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FILMOGRAPHY:
Television:
• "The Kennedys" as Jacqueline
Kennedy Onassis (April 2011)
Plot Outline
: An eight-hour miniseries about the political couple, John F. Kennedy (Greg Kinnear)
and his wife Jacqueline (Katie Holmes). The drama will also explore the personal
relationships between the Kennedy clan -- including John and Bobby's tumultuous
relationship with their father.
• "Dawson's Creek" (1998-2003) as Josephine "Joey" Potter
Plot Outline: Set in a small
coastal town near Boston called Capeside, "Dawson's Creek" tells the story
of four teenagers as they struggle through adolescence. This is particularly
true for 15-year-olds Dawson Leery (James Van Der Beek), an introspective
dreamer and Joey Potter (Katie Holmes), a precocious tomboy unaware of her
beauty. Best friends since childhood, they are about to enter that confusing
time in life where nothing is the way it was and nothing is as it seems.
Broadway:
• "All My Sons" (2008) as Ann Deever | Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre
Plot Outline: "All My Sons",
a 1947 Broadway revival by Arthur Miller, tells the story of Joe Keller (John
Lithgow), a successful, middle-aged, self-made man who has done a terrible
and tragic thing which led to the death of 21 American soldiers. When Joe's
surviving son (Patrick Wilson) (his elder son was lost in action during the
war) plans to marry his business partner's daughter (Katie Holmes), the past
is revisited and the guilty deed is revealed, forcing Joe to live with the
terrible understanding that the soldiers who died were all his sons.
Film:
Upcoming • "Responsible Adults" as Liz Quinn (2012)
Plot Outline: A romantic comedy centered on Baxter Wood (Chace Crawford), who
realizes that his crush, med student Liz Quinn (Katie Holmes), was his
babysitter 15 years ago.
• "Jack And Jill" as Erin Sadelstein (2011)
Plot Outline: "Jack and Jill"
centers on a lady named Jill (Adam Sandler), who turns up at her twin brother
Jack’s (Adam Sandler) Thanksgiving dinner and then won’t leave.
• "The Son Of No One" as Kerry White
(2011)
Plot Outline: A young cop
(Channing Tatum) is assigned to a precinct in the Queens neighborhood where he
grew up. To provide for his wife (Katie Holmes) and ailing daughter, he works
hard to keep his life on track. But this life is threatened when a dark secret
bubbles to the surface. An anonymous source reveals new information about the
unsolved murder by two boys and a possible police cover-up, setting off a chain
of events that rattles the neighborhood.
• "Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark" as Kim (2011)
Plot Outline: Introverted Sally Hurst (Bailee
Madison) has just moved in with her father Alex (Guy Pearce) and his girlfriend
Kim (Katie Holmes) when she realizes that their sprawling estate holds its fair
share of secrets. Ascending to the depths of the house, Sally gains access to a
secret lower level that has lain undisturbed for nearly a century, when the
original builder vanished without a trace. When Sally accidentally opens the
gateway that kept the creatures locked up tight, she realizes that in order to
prevent them from destroying her family is to convince her skeptical father that
monsters really exist.
• "The
Romantics" (2010) as Laura
Plot Outline: Seven close friends reunite for the
wedding of two of their friends. Problems arise because the bride (Anna Paquin)
and the maid of honor (Katie Holmes) have had a long rivalry over the groom
(Josh Duhamel).
• "The Extra Man" (2010) as Mary Powell
Plot Outline: The story
centers on a failed playwright who begins supplementing his income by taking
jobs as an escort for Upper East Side widows and who takes another aspiring
playwright under his wing.
Synopsis: A sophisticated and moving comedy, "The Extra Man"
follows Louis Ives (Paul Dano), a lonely dreamer who fancies himself the
hero of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel…When a deeply embarrassing incident
forces him to leave his job at an exclusive Princeton prep school, Louis
heads to New York City to make a fresh start. He quickly finds a nine-to-five
job at an environmental magazine, where he encounters an entrancing,
green-obsessed co-worker Mary (Katie Holmes). But it’s Louis’ new
home life that really sparks his imagination. He rents a room in the ramshackle
apartment of Henry Harrison (Kevin Kline), a penniless, wildly eccentric
but brilliant playwright. When Henry’s not dancing alone to obscure
music or singing operettas, he’s performing – with great panache
– the duties of an “extra man,” a social escort for the wealthy
widows of Manhattan high society.
• "Mad Money" (2008) as Jackie Truman
Plot Outline: Three female
employees of the Federal Reserve plot to steal money that is about to be
destroyed.
• "Thank You For Smoking" (2006) as Heather Holloway
Plot Outline: A comedy satire
that revolves around Nick Naylor (Aaron Eckhart), the tobacco industry's
most successful spin doctor, who tries to do his job while remaining a role
model for his young son. His boss, known only as Captain (Robert Duvall),
hired him to improve the company's image with PR strategies. Naylor finds
his task increasingly difficult after he's approached by a smart, seductive
Washington Post reporter, Heather Holloway (Katie Holmes).
• "Batman Begins" (2005) as Rachel Dawes
Plot Outline: After taking
down the Scarecrow, Bruce Wayne, a.k.a. Batman (Christian Bale), takes his
abilities to London to battle Ra's Al Ghul, an immortal bent on conquering
the Earth. Bruce then returns to Gotham City, which has hit rock bottom during
his absence. Crime and corruption is fast eating away at the city and no
one seems able to stem it. Rachel Dawes (Katie Holmes) is a young assistant
district attorney who has known Bruce since they were kids. She is pained
to see what's become of her childhood friend (and implied sweetheart) but
she has a job to do. Like Batman, Rachel also fights for justice but, in
some ways, she's wiser about what it takes to serve it than Bruce is at this
stage of his life.
