Kate Beckinsale:Five Fun Fact

1 Kate Beckinsale, the daughter of two actors, once entertained dreams of becoming a writer and twice won Britain's W.H. Smith Young Writer's competition.
2 Not a fan of gratuitous nude scenes, Kate Beckinsale once urinated into the Thermos of a director who browbeat her into doing a nude scene in one of her early films.
3 When asked by Glamour whose body she would switch with for a day, Kate Beckinsale answered: "Someone with gigantic real breasts, like Queen Latifah...If I had them, I'd run up and down a flight of stairs!"
4 In her late teens, Kate Beckinsale appeared in a training video for industrial safety, playing a factory worker who runs down a corridor, skids on cleaning fluid and becomes a paraplegic.
5 Kate Beckinsale wears three rings on her wedding finger to signify her family: herself, husband Len Wiseman and daughter Lily. "It's a cunning way of getting more ice if I have any more children," she told PEOPLE. "It's completely calculated."