Kristian Bell

FACTS ABOUT KRISTEN BELL

Date of Birth:	18 July 1980
Birthplace:	Huntington Wood, Michigan
Age:	29
First Name:	Kristen
Middle Name:	Anne
Last Name:	Bell
Build:	Slim
Height:	5' 1" (155 cm)
Eye Color:	Blue
Hair Color:	Blonde
Star Sign:	Cancer
Claim to Fame:	Veronica Mars
Occupation:	Actress
Occupation Category:	Actress
Nationality:	American
Alternative Names:	K-Bell, Annie, KB, Veronica Mars

BIOGRAPHY FOR KRISTEN BELL

Kristen Anne Bell (born Jul. 18, 1980 (31 years ago)) is an American actress. Although her first movie role was an uncredited appearance in Polish Wedding, Bell previously acted in stage and musical productions. In 2001 (10 years ago), she made her Broadway debut as Becky Thatcher in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. After re-locating to Los Angeles, Bell landed various TV guest appearances and small movie parts, before she gained fame as the title role on the critically acclaimed TV series, Veronica Mars from sep. 2004 (7 years ago) to May 2007 (4 years ago). 





During her time on Veronica Mars, Bell reprised her role as Mary Lane in the movie version of Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical, a stage production she had taken part in. She also portrayed the lead role in Pulse, a remake of a J-Horror film. In 2007 (4 years ago), she joined the cast of Heroes playing the character Elle Bishop, and Gossip Girl as the offscreen titular narrator. Additionally, she played the title character in the comedy movie Forgetting Sarah Marshall. Bell has received a Satellite Award and Saturn Award, and has been nominated several times for TV Critics Association Awards and Teen Choice Awards. 

EARLY LIFE AND FAMILY

Bell was born and raised in Huntington Woods, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. She is the daughter of Tom Bell, a TV news director, and Lorelei "Lori" Bell, a registered nurse. Bell is of Polish and Scottish descent. Her parents divorced when she was two years old, and she has two half sisters, Sara and Jody, from her father's second marriage. Bell has a lazy eye which affects her right eye. She inherited it from her mother, who had it corrected as a child. Bell claims that if she does not get enough sleep, it furthers the ailment. She nicknames her right eye "Wonky". 





At the age of four, Bell claimed she did not like her first name and opted to change it to "Smurfette" after the character in the The Smurfs. However, her mother convinced Bell to go by her middle name of Anne instead; she used the name Annie until high school. She attended Burton Elementary school in Huntington Woods where she studied singing and tap dancing. 





Just before her freshman year of high school, Bell's parents decided to pull her from the public school system. She then attended Shrine Catholic High School in nearby Royal Oak, where she took part in the drama and music club. During her time at the school, she won the starring role in the school's 1997 (14 years ago) production of The Wizard of Oz as Dorothy Gale and also appeared in productions of Fiddler on the Roof (1995, 16 years ago), Lady Be Good (1996, 15 years ago), and Li'l Abner (1998, 13 years ago). In 1998 (13 years ago), the year she graduated, Bell was named the yearbook's "Best Looking Girl" by senior class vote. 





When Bell was 17, her best friend Jenny DeRita, whom she met at age 11 during a Detroit community theater production, was killed in an automobile accident. Bell said that it was "both the best and worst thing that has ever happened to me....Once you learn not to take people for granted, you live a lot happier life." 





Shortly after her high school graduation, Bell moved to New York and attended the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, majoring in musical theater. In 2001 (10 years ago), during her senior year at New York University, Bell left a few credits shy of graduating to take a role in the Broadway musical version of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. 





PERSONAL LIFE





Bell signing in Jan. 2005 (6 years ago) at San Francisco's Metreon.At age 11, Bell became a vegetarian. In an interview with PETA, Bell stated, "I have always been an animal lover. I had a hard time disassociating the animals I cuddled with — dogs and cats, for example — from the animals on my plate, and I never really cared for the taste of meat. I always loved my Brussel sprouts!" During her time in Michigan, Bell fostered animals from Michigan Humane Society and she now supports the San Diego-based Helen Woodward Animal Center. Bell often attends fund raisers for the ASPCA and other non-profit organizations dedicated to protecting animals. She owns a Welsh Corgi-Chow Chow mix named Lola, a Welsh Corgi-Chihuahua mix named Shakey, and a black Labrador Retriever named Sadie, who was 11 years old when she was rescued from Hurricane Katrina and adopted by Bell in 2005 (6 years ago). She and many of those who worked on Veronica Mars, including friend Ryan Hansen, are involved with the charity organization Invisible Children Inc. The goal of the organization is to create awareness regarding the plight of Northern Ugandans who are caught in the midst of a civil war between the government and Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army. Bell has shown her support for the Writers Guild of America in the writer's strike, appearing in the picket lines in dec. 2007 (4 years ago) stating, "the writers are just looking for some fairness." 





