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Kate Noelle "Katie" Holmes There is some question as to what Holmes's legal name is. Several sources give it as "Kate Noelle Holmes", to wit: Janice Dunn. "Katie Holmes: A girl on the verge." ''''. September 2002. 88-90, 106. (born December 18 1978 ) is an American Actress who first achieved fame for her role as Joey Potter on The WB Teen Drama '' Dawson's Creek '' from 1998 to 2003 . The part on the show, only her second professional role, made Holmes a star. Holmes's movie roles have ranged from art house films such as '' The Ice Storm '' to thrillers such as '' Abandon '' to blockbusters such as '' Batman Begins '', but she has not found the same success in films as she did on television, and admits most of her films have been "bombs". Weeks after ending her engagement with actor Chris Klein , Holmes began in early 2005 a highly publicized relationship with actor Tom Cruise , sixteen years her senior. In June, two months after they first met, she became engaged to Cruise. Their relationship has made Holmes the subject of international media attention, much of it highly negative, the press speculating the relationship was only a publicity stunt to promote the couple's films. Many reports commented negatively about the interest of Holmes, born a Roman Catholic , in Cruise's religion, Scientology . The couple announced Holmes was pregnant in October 2005; on April 18 , 2006 , Holmes gave birth to a baby girl, Suri. EARLY LIFE AND CAREER Holmes was born in the northwestern '', that the three words best describing herself were "honest, determined, and imaginative.""Actress and Parade Celebrity." '' The Blade ''. November 28 1998 . 1. At fourteen she began classes at a modeling school in Toledo run by Margaret O'Brien, who took her to a New York City talent expo in 1996. There she found an agent after performing a monologue from '' To Kill A Mockingbird ''.Griffiths. An audition tape was sent to the casting director for the 1997 film '' The Ice Storm '', directed by Ang Lee . She was cast in a small role, Libbets Casey, in the film which starred Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver . Ang Lee told ''The Blade'', "Katie was cast because she had the perfect amount of innocence and worldliness that we needed for Libbets. I was really taken by her wide open eyes. She really is a beautiful girl but there is also a lot of intelligence there and it shows."Borrelli, "The It Girl." In January 1997, Holmes went to Los Angeles for Pilot season, when producers cast and shoot new programs in the hopes of securing a spot on a network schedule. ''The Blade'' reported she was offered the lead in '' Buffy The Vampire Slayer '' but she turned it down.Ibid. Columbia Tri-Star Television , producer of a new show created by screenwriter Kevin Williamson , asked her to come to Los Angeles to audition, but there was a conflict with her schedule. "I was doing my school play, ''Damn Yankees''. And I was playing Lola. I even got to wear the feather boa. I thought, 'There is no way I'm not playing Lola to go audition for some network. I couldn't let my school down. We had already sold a lot of tickets. So I told Kevin and The WB, 'I'm sorry. I just can't meet with you this week. I've got other commitments.'"Ibid.; Mangels, 177; Cindy Pearlman. "'America's little sister' hits it big." '' Chicago Sun-Times ''. August 15 1999 . 3. The producers permitted her to audition on videotape. Holmes read for the part of ''. April 17 , 2002 . S1. Holmes won the part. ''. v.46, n.7. September 1998. 114 Williamson thought she had exactly the right look for Joey Potter. "She had those eyes, those eyes just stained with loneliness."Adam Rapoport. "Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon.” 200 times '' GQ ''. April 2002. 