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Katie Holmes(I)

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  • Producer
  • Director
IMDbProStarmeterTop 5,00036
Katie Holmes
IMDb fan favorite Katie Holmes reflects on her recent film, 'The Secret: Dare to Dream,' where she plays a widow whose fortunes change after a mysterious man enters her life.
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Born two months premature at four pounds, Kate Noelle Holmes made her first appearance on December 18, 1978, in Toledo, Ohio. She is the daughter of Kathleen Ann (Craft), a philanthropist, and Martin Joseph Holmes, Sr., a lawyer. She is of German, Irish, and English ancestry. Her parents have said that her strong-willed personality is probably due to her early birth. Being the youngest in the Holmes clan, completing the family of three other sisters and one brother, Katie was always the baby.

As a teenager, she began attending modeling school. When she was sixteen, her teacher invited her to go to a modeling competition with other girls from her class. She competed in the International Modeling and Talent Association by singing, dancing, and reciting a monologue from To Kill a Mockingbird (1962). By the end of that time in New York, Katie won many awards. But she said she didn't want to model because it wasn't challenging enough. So when she was seventeen, Katie went to Los Angeles to audition for movies. Luckily, on her second audition, she was cast in the movie, The Ice Storm (1997), directed by Ang Lee. Katie's character was Libbets Casey, a rich New Yorker, who is pursued by two of the main characters. It was a small part, but it marked the beginning of her professional acting career.

After the excitement of her first movie, Katie began sending in audition tapes for pilot shows. During that time, she was also starring in her all-girls Catholic high school musical, Damn Yankees, as Lola. After Kevin Williamson received her audition tape for his new show, Dawson's Creek (1998), the producers wanted her to come to Hollywood right away and read live for them. But because they wanted her to come on the opening night for Damn Yankees, Katie had to tell them she couldn't make it. Fortunately, the show's producers wanted her so much for that role, they rescheduled her callback and the result was she got the part as Joey Potter. During her first year with Dawson's Creek (1998), Katie was able to do two movies, Disturbing Behavior (1998) and Go (1999), and, for the former, she won Best Breakthrough Female Performance at the 1999 MTV Movie Awards.

The following year, she starred next to Michael Douglas in Wonder Boys (2000), playing Hannah Green, a published author and a boarder at her teacher's (Douglas) house, who has a crush on him, and tries to seduce him. Her first leading role came in 2002, with Abandon (2002). She played a college student named Katie Burke, who is haunted by the mysterious disappearance of her boyfriend who vanished two years prior. With Dawson's Creek (1998) coming to a close after six years in May of 2003, it was a bittersweet moment for all the cast. Accustomed to being in North Carolina filming ten months out of a year, the cast members now had the opportunity to make more movies.

Katie demonstrated this in October, when she had two new movies, Pieces of April (2003) and The Singing Detective (2003), coming out in that month alone. Pieces of April (2003) is a charming Thanksgiving movie about April (Holmes), the black sheep of her family, who wants to give her family the perfect dinner before her mother passes on. The Singing Detective (2003) is a dark musical where the main character (Robert Downey Jr.) was a writer in a hospital for skin conditions who writes a dark world of seduction and murder in his mind. Katie Holmes played the kind Nurse Mills who tends to his every need. She also gets to lip sync and dance in this movie. In 2004, she starred in the romantic movie First Daughter (2004), in which she played the President's (Michael Keaton) daughter, Samantha, who wants to go to college without any Secret Service tagging along. In 2005, Holmes co-starred in Batman Begins (2005), where she played Rachel Dawes, a childhood sweetheart and love interest to Batman/Bruce Wayne.

Katie has a daughter with her ex-husband, Tom Cruise.
BornDecember 18, 1978
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BornDecember 18, 1978
IMDbProStarmeterTop 5,00036
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  • Awards
    • 6 wins & 16 nominations

Photos877

Katie Holmes in Katie Holmes Answers Fan Questions (2020)
Katie Holmes in Saturday Night Live (1975)
Michael Caine and Katie Holmes in Dear Dictator (2017)
Katie Holmes, Heidi Klum, Zac Posen, and Nina Garcia in Project Runway (2004)
Katie Holmes, Heidi Klum, Zac Posen, and Nina Garcia in Project Runway (2004)
Katie Holmes, Heidi Klum, Zac Posen, and Nina Garcia in Project Runway (2004)
Katie Holmes, Heidi Klum, Zac Posen, and Nina Garcia in Project Runway (2004)
Katie Holmes, Zac Posen, Nina Garcia, and Tim Gunn in Project Runway (2004)
Alexander Skarsgård, Katie Holmes, Brenton Thwaites, and Emma Tremblay in The Giver (2014)
Katie Holmes, Brenton Thwaites, and Emma Tremblay in The Giver (2014)
Katie Holmes in Logan Lucky (2017)
Katie Holmes and Jack Gleeson in Batman Begins (2005)

Known for

Christian Bale in Batman Begins (2005)
Batman Begins
8.2
  • Rachel Dawes
  • 2005
Adam Sandler in Jack and Jill (2011)
Jack and Jill
3.3
  • Erin
  • 2011
James Van Der Beek, Katie Holmes, Joshua Jackson, and Michelle Williams in Dawson's Creek (1998)
Dawson's Creek
6.8
TV Series
  • Joey Potter
Nick Stahl, Katie Holmes, and James Marsden in Disturbing Behavior (1998)
Disturbing Behavior
5.6
  • Rachel Wagner
  • 1998

