Kate Stevens in ITV's drama series London's Burning, which ran from t