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Kate Bosworth
Catherine Anne Bosworth was born on January 2nd, 1983 in Los Angeles, California and was raised in Cohasset, Massachussetts. She is the only child of Patricia, a homemaker, and Harold Bosworth, a former executive for Talbots. After leaving San Francisco at the age of six, Bosworth's family frequently moved around the country because of her father's job. She grew up mainly on the East Coast, spending the rest of her youth in Massachusetts and Connecticut. She sang at country fairs and was in the community theater production of "Annie." However that was not the end of being in the spotlight.
After getting a taste of the spotlight she auditoned for a movie and was casted as the leading girl's best friend in Robert Redford's 1998 movie "The Horse Whisperer." She had intentionally went to the audition of the movie just for the experience of auditioning never realizing she could actually get the part, but she did. Kate took 18 months off because she was afraid that having an early film career would take away from the fun of being a child and went back to her sports where it is said she played varsity soccer and lacrosse and was a champion equestrain.
In 2000, she starred in the television series drama "Young Americans", in which she played Bella Banks. The series, however, was canceled (I'm still bitter about this!!). 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.
Besides being a beauty in the fame spotlight, Kate has got the brains. In school she was part of the National Honor Society and was quite the intellegent student. Still not convinced about her smarts? She graduated from Cohasset High School and was accepted into Princeton Universtity but deferred her acceptance to persue her career. After some time, Kate gave up her spot at Princeton to continue acting.
The breakthrough role in Kate'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. 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, she played the lead role in "Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!", opposite Topher Grace. Also in 2004, Bosworth depicted actress Sandra Dee in "Beyond the Sea." 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.
In 2006, Kate was cast as reporter Lois Lane in Bryan Singer's superhero film "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. The film was a box office success and received mostly positive reviews. "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. Bosworth starred as Louise in the psychological drama called "The Girl in the Park" with Sigourney Weaver, Alessandro Nivola and Keri Russell. The film premiered at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival, it has since been picked up by The Weinstein Company. Kate 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. Her next film was 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.
Kate released ten films between 2011 and 2014, moving away from the big-budget Superman franchise into lower-budget film roles like "Still Alice" with Julianne Moore. Between films Kate has appeared in several modeling campaigns for notable companies such as Revlon, Coach, Cotton, JewelMint, and many more.
On August 31, 2013, Kate married screen writer and film producer Michael Polish. The two met while filming "Big Sur" and it seems like a match made in heaven. We wish them the very best.
Since 2014 Kate has appeared in several other films including "Amnesiac", "90 Minutes in Heaven", "Before I Wake" and most recently "The Domestics". She has also done a few television series including "The Art of More", "SS-GB", and most recently "The Long Road Home".
But the project she has been most passionate about is "Nona." In 2017, husband/wife filmmakers Kate Bosworth and Michael Polish set their next feature project: "Nona," which will put a face to Central America's sex trafficking industry. The story begins in Honduras with a girl from who meets a charming boy named Hecho who promises to get her safely to America to reunite with her mother. Instead, "Nona." faces a perilous journey when he doesn't deliver on that promise. Nona is an acronym, of sorts, for No Name.
