Kate Beckinsale

At 50 years old, Kate Beckinsale has this physical status:

Kathrin Romary Beckinsale (born 26 July 1973) is an English actress.

She made her television debut in Much Ado About Nothing (1993), while a student at the University of Oxford.

In comparison to numerous stage and radio productions, she appeared in British costume dramas including Prince of Jutland (1994), Cold Comfort Farm (1995), Emma (1996), and The Golden Bowl (2000).

She began to film in the United States in the late 1990s and, after appearing in small-scale dramas The Last Days of Disco (1998) and Brokedown Palace (1999), and Tiptoes (2003), she appeared in Pearl Harbor (2001), the romantic comedy Serendipity, and Tiptoes.

She followed those who appeared in The Aviator (2004) and Click (2006). Beckinsale has been known for her role in action films, including Van Helsing (2004), Whiteout (2009), Contraband (2012), and Total Recall (2012), since being cast in the Underworld film series (2003-2016).

She also appears in smaller scale projects, such as Snow Angels (2007), Nothing but the Truth (2008), and Everybody's Fine (2009).

She received critical esteem for her role in Love & Friendship, a period comedy film.

Early life

Beckinsale was born on July 26, 1973 in London's Chiswick district, and was the youngest child of actor Richard Beckinsale and Judy Loe. Samantha Beckinsale, her older paternal half-sister, is in regular contact, but not in regular contact. Her father was of Burmese descent for a small part. Her parents did not marry until 1977, long before Beckinsale's first television appearance in an episode of This Is Your Life dedicated to her father. When she was five, her 31-year-old father died of a heart attack right away; she was acutely wounded by the loss and "started wishing for bad things to happen." When Beckinsale was nine years old, she and his four sons and daughter were taken up together. She has a close relationship with her stepfather, who was a founding member of the Workers Revolutionary Party when she was a child. Following Battersby's blacklisting by the BBC, she helped sell The News Line, a Trotskyist newspaper, as a young girl, and she says the household phone was tapped. Ken Loach and Vanessa Redgrave were among family friends that visited family members.

Beckinsale attended Godolphin and Latymer School, an independent school for girls in Hammersmith, West London, and was involved with the Orange Tree Youth Theatre. She was twice a recipient of the WH Smith Young Writers Award for both fiction and poetry. "All of my boys were kissing boys and sipping cider long before me," she says. It was really sad that we weren't making camp fires and everyone was doing stuff like that." At the age of 15, she had a nervous breakdown and developed anorexia, and she underwent Freudian psychoanalysis for four years.

Beckinsale read French and Russian literature at New College, Oxford, and was later described by contemporary journalist Victoria Coren Mitchell as "whip-clever, barely nuts, and very charming." She became friends with Roy Kinnear's daughter Kirsty. She was a member of the Oxford University Dramatic Society, most notably being directed by fellow student Tom Hooper in a production of A View From the Bridge at the Oxford Playhouse. She was required to spend her third year abroad and studied in Paris as a Modern Languages student. "It was getting to the point where I wasn't enjoying either sport enough because both were extremely high pressure." Beckinsale has stated that she would like to finish her Oxford University studies.

Personal life

Beckinsale worked with Welsh actor Michael Sheen from 1995 to 2003. They were both cast in a touring production of The Seagull in early 1995 and then escorted together shortly thereafter. They yelled out an audiobook version of Romeo and Juliet in 1997. Lily, their daughter, was born in London in 1999. Beckinsale said she was "embarrassed" that Sheen never proposed, but she seemed as if she were married in 2001. They broke up in early 2003 after the filming of Underworld. Beckinsale and Sheen are close friends; she said in 2016, "He's really important, close family." Since I was 21 years old, I've known him well. I'm a huge fan of him."

