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KATE BOSWORTH BIOGRAPHY
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Kate Bosworth was born on January 2, 1983. She is an
American actress. Bosworth starred in the television series
Young Americans, in which she played Bella Banks. She became
known with a leading role in 2002's Blue Crush. The
following year, Bosworth played the teenage girlfriend of
porn star John Holmes in Wonderland opposite Val Kilmer. In
2004, she portrayed Sandra Dee in Kevin Spacey's Beyond the
Sea. Bosworth since appeared in several notable films,
including Superman Returns (2006), where she played Lois
Lane, and 2008's blackjack drama film 21. In 2008, she
became both Calvin Klein Jeans newest model and spokeswoman
for Coach newest luxury bags.
Kate Bosworth was born January 2, 1983 in Los Angeles,
California. She is the only child of Patricia (née Potter),
a homemaker, and Harold Bosworth, a former executive for
Talbots. At the age of six, Bosworth's family relocated from
San Francisco to various parts of the country due to her
father's job. She was raised mainly on the East Coast,
spending the rest of her youth in Massachusetts and
Connecticut.
Kate Bosworth has always been interested in a professional
career as a competitive horse racer and, by the age of
fourteen, she was a champion equestrian. She graduated from
Cohasset High School, in Cohasset, Massachusetts, in 2001.
Kate Bosworth, born with heterochromia iridum, has a hazel
right eye and a blue left eye.
Kate Bosworth's first film role came after an open casting
call in New York for the supporting part of Judith in the
1998 film, The Horse Whisperer. The film's producers needed
someone who was already an experienced horse rider, leading
to Bosworth's successful audition for the role. The film
received positive reception from film critics. In 2000, she
starred in the television series drama Young Americans, in
which she played Bella Banks. The series, however, was
canceled. That same year, she had a small part in the film
Remember the Titans. In 2001, Bosworth moved to Los Angeles
in hopes of obtaining easier access to auditions and better
film parts.
The breakthrough role in Kate Bosworth's career came in the
2002 surfing movie Blue Crush, which she prepared for by
working out with two separate trainers six hours a day for
months in order to add fifteen pounds of muscle to her frame.[citation
needed] In his review of the film, Rolling Stone's Peter
Travers wrote: "Bosworth is a star in the making, but even
she can't outshine the surfing footage, which is flat-out
spectacular." The film received positive reviews and grossed
$40 million at the United States box office. Following the
success of Blue Crush, Bosworth took on roles in the indie
films The Rules of Attraction (2002), and a darker turn in
Wonderland (2003) opposite Val Kilmer, where she played the
teenage girlfriend of porn star John Holmes.
In 2004, Kate Bosworth played the lead role in Win a Date
with Tad Hamilton!, opposite Topher Grace. The film was
critically and financially unsuccessful. Also in 2004,
Bosworth depicted actress Sandra Dee in Beyond the Sea. The
movie received mixed reception, and was a box office
disappointment. The following year, Bosworth portrayed Chali,
a Hare Krishna, in the film adaptation of Myla Goldberg's
novel Bee Season (2005), about a dysfunctional Jewish
family. She has appeared in several Revlon ads and ranked as
number 60 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005"
list. For two years running, she has placed on the Maxim Hot
100 List – number 38 in 2005 and number 8 in 2006.
Kate Bosworth was cast as reporter Lois Lane in Bryan
Singer's superhero film Superman Returns (2006). She starred
along with her Beyond the Sea co-star Kevin Spacey as Lex
Luthor, as well as newcomer Brandon Routh as Superman. The
film was a box office success and received mostly positive
reviews. Bosworth's performance however, was not well
received among critics; Anthony Lane of The New Yorker noted,
"The new Lois Lane, Kate Bosworth, is not a patch on Margot
Kidder, or, for that matter, on Teri Hatcher, in the TV
series." San Francisco Chronicle film critic Mick LaSalle
felt that Bosworth, at 22-years-old, was too young to
portray Lois Lane, and the climax did not "match the
potential of the tiring 154 minute long film". Although
Bosworth's performance was ambivalently received, she
herself loved the experience of working on the movie. As she
told Teen Vogue in August 2006, "You know how you have an
experience, a time in your life when you feel you've come
into your own? When you grow up a bit, and think, Now I get
it? [...] That's how I feel. I feel a little bit more
complete." Superman Returns was a commercial and critical
success. The movie grossed $52 million during its opening
weekend in North America and went on to earn $391 million
worldwide.
Kate Bosworth starred as Louise in the psychological drama
called The Girl in the Park with Sigourney Weaver,
Alessandro Nivola and Keri Russell, written and directed by
Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn in his directorial debut.
The film premiered at the 2007 Toronto International Film
Festival, it has since been picked up by The Weinstein
Company. Alissa Simon of Variety wrote that Bosworth "tries
her best, but her character's too extremely drawn." Bosworth
also filmed 21, an adaptation of the book Bringing Down the
House, in early 2007 in Boston, Massachusetts and Las Vegas,
Nevada. This film reunites her with co-star Kevin Spacey and
director Robert Luketic. 21 garnered mixed reviews, with
Joanne Kaufman of the Wall Street Journal concluding, "Very
little adds up in 21."
Her next film is the epic The Warrior's Way, which she shot
in New Zealand alongside Korean star Jang Dong-gun and
Geoffrey Rush. She has also optioned the film rights to
Catherine Hanrahan's novel Lost Girls and Love Hotels. She
will produce the project alongside filmmaker Nadia Connors.
She has said about her roles, "I just don't do comfort zones."
In January 2008, Bosworth was named the new face for Calvin
Klein Jeans and will be featured in the Calvin Klein Jeans
campaign. She also takes on the role of spokesperson for
American luxury bag brand Coach in Asia.
Kate Bosworth has a jewelry line designed with friend and
celebrity stylist, Cher Coulter, called JewelMint, which
launched in October 2010. JewelMint, the first vertical of
MySpace co-founder, Josh Berman, and Diego Berdakin’s social
commerce company, BeachMint, is a new jewelry site with
designs exclusively by Coulter and Bosworth. The two paired
with the company to create a line of affordable fashion
jewelry.
In 2011 Kate Bosworth made her singing debut in a Cotton
Incorporated's Fabric of My Life advertisement. She appeared
in the short film "Lov" which was filmed in Slovenia and
launched fashion designer Vanessa Bruno’s Fall 2011 campaign.
Kate Bosworth was accepted to Princeton University in late
2000, but because of continual deferral of her attendance,
her acceptance was later revoked. She is a member of the
Appalachia Service Project.
Kate Bosworth dated actor Orlando Bloom from spring 2002 to
2005. She was reported to have split from Alexander
Skarsgård, in July 2011 after two years of dating. Around
the same time, she began dating director Michael Polish. |
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