Bell has also done a public service announcement for Do Something's great Healthy Living Campaign. 





In 2007 (4 years ago), Bell ended a five-year relationship with former fiancé Kevin Mann, and went on to date actor Dax Shepard. She told Complex magazine that dating "makes me want to vomit. And not out of grossness — OK, a little bit out of grossness, but just nerves." Bell explains, "I’ve always been a serial monogamist." 





As she is a Detroit native, she is also an avid fan of the Detroit Red Wings hockey team.





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Scarlett Johanson

FACTS ABOUT SCARLETT JOHANSSON

Date of Birth:	22 November 1984
Birthplace:	New York City, New York
Age:	25
First Name:	Scarlett
Last Name:	Johansson
Build:	Average
Height:	5' 3?" (162 cm)
Eye Color:	Green
Hair Color:	Dyed Blonde
Star Sign:	Scorpio
Claim to Fame:	Ghost World, Lost in Translation
Occupation:	Actress
Occupation Category:	Actress
Nationality:	American
Alternative Names:	Scarlett Johanssen, ScarJo, Scarlett Johannson

BIOGRAPHY FOR SCARLETT JOHANSSON

Scarlett Johansson (born Nov. 22, 1984 (27 years ago)) is an American actress and singer. Johansson made her movie debut in the 1994 (17 years ago) movie North and was subsequently nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Female for her performance in 1996's Manny & Lo. Johansson rose to fame with her role in 1998's The Horse Whisperer and subsequently gained critical acclaim for her breakout performance in Ghost World in 2001 (10 years ago), for which she won the Chlotrudis Award for Best Supporting Actress. 

She made the transition to adult roles with her critically acclaimed performance in Sofia Coppola's movie Lost in Translation opposite Bill Murray, for which she won a BAFTA Award, and Girl with a Pearl Earring, the latter two earning her Golden Globe Award nominations in 2003 (8 years ago). A role in A Love Song for Bobby Long earned her a third nomination for Golden Globe for Best Actress. Following an appearance in The Island, Johansson again garnered critical acclaim and a fourth Golden Globe nomination, for Best Supporting Actress, for her role in Woody Allen's Match Point. She followed that with another Allen film, Scoop, with Hugh Jackman. A role in Brian de Palma's movie noir The Black Dahlia was followed by a second role opposite Hugh Jackman in The Prestige, also starring Christian Bale. 





Following a 2007 (4 years ago) appearance in the critical flop The Nanny Diaries, Johansson's career experience a resurgence of critical reception with the 2008 (3 years ago) movies The Other Boleyn Girl (4 walls) opposite Natalie Portman (15 walls) and Eric Bana and the in Allen directed film, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, with Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz (11 walls). She received positive reviews for her appearance in He's Just Not That into You (2009, 2 years ago) and will appear as villainess Black Widow in Iron Man (18 walls) 2 with Robert Downey Jr. and Samuel L. Jackson. 





On May 20, 2008 (3 years ago), Johansson debuted as a vocalist on her first album, Anywhere I Lay My Head, which included cover versions of Tom Waits songs. An upcoming album, Break Up, with Peter Yorn is scheduled for release in September, 2009 (2 years ago). 





EARLY YEARS

Johansson was born in New York City. Her father, Karsten Johansson, is a Danish-born architect, and her paternal grandfather, Ejner Johansson, was a screenwriter and director. Her mother, Melanie Sloan, a producer, comes from an Ashkenazi Jewish family from the Bronx. Johansson's parents met in Denmark, where her mother lived with Johansson's maternal grandmother, Dorothy, a former bookkeeper and schoolteacher. Johansson has an older sister, Vanessa, who is an actress; an older brother, Adrian; a twin brother, Hunter (whose only film, Manny & Lo, starred Scarlett); and a half-brother, Christian, from her father's re-marriage. 





