Has a daughter, Lily Sheen (birthday January 31, 1999), with Welsh actor Michael Sheen
Married to: Len Wiseman on May 9, 2004;
Studied French and Russian literature while a student at Oxford;
Studied at New College Oxford, but left to pursue her acting career before completing her degree course;
Her mother, Judy Loe is an actress, and her father, Richard Beckinsale, was famous as a comedy actor;
Attended grade/primary school at Flexlands Private School in London, England, she took ballet there and it was at this young age that her father died of a heart attack;
Half-sister of Samantha Beckinsale;
Half sister-in-law of Richard Trinder
Got the lead female role in Pearl Harbor (2001) after Charlize Theron pulled out to do Sweet November (2001);
Lost out to Juliette Binoche for a part in Wuthering Heights (1992);
Suffers from stomach ulcers;
According to an interview she gave on the UK show "The Big Breakfast" (1992) (December 2001), she hates wearing knickers;
Selected by Hello Magazine as England's Number #1 Beauty.(2002);