141+. ''DAWSON'S CREEK'' See Also: Dawson's Creek ) and Joey Potter (Holmes) on '' Dawson's Creek ''. Jackson was Holmes's first boyfriend.]] Joey Potter "is a headstrong, vibrant, wily, sultry, and determined go-getter. And yet, in a gloriously contradictory manner, in spite of her tough-as-nails exterior demeanor, Joey's also a frail, sometimes uncertain, emotionally sensitive, in-need-of-love person," said the show's official book.Crosdale, 77-78.. Joey, named for Jo in '' Little Women '', for years had been climbing in Dawson's bedroom window and platonically sharing his bed. Joey's mother had died from Cancer when Joey was thirteen and her father, Mike ( Gareth Williams ), was in prison for "conspiracy to traffic in Marijuana in excess of 10,000 pounds.” Her harried and very pregnant sister, Bessie ( Nina Repeta ), about ten years older than Joey, was raising her while running the Ice House restaurant, where Joey worked as a waitress. '' GQ '' described Joey as "kind of an uptight fussbudget—one who's always twisted up over doing the right thing and bungling-up ways to hook up with her crush and across the creek neighbor, Dawson."Rapoport. "I'm a lot like Joey," said Holmes. "I think they saw that. I come from a small town. I was a tomboy. Joey tries to be articulate and deny that she doesn't have a lot of experience in life. Her life parallels mine, which is all about new everything—relationships, personal perceptions—and about being guarded." Holmes filmed the pilot of ''Dawson's Creek'' in Wilmington, North Carolina , during spring break of her senior year of high school in 1997.Cohen. When the show was picked up by The WB , Holmes moved to Wilmington, where the show filmed. The tall (5 ft 9 in.)Dunn; Rapoport; Leslie Graber. "Holmes Sweet Holmes.” ''.Lynn Hirschberg. "Desperate to Seem 16.” ''The New York Times Magazine''. September 5 , 1999 . 42+. But her "type" was no less attractive, ''Arena'' magazine declaring her "the most coquettishly sexy woman on television. ''Anywhere''." Richard Galpin. "Special K.” ''Arena''. Issue 127. October 2002. 170-176. The show was aggressively marketed by The WB Network before its premiere in January 1998. The cast was featured in the J. Crew catalog and trailers for the program were shown in movie theatres. Before the premiere, the show's talk of sex caused a stir in the press; one of the show's producers, Procter And Gamble , withdrew after negative press in its hometown newspapers.Howard Rosenberg. "Ammo for the Family Hour." '' The Los Angeles Times ''. July 4 , 1997 . F1; "Dawson's Creek's low aim.” (Editorial). ''The Cincinnati Post ''. September 22 , 1997 . 8A; John Kieswetter. "P&G execs reviewing family TV.” ''The Cincinnati Enquirer ''. August 6 , 2000 . A1; Greg Paeth. "P&G cuts its link with steamy teen series." ''The Cincinnati Post ''. October 23 , 1997 . 1C. Holmes was soon on the covers of magazines such as ''Seventeen'', '' TV Guide '', and '' Rolling Stone ''. Jancee Dunn, an editor at ''Rolling Stone'' said she was chosen for the cover because "every time you mention ''Dawson's Creek'' you tend to get a lot of Dolphin -like shrieks from teenage girls. The fact that she is drop-dead gorgeous didn't hurt either."Christopher Borrelli. "Toledoan Captures Coveted Cover of the Rolling Stone." '' The Blade ''. August 27 , 1998 . Living, 31. Reviews were mixed. ''The Blade'' said the characters "just talk like they came from a planet ruled by Manhattan psychologists, one where small talk is punishable by death."Christopher Borrelli. "'Dawson's Creek' Runs Too Smoothly: Characters Have Typical Woes But Adult Vocabularies." ''The Blade.'' ''. November 29 , 1998 . A1; Vanessa Winans and David Patch. "Biggest Hit of the Day? Katie Holmes (And Her Mom).” '' The Blade ''. November 29 , 1998 . A11. ''Dawson's Creek'' ran from 1998 to 2003, and Holmes was the only actor to appear in all 128 episodes. "It was very difficult for me to leave Wilmington, to have my little glass bubble burst and move on. I hate change. On the other hand it was refreshing to play someone else," she said in 2004.Nancy Mills. "A 'First' for Katie: President's daughter is Holmes, grown." '' New York Daily News ''. September 23 , 2004 . 