Credits

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Actress

  • Untitled Ilene Chaiken/Melissa Scrivner-Love/Fox Project
    • Completed
    • TV Movie
  • Katie Holmes in Rare Objects (2023)
    Rare Objects
    • Diana Van Der Laar
    • 2023
  • Katie Holmes, Jim Sturgess, and Derek Luke in Alone Together (2022)
    Alone Together
    • June
    • 2022
  • Katie Holmes and Josh Lucas in The Secret: Dare to Dream (2020)
    The Secret: Dare to Dream
    • Miranda Wells
    • 2020
  • Christopher Convery in Brahms: The Boy II (2020)
    Brahms: The Boy II
    • Liza
    • 2020
  • Patrick Stewart and Katie Holmes in Coda (2019)
    Coda
    • Helen Morrison
    • 2019
  • No Apologies (2018)
    No Apologies
    • Hazel Otis
    • TV Movie
    • 2018
  • Sandra Bullock, Helena Bonham Carter, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Sarah Paulson, Mindy Kaling, Rihanna, and Awkwafina in Ocean's Eight (2018)
    Ocean's Eight
    • Katie Holmes (uncredited)
    • 2018
  • Robot Chicken (2001)
    Robot Chicken
    • Belle
    • Dee Dee (voice)
    • TV Series
    • 2018
  • Boy Boy Girl Girl (2018)
    Boy Boy Girl Girl
    • Short
    • 2018
  • Daniel Craig, Channing Tatum, Riley Keough, and Adam Driver in Logan Lucky (2017)
    Logan Lucky
    • Bobbie Jo Chapman
    • 2017
  • Michael Caine and Odeya Rush in Dear Dictator (2017)
    Dear Dictator
    • Darlene Mills
    • 2017
  • A Happening of Monumental Proportions (2017)
    A Happening of Monumental Proportions
    • Paramedic #1
    • 2017
  • Matthew Perry, Katie Holmes, Alexander Siddig, and Kristen Hager in The Kennedys After Camelot (2017)
    The Kennedys After Camelot
    • Jacqueline Kennedy
    • Jackie Kennedy
    • TV Mini Series
    • 2017
  • Katie Holmes in All We Had (2016)
    All We Had
    • Rita Carmichael
    • 2016
  • Liev Schreiber in Ray Donovan (2013)
    Ray Donovan
    • Paige Finney
    • TV Series
    • 2015

Producer

  • Untitled Ilene Chaiken/Melissa Scrivner-Love/Fox Project
    • executive producer
    • Completed
    • TV Movie
  • Katie Holmes in Rare Objects (2023)
    Rare Objects
    • producer
    • 2023
  • Katie Holmes, Jim Sturgess, and Derek Luke in Alone Together (2022)
    Alone Together
    • producer
    • 2022
  • Almost A Year (2021)
    Almost A Year
    • producer
    • Short
    • 2021
  • Matthew Perry, Katie Holmes, Alexander Siddig, and Kristen Hager in The Kennedys After Camelot (2017)
    The Kennedys After Camelot
    • executive producer
    • TV Mini Series
    • 2017
  • Katie Holmes in All We Had (2016)
    All We Had
    • producer
    • 2016
  • Touched with Fire (2015)
    Touched with Fire
    • co-producer
    • 2015
  • Katie Holmes in Miss Meadows (2014)
    Miss Meadows
    • executive producer
    • 2014
  • Anna Paquin, Katie Holmes, and Josh Duhamel in The Romantics (2010)
    The Romantics
    • executive producer
    • 2010

Director

  • Katie Holmes in Rare Objects (2023)
    Rare Objects
    • Director
    • 2023
  • Katie Holmes, Jim Sturgess, and Derek Luke in Alone Together (2022)
    Alone Together
    • Director
    • 2022
  • Matthew Perry, Katie Holmes, Alexander Siddig, and Kristen Hager in The Kennedys After Camelot (2017)
    The Kennedys After Camelot
    • Director
    • TV Mini Series
    • 2017
  • Katie Holmes in All We Had (2016)
    All We Had
    • Director
    • 2016
  • Eternal Princess (2015)
    Eternal Princess
    • Director
    • Short
    • 2015
  • In-development projects at IMDbPro

Videos77

Katie Holmes Answers Fan Questions
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Katie Holmes Answers Fan Questions
"They Don't Like Bright Lights"
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"They Don't Like Bright Lights"
"He Has to Love You More" from The Romantics
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"He Has to Love You More" from The Romantics
Woman in Gold
Clip 0:52
Woman in Gold
Woman in Gold
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Woman in Gold
Miss Meadows
Clip 2:14
Miss Meadows
Miss Meadows
Clip 1:10
Miss Meadows
Mad Money
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Mad Money
Mad Money
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Mad Money
Mad Money
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Mad Money
Mad Money
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Mad Money
Mad Money
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Mad Money

Personal details

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  • Height
    • 5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
  • Born
    • December 18, 1978
    • Toledo, Ohio, USA
  • Spouse
    • Tom CruiseNovember 18, 2006 - August 20, 2012 (divorced, 1 child)
  • Children
    • Suri Cruise
  • Parents
      Kate Noelle Holmes
  • Relatives
      Tamera Jean Holmes(Sibling)
  • Other works
    Music video: Appeared in Sixpence None the Richer video "Kiss Me" for the soundtrack of Dawson's Creek (1998).
  • Publicity listings
    • 1 Portrayal
    • 14 Interviews
    • 42 Articles
    • 20 Pictorials
    • 120 Magazine Cover Photos

Did you know

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  • Trivia
    Had a girlhood crush on Tom Cruise, her future husband, saying once in a magazine interview, "I think every little girl dreams of her wedding. I used to think I was going to marry Tom Cruise".
  • Quotes
    It's kind of fun being the cute, little one. In fact, I'm finding it hard to grow out of that.
  • Salaries
      Batman Begins
      (2005)
      $1,000,000

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