Studied French
and Russian literature while a student at Oxford.
Studied at New College Oxford,
but left to pursue her acting career before completing her
degree course.
Her mother, 'Judy Loe (I)'
is a casting director for the BBC, and her father Richard
Beckinsale was famous as a comedy actor.
Attended grade/primary school
at Flexlands Private School in London, england, she took ballet
there and it was at this young age that her father died of
a heart attack.
Half-sister of Samantha Beckinsale
Got the lead female role in
Pearl Harbor (2001) after Charlize Theron pulled out to do
Sweet November (2001).