• "First Daughter" (2004) as Samantha Mackenzie
Plot Outline: A romantic
comedy about Samantha Mackenzie (Katie Holmes), the 18-year-old daughter
of the President of the United States (Michael Keaton), who goes to college
and falls into a fairy tale romance with a dashing graduate student (Marc
Blucas) only to find that her prince turns out to have a secret agenda.
• "Pieces Of April" (2003) as April Burns
Plot Outline: The story
revolves around April Burns (Katie Holmes), a 21-year-old young woman who
is estranged from her family, as she struggles to make Thanksgiving dinner
for them at her New York apartment. She's also planning to introduce them
to her boyfriend, a dreadlocked Jamaican man. All-the-while unknowing that
her mother is dying of cancer.
• "The Singing Detective" (2003) as Nurse Mills
Plot Outline: As a
Chicago novelist (Robert Downey, Jr.) lays, bedridden and feverish with an
extreme case of psioriasis, he reworks the story of his first novel, The
Singing Detective, in his mind, becoming the title character himself, who's
on pursuit of Nazis in the 1940's... but the battle he's actually waging,
of course, is with his own demons.
• "Phone Booth" (2003) as Pamela McFadden
Plot Outline: A slick New
York publicist (Colin Farrell) )who picks up a ringing receiver in a phone
booth is told that if he hangs up, he'll be killed... and the little red
light from a sniper's infrared rifle is proof that the caller isn't kidding.
• "Abandon" (2002) as Katie Burke
Plot Outline: A psychological
thriller about Katie Burke (Katie Holmes) a senior at one of America's most
prestigious universities. Under enormous pressure to complete her thesis
and earn a top job at one of the world's most competitive consulting firms,
Katie is still coping with the sudden unexplained disappearance of her first
love, Embry Langan (Charlie Hunnam) two years prior.
Struggling to pull his life back
together, newly sober Detective Wade Handler (Benjamin Bratt) is called in
to investigate and uncovers some disconcerting facts concerning Embry's
mysterious disappearance. As Katie tries to come to terms with her deep-rooted
fear of abandonment, Katie must choose between past passions and new
possibilities as Handler teeters on the edge of a fragile sobriety.
Both are weakened by the
past; each becomes increasingly dependent on the other's strength as they
decide their futures. Based upon the book "Adam's Fall" by Sean Desmond,
Oscar® winner Stephen Gaghan writes and directs while Katie Holmes ("Teaching
Mrs. Tingle") and Benjamin Bratt ("The Next Best Thing") star.
• "The Gift" (2001) as Jessica King
Plot Outline: A poor Georgia
widow, Annie Wilson (Cate Blanchett), with the power of ESP is recruited
by investigators in a small town to locate a missing young woman and then
solve her murder. But she brings about the conviction of the wrong man. Annie,
who's just a step away from a trailer park, supports her family by doing
psychic readings. Her clients range from a battered wife (Hilary Swank) to
a mentally unstable mechanic (Giovanni Ribisi) whose unwavering loyalty to
Annie takes some odd twists. Also in the picture are Swank's abusive white-trash
hubby (Keanu Reeves), who doesn't cotton to his wife's sessions with Annie;
an amiable, gentlemanly school principal (Greg Kinnear); and Kinnear's spoiled
socialite fiancée (Katie Holmes).
KATIE
FLASHES!!!
Katie Holmes is shredding her squeaky-clean "Dawson's Creek" image. The actress has not one but two topless scenes in her upcoming movie, "The Gift", opening in theaters nationwide Jan. 19, 2001. Holmes, 22, plays Greg Kinnear's fiancee in the dramatic thriller, which also stars Keanu Reeves, Hillary Swank and Cate Blanchett. One flash takes place during a heated lovers' quarrel with Kinnear. As for the other, we can't say; it's a pivotal scene, and we wouldn't want to ruin the movie for you. US Weekly - 9/25/00 |
• "Wonder Boys" (2000) as Hannah Green
Plot Outline: Grady Tripp
(Michael Douglas) is a professor/writer living in Pittsburgh who is struggling
with writer's block. Whilst doing this, he also manages to get the chancellor
(Frances McDormand) pregnant. In the meantime, he and a college student,
James Leer (Tobey Maguire) are trying to find a rare jacket once owned by
Marilyn Monroe. Meanwhile, a college girl, Hannah Green (Katie Holmes) who
is boarding with Grady has a bit of a crush on him. Based on the book of
the same name by Michael Chabon.
• "Teaching Mrs. Tingle" (1999) as Leigh Ann Watson
Plot Outline: The story of straight-A
student Leigh Ann (Katie Holmes) whose hopes for a scholarship are in jeopardy
thanks to the tyrannical Mrs. Tingle (Helen Mirren). When Leigh Ann and her
friends confront Mrs. Tingle about their grades, a series of mishaps lead
to a wicked game of cat and mouse. Original title "Killing Mrs. Tingle."
• "Muppets From Space" (1999) cameo appearance as Josephine "Joey"
Potter
Plot Outline: The muppets
head into space to help Gonzo find his place in the Universe.
• "Go" (1999) as Claire Montgomery
Plot Outline: Go! tells the
story of the events after a drug deal, told from three different points of
view.
• "Disturbing Behavior" (1998) as Rachel Wagner
Plot Outline: The new kid
in town stumbles across something sinister about the town's method of
transforming its unruly teens into upstanding citizens.
• "The Ice Storm" (1997) as Libbets Casey
Plot Outline: 1973,
suburban Connecticut: middle class families experimenting with casual sex,
drink, etc., find their lives out of control.
*** Plot Outlines are from The Internet Movie Database, Hollywood.com & Upcomingmovies.com
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