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Katie Holmes

Born in Toledo, Ohio, on December 18, 1978, Katherine Noelle Holmes, innocently sexy star of the hit series Dawson's Creek, use to sit in front of her TV and imagine what it would be like to be a famous celebrity.

Well, Katie is living that dream now. Holmes got her first taste of acting by starring in theatre productions at Notre Dame Academy, an all-girls Catholic school in Toledo. But Katie's big break came when she attended "New York, New York", an IMTA (International Model and Talent Association) convention, in New York City, in July of 1995. There, Katie met and caught the eye of talent manager Al Onorato, who sold Katie on the idea of flying to Los Angeles for the pilot season. Half a year later, she won a part in The Ice Storm, a film based on the novel by Rick Moody. Before Katie could say Step aside, Jennifer Love Hewitt, she was offered the part of Buffy Summers in the show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. So why is it that we see Sarah Michelle Gellar slaying the bloodsuckers and not Katie? because Holmes turned down the part for a better one: high school grad.

Opportunity knocked again for what would become a hit TV series called Dawson's Creek. But Katie skipped her audition because she didn't want to abandon the opening night of her high school's production of Damn Yankees. But lucky for Holmes and her fans, the producer of Dawson's Creek, Kevin Williamson, wanted Katie so much, he rescheduled an audition for her. Holmes nailed the part of cute and adorable tomboy, Joey Potter. After graduating from high school, she said good-bye to Toledo and went to North Carolina to start taping Dawson's Creek. Since then Katie has become engaged to Hollywood Star Tom Cruise, who she had a crush on since she was a teen, and landed a role in Batman Begins.