Beautiful Kate Bosworth stars in the thriller Coyotes alongside real-life hubby Justin Long — with their characters taking on a pack of crazed canines during an L.A. firestorm. The flick is the couple’s first together since tying the knot in 2023. But they’re no strangers to the horror genre, having previously shared the screen in House of Darkness.
Here are 10 things you don’t know about Kate.
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1. The L.A. native spent most of her childhood on the East Coast — living primarily in Connecticut and Massachusetts.
2. She was born with the hereditary condition heterochromia iridium, having a hazel-colored right iris and a blue left iris.
3. As a teen, she was a champion equestrian, a skill which helped her win her first film role, in 1998’s The Horse Whisperer.
4. She was admitted to Princeton University — but her acceptance was revoked after her repeated deferrals.
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5. To play a buff surfer in 2002’s Blue Crush, she did weight training and gained 15 pounds of muscle.
6. In 2011, she was contracted to sing the television jingle for Cotton Incorporated’s Fabric of My Life advertisement.
7. She opened the Montana Institute of the Arts, a summer school for filmmaking students, with her then-husband, director Michael Polish, in 2018 — three years before they separated.
8. Kate, 42, and Justin, 47, welcomed their first child in July — a daughter born via surrogate.
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9. She’s a practicing Buddhist, reportedly following the Mahayana tradition.
10. The big-time football fan roots for the Dallas Cowboys.