---
name: "Kate Bosworth"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/kate-bosworth"
fi1m_id: "kate-bosworth"
imdb_id: "nm0098378"
tmdb_id: 7517
wikidata_id: "Q236822"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "2 January 1983"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 54
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-10-01T23:10:24.539906+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Kate Bosworth

## Identity

Kate Bosworth

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/kate-bosworth
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** kate-bosworth
- **IMDb ID:** nm0098378
- **TMDB ID:** 7517
- **Wikidata ID:** Q236822
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Bosworth, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q236822, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0098378/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/7517

Actor. Born 2 January 1983 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 2 January 1983, Los Angeles, California, USA
- **Active:** 2006–present
- **Also known as:** Catherine Ann Bosworth, Catherine Bosworth
- **Average Fi1m score:** 54, as actor, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 60 (1), 2010s 50 (2)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 54 to 54 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 0 at 80+, 2 at 60–79, 1 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 2 of 2 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Action 1, Adventure 1, Comedy 1, Drama 1, Science Fiction 1
- **Screen time:** 6 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $468m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Bosworth, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q236822, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0098378/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/7517

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*Superman Returns*](https://film.one/film/superman-returns.md) (60)

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## Fi1m on Kate Bosworth

> Kate Bosworth is most alive on screen when a part asks something of her body, as *Blue Crush* did. Too many of the roles that followed, Lois Lane among them, asked her to stand still and be carried, and she obliged.

Watch *Superman Returns* (2006) and count how often Lois Lane is carried. Kate Bosworth plays the best reporter in Metropolis as brittle and wounded, a woman who has moved on and does not care to be reminded, and that is the right note for a story in which the man she left floats outside her house at night and listens through the walls. But Bryan Singer's film has no use for a Lois who does anything. She is lifted, flown, rescued and set down. There is little warmth between her and Brandon Routh, and when they share the frame it is him we watch, which is not where a love triangle should leave its Lois.

That is an odd fate for an actor who came in through a door most do not use. She got her first part, in Robert Redford's *The Horse Whisperer* (1998), at an open casting call that wanted a girl who could ride, and she could. Her breakthrough, *Blue Crush* (2002), was a surfing drama that asked her to be visibly, physically ready, and that readiness is still the thing most often noticed about her. Since then she has alternated: studio pictures such as *Superman Returns* and *21* (2008); smaller films such as *Wonderland* (2003), *Beyond the Sea* (2004) and *Still Alice* (2014), where she is part of an ensemble built around a central performance; and a later run of horror and thrillers, *Straw Dogs* (2011), *Before I Wake* (2016), *The Domestics* (2018). No single persona has settled on her. We think that is a loss, because what she does well is not hard to see.

The complaint most often made of her Lois was youth: too young, not enough weight next to the Loises people remembered. We do not think youth was the trouble. The brittleness was right. The script handed her a woman to be pitied and protected rather than one who asks questions, and no actor of any age talks her way out of that. Her most frequent collaborator has been the director Michael Polish, five films together, which says something about where she has chosen to spend her working life.

Our honest reaction to her in *Superman Returns* was regret rather than irritation. The wounded note she found is a good one, and we would have liked to see what she did with it in a film that let her put her own feet on the ground. On being cast as Lois she said, “I’m just glad my 'breakout' wasn’t a gigantic film.” The gigantic film came anyway and spent 154 minutes carrying her about. Give us the one where she paddles out.

## Biography

Kate Bosworth is an American actress. She made her film debut in *The Horse Whisperer* (1998) and appeared in *Remember the Titans* (2000) before taking a leading role in *Blue Crush* (2002).

Bosworth portrayed Lois Lane in *Superman Returns* (2006). Subsequent credits include *21* (2008), *Still Alice* (2014), *Homefront* (2013) and a voice role in *Barbarian* (2022). She is also credited as Catherine Ann Bosworth.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Still Alice* (2014), Fi1m 77, as Anna Howland-Jones — [page](https://film.one/film/still-alice.md)
- *Movie 43* (2013), Fi1m 24, as Arlene (segment "iBabe") — [page](https://film.one/film/movie-43.md)
- *Superman Returns* (2006), Fi1m 60, as Lois Lane — [page](https://film.one/film/superman-returns.md)

