Biography
Kate Noelle "Katie" Holmes (born December 18, 1978) is an American actress and director. Born in Toledo, Ohio, teen modelling led to a supporting role in Ang Lee's The Ice Storm, before she found international fame as Joey Potter on the teen drama Dawson's Creek from 1998 to 2003. She transitioned to film in her hiatuses between seasons, appearing in movies including Doug Liman's Go, Curtis Hanson's Wonder Boys, and Joel Schumacher's Phone Booth.
During promotion for her role in Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins, Holmes began a highly publicized relationship with actor Tom Cruise. The couple were engaged within two months of meeting, with Holmes converting from Roman Catholicism to the Church of Scientology, and Cruise flamboyantly professing his love for her during a controversial episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show. Months later, the couple produced a daughter, Suri, before marrying in November 2006.
Holmes went on to make her Broadway debut in a revival of Arthur Miller's All My Sons, portray Jacqueline Kennedy in the Reelz mini-series The Kennedys, and launched a short-lived fashion line. Holmes filed for divorce from Cruise in July 2012, gaining custody of her daughter and moving to New York, where she returned to the Roman Catholic Church. While tabloids have long speculated on the circumstances of the couple's divorce, Holmes has declined to speak publicly on the matter.
Following her divorce, Holmes returned to film with roles in The Giver, Woman in Gold and Steven Soderbergh's Logan Lucky, and recurred on the Showtime series Ray Donovan. In 2016, she made her feature directorial debut with the mother-daughter drama All We Had.
Filmography (73)
Happy Hours, Part 1
2026
Rare Objects
2023
Poker Face
2023
Alone Together
2022
Coda
2020
The Secret: Dare to Dream
2020
Brahms: The Boy II
2020
The Holiday Movies That Made Us
2020
Dear Dictator
2018
Ocean's Eight
2018
Boy Boy Girl Girl
2018
Logan Lucky
2017
A Happening of Monumental Proportions
2017
The Kennedys: After Camelot
2017
Touched with Fire
2016
All We Had
2016
Woman in Gold
2015
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
2015
The Giver
2014
Days and Nights
2014
Miss Meadows
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Ray Donovan
2013
12-12-12 | The Concert for Sandy Relief
2012
Jack and Jill
2011
The Son of No One
2011
The Kennedys
2011
The Romantics
2010
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark
2010
The Extra Man
2010
Mad Money
2008
Eli Stone
2008
Batman Begins
2005
Thank You for Smoking
2005
How I Met Your Mother
2005
So You Think You Can Dance
2005
The Colbert Report
2005
The Reichen Show
2005
First Daughter
2004
The Tony Danza Show
2004
Project Runway
2004
Pieces of April
2003
Phone Booth
2003
The Singing Detective
2003
Dawson's Creek - The Series Finale (Extended Cut)
2003
Celebrities Uncensored
2003
Punk'd
2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Abandon
2002
Last Call with Carson Daly
2002
The Gift
2000
Wonder Boys
2000
Teaching Mrs. Tingle
1999
Go
1999
Muppets from Space
1999
The Early Show
1999
Rove
1999
Teen Choice Awards
1999
Disturbing Behavior
1998
Dawson's Creek
1998
The Ice Storm
1997
The View
1997
Late Night with Conan O'Brien
1993
LIVE with Kelly and Mark
1988
Entertainment Tonight
1981
Saturday Night Live
1975
The Grammys
1959
Captivated
The Watergate Girl: My Fight for Truth and Justice Against A Criminal President
Happy Hours, Part 2
Happy Hours, Part 3