Katie Holmes Biography

Kate Noelle "Katie" Holmes (born December 18, 1978 in Toledo, Ohio, USA) is an American actress who first achieved fame for her role as Joey Potter on the WB television teen drama "Dawson's Creek" from 1998 to 2003.

Early life

Katie Holmes was born in Toledo, Ohio, the youngest in a family of five children (four daughters, one son) of Kathleen A., a homemaker and a philanthropist, and Martin Joseph Holmes, Sr. (born 1945), a lawyer, an attorney specializing in divorces.

Katie Holmes, baptized a Roman Catholic, attended Christ the King Church and parochial schools in Toledo. Her high school was the all-female Notre Dame Academy. At age fourteen she began classes at a modeling school in Toledo who took her to a New York City talent expo in 1996. There she found an agent after performing a monologue from "To Kill a Mockingbird". An audition tape was sent to the casting director for the 1997 film "The Ice Storm", directed by Ang Lee. She was cast in the role of Libbets Casey, in the film which starred Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver.

Career

In January 1997, Katie Holmes went to Los Angeles for pilot season, when producers cast and shoot new programs, in the hopes of securing a spot on a network schedule. Katie Holmes won the role, as Joey Potter, in "Dawson's Creek" an american primetime television drama which aired from January 20, 1998, to May 14, 2003, on The WB Television Network, and Holmes was the only actor to appear in all 128 episodes.

Her first leading role came in "Disturbing Behavior" (1998), Katie Holmes won a MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance for that role. In Wonder Boys (2000), directed by Curtis Hanson from the novel by Michael Chabon, Holmes had a small role (six and one-half minutes of screen time) but nevertheless attracted the attention of numerous film critics with her performance as Hannah Green.

In "The Gift" (2000), a Southern Gothic story directed by Sam Raimi and starring Cate Blanchett, Katie Holmes played the antithesis of Joey Potter: a promiscuous rich girl having affairs with everyone from a sociopathic wife-beater (Keanu Reeves) to the district attorney (Gary Cole). Holmes did her first nude scene for that film, baring her breasts and her buttocks in a thong, in a scene where her character was about to be murdered. Of the scene, she said, "I just hope there aren't a lot of pauses on DVD players."

In "Abandon" (2002), written by Oscar winner Stephen Gaghan, Holmes was a delusional, homicidal college student named "Katie." Holmes played the President's daughter in "First Daughter". In the film "Batman Begins" (2005), the most successful film of her career to date, she played Rachel Dawes, an attorney in the Gotham City district attorney's office and the childhood sweetheart of Bruce Wayne's.

Engaged to actor Chris Klein December 2003 - March 2005. Holmes in early 2005 began a highly publicized relationship with actor Tom Cruise, sixteen years her senior. On 17th June 2005, two months after they first met, she became engaged to Cruise. Their relationship made Katie Holmes the subject of international media attention.

Many reports commented negatively about the interest of Holmes, raised Roman Catholic, in Cruise's religion, Scientology. The couple announced Katie Holmes was pregnant in October 2005 and on April 18, 2006, she gave birth to Suri Cruise. On November 18, 2006, she and Cruise were married in Italy. Katie and Tom Cruise wore Armani at their wedding. The day after the ceremony, the couple left for a honeymoon in the Maldives.

Voted as "Babe of the Year 98" (Årets Babe 98) by Expressen Fredag, Sweden. Chosen as one of Teen People Magazine's "21 Hottest Stars Under 21" (1999). Ranked #35 in Stuff magazine's "102 Sexiest Women in the World" (2002). She was named one of People's "50 Most Beautiful People" in 2003. Named #22 on the Maxim magazine Hot 100 of 2005 list. Ranked as #72 in FHM's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2005" special supplement. Named #90 in FHM magazine's "100 Sexiest Women in the World 2006" supplement. Mentioned in the song High School Never Ends by Bowling for Soup.

On November 4, 2007 Holmes ran, and successfully completed, the New York Marathon in 5:29:58, which is over an hour above the average finishing time.

Katie Holmes Filmography - Movies - TV

• The Other Side (2008) (pre-production)
• Mad Money (2008) (completed) .... Jackie Truman
• Thank You for Smoking (2005) .... Heather Holloway
• Batman Begins (2005) (VG) (voice) .... Rachel Dawes
• Batman Begins (2005) .... Rachel Dawes
  ... aka Batman Begins: The IMAX Experience (USA: IMAX version)
• First Daughter (2004) .... Samantha Mackenzie
• "Dawson's Creek" .... Joey Potter / ... (128 episodes, 1998-2003)
  - All Good Things... (2003) TV Episode .... Joey Potter
  - ...Must Come to an End (2003) TV Episode .... Joey Potter
  - Joey Potter and Capeside Redemption (2003) TV Episode .... Joey Potter
  - Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road (2003) TV Episode .... Joey Potter
  - Catch-22 (2003) TV Episode .... Joey Potter
• Pieces of April (2003) .... April Burns
• The Singing Detective (2003) .... Nurse Mills
• Abandon (2002) .... Katie Burke
• Phone Booth (2002) .... Pamela McFadden
• "Saturday Night Live" .... Host (1 episode, 2001)
  ... aka NBC's Saturday Night (USA: first season title)
  ... aka SNL (USA: informal title)
  - Katie Holmes/Dave Matthews Band (2001) TV Episode .... Host
• The Gift (2000) .... Jessica King
• Wonder Boys (2000) .... Hannah Green
  ... aka Wonder Boys, Die (Germany)
• Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999) .... Leigh Ann Watson
• Muppets from Space (1999) (uncredited) .... Beach Scene
• Go (1999) .... Claire Montgomery
• Disturbing Behavior (1998) .... Rachel Wagner
  ... aka Disturbing Behaviour (UK)
• The Ice Storm (1997) .... Libbets Casey

  Self Filmography - Appearances - TV

• "Entertainment Tonight" (3 episodes, 2007)
  - Episode dated 2 November 2007 (2007) TV Episode
  - Episode dated 13 July 2007 (2007) TV Episode
  - Episode dated 19 June 2007 (2007) TV Episode
• InStyle: Celebrity Weddings (2007) (TV)
• "Bl!tz" (1 episode, 2006)
  ... aka Blitz (Germany: new title)
  - Episode dated 8 October 2006 (2006) TV Episode
• Legends Ball (2006) (TV)
• "Ellen: The Ellen DeGeneres Show" (2 episodes, 2003-2006)
  - Episode dated 12 January 2006 (2006) TV Episode
  - Episode dated 23 October 2003 (2003) TV Episode
• "Corazón de..." (3 episodes, 2005)
  - Episode dated 11 November 2005 (2005) TV Episode
  - Episode dated 20 October 2005 (2005) TV Episode
  - Episode dated 14 July 2005 (2005) TV Episode
• Batman: The Tumbler (2005) (V) - 'Rachel Dawes'
• Saving Gotham City (2005) (V) - 'Rachel Dawes'
• Batman Begins: Behind the Mask (2005) (TV)
• "Getaway" (1 episode, 2005)
  ... aka United Travel Getaway (Australia: new title)
  - Episode #14.19 (2005) TV Episode
• "Live with Regis and Kathie Lee" (2 episodes, 2004-2005)
  ... aka Live with Regis (USA: new title)
  ... aka Live with Regis & Kelly (USA: new title)
  - Episode dated 13 June 2005 (2005) TV Episode
  - Episode dated 23 September 2004 (2004) TV Episode
• "The Early Show" (1 episode, 2005)
  - Episode dated 10 June 2005 (2005) TV Episode
• "Late Show with David Letterman" (2 episodes, 2001-2005)
  - Episode dated 9 June 2005 (2005) TV Episode
  - Episode dated 24 September 2001 (2001) TV Episode
• 2005 MTV Movie Awards (2005) (TV) - Presenter
• "Good Morning America" (1 episode, 2005)
  - Episode dated 9 June 2005 (2005) TV Episode
• "HBO First Look" (1 episode, 2005)
  - Batman Begins: An Origin Story (2005) TV Episode
• "The Oprah Winfrey Show" (1 episode, 2005)
  ... aka Oprah (USA: short title)
  - Episode dated 23 May 2005 (2005) TV Episode
• "The Tony Danza Show" (1 episode, 2004)
  - Episode #1.10 (2004) TV Episode
• "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" (1 episode, 2004)
  ... aka Late Night with Conan O'Brien (Australia)
  - Episode dated 23 September 2004 (2004) TV Episode
• "The Graham Norton Effect" (1 episode, 2004)
  - Episode #1.10 (2004) TV Episode
• "The View" (1 episode, 2004)
  - Episode dated 7 July 2004 (2004) TV Episode
• Pieces of April: All the Pieces Together (2004) (V)
• VH1 Big in 03 (2003) (TV)
• "Punk'd" (1 episode, 2003)
  - Episode #2.3 (2003) TV Episode
• "Dinner for Five" (1 episode, 2003)
  - Episode #2.11 (2003) TV Episode
• "RI:SE" (1 episode, 2003)
  - Episode dated 7 October 2003 (2003) TV Episode
• "V Graham Norton" (1 episode, 2003)
  - Episode #3.19 (2003) TV Episode
• Christmas in Washington (2002) (TV) - Host
• "Revealed with Jules Asner" (1 episode, 2002)
  - Katie Holmes (2002) TV Episode
• 2002 MTV Movie Awards (2002) (TV)
• "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" (3 episodes, 1999-2001)
  - Episode dated 7 February 2001 (2001) TV Episode
  - Episode dated 30 November 2000 (2000) TV Episode
  - Episode dated 15 April 1999 (1999) TV Episode
• The Gift: A Look Inside (2001) (V)
• 2000 MTV Movie Awards (2000) (TV) - Presenter
• 1999 MTV Movie Awards (1999) (TV)
• Dawson's Creek: Behind the Scenes (1999) (TV)
• The 51st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1999) (TV) - Presenter