I used to really want to go on the stage and then the last couple of years I've done some presenting at some award shows. I was so nervous I thought I was going to be sick, so I don't think me on stage for any length of time would work too well.

In 2000 Kate Bosworth starred in the television series drama Young Americans in which Kate Bosworth played Bella Banks. The two paired with the company to create a line of affordable fashion jewelry. The following year Bosworth portrayed Chali a Hare Krishna in the film adaptation of Myla Goldberg's novel Bee Season (2005) about a dysfunctional Jewish family.

In 2004 Kate Bosworth portrayed Sandra Dee in Kevin Spacey's Beyond the Sea. She became known with a leading role in 2002's Blue Crush.