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• At the early age of six, a school report found she had the reading age of an 11-year-old.

• She won several writing competitions in her teens for her short stories and poems.

• She was accepted into New Oxford College, where she studied French and Russian literature for three years.

• She also speaks German, Russian and French fluently.

Kate Beckinsale has a killer British accent and she plays a sexy vampire in the movie “Underworld.” What’s not to like?