Katie Holmes

Katie Noelle Holmes was born in Toledo, Ohio, USA, on December 18, 1978. Her father Martin is a lawyer specializing in matrimonial separations, and surely in her childhood Katie would not have thought that she should go to her professional services to terminate her marriage to Tom Cruise .

But let’s not go so fast, starting to build the house from the roof. Katie was the youngest of five children in a Catholic family, where her mother, Kathleen, worked at home and helped with charities. The future professional actress was already taking pleasure in giving life to characters other than herself at Notre Dame Academy, the women’s college where she studied. She also attended a model and talent school, the New York IMTA (International Modeling and Talent Association), where she demonstrated her singing and dancing skills, as well as reciting a monologue from To Kill a Mockingbird . At the age of 17, she will leave for Los Angeles, ready to try her luck in movies. Things couldn’t have started on a better footing, as Ang Lee selected her for a small role in The Ice Storm(1997), a drama with multiple characters.

Working with Lee, followed by the television call, Holmes was required by Kevin Williamson for the series Dawson’s Grows . He almost declined the role of Joey Potter because he was acting in a school musical of his, “Damn Yankees,” to which he was already committed, but the producers were patient, and adjusted the shoot to the needs of the. His role as a teenager who loves Steven Spielberg ‘s movies had a curious connection to real life, since the first movie he remembers seeing is ET the Extra-Terrestrial .

TV allowed him to make some scary movies like Disturbed Behavior (1998) and Kidnapping Miss Tingle (1999). Although his role is small, he will once again be in a level film, Star Wars (2000), by Curtis Hanson , with two powerful Michael Douglas and Tobey Maguire . Then follow the titles cut by the pattern of the thriller, Premonition (2000) , The disappearance of Embry (2002) -important because it assumes an unquestionably leading role- and Last call (2002).

More risky is his small foray into The Singing Detective (2003). Though arguably her best work to date, it is the role of her independent daughter who goes to join her family for Thanksgiving in Picture of April (2003).

Katie’s career seemed to promise a lot after that film, but then came uneven films and a lapse for motherhood, her daughter Suri was to be born. Perhaps first her engagement to Chris Klein , which she did not come to fruition, and then the media overexposure of her marriage to Tom Cruise in 2006 made a dent. In any case, she has little interest in A Different Daughter (2004) and secondary is her role in Batman Begins (2005), the reboot of the Batman franchise by Christopher Nolan . The same happens with Thanks for smoking , also from 2005, her presence in Jason Reitman ‘s film is less.

Holmes’s 2008 comeback with Three Women and a Plan , opposite Diane Keaton and Queen Latifah , is far from memorable; although that year he made his Broadway debut with “All my children”, the work of Arthur Miller , whose staging did not please the critics. It does not have much interest Jack and his twin From him (2011), the typical silly Adam Sandler , or a horror, Do not be afraid of the dark (2011). On the other hand, he is very good in the controversial miniseries The Kennedys , an unsatisfactory vision of Jon Cassarof the clan that placed a president in the United States, JFK. Katie Holmes was a terrific Jackie, the wife of John Fitzgerald Kennedy.

The decision, at the end of June 2012, to end her marriage with Tom Cruise, perhaps because of his Scientological beliefs, will undoubtedly affect what the future holds for this actress, who curiously has announced a film with the title Responsible Adults . Being a responsible adult will be decisive in the direction that Holmes’s career takes from now on.