When working together on Underworld's 2003, Beckinsale met American director Len Wiseman. She advised Wiseman to portray Sheen in the film, but the two actors fell in love on set. Dana, a kindergarten teacher in Budapest, accused infidelity, but Beckinsale and Wiseman denied having a sexual relationship while filming Underworld. They married in Bel-Air, California, on May 9, 2004, but they separated in November 2015. In 2016, Wiseman filed for divorce, citing "irreconcilable differences" as the reason for his separation, which was finalized in November 2019.

Beckinsale was expected to be dating American comedian Pete Davidson in January 2019, but by April, the pair had "called time on their romance."

Beckinsale is a smoker. Her mother moved in with Roy Battersby when she was nine years old, and his sons introduced her to cigarettes.

"I've never been inebriated even," she said in 2003. I've never tried drugs. "I've never had a one-night stand."

She appeared in the sixth of the Writers Guild of America member-conceived Internet videos for Project "Speechless" in support of the WGA labour strike against the Alliance of Motion Picture & Television Producers in 2007.

She appeared alongside Judy Greer and Andrea Savage in the Funny or Die film "Republicans, Get in My Vagina," a satire of the Republican Party's policies regarding abortion and prenatal care.

The Press Complaints Commission dismissed a complaint brought by Beckinsale in July 2003. Len Wiseman, the actress, claimed that the tabloid Daily Mail had invaded her and her daughter's privacy by releasing photos of her then-boyfriend Len Wiseman kissing and kissing her then-boyfriend Len Wiseman. The journal in question was headlined, "Mummy's new love story has left Lily unimpressed," it included a snapshot in which her then-four-year-old daughter seemed to be dismissing her mother's romantic behavior. "The photographs had been taken in a public place and did not reveal any personal information about Lily, such as her health or education, but not to general observations about her apparent reactions to her environment," the Commission reported.

Beckinsale received a published apology from the Daily Mail in August 2003 after it revealed that she had "spent time in a clinic" after her breakup with Michael Sheen. Since she had lodged a complaint with the Press Complaints Commission, the apology was released. After taking legal action against Express Newspapers in 2009, Beckinsale was fined £20,000 by the British High Court. Since losing out on a role in a Barbarella remake, the Daily Express had mistakenly reported that she was "faceing heartbreak."

The British Heart Foundation has been assisting Beckinsale's charity of choice "ever since [she] was six years old" when her father, who suffered from a congenital heart disease, died of a massive heart attack. She has also donated film memorabilia to the Epidermolysis Bullosa Medical Research Foundation, MediCinema, Habitat For Humanity, and the Entertainment Industry Foundation. She hosted the 4th Annual Pink Party in 2008 to raise funds for the Women's Cancer Research Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, as well as a screening of All About Eve for FilmAid International. Beckinsale joined Nestlé's Share the Joy of Reading Program in 2012 to raise concerns about the importance of people's literacy.

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Career

"I grew up immersed in film," Beckinsale decided at a young age that she wanted to be an actress. My family and I worked in the company. My parents seemed to have a lot more fun in their jobs than any of my relatives' parents." Jeanne Moreau's appearances inspired her. She made her television debut in 1991 with a small part in P. D. James' Devices and Desires' ITV version. In 1992, she appeared in Rachel's Dream, a 30-minute Channel 4 short film, and in 1993, she appeared in Anna Lee, starring Imogen Stubbs.

Beckinsale appeared in Kenneth Branagh's big-screen version of Much Ado About Nothing in 1993. During a summer break from Oxford University, it was shot in Tuscany, Italy. She attended the Cannes Film Festival premiere and recalled it as an enthralling journey. "Nobody ever told me I should bring a friend." "I had Doc Martens boots on, and I believe I pulled the flower from the breakfast tray in my hair." Rolling Stone's Peter Travers was captivated by her "lovely" appearance, while Vincent Canby of The New York Times said that she and Robert Sean Leonard "look right and act with a certain naive sincerity, but they don't appear surprised with their inability at hearing the lengthy locutions they speak." At the box office, the film earned over $22 million. When she was at university, she made three other films. She appeared in the murder mystery Uncovered in 1994 as Christian Bale's love interest in Prince of Jutland, a film based on Shakespeare's Hamlet, and played her role in Shakespeare's Hamlet. Marie-Louise ou la Permission, a French language studied in Paris in 1995, was filmed in France.

