Kate Noelle " Katie " Holmes (born December 18, 1978) is an American actress who first achieved fame for her role as Joey Potter on The WBtelevision teen drama Dawson's Creek from 1998 to 2003. Her movie roles have included the blockbuster Batman Begins along with art house films such as The Ice Storm and thrillers including Abandon . She has also played on Broadway in a production of Arthur Miller 's All My Sons . She achieved worldwide recognition for her marriage to Tom Cruise , with whom she has a daughter, Suri.
Holmes dated her Dawson's Creek co-star Joshua Jackson early in the show's run. Holmes met actor Chris Klein in 2000. Klein and Holmes were engaged in late 2003, but in early 2005 she and Klein ended their relationship.
Weeks after her relationship with Klein ended, Holmes began dating actor Tom Cruise . Cruise proposed to Holmes in the early morning of June 17, 2005, on top of Paris' Eiffel Tower . On November 18, 2006, Holmes and Cruise were married at the 15th-century Odescalchi Castle in Bracciano , Italy, in a Scientology ceremony attended by many Hollywood stars.The actors' publicist said the couple had "officialized" their marriage in Los Angeles the day before the Italian ceremony.
Holmes, who was raised a Roman Catholic, joined the Church of Scientology shortly after the couple began dating.
On April 18, 2006, Holmes gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Suri. The Los Angeles Times summarized the written statement Cruise released on the birth, saying the name "is a word with origins in both Hebrew and Persian . In Hebrew, it means 'princess' and in Persian, 'red rose,' it was claimed in the release." Although some Hebrew linguists had never seen the word for "princess" spelled this way and its meaning, others said it was a Yiddishpronunciation of the Hebrew name " Sarah ". The first photographs of Suri appeared in the October 2006 issue of Vanity Fair , shot by Annie Leibovitz , and became the publication's second best selling issue of all time, selling more than 700,000 copies.
