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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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