Beckinsale appeared in Cold Comfort Farm as Flora Poste, a newly orphaned 1930s socialite who was sent to live with distant relatives in rural England just shy of graduating Oxford University in 1995. It was directed by John Schlesinger, and it included Joanna Lumley, Eileen Atkins, Ian McKellen, Rufus Sewell, and Stephen Fry. Beckinsale was initially thought too young, but she was cast after she wrote a pleading letter to the director. "The beauty of a young Glenda Jackson and the charm of a young Julie Christie were reminded," Emanuel Levy of Variety was reminded. The actress, according to Kevin Thomas of the Los Angeles Times, "yet another of those naturally beautiful British beauties who light up the screen." Janet Maslin of The New York Times said she portrayed the role "with the perfect snippy aplomb." At the US box office, the film grossed over $5 million. She appeared in Haunted, a ghost story in which Derek Elley of Variety said she "holds the screen, with both physical appearances and verbal poise." Beckinsale's first professional stage appearance in The Seagull at Theatre Royal, Bath, 1995. After meeting during play rehearsals, she became intimate with co-star Michael Sheen. "I was all revved up to feel very intimidated," she later said. It was my first performance, and my mother had edited out comments of him in previous productions. And then he stepped forward... It was almost like, 'God,' well, I'm done now.' 'Okay, that's it.' He's the most innately gifted person I've ever seen." "The casting, which includes Michael Sheen's fiery Kostya and Kate Beckinsale's steadily freezing Nina," Irving Wardle of The Independent, was mainly accurate." Sweetheart appeared in two more productions in early 1996; Clocks and Whistles at the Bush Theatre; and Sweetheart at the Royal Court Theatre.

Beckinsale appeared in an ITV adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma, as Emma to Mark Strong's Mr Knightley and Samantha Morton's Harriet Smith. Beckinsale has described Emma as "You shouldn't necessarily like Emma." "You do love her, but the family of a young girl could be effected by her outrageous behavior and still love her." The programme was broadcast in autumn 1996, only months after Gwyneth Paltrow appeared in a film adaptation of the same tale. Caryn James of The New York Times observed that although "Ms. Beckinsale's Emma is plainer looking than Ms. Paltrow's," she is "altogether more believable and funnier." Beckinsale's interpretation, according to Jonathan Brown of The Independent, is "the most enduring modern performance" as Emma. Beckinsale appeared in the comedy Shooting Fish, one of the year's most commercially lucrative British films. Beckinsale later remembered of the initial audition, "I'd just had my wisdom teeth out." "I was also on very strong painkillers, so this was not the most normal of meetings." Elley wrote about "an extraordinarily laid-back appearance," while Thomas said she "actually glows as an aristocrat facing a tragedy with a lot of aplomb." Emma For Hodder & Stoughton AudioBooks and Diana Hendry's The Proposal for BBC Radio 4, she narrated Austen's Emma. In an AudioBook version of Romeo and Juliet directed by Sheen, she played Juliet to Michael Sheen's Romeo in 1997.

She appeared in Beckinsale's last film before her transfer to the United States, as Alice in Channel 4's Alice through the Looking-Glass, released in July 1998.