Johansson grew up in a household with "little money", with a mother who was a "film buff". She and brother Hunter attended P.S. 41 in Greenwich Village in elementary school. Johansson began her theater training by attending and graduating from Professional Children's School in Manhattan in 2002 (9 years ago). 





CAREER

Acting career

Early roles 

Johansson began acting during childhood, after her mother began taking her to auditions. She made her movie debut at age nine as John Ritter's daughter in the 1994 (17 years ago) fantasy comedy North. Following minor roles in the 1995 (16 years ago) movie Just Cause, as the daughter of Sean Connery (5 walls) and Kate Capshaw, and If Lucy Fell in 1996 (15 years ago), she landed the role of Amanda in the Lisa Krueger-helmed movie Manny & Lo. Her performance garnered a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Female, and positive reviews, one noting that the movie "grows on you, largely because of the charm of... Scarlett Johansson", while San Francisco Chronicle critic Mick LaSalle praised her "peaceful aura", predicting that "if she can get through puberty with that aura undisturbed, she could become an important actress." 





After appearing in minor roles in Fall in 1997 (14 years ago) and Home Alone 3, Johansson garnered widespread attention for her performance in the 1998 (13 years ago) movie The Horse Whisperer, directed by Robert Redford. She received a nomination for the Chicago movie Critics Association Award for Most Promising Newcomer for the film. In 1999 (12 years ago), she appeared in both My Brother the Pig and the neo-noir Coen brothers movie The Man Who Wasn't There, as well as a very brief appearance in the Mandy Moore (45 walls) video for her single "Candy", Although the movie was not a box office success, she received praise for her breakout role in the critically acclaimed 2001 (10 years ago) film, Ghost World. Credited with "sensitivity and talent [that] belie her age", Johansson went on to win the Chlotrudis, and Toronto movie Critics Association Awards for Best Supporting Actress and was nominated for the Online movie Critics Society Award for Best Supporting Actress. 





Transition to adult roles 

Johansson marked her transition to adult roles in a pair of 2003 (8 years ago) films. In the much heralded Sofia Coppola movie Lost in Translation, she played the abandoned young wife Charlotte opposite Bill Murray. In praising the work of Johansson and Murray, movie critic Roger Ebert described the movie as "sweet and sad at the same time as it is sardonic and funny". Of her performance, also described as exuding an "embracing, restful serenity", the New York Times said, "At 18, the actress gets away with playing a 25-year-old woman by using her husky voice to test the level of acidity in the air... Ms. Johansson is not nearly as accomplished a performer as Mr. Murray, but Ms. Coppola gets around this by using Charlotte's simplicity and curiosity as keys to her character". Johansson won the BAFTA Award and the Boston Society of movie Critics Award for Best Actress and was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress for the role. She received nominations from a number of movie critic organizations, incluing the Broadcast movie Critics Association, the Chicago movie Critics Association, the Phoenix movie Critics Society and the Chlotrudis Awards. 





Johansson found equal praise for her role as Griet in Peter Webber's Girl with a Pearl Earring. Noting that "audiences feel as if they are spying on a moment of artistic inspiration when painter Vermeer creates the title work", USA Today praised her, suggesting that she "is having a banner year that Oscar voters should recognize." In his review for the New Yorker, Anthony Lane said "what keeps Webber’s movie alive is the tenseness of the setup... and, above all, the presence of Johansson. She is often wordless and close to plain onscreen, but wait for the ardor with which she can summon a closeup and bloom under its gaze; this is her film, not Vermeer’s, all the way." Owen Gleiberman, for Entertainment Weekly, praised her "nearly silent performance", observing that "the interplay on her face of fear, ignorance, curiosity, and sex is intensely dramatic." The Hollywood Foreign Press Association and the British Academy of movie and TV Arts agreed, nominating her for the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama and the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role. She was also nominated by the London movie Critics' Circle, the Phoenix movie Critics Society and the British Independent movie Awards for Best Actress. 





