She initially came to prominence in the 1990s for her roles in costume dramas such as Cold Comfort Farm, Much Ado About Nothing and Emma. Following a breakout performance in 2001's Pearl Harbor, Her father unexpectedly died from a heart attack in 1979 when she was just five years old. Her mother later married director Roy Battersby, and Beckinsale was raised alongside his four sons and daughter.She also has a paternal half-sister, actress Samantha Beckinsale.
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She had a nervous breakdown and developed anorexia at the age of fifteen and underwent Freudian psychoanalysis for four years. She studied French