Biografia

Aged six, a school report found she had the reading age of an eleven-year-old and an IQ of 152.

Spent her teens reading French, Russian and German novels because of her studies, and completed A-levels in Russian, German and French, which resulted in her admission to Oxford University.

Mother, with ex-boyfriend Michael Sheen (they dated from 1995 to 2003), of daughter Lily Mo Sheen (b. January 31, 1999).

Is known for her love of jokes and pranks, usually at the expense of her co-stars.

Director Stephen Sommers wanted Kate for the role of "Anna Valerious" in Van Helsing (2004). But Stephen feared that it was too similar in tone to Underworld (2003), a film that Kate started and was filming at the time. Eventually, her agent got Sommers to send the script and Kate immediately signed on.

If someone had told me years ago that sharing a sense of humour was so vital to partnerships, I could have avoided a lot of sex!

No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.

Everybody likes the underdog, because everybody feels like the underdog. No matter how successful you are, you always think, No one's being nice enough to me!

I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person.