Katie Holmes

Katie was born on December 18th, 1978 in Toledo, Ohio. She is the youngest of five sisters, born to her father, a lawyer, and her mother, a homemaker. She is currently 19 years old and is living by herself in Wilmington, North Carolina. She has been accepted into Columbia University but has taken a year off to do Dawson's Creek.
At first, WB offered her the role of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. All she had to do was get her GED and start work right away. She passed, and decided to finish school instead. She got her start with a small role in Ang Lee's The Ice Storm playing Libbets Casey. The film, which won the screenplay award from the Cannes Film Festival, stars Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Elijah Wood and Joan Allen and depicts the sexual revolution of the 1970's. After her role in "The Ice Storm" Katie got back with the WB network, and caught the eye of Kevin Williamson, who cast her in role of Joey Potter. Even though Katie chose to stay home and act in her school's play "Damn Yankee's" as opposed to show up in person for audition. But, obviously she landed the past anyway, which is based on Kevin Williamson's real life friend named Fanny with whom he had a similar relationship with that of Dawson and Joey. Between the 1st and 2nd seasons of Dawson's Creek, Katie is filming 3 movies, "Disturbing Behavior", "Go" and "Killing Ms. Tingle" (which is directed by Wiliamson).

Quotes

  • On trying to keep her success in perspective: "Success is about getting an education and being happy. I don't think theres any mark I can make. And if I did think that, my family would knock me over the side of my head, like, 'Who do you think you are?' I'm taking each day as it comes. I'm jut having fun."
  • On how she spends her personal time: "I live above a video store (in Wilmington), so I watch a lot of movies. I'm also into my running workout. Running really helps me clear my head and makes me feel good, especially when I'm stessed."
  • On how Joey is like Katie: "Joey's full of emotions. I'm like her in that we both say what we feel, but Joey goes a little further. I wouldn't say a lot of the things she says."

    Joey Potter

     The role of Joey is basically the girl next door, which has caused Katie to get a rather large fan following. Joey is sort-of a tomboy. As Homles explains "Joey is a 15-year-old girl that uses a tough attitude as a guard because she's been through so much. She has been hurt so many times that she doesn't want to be vulnerable and put herself out there for everyone. She has to be tough. She lost her mom (to cancer) and her dad's in prison. She doesn't have the best reputation in town because he sister, Bessie, is pregnant by Bodie, her black boyfriend, and they all live together. Her relationship with Dawson has been the only stable thing in her life and now it's beginning to change."

    Filmography

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