Kate Beckinsale
Kate Beckinsale had a rough start in life. Her father, comedian and British sitcom star Richard Beckinsale, died in his sleep when the Oxford-educated beauty was only 5. The loss threw her into a deep depression that lasted well into her teen years when she also withered to just 70 pounds after developing anorexia. After four years of almost daily therapy, she'd healed enough to join the family business in the early '90s, focusing first on English projects like Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing, Cold Comfort Farm and a TV adaptation of Emma before going abroad to work on
