Katherine Heigl

Katherine Marie Heigl (born November 24, 1978) is an Emmy Award-winning American actress best known for her roles in Roswell, Grey's Anatomy, Knocked Up and 27 Dresses.

Heigl (pronounced /ˈhaɪɡəl/^[1]) was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Nancy, a personal manager, and Paul Heigl, a financial executive/accountant.^[2] Heigl has Swiss-German and Irish ancestry,^[3] and was raised a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.^[4][5][6] She is the youngest of four children (in addition to siblings Meg, Jason, and Holt).^[7] Heigl lived in Virginia and then Denver before her family settled in Connecticut, where they moved into a large, old Victorian-style farmhouse in the wealthy town of New Canaan, where she spent most of her childhood.^[8]

In 1986, her older brother Jason died of injuries suffered in a car accident, after being thrown from the back of a pickup truck while out for lunch with some of his high school classmates. Following his death, the family decided to donate his organs.^[9] Afterwards, their parents converted to Mormonism (prior to that her mother was Lutheran and her father Catholic).^[7] Heigl is now a strong proponent of organ donation.^[10] Although she is no longer a practicing Mormon, she remains positive on several aspects of the religion,^[11] and has expressed interest in returning to her faith..^[12]

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Kate Beckinsale

Kathryn Bailey "Kate" Beckinsale^[1] (born 26 July, 1973) is an English actress, known for her roles in the films Pearl Harbor (2001), Underworld (2003), Van Helsing (2004), and The Aviator (2004).

Born in Finsbury Park, London,^[2] Beckinsale is the daughter of actor Richard Beckinsale, who died from a heart attack in 1979, and actress Judy Loe. She has a paternal half-sister, Samantha, who is also an actress. Beckinsale's paternal great-grandfather was Burmese, and Beckinsale has said that she was "very oriental-looking" as a child.^[3]

Beckinsale attended the private Godolphin and Latymer School, an all-girls independent school in London.^[4] In her teens, Beckinsale twice won the W. H. Smith Young Writers' competition — once for three short stories and once for three poems.^[5] After a rebellious adolescence, including a period of anorexia and starting a smoking habit, she followed in the footsteps of her parents and began her acting career. Her first role was in One Against the Wind, a television film about World War II that was first aired in 1991. Having gained three language A levels, Beckinsale studied French and Russian literature at New College, Oxford, though she did not finish her degree.^[5] She thought that having an academic background studying foreign language and literature would broaden her range of acting roles.

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