45. Holmes confirmed that, as is often the case on soaps, the character was a Caricature of the actor: "As Joey," claimed '' Life ''," Holmes has had seismic influences on teen life . . . Through it all, Joey has managed to hang on to her integrity. . . The show—and Katie's character in particular—has touched a nerve."Johnson and Southam. FILM CAREER '' (2003), described by '' Variety '' as "one of her best film performances."]]In 2005, Holmes characterized her film career as being a string of "bombs." "Usually I'm not even in the top ten," she said, the highest grossing film of her career at that time being '' Phone Booth '', in which she played a supporting role. Cohen. She lamented "It's not like I have a lot of stuff that's great just waiting for me to sign on to."Christopher Borrelli. "Katie Holmes, Toledo's Leading Lady." '' The Blade ''. October 20 , 2002 . D1. Her first leading role came in '' Disturbing Behavior '' (1998), a ''''. July 24 , 1998 . 32; Stephen Holden. "Young Goody-Two-Shoes Who Basically Lack Souls." '' The New York Times ''. July 24 , 1998 . E22.The actress won a MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance for the role, though Holmes said the film was "just horrible."Newman. Holmes played a disaffected supermarket clerk in ''. August 20 , 1999 . 32. In '''': In ''''. October 18 , 2002 . 25; Todd McCarthy. "Subtlety is abandoned in routine thriller wrap-up." '' Variety ''. October 21 , 2002 . 33, 36. The actress played the mistress of the public relations flack played by Colin Farrell in '' Phone Booth '' (2002) and Robert Downey, Jr. 's nurse in '' The Singing Detective '' (2003). Holmes's next starring role was in '' Pieces Of April '' (2003), a gritty comedy about a Dysfunctional family on Thanksgiving . ''Variety'' said it was "one of her best film performances." David Rooney. Review of ''Pieces of April''. '' Variety ''. January 27 , 2003 . 24. "Each actor shines," wrote Elvis Mitchell , "even Ms. Holmes, whose beauty seems to have fogged the minds of her previous directors" in playing "a brat who is slaving to find her inner decency and barely has the equipment for such an achievement, let alone to serve a meal whose salmonella potential could claim an entire borough. Yet it is her surliness, as well as her intransigent determination to make Thanksgiving work, that keeps the laughs coming."Elvis Mitchell. "Second Helpings of Holiday Cheer." '' The New York Times ''. October 17 , 2003 . E1. Holmes played the President's daughter in '''', the most successful film of her career to date, she played Rachel Dawes, an attorney in the Gotham City district attorney's office and the childhood sweetheart of the title character. ''Variety'' was unenthusiastic. "Holmes is OK," was its critic's sole remark on her performance.Todd McCarthy. "The id of Batman." '' Variety ''. June 6 , 2005 . 19, 29. She received a Golden Raspberry nomination for "worst supporting actress" for the film. In 2006, she appeared in the film version of Christopher Buckley 's satirical novel '' Thank You For Smoking '' about a tobacco lobbyist played by Aaron Eckhart , whom Holmes's character, a Washington reporter, seduces. ''Variety'' wrote one of the film's "sole relatively weak notes from Holmes, who lacks even a hint of the wiliness of a ruthless reporter" and '' The New York Times '' said the cast was "exceptionally fine" except for Holmes, who "strain[ed credulity" in her role.David Rooney. Review of ''Thank You For Smoking''. '' Variety ''. September 19 , 2005 . 63; Manohla Dargis. "Smoke 'Em if You Got 'Em; His Career Depends on It." ''The New York Times.'' March 17 , 2006 . B8. Holmes had agreed to play the wife of Spade Cooley , who was stomped to death by the country singer, in a Biopic , ''Shame on You'', written and directed by Dennis Quaid , who is to play Cooley. But the picture, set to shoot in New Orleans, Louisiana , was delayed by Hurricane Katrina , and Holmes dropped out because of her pregnancy.Gregory Kirschling. "The Deal Report." '' Entertainment Weekly ''. December 17 , 2004 . 