Kate Beahan Biography
Hollywood's Australian import Kate Beahan first established herself by essaying two back-to-back A-list roles as a seemingly innocent young woman with satanically evil hidden agendas. She played the stewardess kidnapper Stephanie (Peter_Sarsgaard's accomplice) in German helmer Robert_Schwentke's thriller Flightplan (2005), and followed it up with the role of the former girlfriend, Willow, who uses the story of a "missing child" to lure Nicolas_Cage's Edward Malus straight into a funeral pyre, in Neil LaBute's disappointing horror remake, The_Wicker_Man (2006).
Born in the late 1970s in Perth, Australia, Beahan landed her first major cinematic role on her native soil, as Tanya the brothel keeper, in Chopper (2000), Andrew_Dominik's biopic about the notorious, psychotically violent Aussie criminal Mark "Chopper" Read. When Beahan transitioned to Hollywood shortly thereafter -- using the Chopper role as her ticket to representation -- casting agents typed her as an "exotic," and thus frequently asked her to audition in competition with such actresses as Eva_Mendes, perhaps because they were unsure how to "pigeonhole" her. Beahan landed her first bit part in an A-lister as The Coat Check Girl in 2003's The_Matrix_Revolutions, and appeared alongside Jodie_Foster, Sean_Bean, and Peter_Sarsgaard in Flightplan. The role of Willow in The_Wicker_Man followed, as did an appearance in Asif_Kapadia's supernatural thriller The_Return, with Sarah_Michelle_Gellar as a Midwestern girl plagued by otherworldly visions. Beahan also appears in neophyte director Abe_Levy's 2007 drama One of Our Own, a Baby_M-like story about the struggle between an infertile couple and a surrogate mother (Beahan) who has agreed to birth their child. Nathan Southern, Rovi
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