Katie Holmes Biography

NAME: Katherine Noelle Holmes

OCCUPATION: Film Actress, Television Actress

BIRTH DATE: December 18, 1978 (Age: 32)

PLACE OF BIRTH: Toledo, Ohio

ZODIAC SIGN: Sagittarius

Synopsis

Katie Holmes was born December 18, 1978 in Toledo, Ohio. She first achieved fame for her performance as Joey Potter on The WB teen drama Dawson's Creek from 1998 to 2003. Her performance led to several big-screen roles, from independent films to big-budget blockbusters. She began a highly publicized relationship with actor Tom Cruise in 2005. She gave birth to their baby girl, Suri, in April 2006.

Katie Holmes - The Star

During her final year of high school, Katie landed an audition for Dawson's Creek. However, because it conflicted with opening night of her high school production of Damn Yankees, Katie had to reschedule it. In June of 1997, Katie graduated from Notre Dame Academy and soon after took off for Wilmington, North Carolina where she would spend the next six seasons playing cute tomboy Joey Potter on Dawson's Creek. Aside from her TV role, Katie has starred in a number of movies, including Disturbing Behavior, Go, Teaching Mrs. Tingle, and most recently, First Daughter. In the summer of 2005, Katie co-stars with Christian Bale in Batman Begins.

Katie Holmes - Love Life

While Katie isn't usually the kind of celebrity who's photo is splashed all over tabloid magazines, she has recently garnered a lot of publicity for her love life. In March 2005, she and American Pie hottie, Chris Klein, broke off their engagement after five years together. Then, it was recently reported that she was dating actor Josh Hartnett. However, it has now been confirmed that Katie is dating superstar Tom Cruise, who is 16 years older than her! While it comes as a surprise to most that these two ended up together, they both have reputations as being genuinely nice people - maybe it's meant to be!

Why is She famous

Katie Holmes is most famous for being Tom Cruise's wife, Suri Cruise's mom and Victoria Beckman's BFF. She used to act at one point too. Remember? Katie Holmes played Joey Potter on Dawson's Creek and has starred in big-screen movies like Disturbing Behavior (1998), Go (1999), Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999), and The Gift (2000). She has also starred in Phone Booth (2003), Pieces of April (2003), First Daughter (2004), Batman Begins (2005), and Thank You For Not Smoking (2006).

Instead, having taken piano and singing lessons from a young age, Katie found her place in theatre, excelling in productions put on at the nun-run Notre Dame Academy, a Catholic all-girls high school her mother had attended before her. As the school's strict codes of conduct saw all the pupils wearing uniform, Katie had little opportunity to think about the likes of clothes and boys, instead focusing on work, excelling in chorus, dance and drama. Her father helped to keep her on the straight and narrow, his size intimidating predatory would-be boyfriends. Consequently, she only ever dated "nice" boys, and never broke her parents' curfew.