Johansson was invited to join the Academy of Motion picture (wallpaper) Arts and Sciences in Jun. 2004 (7 years ago). In the same year, she voiced a role in The Spongebob Squarepants Movie and appeared in an adaptation of Oscar Wilde's Lady Windermere's Fan titled A Good Woman, opposite Helen Hunt and Tom Wilkinson. A Good Woman was both a box office and a critical failure. The film, which only received a limited U.S. release, was criticized as a "misbegotten Hollywood-minded screen adaptation" with "an excruciating divide between the film's British actors (led by Tom Wilkinson and Stephen Campbell Moore), who are comfortable delivering Wilde's aphorisms... and its American marquee names, Helen Hunt and Scarlett Johansson, [who have] little connection to the English language as spoken in the high Wildean style." She also appeared in the critically panned teen heist movie The Perfect Score and in a supporting role opposite Topher Grace and Dennis Quaid in the better received In Good Company. Her performance in the dark Southern drama, A Love Song for Bobby Long, earned her a third Golden Globe for Best Actress nomination. Johansson was involved for a short time with the movie Mission: Impossible III, but was not officially cast because of scheduling conflicts, although a falling out with the film's star, Tom Cruise (12 walls), had been both widely reported and publicly denied. She was replaced by Keri Russell. 





2005 - 2007 

In Jul. 2005 (6 years ago), Johansson starred with Ewan McGregor in Michael Bay's science fiction film, The Island, in dual roles as Sarah Jordan and her clone, Jordan Two Delta. The movie was a domestic box office bomb and received mixed critical reviews. In contrast, her role as Nola, the American actress with whom Chris (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers) is obsessed, in the Woody Allen-directed drama Match Point was well-received. The New York Times said "Ms. Johansson and Mr. Rhys-Meyers manage some of the best acting seen in a Woody Allen movie in a long time, escaping the archness and emotional disconnection that his writing often imposes." Mick LaSalle, writing in the San Francisco Chronicle, said that Johansson "is a powerhouse from the word go", with a performance that "borders on astonishing." Johansson received her fourth Golden Globe nomination, and one from the Chicago movie Critics Association, for Best Supporting Actress. 





In another collaboration with Allen, Johansson was cast opposite Hugh Jackman and Allen in the 2006 (5 years ago) feature Scoop. While the movie enjoyed a modest worldwide box office success, it received mixed reviews by critics. The New York Times called the movie "not especially funny yet oddly appealing" and called parallels to The Thin Man, saying that while "Johansson is certainly no Myrna Loy", her "performance is all over the place... but finally works for a movie that is itself all over the place. Mr. Allen seems happy to just watch her strut her stuff, and after a while so are we." New York Magazine said that "Johansson doesn’t have the natural buoyancy to play a screwball Nancy Drew" but "she’s smart enough to know what’s needed (a young Diane Keaton), and manages to rouse herself", while USA Today criticized "her delivery of Allenesque one-liners" as "clunky", and "sometimes, she seems in over her head playing opposite Allen." The same year, she appeared in Brian De Palma's The Black Dahlia, a movie noir shot in Los Angeles and Bulgaria. Johansson later said that she was a De Palma fan and had wanted to work with him on the film, even though she thought that she was "physically wrong" for the part. Her reviews were mixed. CNN.com noted that Johansson "takes to the pulpy period atmosphere as if it were oxygen," whereas the Kalamazoo Gazette referred to Johansson as "miscast." 





Johansson next appeared in the Christopher Nolan thriller The Prestige (2006, 5 years ago) in a supporting role, again opposite Hugh Jackman as well as Christian Bale. Nolan, who described Johansson as possessing an "ambiguity... a shielded quality", said that he was "very keen" for her to play the role. Johansson said that she "loved working with [Nolan]", he was "incredibly focused and driven and involved, and really involved in the performance in every aspect." The movie was both a critical and a worldwide box office success, recommended by the Los Angeles Times as "an adult, provocative piece of work." Also in 2006 (5 years ago), Johansson starred in a short movie directed by Bennett Miller and set to Bob Dylan's "When the Deal Goes Down...", released to promote Dylan's album, Modern Times. 





Johansson starred in 2007's The Nanny Diaries alongside Laura Linney. The movie performed only marginally well at the box office, and was critically panned. Johansson's reviews were mixed, with Variety saying she "essays an engaging heroine", while the The New Yorker criticized her for looking "merely confused" while "trying to give the material a plausible emotional center". In his review for the San Francisco Chronicle, Mick LaSalle said "there's something painful about watching Scarlett Johansson, who looks as if she never had an indecisive moment in her life, struggle to seem ineffectual." 





