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"The Widow" star Kate Beckinsale, who is English, says that before "Underworld," the perception of her was "we can smell crumpets when she walks in the room." Quickly after, she says, it became "she looks like she'd go at you with a baseball bat."

Kate Beckinsale says she has always been an animal lover, but when it comes to the age-old cats vs. dogs debate, the actress, 45, has a clear preference.

The British actress has been charming audiences worldwide since she made her television debut at five years old -- and she's picked up a some life lessons along the way.

'Farming' director and star Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, along with co-stars Kate Beckinsale, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Damson Idris, visits IMDb at Toronto, Presented by Land Rover, and explains how he turned his personal story of being raised in a foster family into his directorial debut.

What do you make of a free-thinking young Londoner who loses her famous father at age five, demands to enter Freudian psychoanalysis at nine and wins the W.H. Smith Young Writers Award (twice) while still in high school? A poet? A professor? A mess? Oh, right—an actress. One that British journalist Victoria Coren calls “whip-clever and very charming.”