• Due to a condition called Heterochromia iridium, Kate Bosworth has two different colored eyes – one is hazel and the other is blue.

• She used a family Christmas card photo as the required headshot for the audition of The Horse Whisperer.

• She is a champion equestrian.

• She wanted to be a waitress on roller skates when she grew up.

• She has been accepted to Princeton University, but she has repeatedly deferred her acceptance probably for the sake of movie career.

• Her previous acting experience had consisted of singing at county fairs in California and acting in a community theater production.

• Fearful that an early career would rob her of her childhood, she took 18 months off to live a normal life before opting to plunge into acting again.

• In her spare time, she volunteers with various non-profit organizations.

• During the filming of Blue Crush, Kate lost her bikini top several times! “When you’re wiped out on a 10-foot wave, it’s going to get ripped off you. It’s just going to happen. So much so that, by the end, I was just: ‘Everybody’s seen it (her bare bod).’”

• On the set of Blue Crush she also came quite close to death – “The most hurt I got is the scene where Matt and I were paddling out on our first time together and his board slammed down on my head when I came out of a duck dive. It slammed down so hard on my head that I got knocked out and had to be taken to the hospital. That was the scariest.”

• In The Rules of Attraction, Kate says about her co-star James Van Der Beek, “He was so sweet. He had to take my pants off, and every time the scene cut, he’d fold them and give them to me. I was like, ‘James, it’s fine. Just give me my pants.’”

• She lived with Michelle Rodriguez and Sanoe Lake for 4 months during the shoot of the movie “Blue Crush”.

• Ian Somerhalder (co-star of “Young Americans “and “The Rules of Attraction”) lists Kate as one of his favorite actors he’s worked with.

• Michelle Rodriguez described her as a hard worker and as a total sweetheart.

• Val Kilmer (co-star of “Wonderland”) said: “this girl can act like crazy”.

• Topher Grace (co-star of “Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!”) said she is a terrific actress.

• Matt Czuchry (co-star of “Young Americans”) said: “Kate is someone who lights up the room. She has this energy and you know she’s a great person. I’m attracted to people with goodness”.

• She wanted the lead role in the indie film Blue Car by Miramax but had to pass it up because there was no guarantee of having two days off for her prom and graduation.

• She was the first choice for the role of Gail (Rosario Dawson) in “Sin City”.

• She was considered for the role of Sue Storm in “Fastastic Four”.

• She was #2 in MSN’s list of Top Ten Kissable Kates.

• Actress Bette Davis played a character named Kate Bosworth in the movie called A Stolen Life (1946).

• She appeared on Victoria’s Secret 2008 “What Is Sexy?” list. She was declared as having the “sexiest eyes”.

• She has a fear of flying and hates spiders.