Beckinsale began seeking work in the United States, something she has said was not "a conscious decision"; my boyfriend was in a Broadway production, so that's why we ended up in New York, and my auditions were scheduled for American films." In 1998's The Last Days of Disco, she appeared opposite Chlo Sevigny. The Whit Stillman film focusing on a group of mostly Ivy League and Hampshire College students socialising in the early 1980s Manhattan disco scene. Beckinsale's attempt at an American accent was highly praised. Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times said she was "beautifully played" in her role as Charlotte's bossy. Todd McCarthy of Variety was unimpressed by the film, but she revealed that "compensations include Beckinsale," whose character can get on your nerves even if the actress doesn't." Her appearance earned her a London Critics' Circle Film Award. The film grossed $3 million worldwide.

Beckinsale appeared in Brokedown Palace with Claire Danes, a drama about two young Americans who were forced to deal with the Thai justice system while on a post-graduation trip abroad. Beckinsale, a 26-year-old girl, portrayed a young child. During the shooting, the Danes had hoped to become friends with Beckinsale, but they discovered her "complex" and "prickly." McCarthy said that the leads "confirm their place as two of the best young actors on the scene today" and that Beckinsale "is very good at conveying layered personality and emotions." "Danes and Beckinsale are two of the finest young actors in the country," Thomas said, but "unfortunately, the script's newly developed setting undermines their tremendous efforts at every turn." Beckinsale's character "never comes into focus," Stephen Holden of The New York Times said. The film was a box office flop.

Beckinsale's first role after her daughter's birth was portrayed in the 2000 Golden Bowl. The Merchant/Ivory production was based on Henry James' novel and also starred Uma Thurman and Jeremy Northam. After following Beckinsale to her trailer to scold her for missing a line, Beckinsale's partner, Michael Sheen, hit Northam on the film set. "The most satisfying of the four-lead performances belong to Ms. Beckinsale and Mr. Northam, who are better than their American counterparts in terms of emotional masking," Holden said, adding each beat to Beckinsale's "registers precisely." Thomas said that her appearance would bring her career to a whole new level. Despite the obvious fact that no film can capture James' poetic copiousness, Andrew Sarris of The New York Observer said she was "comes close to capturing Maggie's subpoena." The film earned over $5 million worldwide.

Beckinsale came to fame in 2001 as a nurse torn between two pilots (played by Ben Affleck and Josh Hartnett). "It's so strange these days to read a script with those old-fashioned values to it." Not morals, but movie values. It's a huge, sweeping epic...You'll never have the opportunity to do it." "I wasn't positive about her at first; she wore black leather trousers in her screen test; I was a little worried about this woman as a slut," director Michael Bay said at the time. He later decided not to employ her because she wasn't "too pretty." When women see someone's beauty, they become afraid. During filming, he begged her to shed weight. In a 2004 interview, the actress described his remarks as "upsetting" and said she wore leather trousers because "it was snowing outside." It wasn't exactly as if I had my nipple rings on. She was grateful that she didn't have to deal with such criticism at a younger age: "You're a bit funny-looking," she said at a theater set [a younger] age, and someone else said, "You're a bit funny-looking." 'I may have jumped off a building.' At the time, I just didn't have the confidence to put it into perspective."

However, she said she was "very fond" of Bay when she spoke in 2011. Pearl Harbor has received critical feedback. "The vivacious, ruby lipped Kate Beckinsale, the rare actress whose intelligence gives her a sensual bloom, is like Parker Posey without irony," Entertainment Weekly's Owen Gleiberman said. "Mr. Affleck and Ms. Beckinsale do what they can with their lines, and they shine with the satiny shine of real movie stars," The New York Times said. However, USA Today's Mike Clark said that the "inevitably appealing Kate Beckinsale" is "inexplicably submerged — like her hospital colleagues — under slews of tarty makeup that even actresses of the period never wore." The film was a commercial success, grossing $449 million worldwide.

