Kate Bosworth in 21 movie

Birth Name
Catherine Ann Bosworth
Nickname
Katie

                                                                                                                                                           
Height
5′ 5″ (1.65 m)
Mini Biography
Unlike the characters Kate Bosworth has portrayed in television and in film which are known as “townies”, Kate spent most of her childhood in different cities and states. At age 6, she and her parents moved to San Francisco, then to Connecticut at 9, and to Cohasset, Massachusetts, at 14. It was at 14 that Kate, a champion equestrian, learned of a casting call for a movie about horses.

Although Kate attended the open audition in New York for the Robert Redford film The Horse Whisperer (1998) simply in hopes of getting the experience of what it was like to audition for a movie role, she won the role of the female lead’s best friend and the chance to work with director/star Robert Redford. Her previous acting experience had consisted of singing at county fairs in California and acting in a community theatre production of “Annie”. However, since landing the movie role, Kate seemed to be in more sound stages than ranches. Fearful that an early career would rob her of her childhood, she took 18 months off to live a normal life before opting to plunge into acting again. In 2000, she landed the role of the bratty sister in the feature film The Newcomers (2000) and the part of a football co-captain’s girlfriend in the Denzel Washington movie Remember the Titans (2000).

Throughout high school, Kate maintained academic excellence and was an honour roll student and a member of National Honour Society. In her spare time, she has volunteered with various non-profit organisations, including a Los Angeles program for physically challenged children who learn to ride horses with assistance.

Career
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. She subsequently had a small part in the 2000 film Remember the Titans. In 2001, Bosworth moved to Los Angeles in hopes of obtaining easier access to auditions and better film parts. Her first leading role was in 2002’s 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. The film received positive reviews and grossed $40 million at the United States box office,allowing Bosworth wider exposure to a mainstream audience.

After Blue Crush, Bosworth took on roles in the indie films The Rules of Attraction and a darker turn in Wonderland opposite Val Kilmer, where she played the teenage girlfriend of legendary porn star John Holmes. Between 2002 and 2005, Bosworth appeared in a number of widely released films. She starred as actress Sandra Dee in Beyond the Sea and played the lead role in Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!, opposite Topher Grace. Bosworth also portrayed Chali, a Hare Krishna, in a film adaptation of Myla Goldberg’s acclaimed novel Bee Season, about a dysfunctional Jewish family. She has appeared in several Revlon ads and ranked as #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 - #38 in 2005 and #8 in 2006.

After going through many screen tests and competing with other actresses for the role, she was cast as reporter Lois Lane in the highly anticipated adaptation to the Superman comics, Superman Returns. She starred along with her Beyond the Sea co-star Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor, as well as newcomer Brandon Routh as Superman. She was in plans to star in a film called Seasons of Dust directed by former co-star Tim Blake Nelson with her then-boyfriend Orlando Bloom, but the movie was dropped after their relationship ended.

Bosworth starred in the psychological drama called The Girl in the Park with Sigourney Weaver, Alessandro Nivola and Keri Russell. She plays Louise, a trouble young girl taken under Weaver’s character’s wing. The Girl in the Park was written and directed by Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn in his directorial debut. Filming began in November 2006 and was completed December 21, 2006. The film premiered at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival, and is expected to hit theaters towards the end of 2007 to possibly an early 2008 release.

Bosworth also filmed 21  in early 2007 in Boston, Massachusetts and Las Vegas, Nevada starring up and coming actor Jim Sturgess. This is the film adaptation of the book Bringing Down the House, and reunites her with co-star Kevin Spacey and director Robert Luketic. Next, Bosworth is attached to star in After.Life, a supernatural thriller by writer/director Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo set to begin shooting in late 2007. Follwing After.Life she takes the lead in the film adaptation of Paulo Coelho’s best selling novel Veronika Decides to Die to be directed by British director Emily Young. She has also recently bought the film rights to Catherine Hanrahan’s novel Lost Girls and Love Hotels, about a young woman looking to escape in Tokyo’s seedy nightlife. She will produce the project along side friend Nadia Connors.

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