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Katherine Noelle "Katie" Holmes (born December 18,
1978) is an United States|American actress from
Ohio best known for her role as Joey Potter, the
tomboy down the titular waterway on The WB
Television Network|The WB television drama
Dawson's Creek.  Holmes' movie roles have ranged
from art house films such as Pieces of April to
thrillers such as Abandon (film)|Abandon.  In
2005, she was engaged to marry the actor Tom
Cruise, which made her the center of international
press attention. 
==Early life and career==
Holmes, born in Toledo, Ohio, is the youngest of
the five children of Martin, an attorney, and
Kathleen Holmes.  She lived in Sylvania Township,
Lucas County, Ohio|Sylvania Township and attended
Catholic schools in Toledo, including the
all-female Notre Dame Academy.  While in high
school, she went with her mother to Los Angeles,
California|Los Angeles to audition for pilots for
television shows.  She did not land a television
role, but was cast as the improbably named Libbets
Casey in the film The Ice Storm (1997 in
film|1997), directed by Ang Lee and starring Kevin
Kline and Sigourney Weaver.

She returned to Toledo but her audition tapes
continued to circulate.  One reached the producers
of a new show created by Kevin Williamson for
Columbia Tri-Star Television:  Dawson's Creek. 
Her appointment to read for it was unknowingly set
by the producers for the same day as her high
school production of Damn Yankees (she was playing
Lola), but they permitted her to send a videotape
rather than make her miss the show.  Holmes read
for the part of Joey, the tomboyish best friend of
the title character, while her mother read
Dawson's lines, including dialogue about sex and
masturbation.  Holmes won the part.  Williamson
said "She had those eyes, those eyes just stained
with loneliness."

==Dawson's Creek==

"I'm a lot like Joey," she said.  "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, personnel,
perceptions—and about being guarded." 
Dawson's Creek filmed its first season in the
spring and summer of 1997. Holmes moved to
Wilmington, North Carolina, where the show filmed,
and for a time lived with creator Williamson.

At 5'9" (some sources say 5'7"), the tall brunette
enchanted the press.  "The Audrey Hepburn of her
generation," was one typical comment.  Variety,
reviewing the pilot, said Holmes "is a confident
young performer who delivers her lines with
slyness and conviction."  So good was Holmes that
The New York Times Magazine would claim everyone
in Hollywood was looking for the "Katie Holmes
type" when casting shows.  "The Katie Holmes
type," the reporter claimed, "is a throwback to
the 1950's:  she is a smart girl next door (as
opposed to the babe-o-rama blondes)"--the sort
represented by her Dawson's Creek co-star Michelle
Ingrid Williams|Michelle Williams.  But her "type"
was no less attractive, Arena magazine declaring
her "the most coquettishly sexy woman on
television.  Anywhere." 

Dawson's Creek ran from 1998 in television|1998 to
2003 in television|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.  Holmes
confirmed that, as is often the case on soaps, the
character is a caricature of the actor:
:I miss her spirit, and her spunk, and I miss her
anxiety.  She always had these long speeches about
her fears and her future and love.  It was a great
tool for me personally because I got to get it all
out.  I was able to psychoanalyze all of it
everyday with her and then I wouldn't have to do
it on my own.  So much of me is in Joey and it
really felt like I grew up on television.

==Film career==
Holmes in 2005 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
(movie)|Phone Booth. 
 
Her big break came when she had a role in the
movie The Ice Storm (1997 in film|1997) she
starred in a part opposite Tobey Maguire. Her
first leading role came in Disturbing Behavior
(1998 in film|1998), a The Stepford Wives|Stepford
Wives-goes-to-high school thriller where she was a
loner from the wrong side of the tracks.  Holmes
won a MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough
Performance for the role, though Holmes said the
film was "just horrible".  Next she was a
disaffected supermarket clerk in Doug Liman's
stylish ensemble piece Go (1999)|Go (1999 in
film|1999).  She had an uncredited cameo with
Dawson's Creek co-star Joshua Jackson in Muppets
From Space (1999 in film|1999), which was also
filmed in Wilmington.  Kevin Williamson's
disaffection for his own high school days spawned
Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999 in film|1999), which he
wrote and directed. Holmes played a straight-A
student whose vindictive teacher (Helen Mirren)
threatens to keep her from a desperately needed
scholarship.  



In Wonder Boys (2000 in film|2000), the film
version of the Michael Chabon novel, she had a
small role (six and one-half minutes of screen
time) as the tenant—and object of
lust—of her English professor, played by
Michael Douglas.  In The Gift (movie)|The Gift
(2000 in film|2000), a Southern Gothic story
directed by Sam Raimi and starring Cate Blanchett,
she played the antithesis of Joey Potter:  a
slutty rich girl carrying on with everyone in
town, from a white trash wife-beater (Keanu
Reeves) to the district attorney (Gary Cole), and
who winds up dead for her trouble.  Holmes did her
first nude scene for the film, baring her breasts
in a scene where her character was about to be
murdered. Of the scene, she said, "I just hope
there aren't a lot of pauses on DVD players."  Her
appearance deshabille was lamented by Variety
(magazine)|Varietys Steven Kloter:  "It seems the
only time we see a naked woman on screen is when
someone like Katie Holmes needs to break with her
sanitized WB past and march brazenly into a new
future."