2008 and beyond 

2008 brought an upturn in critical reception for Johansson's performances. She starred in The Other Boleyn Girl (4 walls) opposite Natalie Portman (15 walls) and Eric Bana, a movie which garnered mixed reviews for the movie itself. Writing for Rolling Stone, Pete Travers criticized the movie for moving "in frustrating herks and jerks", but praised Johansson and Portman, "What works is the combustible teaming of Natalie Portman (15 walls) and Scarlett Johansson, who give the Boleyn hotties a tough core of intelligence and wit, swinging the film's sixteenth-century protofeminist issues handily into this one." Variety credited the cast as "almost flawless... at the top of its game", citing "Johansson’s quieter Mary... as the pic’s emotional center, her tender love story with the conflicted monarch evoking the only genuine feelings on display." 





She filmed her third Woody Allen film, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, in Spain, appearing opposite Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz (11 walls). The movie was one of Allen's most profitable films, appeared on many critics' top ten lists of the best movies of 2008 (3 years ago). Overall, the movie received generally favorable reviews, and brought co-star Cruz numerous awards, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. Johansson was described as being "open and malleable" and "serves as a nice contrast to the [other actors]". 





Johansson played a small supporting role as femme fatale Silken Floss, an ally of Samuel L. Jackson's villian Dr. Octopus, in Frank Miller's movie noir comedy adaptation of The Spirit. The film, described as "a great-looking movie with an awkward balance of pulp noir and campy self-awareness", and "style without substance, style whirling in a senseless void" received almost universally poor reviews. 





Johansson appeared in the role of Anna, a yoga instructor, in the 2009 (2 years ago) ensemble cast of He's Just Not That Into You, with Jennifer Connelly (12 walls), Bradley Cooper, Drew Barrymore (12 walls) and Kevin Connolly. The movie was a box office success, but only average critical reception. The San Francisco Chronicle review noted that the movie "never soars, but it never flags" but lauds Johansson, saying "she has become a deft comic actress." The Los Angeles Times calls the movie an "anti-romantic romantic comedy" and cites the scenario in which Johansson appears with Jennifer Connelly (12 walls) and Bradley Cooper as having "more meat than others", making it "one of the best." The Baltimore Sun criticized the film, saying it "stumbles somewhat when it tries to get serious", but praised Johansson for "proving she doesn't need Woody Allen to be funny." 





In Mar. 2009 (2 years ago), Johansson signed on to play Black Widow in Iron Man (18 walls) 2 after a scheduling conflict forced Emily Blunt to drop out of the part. The film, slated for a May 2010 (last year) release is directed by Jon Favreau and also stars Robert Downey Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow (6 walls), Don Cheadle, Mickey Rourke, Samuel L. Jackson and Sam Rockwell. Appearing at Comic-Con in San Diego, California on Jul. 26, 2009 (2 years ago), Johansson joked about her audition for the film, saying it consisted of "a couple of deep knee bends and lunges", but Favreau credited her with performing her own stunts: "All the fighting and wire work is her own. She worked really hard and it shows on the screen." 





Johansson has appeared in advertising campaigns for Calvin Klein, L'Oreal and Louis Vuitton. After appearing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute Gala with Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana, Johansson was announced as the face of the new Dolce and Gabbana make-up collection in early 2009 (2 years ago). She made a personal appearance at the London store, Selfridges, on Jul. 31, 2009 (2 years ago), to help launch and promote the line. 





Music career

In 2005 (6 years ago), Johansson was considered for the role of Maria in Andrew Lloyd Webber's West End revival of The Sound of Music, though the role ultimately went to newcomer Connie Fisher after she won BBC's talent show How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? Released on May 8, 2006 (5 years ago), Johansson sang the track "Summertime" for Unexpected Dreams – Songs from the Stars, a non-profit collection of songs recorded by Hollywood actors. She performed with The Jesus And Mary Chain for a special Coachella Reunion Show in Indio, California in Apr. 2007 (4 years ago). 









Johansson at the Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year Parade in Cambridge, MA in Feb. 2007In 2007 (4 years ago), she appeared as the leading lady in Justin Timberlake's music video for "What Goes Around.../...Comes Around," nominated in Aug. 2007 (4 years ago) for video of the year at the MTV Video Music Awards. The video sparked rumors of a romance between Johansson and Timberlake. 





