Early life. Kate Bosworth was born in Los Angeles, California, to Patricia (Potter), a homemaker, and Harold Bosworth, who was an executive for Talbots.
Redford plays the title role, a talented trainer with a remarkable gift for understanding horses, who is hired to help an injured teenager (played by Scarlett Johansson) and her horse back to health following a tragic accident. Bosworth, however, saw her first role in Redford's film, The Horse Whisperer, in which he starred and produced. When Robert Redford offered a young Kate Bosworth a supporting role in his equestrian movie The Horse Whisperer the fledgling actress was flabbergasted. When Kate Bosworth auditioned for Robert Redford's Horse Whisperer, she was so green that she had to use the family Christmas card as her headshot. She was born with heterochromia iridum, and has a hazel right eye and a blue left eye. "She has heterochromia like the Kitty does and her first film role was in The Horse Whisperer with Robert Redford." Bosworth was born in Los Angeles, California, and then raised in San Francisco, California, the only child of Patricia (née Potter), a homemaker, and Harold Bosworth, a former executive for Talbots. Unlike the characters Bosworth has portrayed in television and in film, which are known as "townies", Kate spent most of her childhood in different cities and states. The Horse Whisperer is a 1998 American drama film directed by and starring Robert Redford, based on the 1995 novel The Horse Whisperer by Nicholas Evans. A champion equestrian whose film debut came by chance after she auditioned for a role in Robert Redford's The Horse Whisperer (1998) out of simple curiosity about the film industry, actress Kate Bosworth's inherent natural beauty has perfectly suited her to roles in such earthy films as her aforementioned debut and Blue Crush (2002), which found Bosworth taking the lead as an … Another fan chimed: "@MaskedSingerFOX I’m guessing Kate Bosworth is the Kitty.