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Katie Holmes

Katie Holmes

Acting1978Toledo, Ohio, USA

Biography

Kate Noelle "Katie" Holmes (born December 18, 1978) is an American actress and director. Born in Toledo, Ohio, teen modelling led to a supporting role in Ang Lee's The Ice Storm, before she found international fame as Joey Potter on the teen drama Dawson's Creek from 1998 to 2003. She transitioned to film in her hiatuses between seasons, appearing in movies including Doug Liman's Go, Curtis Hanson's Wonder Boys, and Joel Schumacher's Phone Booth.

During promotion for her role in Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins, Holmes began a highly publicized relationship with actor Tom Cruise. The couple were engaged within two months of meeting, with Holmes converting from Roman Catholicism to the Church of Scientology, and Cruise flamboyantly professing his love for her during a controversial episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show. Months later, the couple produced a daughter, Suri, before marrying in November 2006.

Holmes went on to make her Broadway debut in a revival of Arthur Miller's All My Sons, portray Jacqueline Kennedy in the Reelz mini-series The Kennedys, and launched a short-lived fashion line. Holmes filed for divorce from Cruise in July 2012, gaining custody of her daughter and moving to New York, where she returned to the Roman Catholic Church. While tabloids have long speculated on the circumstances of the couple's divorce, Holmes has declined to speak publicly on the matter.

Following her divorce, Holmes returned to film with roles in The Giver, Woman in Gold and Steven Soderbergh's Logan Lucky, and recurred on the Showtime series Ray Donovan. In 2016, she made her feature directorial debut with the mother-daughter drama All We Had.

Acting History

2025
Poker Face
TVas Greta Finch1 eps
2023
Rare Objects
as Diana Van der Laar
Rare Objects
Producer
Rare Objects
Director
2021
Almost a Year
Screenplay
2020
Coda
as Helen Morrison
The Holiday Movies That Made Us
TVas Self (archive footage)1 eps
2018
Ocean's Eight
as Katie Holmes (uncredited)
Dear Dictator
as Darlene Mills
2017
Logan Lucky
as Bobbie Jo Chapman
The Kennedys: After Camelot
TVas Jackie Kennedy Onassis2 eps
Project Runway
TVas Self - Guest Judge1 eps
The Kennedys: After Camelot
TVExecutive Producer2 eps
The Kennedys: After Camelot
TVDirector2 eps
2016
All We Had
as Rita Carmichael
Entertainment Tonight
TVas Self1 eps
All We Had
Director
All We Had
Producer
2015
Woman in Gold
as Pam Schoenberg
Ray Donovan
TVas Paige Finney4 eps
2011
The Son of No One
as Kerry White
The Kennedys
TVas Jackie Kennedy8 eps
2010
2008
Mad Money
as Jackie Truman
Eli Stone
TVas Grace Fuller1 eps
2005
Batman Begins
as Rachel Dawes
Thank You for Smoking
as Heather Holloway
How I Met Your Mother
TVas Naomi2 eps
The Reichen Show
TVas Self1 eps
Rove
TVas Self1 eps
The Colbert Report
TVas Self (archive footage)
2004
First Daughter
as Samantha Mackenzie
The Tony Danza Show
TVas Self1 eps
2003
Phone Booth
as Pamela McFadden
Pieces of April
as April Burns
The Singing Detective
as Nurse Mills
Punk'd
TVas Self1 eps
2002
Abandon
as Katie Burke
2000
Wonder Boys
as Hannah Green
The Gift
as Jessica King
1999
Teaching Mrs. Tingle
as Leigh Ann Watson
Go
as Claire Montgomery
Muppets from Space
as Joey Potter (uncredited)
1998
Disturbing Behavior
as Rachel Wagner
Dawson's Creek
TVas Joey Potter128 eps
1997
The Ice Storm
as Libbets Casey
The View
TVas Self
1993
1975
Saturday Night Live
TVas Self - Host

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Personal Info

Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
12/18/1978(47 years old)
Place of Birth
Toledo, Ohio, USA