An attractive and capable actress whose talent has been overshadowed by her tabloid-friendly love life, Holmes landed a supporting part in 1997's
The Ice Storm on her first-ever audition. On her second, she snagged a role on the prime-time teen soap
Dawson's Creek. Afraid of being typecast, Holmes took on diverse film roles when the series was on hiatus, including a checkout girl involved in a drug deal in 1999's
Go, a promiscuous murder victim in
The Gift and a wannabe teen seductress in
Wonder Boys, both in 2000. When
Dawson's Creek ended in 2003, Holmes gave a stunning performance as a punky slacker attempting to prepare Thanksgiving dinner in the low-budget indie hit
Pieces of April. But focus soon shifted from her career to her stormy personal life. After splitting from longtime love Chris Klein, she took up with Tom Cruise in the spring of 2005, prompting the megastar to proclaim his love standing atop a sofa on
The Oprah Winfrey Show. Dubbed TomKat by the media, the couple enjoyed a whirlwind courtship and soon announced that they were engaged and pregnant. Yet cynics complained that the romance was a publicity stunt to generate interest in Holmes' first blockbuster,
Batman Begins, and Cruise's
War of the Worlds.
Katie Holmes Fast Facts:
- Auditioned for Dawson's Creek via videotape because she didn't want to miss performing in her high school's production of Damn Yankees.
- One of People magazine's 50 Most Beautiful People in 2003.
- Gave birth to Suri, her daughter with Tom Cruise, in April 2006. The first photos of the baby were not released until five months later, when the proud parents finally revealed their progeny to the world in a 22-page Vanity Fair spread. They tied the knot in November of that same year.
- Katie Holmes Relationships:
- Chris Klein - Ex-fiancé
- Connor Cruise - Stepson
- Holly - Sister
- Isabella Cruise - Stepdaughter
- Kathleen Holmes - Mother
- Martin Holmes - Father
- Martin Holmes Jr. - Brother
- Nancy Blaylock - Sister
- Suri Cruise - Daughter
- Tamera - Sister
- Tom Cruise - Husband
