'''Kate Noelle "Katie" Holmes'''
[ There is some question as to what Holmes's legal name is. Several secondary sources give it as "Kate Noelle Holmes", to wit: Janice Dunn. "Katie Holmes: A girl on the verge." ''Rolling Stone''. Issue 795. September 17, 1998. 44; Scott Lyle Cohen. "Home Sweet Holmes." ''Giant''. Issue 5. June-July 2005. ("My name is Kate.") Caroline Graham. "What Katie Did Next." ''Mail on Sunday'' (London). November 9, 2003. 30; ''Current Biography ''. On-line database accessed February 8, 2006; Andy Mangels. ''From'' Scream ''to'' Dawson's Creek: ''An Unauthorized Take on the Phenomenal Career of Kevin Williamson''. Los Angeles: Renaissance Books, 2000. ISBN 1-58063-122-3. 177; John Griffiths. "Katie Holmes: Edging Her Way Into People's Hearts." ''Biography Magazine''. September 2002. 88-90, 106. The birth certificate of Holmes's daughter, Suri, lists the actress's name as "Kate Noelle Holmes". See http://cdn.digitalcity.com/tmz_documents/cruise_bc_8_5.pdf .] (born December 18 1978 in Toledo, Ohio) is an American actress who first achieved fame for her role as Joey Potter on The WB teen drama ''
Dawson's Creek'' from 1998 to 2003. Her part on the show, only her second professional role, made Holmes a star. Her movie roles have ranged from art house films such as ''
The Ice Storm'' to thrillers such as ''
Abandon'' to blockbusters such as ''
Batman Begins'', but she has not found the same success in films as she did on television and admits most of her films have been "bombs".
Weeks after ending her engagement with actor Chris Klein, Holmes began in early 2005 a highly publicized relationship with actor Tom Cruise, sixteen years her senior. In June, two months after they first met, she became engaged to Cruise. Their relationship has made Holmes the subject of international media attention, much of it negative, the press speculating that the relationship was a publicity stunt to promote the couple's films. Many reports commented negatively about the interest of Holmes, born a Roman Catholic, in Cruise's religion, Scientology. The couple announced Holmes was pregnant in October 2005; on April 18, 2006, she gave birth to a baby girl, '''Suri Cruise'''. Since she began dating Cruise, Holmes has not worked as an actress.
Early life and career
Holmes was born in the northwestern Ohio city of Toledo,
[Darren Crosdale. ''Dawson's Creek: The Official Companion''. Kansas City, Missouri: Andrews McMeel, 1999. ISBN 0-7407-0725-6. 113-114.] the youngest in a family of five children (four daughters, one son) of Kathleen A. and Martin Joseph Holmes, Sr. (born 1945), an attorney specializing in divorces.
[Dunn.] She lived in the Corey Woods section of Sylvania Township, Lucas County, in a brick 1862 Italianate home
