Maria Conchita Alonso

Maria Conchita Alonso (born June 29, 1957) is an actress who appeared on the TV reality show I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here! in 2003 and has appeared in movies like The Running Man. In June 2003, she became engaged to the director of Underworld, Len Wiseman, and the two were wed in May 2004 in Bel-Air, California. Beckinsale and actor Michael Sheen have a daughter, Lily, but they are no longer together. Since then she has played in several major movies, but has also appeared in television films and on the stage. There she decided to quit university and concentrate on her acting career.

She spent her last year of studies in Paris, where she was acquainted with the French culture. This was her big breakthrough in movies and opened doors to work in several other films, which she did whilst at Oxford. During her first year at Oxford, Beckinsale was offered a part in Kenneth Branagh's big-screen film, Much Ado About Nothing, adapted from Shakespeare's famous comedy of the same name. In interviews she commented that she felt the university background would be better for her than attending a school of performing arts.

Beckinsale then began studying French and Russian literature at New College, Oxford University. The film was also broadcast in America at the end of that year. In 1991 she played a role in a television film about World War II, through which she became widely known by the British public. After finishing school in London, she gradually began acting, thus following in the footsteps of her parents.

Her father died in 1979, at the age of 31. She is the daughter of British television actors Richard Beckinsale and Judy Loe, and her birth name is Kate Beckinsale Loe. Kate Beckinsale (born July 26, 1973) is an English actress. Much Ado About Nothing (1993).

Prince of Jutland (1994). Haunted (1996). Cold Comfort Farm (1996). Emma (1997).

The Last Days Of Disco (1998). Shooting Fish (1998). Brokedown Palace (1999). Serendipity (2001).

Pearl Harbor (2001). Laurel Canyon (2002). Underworld (2003). Van Helsing (2004).

The Aviator (2004).