16; Michelle Tauber. "Baby on the Way." ''People''. October 24 , 2005 . 62-67; "Quaid vows to make movie in New Orleans." ''The Advocate'' (Baton Rouge, Louisiana). September 23 , 2005 . 4A.. HOLMES IN THE MEDIA Holmes hosted ''''. August 27 , 2004 . B1. Holmes was annually named by both the British and American editions of '', 2005 . 96. She has appeared in advertisements for Garnier Lumia shampoos and clothing retailer The Gap .Jeannie Williams. "Leary night job keeps him busy." '' USA Today ''. July 12 , 2001 . 2D. ''Kissing Katie Holmes'' Mark Bashian, a student at the , 2006 ). PERSONAL LIFE Holmes purchased a townhouse in Wilmington in 2002.Samantha Miller et alia. "Winter Breakout." ''People''. ''. November 2005. 88-91. Relationship with Tom Cruise Weeks after her relationship with Chris Klein ended, Holmes began dating actor ''. June 18 , 2005 . A1. Holmes, born a Roman Catholic, began to "embrace" the Church Of Scientology soon after she began dating Cruise, a longtime member of and outspoken advocate for the church, who had himself been raised as a Catholic. On May 23 , Cruise appeared on '' The Oprah Winfrey Show '', jumping on Winfrey's couch and vociferously declaring his love for Holmes. He went backstage and pulled the embarrassed actress onto the program.Jason Lynch et alia. "Truly, Madly, Deeply." ''People''. June 6 , 2005 . 56-59. Cruise proposed to Holmes in the early morning of June 17 atop Paris 's Eiffel Tower ; she accepted.Lane; Michelle Tauber et alia. "Tom & Kate's Wild Ride." ''People''. July 4 , 2005 . 50-56. At the press conference, attended by Holmes's mother, Cruise announced the news, declaring, "Today is a magnificent day for me. I'm engaged to a magnificent woman."Ibid. Press skepticism jumping for joy about his love for Holmes on '' The Oprah Winfrey Show ''.]] Gossip columnists dubbed the pair "TomKat." Articles appeared doubting the actors' sincerity and speculating their very public relationship was artifice designed to promote the actors' upcoming films. They noted that Cruise had been extremely private about his personal life and the flaunting of his new relationship was a marked contrast from his past behavior; the series of "bombs" Holmes has appeared in; the succession of actresses Cruise has dated since his divorce from , 2005 . 2. Ray Richmond of the ''Reporter'' envisioned a scene in a publicist's office: Cruise's sister and publicist, Lee Anne DeVette , protested the talk of a stunt. "I don't understand it. It's just insane. There's nothing going on here except that there's a man and a woman who are dating each other and are exceptionally happy."Lynch. Scientology '' objected to Holmes's "Scientology minder."]] Many stories in the press negatively noted Holmes's interest in Cruise's religion, the , 2006 . Hometown reaction
Holmes’s child On , 2005 . 62-67.. On , 2006 . 66-69. The '' Los Angeles Times '' quoted Cruise's publicist Arnold Robinson saying "everyone is wonderful" but noted "He declined to give any other details, saying the couple wished no comments to be made beyond those in the release. He declined to give the time or place of birth or the rest of Suri's name, nor would he discuss the duration or nature of the labor." The ''Times'' summarized the written statement Cruise released on the birth as saying the name is a word with origins in both Hebrew and Persian. In Hebrew it means 'princess,' and in Persian, 'red rose,' the release said. (It also means 'pickpocket' in Japanese, although the news release did not mention that.) Asked how the name is pronounced, Robinson answered via e-mail that he wasn't sure."Jill Leovy. "Girl Is Born to Stars Holmes, Cruise. ''Los Angeles Times''. April 19 , 2006 . B3. The , 2006 . (accessed April 25 , 2006 ). FILMOGRAPHY REFERENCES AND FOOTNOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY
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