In Abandon (film)|Abandon (2002 in film|2002),
written by Academy Award|Oscar winner Stephen
Gaghan, Holmes was a delusional and homicidal
college student named "Katie."  Roger Ebert of the
Chicago Sun-Times commended Holmes' performance
and the film's intelligence, but other critics and
audiences savaged
ithttp://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/art
icle?AID=/20021018/REVIEWS/210180301/1023. Holmes
was the mistress of the public relations flack
played by Colin Farrell in Phone Booth (2002 in
film|2002) and Robert Downey, Jr.'s nurse in The
Singing Detective (movie)|The Singing Detective
(2003 in film|2003).  Her next starring role was
in Pieces of April (2003 in film|2003), a gritty
comedy about a dysfunctional family on
Thanksgiving.  Variety said it was "one of her
best film performances." 

Holmes played the President's daughter in First
Daughter, which was originally to be released in
January 2004 in film|2004 on the same day as
Chasing Liberty, the Mandy Moore film about a
presidential daughter, but was ultimately released
in September 2004 in film|2004 to dismal reviews
and ticket sales.  First Daughter,  directed by
Forest Whitaker, also starred Michael Keaton as
Holmes' father and Marc Blucas as her love
interest. Hollywood Reporter|The Hollywood
Reporters Kirk Honeycutt called Holmes' character,
Samantha Mackenzie, "a startling example of how a
studio film can dumb down and neutralize the comic
abilities of a lively young star."
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/reviews/revie
w_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000641292

In 2005 in film|2005, Holmes played Rachel Dawes,
the love interest of the title character in Batman
Begins.

==Upcoming roles==
Entertainment Weekly reported in its December 17,
2004 issue that Holmes was to play the murdered
wife of Spade Cooley in a biopic written and
directed by Dennis Quaid, who is to play Cooley. 
Also forthcoming is an adaptation of Christopher
Buckley's satirical novel Thank You For Smoking
about a tobacco lobbyist, Nick Naylor (Aaron
Eckhart), directed by Jason Reitman.

==Filmography==

{| prettytable
|- bgcolor="#CCCCCC"
! Year !! Movie !! Role !! Other notes
|-
| 2006 in film|2006 || Shame on You || Ella Mae ||
Announced
|-
| 2005 in film|2005 || Thank You For Smoking
(film)|Thank You For Smoking || Heather Holloway
|| Post-production
|-
| 2005 in film|2005 || Batman Begins || Rachel
Dawes ||  
|-
| 2004 in film|2004 || First Daughter || Samantha
Mackenzie ||  
|-
| 2003 in film|2003 || Pieces of April || April
Burns ||  
|-
| 2003 in film|2003 || The Singing Detective
(movie)|The Singing Detective || Nurse Mills ||
 
|-
| 2002 in film|2002 || Abandon (film)|Abandon ||
Katie Burke ||  
|-
| 2002 in film|2002 || Phone Booth (movie)|Phone
Booth || Pamela McFadden || Theatrical release in
2003
|-
| 2000 in film|2000 || The Gift (movie)|The Gift
|| Jessica King ||  
|-
| 2000 in film|2000 || Wonder Boys || Hannah Green
||  
|-
| 1999 in film|1999 || Teaching Mrs. Tingle ||
Leigh Ann Watson ||  
|-
| 1999 in film|1999 || Muppets From Space || Joey
Potter || Uncredited cameo appearance|cameo
|-
| 1999 in film|1999 || Go (1999)|Go || Claire
Montgomery ||  
|-
| 1998 in film|1998 || Disturbing Behavior ||
Rachel Wagner ||  
|-
| 1997 in film|1997 || The Ice Storm || Libbets
Casey ||  
|}

==Guest appearances and endorsements==

Holmes hosted Saturday Night Live on February 24,
2001, participating in a send-up of Dawson's Creek
where she falls madly in love with Chris Kattan's
Mr. Peepers character and singing "Hey, Big
Spender" from Sweet Charity.  Holmes was annually
named by FHM magazine as one of the sexiest women
in the world from 1999 forward
http://metalbunny.net/girlz/hotlist.php?list=fhmuk
and was named one of People (magazine)|Peoples "50
Most Beautiful People" in its May 12, 2003 issue. 
Teen People declared her one of the "25 Hottest
Stars Under 25" in its June/July 2003 issue.  She
has appeared in advertisements for Garnier Lumia
shampoos and The Gap.

==Dating life==
Holmes met actor Chris Klein (actor)|Chris Klein
in 2000, and they began dating.  They were engaged
in 2004, but in early 2005 Holmes and Klein broke
off their engagement.  Press accounts cited the
distance imposed by their careers as a factor.  

In April 2005 she started dating actor Tom Cruise,
http://toronto.fashion-monitor.com/news.php/gossip
/2005060905katie_holmes_cruise
http://www.suntimes.com/output/pearlman/cst-ftr-fa
ce06.html and is reportedly joining the Church of
Scientology as a result of his influence.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/06/13/peopl
e.holmes.ap/ She and Tom Cruise got engaged after
he proposed to her in the early morning of June
17, 2005 atop Paris's Eiffel Tower.
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/reuters/0,24012,10735
38_10_0_,00.html

==See also==
*Dawson's Creek
*: