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Just as Kate Beckinsale's movie career is taking off, the actress reveals that she is considering giving it all up to become a doctor. In an exclusive interview, Andrew Wilson finds out why she's ready to swap Hollywood for hospitals
This is a pivotal year for British actress Kate Beckinsale. At 31, she has reached the zenith of her career, and next month stars opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in The Aviator, Martin Scorsese's blockbuster about Howard Hughes.See the full content of this document
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Hollywood Doesn't Last Forever...
The Pounds 56-million biopic, which also features Jude Law as Errol Flynn, Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Gwen Stefani as Jean Harlow, tells the story of the legendary, eccentric tycoon and the women who loved him, and is almost guaranteed to pick up a panoply of Oscars next year quite possibly one for Beckinsale herself.
Coincidentally, 31 is also the age at which her father, Porridge and Rising Damp actor Richard Beckinsale, tragically died of a heart attack. His potential as a great comic actor was never to be f...See the full content of this document
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