## Complete filmography (53)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Coyotes* (2025), as Liv Stewart · Executive Producer
- *Bunker* (2025), as Trissa
- *Confidential Informant* (2023), as Anna Moran
- *Bring on the Dancing Horses* (2023), series, as The Woman - La giustiziera
- *Last Sentinel* (2023), as Cassidy
- *The Locksmith* (2023), as Beth Fisher
- *The Enforcer* (2022), as Estelle
- *House of Darkness* (2022), as Mina Murray
- *Barbarian* (2022), as Melissa (voice)
- *The Immaculate Room* (2022), as Kate
- *Along for the Ride* (2022), as Heidi
- *Wild Indian* (2021), as Greta
- *Force of Nature* (2020), as Troy
- *The I-Land* (2019), series, as K.C. · Producer
- *The Devil Has a Name* (2019), as Gigi
- *The Domestics* (2018), as Nina West
- *Nona* (2017), as Detective · Producer
- *SS-GB* (2017), series, as Barbara Barga
- *Life on the Line* (2016), as Bailey Ginner
- *Before I Wake* (2016), as Jessie
- *Hot Bot* (2016), Executive Producer
- *The Art of More* (2015), series, as Roxanna Whitman
- *Heist* (2015), as Sydney
- *90 Minutes in Heaven* (2015), as Eva Piper
- *Amnesiac* (2015), as Woman
- *Still Alice* (2014), as Anna Howland-Jones — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/still-alice.md)
- *Homefront* (2013), as Cassie Bodine Klum
- *Big Sur* (2013), as Billie
- *Movie 43* (2013), as Arlene (segment "iBabe") — Fi1m 24, [page](https://film.one/film/movie-43.md)
- *And While We Were Here* (2012), as Jane
- *Black Rock* (2012), as Sarah
- *Another Happy Day* (2011), as Alice
- *Straw Dogs* (2011), as Amy Sumner
- *L!fe Happens* (2011), as Deena
- *Little Birds* (2011), as Bonnie Muller
- *The Warrior's Way* (2010), as Lynne
- *21* (2008), as Jill Taylor
- *The Girl in the Park* (2007), as Louise
- *Superman Returns* (2006), as Lois Lane — Fi1m 60, [page](https://film.one/film/superman-returns.md)
- *Bee Season* (2005), as Chali
- *Beyond the Sea* (2004), as Sandra Dee (Mrs Darin)
- *Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!* (2004), as Rosalee Futch
- *Wonderland* (2003), as Dawn Schiller
- *The Rules of Attraction* (2002), as Kelly
- *Blue Crush* (2002), as Anne Marie Chadwick
- *Icons* (2002), series, Actor
- *The Newcomers* (2000), as Courtney Docherty
- *Remember the Titans* (2000), as Emma Hoyt
- *Young Americans* (2000), series, as Bella Banks
- *The Horse Whisperer* (1998), as Judith
- *Carrier*, as Sarah Pierson
- *Grave Encounters*, Producer
- *Broken Ones*, as Kathleen Sloane

## Gallery

- ![Kate Bosworth](https://film.one/media/person/465126/gallery-e27310b06790.jpg) Kate Bosworth — Eva Rinaldi, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1e/Kate_Bosworth_5%2C_2012.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Adnan Alkateb With the international star Kate Bosworth (2013)](https://film.one/media/person/465126/gallery-66aac44736c1.jpg) Adnan Alkateb With the international star Kate Bosworth (2013) — Hiamag, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/Adnan_Alkateb_With_the_international_star_Kate_Bosworth.JPG/1280px-Adnan_Alkateb_With_the_international_star_Kate_Bosworth.JPG?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Star of Blue Crush and Superman Returns. April 2016](https://film.one/media/person/465126/gallery-4fe00f0cfc0a.jpg) Star of Blue Crush and Superman Returns. April 2016 — Greg2600, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e1/Kate_Bosworth_%282016%29.jpg/1280px-Kate_Bosworth_%282016%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Star of Blue Crush and Superman Returns. April 2016](https://film.one/media/person/465126/gallery-eb140d583543.jpg) Star of Blue Crush and Superman Returns. April 2016 — Greg2600, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Kate_Bosworth_%282016%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Kate_Bosworth_%282016%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Kate Bosworth](https://film.one/media/person/465126/gallery-31de185ec135.jpg) Kate Bosworth — Image via TMDB
- ![Kate Bosworth](https://film.one/media/person/465126/gallery-43b90659e6ee.jpg) Kate Bosworth — Image via TMDB
- ![Kate Bosworth](https://film.one/media/person/465126/gallery-585113141ca8.jpg) Kate Bosworth — Image via TMDB
- ![Kate Bosworth](https://film.one/media/person/465126/gallery-49ad65d60796.jpg) Kate Bosworth — Image via TMDB
- ![Kate Bosworth](https://film.one/media/person/465126/gallery-071b8cde2b70.jpg) Kate Bosworth — Image via TMDB
- ![Kate Bosworth](https://film.one/media/person/465126/gallery-976ac20f6ddf.jpg) Kate Bosworth — Image via TMDB

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