Kristin Davis Biography

Fast Facts

• Has travelled to Mozambique and South Africa to raise AIDS awareness
• Received the Humane Society's Wyler Award in recognition for her wildlife conservation efforts
• Was awarded the position of Global Ambassador for the non-profit, international organization Oxfam
• Won two Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series for "Sex and the City" in 2002 and 2004
• Graduated from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in 1987
• As a child, she landed her first role in a theater production of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs․"
• Moved to New York after college and worked as a waitress and yoga instructor before getting her first acting role
• Reprised her most popular role as Charlotte York from "Sex and the City" in two films after the TV series ended
• While her breakthrough role was on "Melrose Place," the writers ended up giving her reviled character a shocking death scene to mollify angry fans
• Despite her dislike for the taste of peanut butter, she starred in an advertisement for Simply Jif Peanut Butter