Kate Bosworth's Real Name: Kate Bosworth

Quick answer: The actress is known professionally as Kate Bosworth. Encyclopedia.com and TV Insider independently date her birth to January 2, 1983, in Los Angeles, California. They differ on the spelling of a longer form, as noted below (Encyclopedia.com; TV Insider).

Real name and early life

She is known professionally as Kate Bosworth. Encyclopedia.com gives the full name Catherine Anne Bosworth and dates the birth to January 2, 1983, in Los Angeles, CA. TV Insider independently gives the birth name Catherine Ann Bosworth and the same date and place, Los Angeles, California. TV Guide also lists Catherine Ann Bosworth and Los Angeles. This page records both Anne and Ann rather than treating them as the same spelling. A second Encyclopedia.com biography uses the shorter wording "Born Catherine Bosworth" for the same date and city.

That longer Encyclopedia.com profile says she is the only child of Hal, a fashion retailing executive, and Patti Bosworth, and that the family moved often, including to San Francisco when she was six and to Connecticut when she was nine, and that she competed in equestrian events. TV Insider independently says that at 14, with almost no acting experience, she auditioned for Robert Redford's The Horse Whisperer (1998) and was cast in a small role, then chose to finish high school before a fuller acting career. Encyclopedia.com independently says she filmed that debut in eighth grade, as Judith, and later completed school in Cohasset, Massachusetts.

Career highlights

TV Insider says that by her late teens she appeared in Remember the Titans (2000), then made a splash in the surfer romance Blue Crush (2002), later alternating projects such as Wonderland (2003) and Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (2004), and that she was later cast as Lois Lane in Bryan Singer's Superman Returns (2006). Encyclopedia.com independently lists The Horse Whisperer, Remember the Titans, Blue Crush, The Rules of Attraction, Wonderland, Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!, and Superman Returns among her credits, and names an earlier television series, Young Americans, on The WB in 2000. TV Guide independently notes that her childhood riding helped her gain the role in The Horse Whisperer.

Name notes for searchers

People looking up Kate Bosworth, Catherine Anne Bosworth, or Catherine Ann Bosworth are looking for the same American actress. Independent sources agree on the public name and on the January 2, 1983, Los Angeles birth, but they do not agree on a single middle-name spelling.