Katie Holmes
grew up in the small town known as Toledo in the midst of
Ohio. Growing up the youngest of five children, she had a
very "sheltered" life. Attending Notre Dame, a "very
strict", all-girls Catholic high school, Katie is reportedly
as humble as can be. And just as shy - when around strangers,
that is. When around friends, that's a very different story.
Katie's co-star in Teaching Mrs Tingle, Barry Watson told
Seventeen magazine, "Katie is the Karaoke Queen. I actually
did a song with her - but I just stood there 'cause she took
over the mike."
Katie's film career is in
full swing. Making her feature-film debut in the critically
acclaimed Ang Lee film, The Ice Storm, her career has roller-coasted.
During the first hiatus of her teenage hit television show,
Dawson's Creek, Katie filmed three movies. Her first big-screen
role was in Disturbing Behavior with X-Men's James Marsden
and The Thin Red Line's Nick Stahl. It wasn't the break-through
movie of the century, however Katie did win an award for break-through
performance at the 1998 MTV movie awards for her portayal
of Rachel Wagner. Following this was the well-reviewed Go
from Swingers director, Doug Liman. The movie didn't make
the money it deserved, but it was enough. Next was Teaching
Mrs Tingle directed by Scream and Dawson's creator Kevin Williamson.
The film follows three students as they hold their teacher
hostage for being a bitch. I hate to say it, but not a very
good movie. Acting was done well, but the script lacked in
many areas.
While filming the second series
of Dawson's Creek, Katie auditioned and won the role of Hannah
Green. Director Curtis Hanson (his first film since L.A. Confidential)
told Rolling Stone magazine, "She got in line with [other
applicants] and came in and read for the part because she
wanted to work with Robert Downey Jr and Michael Douglas and
Tobey Maguire."
Also, while shooting Dawson's,
Katie has managed to film yet another movie - a movie that
many say will take her out from the teen genre with her "Joey
Potter" tag, and place her into more sophisticated and
developing roles. The film is The Gift. It is a small budget
movie ($10m) with an all-star cast including Australia's Cate
Blanchett, Hilary Swank, Keanu Reeves, Giovani Ribiski and
Greg Kinnear. Katie plays the role of Jessica King, a spoilt
rich girl who, despite an engagement to her ex-high-school
principle (played by Greg Kinnear), frollicks in the wim of
her sexuality, not limiting herself to one man. Reportedly,
she appears topless twice throughout the movie. The first,
a very seductive removal of her under garments; the second,
a discovery of her dead and naked body, wrapped in chains
- "Someone strangles me, throws me in a pond and then
drags me through it."
When she first began filming
Dawson's, Katie started dating her co-star Joshua Jackson.
Once they broke up, they remained close friends. Josh Jackson
says of her, "It was the first time I was ever tracked
down by a beautiful woman. Life was good."
Currently, Katie is linked
to Election and American Pie star, Chris Klien. They have
been dating for over a year.
So how exactly does Katie
decribe herself? "I'm not that smooth type of girl. I
run into things, I trip, I spill food. I say stupid things...I
really don't have it all together."
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