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Kate Noelle "Katie" Holmes (born December 18, 1978) is an American actress best known for her role as the tomboy Joey Potter on The WB television drama Dawson's Creek
from 1998 to 2003. The part on the teen soap, only her second professional role, made Holmes a star. Holmes’s movie roles have ranged from art films such as Pieces of April
to thrillers such as Abandon
, but she has not found the same success in films as she did on television; she has admitted that most of her films were "bombs."

Weeks after ending a four-year relationship and year-long engagement with actor Chris Klein, Holmes began a highly publicized relationship with actor Tom Cruise in 2005. 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 unfavorably about the interest of Holmes, a Roman Catholic, in Cruise's religion, Scientology. In October 2005, the couple announced Holmes was pregnant.

Early life and career

Holmes, born in the northwestern Ohio city of Toledo, is the youngest of the five children (four daughters, one son) of Kathleen and Martin Joseph Holmes, Sr. (born 1945), an attorney specializing in divorces. (Among his clients was Thomas Noe of the Coingate scandal.) She lived in the Corey Woods section of Sylvania Township, Lucas County, in a brick 1862 Italianate home with a white picket fence. Her siblings are Tamara (born circa 1968), Holly (born circa 1970), Martin (born 1970), and Nancy (born circa 1975). Holmes, born a Roman Catholic, attended Christ the King Church and parochial schools in Toledo. Her high school was the all-female Notre Dame Academy, her mother's alma mater, where Katie was a 4.0 student., and where she appeared in school musicals, playing a waiter in Hello, Dolly and Lola in Damn Yankees
. She scored 1310 on her SATs and was accepted to Columbia University and her father wanted her to be a doctor. Holmes loved reading: "I never feel lonely in a bookstore," she said. A British writer profiling her in 2003 said "The way Holmes approached her unusual education was as American as apple pie: she went to cheerleading practice, got straight A grades, and made a pledge that she would remain a virgin until marriage." Holmes told her hometown paper, The Blade, that the three words best describing herself were "honest, determined, and imaginative."

At fourteen, she began classes at a modeling school in Toledo run by Margaret O'Brien, who took her to New York City in 1996 to a talent expo. There she found an agent after performing a monologue from To Kill a Mockingbird. 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."

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 turned it down. 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.'"

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