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Nama : Katie Holmes
Birth Name : Kate Noelle Holmes
Birth Date : 12/18/1978
Birth Place : Toledo, Ohio, USA
Height : 5' 9"
Sex : F
Nationality : American
Occupation : Actress
Father : Martin Joseph Holmes, Sr.
Mother : Kathleen A. Holmes
Spouse : Tom Cruise (actor, since 18-Nov-06)
Relation : Joshua Jackson (actor, 1998-1999), Chris Klein (actor, engaged in 2004)
Claim Fame : As Joey Potter in TV series "Dawson's Creek" (1998-2003)
Katie Holmes (born December 18, 1978) is an American actress best known as Joey Potter on Dawson's Creek .
Born Katherine Noelle Holmes in Toledo, Ohio, she was the youngest of
the five children of Martin, an attorney, and Kathleen Holmes. She
attended Catholic schools in Toledo, including the all-female Notre
Dame Academy. While in high school, she went with her mother to Los
Angeles to audition for pilots for television shows. She did not land a
television role, but was cast as the improbably named Libbets Casey in
the film The Ice Storm (1997), directed by Ang Lee and starring Kevin
Kline and Sigourney Weaver.
She returned to Toledo but her audition tapes continued to circulate.
One reached the producers of a new show created by Kevin Williamson for
Columbia Tri-Star Television: Dawson's Creek. Her appointment to read
for it was unknowingly set by the producers for the same day as her
high school production of Damn Yankees (she was playing Lola), but they
permitted her to send a videotape rather than make her miss the show.
Holmes read for the part of Joey, the tomboyish best friend of the
title character, while her mother read Dawson's lines, including
dialogue about sex and masturbation. Holmes won the part. Williamson
said "She had those eyes, those eyes just stained with loneliness."
"I'm a lot like Joey," she said. "I think they saw that. I come from a
small town. I was a tomboy. Joey tries to be articulate and deny that
she doesn't have a lot of experience in life. Her life parallels mine,
which is all about new everything--relationships, personnel,
perceptions--and about being guarded." Dawson's Creek filmed its first
season in the spring and summer of 1997. Holmes moved to Wilmington,
North Carolina, where the show filmed, and for a time lived with
creator Williamson.
At 5'9" (some sources say 5'7"), the tall brunette enchanted the press.
"The Audrey Hepburn of her generation," was one typical comment.
Variety, reviewing the pilot, said Holmes "is a confident young
performer who delivers her lines with slyness and conviction." So good
was Holmes that The New York Times Magazine would claim everyone in
Hollywood was looking for the "Katie Holmes type" when casting shows.
"The Katie Holmes type," the reporter claimed, "is a throwback to the
1950's: she is a smart girl next door (as opposed to the babe-o-rama
blondes)"--the sort represented by her Dawson's Creek co-star Michelle
Williams. But her "type" was no less attractive, Arena magazine
declaring her "the most coquettishly sexy woman on television.
Anywhere."
Dawson's Creek ran from 1998 to 2003 and Holmes was the only actor to
appear in all 128 episodes. "It was very difficult for me to leave
Wilmington, to have my little glass bubble burst and move on. I hate
change. On the other hand it was refreshing to play someone else," she
said in 2004. Holmes confirmed that, as is often the case on soaps, the
character is a cariacature of the actor: "I miss her spirit, and her
spunk, and I miss her anxiety. She always had these long sppeches about
her fears and her future and love. It was a great tool for me
personally because I got to get it all out. I was able to psychoanalyze
all of it everyday with her and then I wouldn't have to do it on my
own. So much of me is in Joey and it really felt like I grew up on
television."
Holmes' movie career has not been as successful as the show. While she
often draws great notices, her films have tended to be badly reviewed
or box office duds. Her first starring part came in Disturbing Behavior
(1998), a Stepford Wives-goes-to-high school thriller where she was a
loner from the wrong side of the tracks. Holmes won a MTV Movie Award
for Best Breakthrough Performance for the role, though Holmes said the
film was "just horrible". Next she was a disaffected supermarket clerk
in Doug Liman's stylish ensemble piece Go (1999). She had an uncredited
cameo with Dawson's Creek co-star Joshua Jackson in Muppets in Space
(1999), which was also filmed in Wilmington. Kevin Williamson's
disaffection for his own high school days spawned Teaching Mrs. Tingle
(1999), which he wrote and directed. Holmes played a straight-A student
whose vindictive teacher threatens to keep her from a desperately
needed scholarship.
In Wonder Boys (2000), the film version of the Michael Chabon novel,
she had a small role (six and one-half minutes of screen time) as the
tenant--and object of lust--of her English professor, played by Michael
Douglas. In The Gift (2000), a Southern Gothic story directed by Sam
Raimi and starring Cate Blanchett, she played the antithesis of Joey
Potter: a slutty rich girl carrying on with everyone in town, from a
white trash wife-beater to the district attorney, and who winds up dead
for her trouble. Holmes did her first nude scene for the film and said
"I just hope there aren't a lot of pauses on DVD players." Her
appearance deshabile was lamented by Variety's Steven Kloter: "It seems
the only time we see a naked woman on screen is when someone like Katie
Holmes needs to break with her sanitized WB past and march brazenly
into a new future."
Holmes was the mistress of the public relations flack played by Colin
Farrell in Phone Booth (2002) and Robert Downey, Jr.'s nurse in The
Singing Detective (2002).
Her next starring role was in Pieces of April (2003), a gritty comedy
about a dysfunctional family on Thanksgiving. Variety said it was "one
of her best film perfs." In Abandon (2003), written by Oscar winner
Stephen Gaghan, Holmes was a delusional and homicidal college student
named "Katie." Roger Ebert commended Holmes' performance and the film's
intelligence, but other critics and audiences savaged it.
Holmes played the president's daughter in First Daughter, which was
originally to be released in January 2004 on the same day as Chasing
Liberty, the Mandy Moore film about a presidential daughter, but was
ultimately released in September 2004 to dismal reviews and ticket
sales. First Daughter, directed by Forest Whitaker, also starred
Michael Keaton as Holmes's father and Mark Blucas as her love interest.
Forthcoming is her appearance in the latest installment of the Batman
franchise, Batman Begins. Entertainment Weekly reported in its December
17, 2004 issue that Holmes was to play the murdered wife of Spade
Cooley in a biopic written, directed, and starring Dennis Quaid.
Holmes hosted Saturday Night Live on February 24, 2001, participating
in a hilarious send-up of Dawson's Creek where she falls madly in love
with Chris Kattan's Mr. Peepers character and singing "Hey, Big
Spender" from Damned Yankees. She was Punk'd by Ashton Kutcher in
November 2003. Holmes was annually named by FHM magazine as one of the
sexiest women in the world from 1999 forward [2]
(http://metalbunny.net/girlz/hotlist.php?list=fhmuk) and was named one
of People's "50 Most Beautiful People" in its May 12, 2003 issue. Teen
People declared her one of the "25 Hottest Stars Under 25" in its
June/July 2003 issue. She has appeared in advertisements for Garnier
Lumia shampoos and The Gap.
Holmes is (as of late 2004) engaged to actor Chris Klein, a loss
lamented by both sexes: GQ 's Adam Rapoport wrote she was "more the
girl you want to take home to your parents than the girl you want to
take home", while Allure 's Judith Newman wrote "I want to bring her
home to meet my parents. But then, who doesn't?"