Patsy Kensit

In 2004 Kensit joined the cast of British soap opera Emmerdale, playing the role of Sadie King, and also regularly featured in the third series of Channel 4's Bo Selecta. She has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6381 Hollywood Blvd. Her last starring role was in the Newcastle based flop The One and Only which failed to get wide distribution. Her single marriage, to director Goffredo Alessandrini, did not last long. They divorced in 2000. Magnani had celebrated love affairs, with director Roberto Rossellini and with actor Massimo Serato, with whom she had a son, who was stricken with polio. Kensit and Gallagher had a son, Lennon, named after John Lennon. She also starred in The Secret of Santa Vittoria.

During her second marriage she gave birth to her first child, James. In 1997 she married Liam Gallagher from Oasis. In 1957, she was nominated for Best Actress for Wild is the Wind. In 1992 she married Jim Kerr, lead singer of Simple Minds. In 1955 she went to Hollywood, and starred in the film version of Tennessee Williams' The Rose Tattoo, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. In 1988 she married Dan Donovan of band Big Audio Dynamite. She attended the Academy of Dramatic Art in Rome, paying her way by working at nightclubs and cabarets. She had a small part in a silent film, Scampolo, in 1928, but did not become well-known until the 1940s, starring in Vittori DiSica's Teresa Venerdì and in Roma, città aperta (Open City). All her husbands have been musicians. When she was abandoned by her mother at an early age, Anna was raised by her maternal grandmother.

Patsy has been married three times. Born in Rome (although some biographies say Egypt), she was born illegitimate, and never knew who her father was. Kensit attracted ridicule for stating in an interview that she was a serious actress and did not trade just on her looks before doing gratuitous nude in three films back to back. Anna Magnani (March 7, 1908 - September 26, 1973) was an Italian actress. Another notable film role was in Lethal Weapon 2 (1989), in which she played Rika van den Haas, the South African consulate secretary that cop Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) falls in love with. The film was critically panned and was also box office flop.

Her big break came in 1986 when she was selected to play Crepe Suzette, the female lead in the movie Absolute Beginners, with David Bowie as her co-star. The band had three Top 40 singles ("Stay with me", "I'm not scared" and "Cross My Heart") but television appearances on programmes like Top of the Pops gave much needed exposure to Kensit. In 1985 Kensit was the lead singer of band Eighth Wonder. In 1974 she had her first role in a movie; The Great Gatsby starring Mia Farrow.

Aged only four, she appeared in a television advert for Birds Eye Peas. It soon became clear that Patsy was to become an actress. She was born Patsy Jude Kensit in Hounslow, London, with Reggie Kray as her godfather. She has starred in several prominent films but is perhaps more well-known for her three celebrity marriages.

Patsy Kensit (born March 4, 1968) is a British actress.