Kate Bosworth

Kate Bosworth
Bosworth at the Deauville Film Festival, 2011
Born	Catherine Ann Bosworth (1983-01-02) January 2, 1983 (age 34) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Occupation	Actress, model
Years active	1997–present
Spouse(s)	Michael Polish (m. 2013)

Catherine Ann "Kate" Bosworth (born January 2, 1983) is an American actress and model. She made her film debut in The Horse Whisperer (1998) and appeared in Remember the Titans (2000), before landing a lead role as a teenage surfer in the box-office hit Blue Crush (2002).

She also had roles in independent films, playing Dawn Schiller in the true crime film Wonderland (2003), and as Sandra Dee in the Bobby Darin biographical drama Beyond the Sea (2004). She also portrayed Lois Lane in Superman Returns (2006), and has had roles in Straw Dogs (2011) and Still Alice (2014).

Bosworth was born on January 2, 1983, in Los Angeles, California. She is the only child of Patricia (née Potter), a homemaker, and Harold Bosworth, a former executive for Talbots. She was born with heterochromia iridum, and has a hazel right eye and a blue left eye. At the age of six, Bosworth's family relocated from San Francisco to various parts of the country due to her father's job. She was raised mainly on the East Coast, spending the rest of her youth in Massachusetts and Connecticut.

Bosworth developed an interest in competitive horse racing, and by the age of fourteen, she was a champion equestrian. She graduated from Cohasset High School, in Cohasset, Massachusetts, in 2001.

Bosworth's first film role came after an open casting call in New York for the supporting part of Judith in the 1998 film, The Horse Whisperer. The film's producers needed someone who was already an experienced horse rider, leading to Bosworth's successful audition for the role. The film received positive reception from film critics. In 2000, she starred in the television series drama Young Americans, in which she played Bella Banks. The series, however, was canceled. 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.