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

• 2026Happy Hours — Liz Jones, Director, Writer
• Poker Face — Greta Finch
• 2023Rare Objects — Diana Van der Laar, Producer, Director, Writer
• 2022Alone Together — June, Producer, Screenplay, Director
• 2021Almost a Year — Producer, Screenplay
• 2020Brahms: The Boy II — Liza
• 2020Coda — Helen Morrison
• 2020The Secret: Dare to Dream — Miranda Wells
• 2018Boy Boy Girl Girl
• 2018Dear Dictator — Darlene Mills
• 2018Ocean's Eight — Katie Holmes (uncredited)
• 2017A Happening of Monumental Proportions — Paramedic #1
• 2017Logan Lucky — Bobbie Jo Chapman
• The Kennedys: After Camelot — Jackie Kennedy Onassis, Executive Producer, Director
• 2016All We Had — Rita Carmichael, Director, Producer
• 2016Touched with Fire — Carla, Co-Producer
• 2015Eternal Princess — Director
• 2015Woman in Gold — Pam Schoenberg
• 2014Days and Nights — Alex
• 2014Miss Meadows — Miss Meadows, Executive Producer
• 2014The Giver — Mother
• Ray Donovan — Paige Finney
• 2011Jack and Jill — Erin
• The Kennedys — Jackie Kennedy
• 2011The Son of No One — Kerry White
• 2010Don't Be Afraid of the Dark — Kim
• 2010The Extra Man — Mary Powell
• 2010The Romantics — Laura Rosen, Producer
• Eli Stone — Grace Fuller
• 2008Mad Money — Jackie Truman
• 2005Batman Begins — Rachel Dawes
• How I Met Your Mother — Naomi
• So You Think You Can Dance
• 2005Thank You for Smoking — Heather Holloway
• 2004First Daughter — Samantha Mackenzie
• 2003Phone Booth — Pamela McFadden
• 2003Pieces of April — April Burns
• 2003The Singing Detective — Nurse Mills
• 2002Abandon — Katie Burke
• 2000The Gift — Jessica King
• 2000Wonder Boys — Hannah Green
• 1999Go — Claire Montgomery
• 1999Muppets from Space — Joey Potter (uncredited)
• 1999Teaching Mrs. Tingle — Leigh Ann Watson
• Dawson's Creek — Joey Potter
• 1998Disturbing Behavior — Rachel Wagner
• 1997The Ice Storm — Libbets Casey
• Happy Hours, Part 2 — Director, Writer
• Happy Hours, Part 3 — Director, Writer

Appearances as themselves (21)

• The Holiday Movies That Made Us — Self (archive footage)
• 2015Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief — Self (archive footage)
• Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self
• The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon — Self
• The Reichen Show — Self
• Project Runway — Self - Guest Judge
• The Tony Danza Show — Self
• Celebrities Uncensored — Self
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! — Self - Guest
• Punk'd — Self
• The Ellen DeGeneres Show — Self
• Last Call with Carson Daly — Self
• Rove — Self
• Teen Choice Awards — Self
• The Early Show — Self
• The View — Self
• Late Night with Conan O'Brien — Self - Guest
• LIVE with Kelly and Mark — Self
• Entertainment Tonight — Self
• Saturday Night Live — Self - Host
• The Grammys — Self