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.

The actress has said Kate Beckinsale was "embarrassed" that Sheen never proposed but felt as though Kate Beckinsale were married: "If you keep a library book out long enough you feel it's yours. Beckinsale was educated at the fee-paying Godolphin and Latymer School in West London and was involved with the Orange Tree Youth Theatre.

She will next appear in the legal drama The Trials of Cate McCall. She began to seek film work 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) Kate Beckinsale had a break-out year in 2001 with starring roles in the war film Pearl Harbor and the romantic comedy Serendipity. She married American film director Len Wiseman in 2004 and relocated to Brentwood Los Angeles.