
She scored 1310 out of 1600 on her SAT and was accepted to Columbia University (and attended for a summer session) her father wanted her to become a doctor. Francis de Sales, nearby all-male high schools, Holmes appeared in school musicals, playing a waitress in Hello, Dolly! and Lola in Damn Yankees. She graduated from the all-female Notre Dame Academy in Toledo (also her mother's alma mater), where she was a 4.0 student. Holmes was baptized a Roman Catholic and attended Christ the King Church in Toledo. Stothers, a homemaker and philanthropist, and Martin Joseph Holmes Sr., an attorney who played basketball at Marquette University under coach Al McGuire. She is the youngest of five children born to Kathleen A.

2.3 2010–present: Television work and return to film.2.2 2003–2009: Focus on film career, brief hiatus, and theatre work.2.1 1997–2003: Dawson's Creek and career development.

Her marriage to actor Tom Cruise, which lasted from 2006 to 2012, led to a great deal of media attention.

She made her directorial debut with the 2016 film All We Had, in which she also starred. In 2011, she played Jacqueline Kennedy in the TV miniseries The Kennedys, a role she reprised in The Kennedys: After Camelot (2017).

In 2008, she made her Broadway theatre debut in a production of Arthur Miller's All My Sons. Tingle (both 1999), Wonder Boys, The Gift (both 2000), Abandon, Phone Booth (both 2002), The Singing Detective, Pieces of April (both 2003), Batman Begins, Thank You for Smoking (both 2005), Mad Money (2008), Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (2010), Jack and Jill (2011), Miss Meadows (2014), Woman in Gold, Touched with Fire (both 2015), Logan Lucky (2017) and the independent film Coda (2019). Subsequent film roles include: Go, Teaching Mrs. She made her feature film debut in Ang Lee's The Ice Storm (1997). She first achieved fame as Joey Potter on the television series Dawson's Creek (1998–2003). Kate Noelle Holmes (born December 18, 1978) is an American actress, director, and producer.
