Kristin Davis Biography

Fast Facts

• After graduating from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers in 1987 with a BFA in acting, she moved to New York to pursue her dreams--and waited tables for three years
• Met her biological father, a psychologist, for the first time in 1995
• Joined the cast of Melrose Place in 1995, but her character (Brooke Armstrong) was written out
• Darren Star remembered her when casting for Sex and the City
• Has been involved with Revlon Run/Walk for Women, which promotes breast-cancer awareness, since 1997
• Is an ambassador for Oxfam, an international organization that helps fight hunger and poverty
• Helped rescue an orphaned baby elephant (later named Chaimu) while on a 2009 safari in Kenya; Davis returned to Kenya in 2010 to visit Chaimu at a wildlife reserve