In the romantic comedy Serendipity of John Cusack, Beckinsale's second film appearance of the year 2001 was in the love interest of the love interest. "It's a real relief to return to something marginally familiar" after Pearl Harbor and Beckinsale were filming live. Turan lauded the "appealing and believable" leads, adding that Beckinsale "reinforces the good work she did in Cold Comfort Farm, The Golden Bowl, and The Last Days of Disco" after "recovering well" after her appearance in the much-maligned Pearl Harbor. "Beckinsale's talents haven't been tapped as well in any other film since Cold Comfort Farm," Claudia Puig of USA Today said. McCarthy described her as "energetic and appealing," while The New York Times' Elvis Mitchell described her as "luminous but firm." Roger Ebert described her as "a good actress but not strong enough to play this dumb" in an uncomplimentary review of the film. At the worldwide box office, the film has grossed over $77 million.

Beckinsale starred in Lisa Cholodenko's Laurel Canyon in 2002 as a strait-laced scholar who is increasingly drawn to her free-spirited future mother-in-law. Beckinsale had a second shot at being co-star Prince of Jutland with Christian Bale in the independent film. They found their sex scene tense because she knew Bale well: "If it was a stranger, it would have been quicker." Although Frances McDormand's performance as Bale's mother was widely praised, Beckinsale's performance was largely praised, but Beckinsale's performance as Bale's mother was lauded, but negative comments were given. Holden found the film "very well behaved," with the exception of Ms. Beckinsale, whose tense, colorless Alex conveys no inner life." Lisa Schwarzbaum, a critic, was unimpressed by the "devastated" characters, and she wrote "the fussy performances of Bale and Beckinsale" in particular. The film has grossed over $4 million worldwide.

Since playing a vampire in 2003's Underworld, Beckinsale became known as an action celebrity. Beckinsale said she was grateful for the change of pace after appearing in "a slew of period stuff and then a slew of romantic comedies," she said, adding, "It's a challenge for me to play an action heroine and put off all the preparation when [in real life] I can't catch a ball if it's coming my way." Mixed feedback was given on the film, but it was a surprise box-office hit and has spawned a fanbase. She appeared in the little seen Tiptoes with Gary Oldman and Matthew McConaughey earlier this year.

Beckinsale appeared in Van Helsing, an adventure horror film. She was "so delighted" to be in her second action film in two years. "It just seemed as if it was a really good job" (the actress). Beckinsale was just separated from her long-term boyfriend Michael Sheen at the time of filming and appreciated the warm atmosphere created on set by director Stephen Sommers and co-star Hugh Jackman: "I truly did find it possible to get through what I was going through." The film grossed over $120 million in the United States box office and over $300 million worldwide, but it was not well-reviewed. While Rex Reed of The New York Observer said she was "desperately in need of a new agent," Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle described her as "a pretty actress doing her best to protect her image, vainly trying to craft a feminist remark from a filmmaker's whimsy."

In 2004, Beckinsale portrayed Ava Gardner in Martin Scorsese's Howard Hughes biopic The Aviator. "I've always loved her," Scorsese said of Beckinsale. I've seen all of her work, and I'm glad she accepted auditions." Beckinsale's performance has received mixed reviews. Ken Tucker of New York Magazine said she appeared "in full vain-va-voom blossom," while LaSalle believed that she would "fully convince us" that Ava was one of the country's most prominent broads" at the time. Clark referred to it as "the one performance that doesn't come off" (though Beckinsale's charming, voluptuous beauty is utterly lacking) while Beckinsale sleepwalks through the role as if she were selling perfume, according to Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian. The film earned more than $213 million worldwide.

Beckinsale reprised her role as Selene in the hit vampire film Underworld: Evolution, directed by her husband in 2006. It was the first time she had "been involved with a film from the start, it's a seed of an idea that has been carried right through the entire editing process." Her daughter appeared in a small capacity as the younger Selene. The film was a box office hit, grossing $111 million around the world. In Click, Beckinsale's second film appearance of the year, he was opposite Adam Sandler and Christopher Walken, a comedy about an overworked family man who finds a magical remote control that helps him to control time. "One of the things that was attracted to me" about the role was the opportunity to play a mother. It was highly profitable, grossing $237 million worldwide against a $80 million production budget.

