Kate Beahan
Born: Perth, Australia
The actress first attracted attention as the bitchy air hostess opposite Jodie Foster's terrified mother in the thriller Flightplan.
She made her big screen debut in 1999 in the romantic comedy Strange Planet alongside Naomi Watts and also appeared in Chopper, the biopic of criminal Mark Read.
"If you do things that interest or inspire you then that's the way to do it, because otherwise you just don't have any guide,"
Subsequent appearances included the horror yarn Lost Souls, adventure comedy The Crocodile Hunter and she played a coat check girl in The Matrix Revolutions.
In 2005, she landed her breakthrough role in the airborne thriller Flightplan alongside Foster and Sean Bean.