In the summer of 2007 (4 years ago), Johansson spent about a month in Maurice, Louisiana recording an album at Dockside Studio, a rural 12-acre (49,000 m2) complex. The album, consisting of one original song and ten cover versions of Tom Waits songs, was produced by Dave Sitek of TV on the Radio and features David Bowie, members from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Celebration. Released on May 20, 2008 (3 years ago), it was entitled Anywhere I Lay My Head. Reviews of the album were mixed to somewhat positive. Rolling Stone commented that her "voice is unremarkable and her pitch sometimes unsteady; she's a faintly goth Marilyn Monroe lost in a sonic fog." Conversely, some critics found it to be "surprisingly alluring", "a bravely eccentric selection", and "a brilliant album" with "ghostly magic". The album was named the "23rd best album of 2008" by NME and peaked at #1 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart and #126 on the Billboard 200 chart. Of her album, Johansson said, "I had this golden opportunity to record and thought I would do maybe an album of standards, because I’m not a songwriter. I’m a vocalist." Johansson said for her recording she "wanted to have space and [she] wanted to be in a remote place where all of us could just be ourselves and not worry about anyone trying to listen in or get in on that." Johansson said in an interview that she started listening to Tom Waits when she was 11 or 12. Of Tom Waits, Johansson said in an interview, "his melodies are so beautiful, his voice is so distinct and I had my own way of doing Tom Waits songs." In dec. 2008 (3 years ago), MTV reported Johansson plans to follow-up Anywhere I Lay My Head with an album of all original music, saying, “I don’t think I’d do covers, so it’d be a project that I have to dedicate myself to. I feel like that’s something for the future.” 





In 2009 (2 years ago), Johansson covered Jeff Buckley's "Last Goodbye" for the soundtrack of He's Just Not That Into You. Due for release on sep. 8, 2009 (2 years ago), she and singer/songwriter Pete Yorn recorded a collaborative album, Break Up, inspired by Serge Gainsbourg's duets with Brigitte Bardot. 





PERSONAL LIFE

Johansson rarely discusses her personal life with the press, saying "it's nice to have everybody not know your business." Johansson's ex-boyfriend and member of the band Steel Train, Jack Antonoff, wrote lyrics that refer to Johansson in the song "Better Love." She has been linked to many famous men, including Benicio del Toro, Jared Leto, Justin Timberlake (11 walls), and her Black Dahlia co-star Josh Hartnett, though Johansson denies she had a relationship with del Toro. Johansson and Hartnett dated for about two years until the end of 2006 (5 years ago), with Hartnett citing their busy lives as the reason for the split. 





She started dating Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds in 2007 (4 years ago), and on May 5, 2008 (3 years ago), it was reported that the two were engaged. On sep. 27, 2008 (3 years ago), Johansson and Reynolds were married at a quiet ceremony on Vancouver Island in Tofino, British Columbia. Earlier, Johansson expressed a concern about the potential conflict between the nature of human beings and the concept of monogamy. However, she has stated "contrary to popular belief... [I am] not promiscuous" and that she works "really hard" when she's in a relationship "to make it work in a monogamous way." She gets tested for HIV twice a year, and has said "it's part of being a decent human" and it is "just disgusting behavior when people don't. It's so irresponsible." 





She has criticized the media and Hollywood for promoting an image (wallpaper) that causes unhealthy diets and eating disorders among women, saying "that being ultra-thin is not sexy at all. Women shouldn't be forced to conform to unrealistic and unhealthy body images (wallpaper) that the media promote." 





Johansson is considered to be a modern sex symbol, and she regularly appears at the top of lists of the sexiest women in the world. Johansson appeared on the cover of the Mar. 2006 (5 years ago) issue of Vanity Fair in the nude alongside actress Keira Knightley (93 walls) and fashion designer Tom Ford. Maxim named Johansson #6 in their Hot 100 Issue in 2006; #3 in 2007 (4 years ago) and #2 in 2008 (3 years ago). In Nov. 2006 (5 years ago), Johansson was named "Sexiest Woman Alive" by Esquire. In Feb. 2007 (4 years ago), she was named the "Sexiest Celebrity" of the year by Playboy. During the filming of Match Point, director Woody Allen described Johansson as "sexually overwhelming", saying that he found it "very hard to be extra witty around a sexually overwhelming, beautiful young woman who is wittier than you are." 





About her religious affiliation, Johansson described herself as Jewish when she was talking about Woody Allen. "I just adore Woody," she says. "We have a lot in common. We're New Yorkers, Jewish. We have a very easygoing relationship." She celebrates a "little of both" referring to Christmas and Hanukkah. She has stated that she dislikes it when celebrities thank God or Jesus in their award acceptance speeches. 