Beckinsale then returned to smaller-scale projects: "I sort of stepped away from the independent films and did a few big movies." However, that isn't really how it is perceived by everyone else, which I do not know." "I love an action film as much as the next one [but] it is not something that I would like to do solely." She explained that she wanted to appear in Underworld because she felt typecast in classical roles — but that her activism "kind of took off a little too much."

Beckinsale appeared in the independent drama Snow Angels, based on Stewart O'Nan's book. Beckinsale was "in a strange situation" in the harrowing film in which she played an exhausted single mother. "I did have my child, my husband, and, in fact, my ex was around a lot, so it was really nice to see my people whom I love." Puig said that "Beckinsale gives her best performance in years," while Time magazine's Richard Corliss described it as "her best work yet." However, Scott found that "her knowledge and discipline would not help her overcome the belief that she is an exotic species transplanted into this fragile ecosystem." And if she continues to convince us otherwise, it's unlikely that a woman with such poised confidence in her own beauty would end up with an underachieving mouth breather like Glenn. Worldwide, the film earned only $414,404.404

In 2007, Beckinsale appeared alongside Luke Wilson in Vacancy, a drama set in a small motel. Sarah Jessica Parker was originally cast in the role but she was forced to cancel before filming began. While Bradshaw thought "Wilson and Beckinsale have the chops for scary movies," Gleiberman wrote, "Luke Wilson, with his hangdog defensive mopiness, and Kate Beckinsale, both sexy severity, are ideally matched as a couple who hate each other." However, Manohla Dargis of The New York Times was unimpressed, referring to Beckinsale as "the reigning queen of the bland B's." The film was highly profitable, grossing $35 million worldwide against a $19 million production budget.

Beckinsale appeared in Winged Creatures, a film about six different witnesses dealing with the aftermath of a shooting in 2008. In an ensemble cast that included Dakota Fanning, Jennifer Hudson, and Forest Whitaker, Beckinsale played a waitressing single mother. "It was a really, really nice time, but it was quick," Beckinsale of the filming process said. "I just felt a bit like I was shot through a cannon." Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times thought she appeared "with a white trash verve" and that her character's "raw ache for someone with money and respectability is palpable." However, Dargis found that Beckinsale and her co-stars have a "tough time fleshing out characters that are at the highest abstractions of grief and often just clichés." The film was limited theatrical debut in New York and Los Angeles; it was also released on DVD.

Beckinsale appeared in Nothing but the Truth in 2008 as a journalist who refuses to reveal her source. Vera Farmiga and Matt Dillon co-starring Vera Farmiga and Matt Dillon was inspired by Judith Miller's film. "I spent some time at The Los Angeles Times with some female journalists, and I spoke to Judith Miller about her experience." Beckinsale and Farmiga were "two of the most revealing female film characters to make television debuts in a long time," Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post announced, "two of the most compelling female film characters to appear on televisions in a long time," according to Beckinsale and Farmiga, and they've been brought to life by two outstanding actresses, each working at the top of her game." Beckinsale was nominated for her work in Critics' Choice Award. Since the distributor filed for bankruptcy, the film never received a complete theatrical release, and worldwide, it has only grossed $186,702. "I have prayed—prayed—for film companies to go bankrupt on films I've produced, and then it comes on the one I love," Beckinsale said. "Usually, it's the ones you're most worried about that are on the side of every bus."

