Katie Holmes

Soon after, she started dating actor Tom Cruise. After weeks of being in a committed relationship, the duo got engaged in June 2005 and went on to tie the nuptials in November 2006. Meanwhile in April 2006, she was blessed with a daughter Suri Cruise.

The marriage did not work out for long and was annulled in July 2012. She was given the custody of her daughter Suri Cruise.

Katie Holmes was born as Kate Noelle ‘Katie’ Holmes to Kathleen and Martin Joseph Holmes, Sr. She was the youngest of five children born to the couple.

Raised as a Roman Catholic, she attended the Christ The King Church in Toledo. She completed her preliminary education from the all-girls Notre Dame Academy and her higher education from Columbia University.

Since an early age, young Holmes was bitten by the acting bug. She participated in the school musicals and started attending modelling classes at a special training school.

Coaxed by her teacher, she participated in the International Modelling and Talent Association Competition held in New York City in 1996. Her impressive recitation of the monologue from ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ gained her many awards in the competition.

Her ground-breaking performance of the monologue inspired her to take up acting professionally. She moved to Los Angeles and started auditioning for roles. Her impressive personality and talent earned her the role of Libbets Casey in the Ang Lee’s film ‘The Ice Storm’.

Following her successful launch, she auditioned for the role of Joey Potter, the tomboyish character and Dawson’s best friend, for the television series, ‘Dawson’s Creek’. Despite auditioning on videotapes, she won the role.

‘Dawson’s Creek’ opened to the audience in 1998 to mixed reviews. While the series was appreciated by the critics and audience, her role as Dawson’s best friend earned her national attention.

While being a series regular in the television show, she took to the big screen and was featured in the film, ‘Disturbing Behavior’ in 1998. Though the film averaged at the box office, it won her a couple of awards. She followed this up by playing the character of a cynical supermarket clerk in ‘Go’ and an A-ranking student in ‘Teaching Mrs Tingle’

Rubbing off her cute-girl-next-door image, she took up challenging roles in her next couple of films released in 2000. While in “Wonder Boys’ she played the role of a college student who is madly in love with a college professor, in ‘The Gift’ she played a different type of temptress.

She won the MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance for her role of Rachel Wagner in ‘Disturbing Behavior’.

In 2011, she received the Women in Film Max Mara Face of the Future Award.

In 2005, she was ranked No. 38 on TV Guide’s ‘50 Sexiest Stars of All Time’.