Katie Holmes is an American actress of television and film. She was born in Ohio as the youngest of five children. She was a good student, and she got her first taste of acting appearing in school musicals.
She got her big break on the WB teen drama Dawson’s Creek where she played Joey Potter, the love interest of the show’s namesake and lead, Dawson Leery. The instant fame the program brought her, enabled her to star in such films as The Ice Storm, Go, Wonder Boys, The Gift, Phone Booth,
Batman Begins, Thank You for Smoking, Abandon, and Disturbing Behavior.
She has dated her Dawson’s Creek co-star
Joshua Jackson, actor Chris Klein, and, most recently,
Tom Cruise. Cruise proposed to Holmes in Paris at the top of the Eiffel Tower. In 2006, the couple went on to marry and have a daughter, Suri Cruise.
Their relationship has brought a great deal of attention for numerous reasons, including the high profile of superstar
Tom Cruise, the sixteen year age difference, and the role of the Church of Scientology in the relationship. Holmes was raised in the Roman Catholic faith, but joined the Church of Scientology shortly after she began dating Cruise, one of the most public faces of the religion.
