Birth
Name: Kate Noelle Holmes
News & Notes Trivia Quotes Filmography Katie Videos Multimedia Picture Of The Week Picture Gallery Polls - Vote Now T.V. Schedule
K
A T
I E
H
O L
M E
S
:
The Girl Next
Door
katienholmes.com
.
Birth
Name: Kate Noelle Holmes
Date of Birth: December 18, 1978
Place of Birth: Toledo, Ohio
Current Residence: Los Angeles, CA / New York, NY
Father: Martin Holmes, Sr. - Lawyer
Mother: Kathleen Holmes - Homemaker
Siblings: 3 older sisters & an older brother
Marital Status: Married to Tom Cruise (November 18, 2006)
Children: One daughter named Suri Cruise. Born on April 18, 2006
Height: 5'9''
Weight: 108 lbs.
Bust: 34C
Eyes: Hazel
Hair: Brown
Clothing Size: 4
Shoe Size: 10
.
BIOGRAPHY:
Katie got her start as an actress in theater productions at her high school,
Notre Dame Academy, an all-girls Catholic school in her hometown of Toledo,
OH. She comes from a "super-athletic" family, the youngest of three
sisters and one brother, and she admits that despite her best efforts she
was "horrible" at sports. Katie found her niche in theater, although,
she never dreamed she could make it professionally as an actress because
of her Midwest roots. However, in July 1995 she attended IMTA's annual
"Hooray for Hollywood" Convention in New York City, where she caught the
eye of talent manager Al Onorato, who encouraged her to come to Los Angeles
for television's pilot season. Six months later, in LA, she immediately
won a small role in Ang Lee's "The Ice Storm," a critically acclaimed art
house film based on the novel by the same name by Rick Moody. Shortly after
this, Katie was offered the part of Buffy Summers in the WB's "Buffy the
Vampire Slayer." However she declined in order to complete her
high school education.
In fact, she followed up her big screen debut in "The Ice Storm" with a part as Lola in her school's production of "Damn Yankees." As the oft-repeated tale goes, this nearly cost her the role of Joey Potter, as she refused to ditch her classmates' on opening night for the scheduled "Dawson's Creek" audition. However, DC creator and writer Kevin Williamson was so impressed by her audition tape, made in her basement with her mother playing Dawson, that he was willing to reschedule. In the September 1998 YM, Kevin Williamson, described his first encounter with Katie this way, "I'll never forget the day when, after weeks of searching for the right actress to play the virtuoso role of Joey, we got [Katie's audition] tape. After viewing it everyone in the room was speechless."
Katie graduated from Notre Dame Academy in June of 1997 and began filming "Dawson's Creek" later that summer. She has deferred admission to Columbia University. She currently lives in Wilmington, NC, where she has just bought a house. Katie has certainly come a long way from dreaming about Hollywood in front of her TV set, and it is a safe bet that she has an exciting, successful, and interesting career ahead of her. As Katie herself remarked in A Fanatic's Guide to Dawson's Creek, "It's overwhelming – yesterday I was just your average kid from Toledo. Now I have my own web site."
.