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Puzzle #804: Kate Beckinsale → Clint Eastwood

Wednesday, October 28, 2026

Kate BeckinsaleKate BeckinsalePhoto: Gerald Geronimo, CC BY-SA 2.0 · source
Clint EastwoodClint EastwoodPhoto: Raffi Asdourian, CC BY 2.0 · source

On Wednesday, October 28, 2026, the daily puzzle asked players to link Kate Beckinsale and Clint Eastwood. The two have never been credited in the same movie or show, so there's no one-move answer. But 22 actors have worked with both of them, so it can be done in just 2 moves.

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The shortest solution

Show the 2-move answer (spoiler)
  1. Kate Beckinsale as Lieutenant Evelyn Johnson in Pearl Harbor (2001), which also stars John Pyper-Ferguson.
  2. John Pyper-Ferguson in Unforgiven (1992), alongside Clint Eastwood as William "Bill" Munny.

The full chain: Kate Beckinsale → Pearl Harbor (2001) → John Pyper-Ferguson → Unforgiven (1992) → Clint Eastwood.

Other ways to solve it

Show 3 more 2-move routes (spoilers)
  • Kate Beckinsale → The Aviator (2004) → Kenneth Welsh → Absolute Power (1997) → Clint Eastwood
  • Kate Beckinsale → Absolutely Anything (2015) → Eric Idle → Casper (1995) → Clint Eastwood
  • Kate Beckinsale → The Number 23 (2007) → Jim Carrey → The Dead Pool (1988) → Clint Eastwood

About Kate Beckinsale

Born
July 26, 1973 in Chiswick, United Kingdom
Film career
1993–2025
Credits
47 movies and 2 TV series listed on Wikidata

Best-known films, which are often the quickest places to start a chain:

About Clint Eastwood

Born
May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, United States
Film career
1955–2022
Credits
65 movies and 1 TV series listed on Wikidata

Best-known films, which are often the quickest places to start a chain: