Katie Holmes
Kate Noelle Holmes (born December 18, 1978)[9] is an American actress. She first achieved fame as Joey Potter on the television series Dawson's Creek (1998–2003).[3]
This article is about the American actress. For others with similar names, see Kate Holmes (disambiguation).
Katie Holmes
- Actress
- director
- producer
1997–present
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Holmes made her film debut with a supporting role in Ang Lee's The Ice Storm (1997).[10] A mixture of parts in big-budget and small-scale film projects came next, including Disturbing Behavior (1998), Go, Teaching Mrs. Tingle (both 1999), Wonder Boys, The Gift (both 2000), Abandon, Phone Booth (both 2002), The Singing Detective, Pieces of April (both 2003), First Daughter (2004), Batman Begins, Thank You for Smoking (both 2005), Mad Money (2008), Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010), Jack and Jill (2011), Miss Meadows (2014), Woman in Gold, Touched with Fire (both 2015), Logan Lucky (2017), Dear Dictator (2018), Coda (2019), Brahms: The Boy II, and The Secret: Dare to Dream (both 2020).
Outside of film, Holmes made her Broadway theatre debut in a 2008 production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons. In 2011, she portrayed Jacqueline Kennedy in the television miniseries The Kennedys, a role she reprised in The Kennedys: After Camelot (2017). She also played the part of Paige Finney on the third season of Showtime's Ray Donovan in 2015. Holmes made her directorial debut with the 2016 film All We Had, in which she also starred, following in 2022, by her second movie Alone Together.
Holmes's marriage to actor Tom Cruise,[11] which lasted from 2006 to 2012, led to a great deal of media attention. She has one child, a daughter, with Cruise.
Early life[edit]
Holmes was born in Toledo, Ohio.[12] She is the youngest of five children born to Kathleen, a homemaker and philanthropist, and Martin Joseph Holmes Sr., an attorney who played basketball at Marquette University under coach Al McGuire.[13][14][15][16] She has three sisters and one brother. Holmes was baptized a Roman Catholic and attended Christ the King Church in Toledo.[17]
She graduated from the all-female Notre Dame Academy in Toledo (also her mother's alma mater), where she was a 4.0 student.[18][19] At St. John's Jesuit and St. Francis de Sales, nearby all-male high schools, Holmes appeared in school musicals, playing a waitress in Hello, Dolly! and Lola in Damn Yankees.[20] She scored 1310 out of 1600 on her SAT and was accepted to Columbia University (and attended for a summer session);[12][18] her father wanted her to become a doctor.[19]
At age 14, she began classes at a modeling school in Toledo which led her to the International Modeling and Talent Association (IMTA) Competition held in New York City in 1996. Eventually, Holmes was signed to an agent after performing a monologue from To Kill a Mockingbird.[8] An audition tape was sent to the casting director for the 1997 film The Ice Storm, directed by Ang Lee, and Holmes made her big-screen debut in the role of Libbets Casey in the film, opposite Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver.[20]
Public image[edit]
Holmes was annually named by both the British and American editions of FHM magazine as one of the sexiest women in the world from 1999 onward. She was named one of People's "50 Most Beautiful People" in 2003; its sibling Teen People declared her one of the "25 Hottest Stars Under 25" that year;[98][99] and in 2005, People said she was one of the ten best dressed stars that year.[100] She has appeared in advertisements for Garnier Lumia haircolor, Coach leather goods, and clothing retailer Gap.[101]
In November 2008, it was confirmed that she would be the new face of the spring 2009 campaign for the high-end fashion line Miu Miu.[102] In 2008, Holmes started a high fashion clothing line called Holmes & Yang with longtime stylist Jeanne Yang.[103] Model Heidi Klum is a fan of the line.[104] In July 2009, Holmes, Nigel Lythgoe, Adam Shankman, and Carrie Ann Inaba announced the launch of a dance scholarship fund called the Dizzy Feet Foundation.[105]
Beginning January 2011, she became the new face of Ann Taylor Spring 11 collection.[106] Holmes & Yang presented their fashion line at New York Fashion Week for the first time in September 2012.[107][108] Holmes acted as the face for the Bobbi Brown Cosmetics brand in spring 2013 and Holmes had her own capsule collection of color cosmetics in fall of that year.[109] In 2013, she appeared in an advertising campaign for IRIS Jewelry.[110] In January 2013, Holmes was announced as the brand ambassador and co-owner of Alterna Haircare.[111]