Beckinsale appeared in the comedy-book adaptation as a US Marshal assigned with the probe into a murder in Antarctica in 2009. It was shot in Manitoba, Canada. Because "three pairs of trousers and a parka give you a little more cover than the latex suit," she found the action scenes less demanding than those in Underworld. The film was critically criticized and a box office failure, with no attempt to recover its funding. Beckinsale is the most charming as ever, and she does her best with the script, but a slow pace and an uninspired plot keep Whiteout in the cold. She appeared in flashforwards based on footage from 2003's Underworld. She made a brief appearance in the prequel Underworld: Rise of the Lycans. Beckinsale appeared in Everybody's Fine alongside Robert De Niro, Drew Barrymore, and Rockwell, her Snow Angels co-star. Beckinsale was ecstatic to work with De Niro, who had first encountered him "years and years ago when I just had Lily and he was putting together a reading of The Good Shepherd." Everybody's Fine was a box office flop, struggling to recover its production budget. Beckinsale sat on the nine-member 2010 Cannes Film Festival jury, chaired by director Tim Burton in May 2010. Beckinsale retained a low profile in 2010 and 2011, choosing to spend time with her daughter when she was unable to find a script she adored.

Beckinsale returned to acting in 2012 with appearances in three action films. Beckinsale appeared in Contraband, the action thriller. She played a supporting role as Mark Wahlberg's wife, a former convict who is forced back to a life of crime after his family members were robbed. Baltasar Kormákur, who also appeared in the Icelandic language version of the film, Reykjavrdam, was the film's producer. Beckinsale's story as the victimized spouse was "stuck in a bit of a thankless position," according to the San Francisco Chronicle, but she does continue to use a more mature version of the story. "Beckinsale, her inherent classiness calibrated down a few notches, has little to do but be concerned, worried, and, eventually, besieged," the Hollywood reporter said. The "woman-in-peril" stuff is second-rate, giving off a whiff of exploitation, according to Entertainment Weekly, although Variety discovered the repetative violence against Beckinsale's character alarming. The film's production budget was $25 million and has grossed over $96 million worldwide.

In the fourth instalment of the vampire film Underworld: Awakening, Beckinsale reprised her role as Selene. Beckinsale was not "intending to do another one," the franchise was originally intended as a trilogy, but the script was solid enough to warrant it. "When she's not actually fighting, her results consist of little more than striding deliberately toward or away from the camera," the Hollywood Reporter said. "I've finally manages to create the monotone delivery she'd been waiting for for the series's first two entries," the Los Angeles Times reported. The film's production budget was $70 million and has grossed over $160 million worldwide. Beckinsale appeared as the wife of a factory worker in the sci-fi film version Total Recall, directed by her husband Len Wiseman. Wiseman joined the project because he was unable to gain studio funding for an original sci-fi film: "You're always having to defend doing a remake when you didn't want to make one in the first place." The film received mainly critical feedback. Variety found her appearance "one note," while the Hollywood Reporter characterized her as "one-dimensional." "She spends a good deal of the movie strutting down hallways and looking insistently, but not necessarily bad," USA Today noted. Beckinsale was "vastly overstays her welcome," according to the New York Times. The film has earned $198 million against a $125 million production budget.

She appeared alongside Judy Greer and Andrea Savage in "Republicans, Get in My Vagina," a satire of the Republican Party's legislative policies on abortion and prenatal care.

Beckinsale appeared in the legal drama The Trials of Cate McCall starring Nick Nolte and James Cromwell in 2013. The film received critical feedback and was released as a Lifetime film. She appeared in Stonehearst Asylum, a little-seen psychological thriller based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether." On its DVD debut, a lukewarm critical reception greeted the film; Jeannette Catsoulis of The New York Times said Beckinsale was "emoting as if an Oscar nomination depended on it," while Dennis Harvey of Variety found her performance "overwrought." Queen Ayrenn, a fictional character in The Elder Scrolls Online video game, was portrayed by actress Jennifer Ayrenn in 2014. Beckinsale appeared alongside Daniel Brühl in the psychological thriller The Face of an Angel in 2014. Michael Winterbottom's film was inspired by Meredith Kercher's case. The A.V.'s Jesse Hassenger. She was "charismatic" in her appearance, according to the club. She appeared in Absolutely Everything, a poorly received British comedy, alongside Simon Pegg, as an author agency employee and the love interest of a man (Pegg) chosen by four aliens to do whatever she wants in 2015. "She never fully developed," Tom Huddleston of Time Out said, "this is perhaps a blessing" because her cut-glass posh appearance is almost as grating as Pegg's." Monty Python's Growing Upward, Beckinsale appeared on Monty Python's Best Bits (Mostly) in 2014, where she addressed her favorite Python comedy sketch.

