Katherine Anne Bosworth[1] (born January 2, 1983)[2] is an American actress. Following minor roles in the films The Horse Whisperer (1998) and Remember the Titans (2000), she had a leading role in movie Blue Crush (2002).
Bosworth was born in Los Angeles[1] and also lived in San Francisco as a child.[3] She is the only child of Patricia (née Potter), a homemaker, and Harold Bosworth, a former executive for Talbots.[4][5] She was born with heterochromia iridum, and has a hazel right iris and a blue left iris.[6] When she was six years old, her 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.[4]
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 producers needed someone who was an experienced horse rider, and Bosworth won the role.[7] The film earned a positive reception from film critics.[10] In 2000, she starred in the television series drama Young Americans as Bella Banks,[11] but it was canceled.[12] That year she had a small part in the film Remember the Titans.[11] In 2001, she moved to Los Angeles to seek better film parts.[4]
Initial success
Bosworth in 2006
Bosworth's breakthrough role came in the 2002 surfing film Blue Crush. She prepared for the role by working with two trainers seven hours a day for months, adding 15 pounds of muscle to her frame.[13] In his review of the film, Rolling Stone's Peter Travers wrote: "Bosworth is a star in the making, but even she can't outshine the surfing footage, which is flat-out spectacular."[14] The film received positive reviews[15][16] and grossed $40 million at the United States box office.[17] Bosworth then took on the lead role in the low-budget Wonderland (2003) opposite Val Kilmer. She played the teenage girlfriend of porn star John Holmes.[11][18]
Bosworth was cast as reporter Lois Lane in Bryan Singer's film Superman Returns (2006),[27] which also starred her Beyond the Sea co-star Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor, and newcomer Brandon Routh as Superman.[28][29] It was a box office success and received mostly positive reviews.[30] Bosworth's performance however, was not well received; Anthony Lane of The New Yorker wrote: "The new Lois Lane, Kate Bosworth, is not a patch on Margot Kidder, or, for that matter, on Teri Hatcher, in the TV series."[31]San Francisco Chronicle film critic Mick LaSalle felt that Bosworth, at age 22, was too young to portray Lane, and that the climax did not "match the potential of the tiring 154 minute long film".[32] Although Bosworth's performance was ambivalently received, she loved working on the movie. In a candid interview with Teen Vogue published in the August 2006 issue, Bosworth expressed her deep affection for the film and described the experience as a transformative period in her life, where she felt a newfound sense of self and completeness.[33] She was eventually nominated for worst supporting actress at the Razzie Awards for the part. The movie grossed $52 million on its opening weekend in North America and went on to earn $391 million worldwide.[34]
In 2006, she optioned the film rights to Catherine Hanrahan's novel Lost Girls and Love Hotels and was set to produce the project with filmmaker Nadia Connors.[41] It was finally made with Alexandra Daddario in the lead role. In 2010, she starred in The Warrior's Way, shot in New Zealand with Korean actor Jang Dong-gun and Geoffrey Rush.[42][43] It was one of 2010's biggest box-office flops, grossing only slightly more than $11,000,000 worldwide against its $42 million budget. Bosworth has said about her roles, "I just don't do comfort zones."[44]
In January 2008, Bosworth was named the new face of Calvin Klein Jeans and appeared in their ad campaigns.[45] She also became the spokesperson for the American luxury bag brand Coach in Asia.[46]
2010s: Fashion and acting
In 2011, Bosworth contracted to sing the television jingle for Cotton Incorporated's "Fabric of My Life" advertisement.[47] On December 4, 2012, Topshop revealed that she was the "secret" woman in the new Topshop Christmas advertisements.[48]
Bosworth designed a jewelry line with friend and celebrity stylist Cher Coulter called JewelMint, which launched in October 2010.[49] The first vertical venture of MySpace co-founder Josh Berman[50] and Diego Berdakin's social commerce company, BeachMint features designs by Coulter and Bosworth.[51]
In 2012, Bosworth was the face of skincare brand SK-II.[52]
She appeared in 10 films between 2011 and 2014, moving away from the big-budget Superman franchise into lower-budget film roles, such as Still Alice with Julianne Moore. The short film Lov, filmed in Slovenia, featured her and launched fashion designer Vanessa Bruno’s fall 2011 campaign.[53]
In September 2018, Bosworth was announced as having the main role of KC on the Netflix science-fiction miniseries The I-Land.[60] It was released on September 12, 2019.[61] That year, she was cast in the sci-fi thriller Genesis.[62]
Activism and honors
In 2018, Bosworth was included in People magazine's list of 25 Women Changing the World.[63] In late 2018, Bosworth and then husband Michael Polish debuted their privately funded film Nona,[64] which focuses on the issues of human trafficking.[65] She works closely with the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking.[66]
Bosworth in Sydney, Australia, in 2012
In 2018, Bosworth and Polish opened the Montana Institute of the Arts, a summer school for filmmaking students.[67]
She had a relationship with actor Orlando Bloom from 2002 to 2005.[70]
In mid-2011, she began dating American director Michael Polish, whom she met earlier that year when he directed her in Big Sur.[71] They announced their engagement in August 2012,[72] and married on August 31, 2013, in Philipsburg, Montana.[73] Bosworth became the stepmother to Jasper, Polish's daughter from a previous marriage, whom Bosworth said was “hands-down the greatest unexpected gift of her life”.[74][67] In August 2021, she announced her separation from Polish.[75] They legally divorced in March 2023.[76]
Bosworth is a Buddhist, following MahayanaBuddhism.[77] She enjoys running and Pilates, and practices meditation.[78]
In January 2022, it was reported that Bosworth was in a relationship with actor Justin Long.[79] In April 2023, the couple confirmed their engagement.[80] A month later, Long indicated that the couple had married.[81]
^Macalister-Smith, Tilly. "The 10 best dressed". Matches Fashion. Archived from the original on June 9, 2013. Retrieved May 31, 2013. LA-born and San Francisco-raised...
^Clinton, Paul (December 17, 2004). "Review: 'Beyond' good, thanks to Spacey". CNN. Archived from the original on August 11, 2015. Retrieved August 15, 2015. As Dee, Bosworth gives a dead-on performance, aging from a 16-year-old ingénue into a 27-year-old woman who has seen and experienced things way beyond her years.
^Lane, Anthony (July 3, 2006). "Kryptology". The New Yorker. newyorker.com. p. 2. Archived from the original on December 20, 2008. Retrieved November 14, 2008.
^"Kate Bosworth new face at Coach". Marie Claire. January 28, 2008. Archived from the original on January 29, 2008. Retrieved July 29, 2008. The trend for celebrity models looks set to continue, with Mischa Barton revealed as the latest face of Iceberg, and Kate Bosworth for Coach.
^"Top Ten celebrity Buddhists". Wildmind Buddhist Meditation. Wildmind.org. June 5, 2007. Archived from the original on August 19, 2011. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
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