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Katie Holmes was born two months
premature, and weighed only four pounds at birth. At 15 she was attending
modeling school. The school considered her talent promising, and sent her
to a competition for aspiring models in New York. Holmes reportedly did
well in the competition, but she found it boring, and returned home with
dwindling interest in modeling. Instead, she took drama classes in high
school, and began auditioning for films. She made her film debut in The
Ice Storm, in a small role as an object of Tobey Maguire's desire. After
auditioning for Dawson's Creek, she first turned down the role of Joey,
because she was scheduled to appear in her high school's production of
Damn Yankees. She only accepted the part when the program's producers
explained that they could wait a week.
Holmes shot to low-level stardom playing the innocent tomboy-next-door on
Dawson's Creek. During that series' run she starred in several films,
including the black comedy Teaching Mrs. Tingle with Helen Mirren and a
bland thriller called Abandon with Benjamin Bratt. She also took
supporting roles in several other films, and earned generally good
reviews. Better work came in 2003's Pieces of April, an observation of a
dysfunctional family's Thanksgiving. She played Christian Bale's
girlfriend in Batman Begins (2005), but her career took an unexpected
twist a few weeks before that film opened, when 26-year-old Holmes and
42-year-old Tom Cruise announced their mutual enamourment.
Their romance was inescapable, generating endless reels of the pair
kissing and professing their love. Her romance with Cruise, who has long
been dogged by whispers that he is gay, led to a flood of rumors
questioning Holmes' sexuality as well. Mere weeks after their love was
announced in a joint press release, Holmes confessed her "interest" in
Cruise's religion, Scientology, and he jumped up and down on Oprah's
couch, declaring again and again his love for Holmes. A week later, Holmes
announced that she was leaving the Catholic church in which she was
raised, and joining the Church of Scientology. She dropped out of the 2006
film Factory Girl because her character was a drug abuser, and
Scientologists would not approve. Holmes and Cruise were married in
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000"It's kind of fun being the
cute, little one. In fact, I'm finding it hard to grow out of that."
"I know this sounds dorky, but I'm always having this out-of-body
experience with my career. I can't wait to write it down. I can't
wait to tell my grandchildren. It's amazing."
"I've kept in touch with a lot of my high school friends. When I'm
home, I see them. It's really cool."
"It's important to try to be creative. I paint, and my mom is going
to teach me how to make clothes. I think people should have
passions."
"My family always keeps me in check. I have three older sisters, and
they work their butts off. They're all very supportive of my career,
but I know what's really important is kids and family."
"I felt so proud to be having a baby and so excited. And I felt
closer to other women - to my sisters, to my mom. I felt empowered,
like, 'I've given birth. I did it! There's nothing I can't handle.
I've really enjoyed this time that I have taken to be with Suri as
well as the challenges of the first couple of months: feeding and
pumping, learning to decipher what each cry means - is she hungry?
Is she tired? Does she need a fresh diaper? - and figuring out how
to really help her."000 |
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Mad Money (2008) .... Jackie
Truman
Thank You for Smoking (2005) .... Heather Holloway
Batman Begins (2005) (VG) (voice) .... Rachel Dawes
Batman Begins (2005) .... Rachel Dawes
... aka Batman Begins: The IMAX Experience (USA: IMAX version)
First Daughter (2004) .... Samantha Mackenzie
"Dawson's Creek" .... Joey Potter / ... (128 episodes, 1998-2003)
- All Good Things... (2003) TV Episode .... Joey Potter
- ...Must Come to an End (2003) TV Episode .... Joey Potter
- Joey Potter and Capeside Redemption (2003) TV Episode .... Joey
Potter
- Goodbye, Yellow Brick Road (2003) TV Episode .... Joey Potter
- Catch-22 (2003) TV Episode .... Joey Potter
(123 more)
Pieces of April (2003) .... April Burns
The Singing Detective (2003) .... Nurse Mills
Abandon (2002) .... Katie Burke
Phone Booth (2002) .... Pamela McFadden
"Saturday Night Live" .... Host (1 episode, 2001)
... aka NBC's Saturday Night (USA: first season title)
... aka SNL (USA: informal title)
... aka SNL 25 (USA: alternative title)
... aka Saturday Night (USA: second season title)
... aka Saturday Night Live '80 (USA: sixth season title)
- Katie Holmes/Dave Matthews Band (2001) TV Episode .... Host
The Gift (2000) .... Jessica King
Wonder Boys (2000) .... Hannah Green
... aka Wonder Boys, Die (Germany)
... aka Wonderboys - Lauter Wunderknaben (Germany: TV title)
Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999) .... Leigh Ann Watson
Muppets from Space (1999) (uncredited) .... Beach Scene
Go (1999) .... Claire Montgomery
Disturbing Behavior (1998) .... Rachel Wagner
... aka Disturbing Behaviour (UK)
The Ice Storm (1997) .... Libbets Casey |