Beckinsale reunites with her Last Days of Disco co-workers Stillman and Sevigny in the 2016 romantic comedy Love & Friendship, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The film, based on Jane Austen's Lady Susan, revolved around her character as the title character, a wry and calculating widow, as she searchs for a wealthy and hapless man for marriage, but she eventually marries him herself. Critics and investors alike lauded the film's commercial success in arthouse cinemas. "One of the most satisfying screen performances of her career," Variety's Justin Chang described the role as "one of the few screen roles she has played." Beckinsale magnetizes the screen in a way that easily emphasizes how much ahead of everyone else she is: an effect that doesn't always work to the movie's advantage." "There aren't many depths to the role," Todd McCarthy of The Hollywood Reporter remarked, "But Beckinsale shines in the long speeches and description of her character as a "self-aware egoist."

She appeared in the horror film The Disappointments Room, opposite Mel Raido, in which a couple is playing a couple in a new house with a haunted past. Critics and flopped at the box office, while the film made $1.4 million in its first weekend and a total of $2.4 million in North America; it was heavily criticized by analysts and flopped at the box office. "The majority of the film is just Beckinsale walking around looking anxious," Christian Holub of Entertainment Weekly said, while Variety's Joe Leydon found her "credible and persuasive [...] except for when she's trying to hard in a rather sad scene calling for drunken ranting." In late 2016, Beckinsale appeared in Selene in the fifth installment of the Underworld series Underworld: Blood Wars, grossing $81.1 million worldwide.

In Marc Webb's romantic coming-of-age drama The Only Living Boy (2017), Beckinsale starred Pierce Brosnan, Callum Turner, and Jeff Bridges as a book editor and the mistress of a publisher whose son's life is being rewritten. The film's reviews were average, though it attracted a small audience in theaters. The A.V. Brosnan and Beckinsale were "vastly more interesting" because they were unable to avoid expressing their voices and fitting so poorly into the sad-faced melodrama that this film is trying to be. Emma Forrest plays her in an adaptation of The Chocolate Money by Ashley Prentice Norton, starring Ashley Prentice Norton. In the British film Farming, Beckinsale appeared as Ingrid Carpenter.

Beckinsale appeared in The Widow (2019), her first television series in over 20 years, as the ITV/Amazon prime drama. Beckinsale plays a woman who believes her husband, who died in a plane crash three years earlier, is still alive in Congo. Beckinsale appeared in Jolt, an American action comedy film starring Bobby Cannavale, Laverne Cox, Stanley Tucci, and Jai Courtney. Jolt was adapted from a screenplay by Scott Wascha and directed by Tanya Wexler, and it was released by Amazon Studios on July 20, 2021. Guilty Party's dark comedy streaming television programmer The same year she appeared in the She appeared as an executive producer as well in the series.

Beckinsale will appear in the Catherine Hardwicke-directed family drama Prisoner's Daughter in 2021, according to the Deadline.

Beckinsale has appeared on television as a "English king" as early as 2001, although she has also worked as a model occasionally. She appeared in George Michael's "Waltz Away Dreaming" music video in 1997. In a 2002 Gap television commercial directed by Cameron Crowe, she appeared opposite Orlando Bloom. In a Diet Coke television commercial directed by Michel Gondry, she appeared in a Diet Coke television commercial in 2004. In a 2009 print campaign photographed by Ellen von Unwerth, she advertised Absolut Vodka. In a Japanese television commercial, she has also promoted Lux shampoo.

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