Johansson is a Global Ambassador for the aid and development agency, Oxfam. In Mar. 2008 (3 years ago), a UK-based bidder paid £20,000 on an eBay auction to benefit Oxfam, winning a hair and makeup treatment, a pair of tickets and a chauffered trip to accompany Johansson on 20-minute date to the world premiere of He's Just Not That Into You. 





FILMOGRAPHY

North

Just Cause

Manny & Lo

If Lucy Fell

Home Alone 3

The Horse Whisperer

My Brother the Pig

The Man Who Wasn't There

Ghost World

An American Rhapsody

Eight Legged Freaks

Lost in Translation

Girl with a Pearl Earring

A Love Song for Bobby Long

A Good Woman

The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie

The Perfect Score

In Good Company

The Island

Match Point

Scoop

The Black Dahlia

The Prestige

The Nanny Diaries

The Other Boleyn Girl (4 walls)

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

The Spirit

He's Just Not That into You

Iron Man (18 walls) 2









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Katie Holmes

FACTS ABOUT KATIE HOLMES

Date of Birth:	18 December 1978
Birthplace:	Toledo, Ohio, USA
Age:	31
First Name:	Katie
Middle Name:	Noelle
Last Name:	Holmes
Build:	Slim
Height:	5' 9" (175 cm)
Eye Color:	Hazel
Hair Color:	Brown - Light
Star Sign:	Sagittarius
Claim to Fame:	Joey Potter on Dawsons Creek
Occupation:	American actress
Religion:	Scientology
Occupation Category:	Actress
Nationality:	American
Alternative Names:	Katherine Noelle Holmes Cruise, Katie Cruise, Katie Cruise

BIOGRAPHY FOR KATIE HOLMES

Kate Noelle "Katie" Holmes (born dec. 18, 1978 (33 years ago)) is an American actress who first achieved fame for her role as Joey Potter on The WB TV teen drama Dawson's Creek from 1998 (13 years ago) to 2003 (8 years ago). Her movie roles have ranged from art house movies such as The Ice Storm to thrillers such as Abandon to blockbusters such as Batman Begins. 





In early 2005 (6 years ago), Holmes began a highly publicized relationship with actor Tom Cruise (12 walls), which drew attention due to the sixteen-year age difference between the two. In June, two months after they first met, Holmes and Cruise were engaged. Their relationship made Holmes the subject of international media attention, much of it negative, including speculation the relationship was a publicity stunt to promote the couple's films. Holmes, who was brought up as a Roman Catholic, joined the Church of Scientology shortly after the couple began dating. On Apr. 18, 2006 (5 years ago), Holmes gave birth to their daughter, Suri. On Nov. 18, 2006 (5 years ago), she and Cruise were married in Italy. 





EARLY YEARS

Holmes was born in Toledo, Ohio, the youngest in a family of five children (four daughters, one son) of Kathleen A. Stothers, a homemaker and a philanthropist, and Martin Joseph Holmes, Sr. (born 1945 (66 years ago)), an attorney specializing in divorces. She lived in the Corey Woods section of Sylvania Township, Lucas County, in a brick 1862 (149 years ago) Italianate-style home. Her siblings are Tamera (born c. 1968 (43 years ago)), Holly Ann (born 1969 (42 years ago)), Martin Joseph, Jr. (born 1970 (41 years ago)), who works as a lawyer in Ohio, and Nancy Kay (Blaylock), a teacher (born c. 1975 (36 years ago)). 





Holmes, baptized a Roman Catholic attended Christ the King Church and parochial schools in Toledo. Her high school was the all-female Notre Dame Academy, her mother's alma mater, where Katie was a 4.0 student. At St. John's Jesuit, a nearby all-male high school, she appeared in school musicals, playing a waiter in Hello, Dolly! and Lola in Damn Yankees. She scored 1310 (701 years ago) out of 1600 (411 years ago) on her SAT and was accepted to Columbia University (and attended for a summer session); her father wanted her to be a doctor. Holmes loved reading: "I never feel lonely in a bookstore", she said. A British writer profiling her in 2003 (8 years ago) said "The way Holmes approached her unusual education was as American as apple pie: she went to cheerleading practice, got straight A grades, and made a pledge that she would remain a virgin until marriage." Holmes told her hometown paper The Blade that the three words best describing herself were "honest, determined, and imaginative." 





At age fourteen she began classes at a modeling school in Toledo run by Margaret O'Brien, who took her to IMTA, the International Modeling and Talent Association Competition held in New York City in 1996 (15 years ago). There she found an agent after performing a monologue from To Kill a Mockingbird. An audition tape was sent to the casting director for the 1997 (14 years ago) movie The Ice Storm, directed by Ang Lee. She was cast in the role of Libbets Casey, in the movie which starred Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver. Ang Lee told The Blade, "Katie was cast because she had the perfect amount of innocence and worldliness that we needed for Libbets. I was really taken by her wide open eyes. She really is a beautiful girl but there is also a lot of intelligence there and it shows." 





CAREER

Early work

In Jan. 1997 (14 years ago), Holmes went to Los Angeles for pilot season, when producers cast and shoot new programs in the hopes of securing a spot on a network schedule. The Blade reported she was offered the lead in Buffy the Vampire Slayer but she turned it down. Columbia Tri-Star TV, producer of a new show created by screenwriter Kevin Williamson, asked her to come to Los Angeles to audition, but there was a conflict with her schedule. "I was doing my school play, Damn Yankees. And I was playing Lola. I even got to wear the feather boa. I thought, 'There is no way I'm not playing Lola to go audition for some network. I couldn't let my school down. We had already sold a lot of tickets. So I told Kevin and The WB, 'I'm sorry. I just can't meet with you this week. I've got other commitments.'" 





The producers permitted her to audition on videotape. Holmes read for the part of Joey Potter, the tomboy best friend of the title character Dawson, on a videotape shot in her basement, her mother reading Dawson's lines. The Hollywood Reporter claimed the story of Holmes's audition "has become the stuff of legend" and "no one even thought that it was weird that one of the female leads would audition via Federal Express." 





Holmes won the part. Paul Stupin, executive producer of the show, said his first reaction on seeing her audition tape was "That's Joey Potter!" Creator and executive producer Kevin Williamson said Holmes has a "unique combination of talent, beauty and skill that makes Hollywood come calling. But that's just the beginning. To meet her is to instantly fall under her spell." Williamson thought she had exactly the right look for Joey Potter. "She had those eyes, those eyes just stained with loneliness." 





Dawson's Creek

"Joey Potter is a headstrong, vibrant, wily, sultry, and determined go-getter. And yet, in a gloriously contradictory manner, in spite of her tough-as-nails exterior demeanor, Joey's also a frail, sometimes uncertain, emotionally sensitive, in-need-of-love person", said the show's official book. Joey, named for Jo in Little Women, for years had been climbing in Dawson's bedroom window and platonically sharing his bed. Joey's mother had died from cancer when Joey was thirteen and her father, Mike (Gareth Williams), was in prison for "conspiracy to traffic in marijuana in excess of 10,000 pounds." Her harried, unmarried, and very pregnant sister, Bessie (Nina Repeta), about five years older than Joey, was raising her while running the Ice House restaurant, where Joey worked as a waitress. GQ described Joey as "kind of an uptight fussbudget—one who's always twisted up over doing the right thing and bungling-up ways to hook up with her crush and across the creek neighbor, Dawson." 





"I'm a lot like Joey", said Holmes. "I think they saw that. I come from a small town. I was a tomboy. Joey tries to be articulate and deny that she doesn't have a lot of experience in life. Her life parallels mine, which is all about new everything—relationships, personal perceptions—and about being guarded." Holmes filmed the pilot of Dawson's Creek in Wilmington, North Carolina, during spring break of her senior year of high school in 1997 (14 years ago). When the show was picked up by The WB, Holmes moved to Wilmington, where the show filmed. 





The tall (5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)) brunette enchanted the press, writers of both sexes commenting how Holmes was the sort of girl one wants to bring home to meet the parents and to marry. "The Audrey Hepburn of her generation", was one typical comment. Time called her "impossibly lovely" and Entertainment Weekly said she was "next up for idolhood." Variety, reviewing the pilot, said Holmes "is a confident young performer who delivers her lines with slyness and conviction." Holmes made such an impression in Hollywood, The New York Times Magazine claimed everyone was seeking to cast a "Katie Holmes type", who, the reporter claimed, "is a throwback to the 1950s: she is a smart girl next door (as opposed to the babe-o-rama blondes)"—the sort represented by her Dawson's Creek co-star Michelle Williams. But her "type" was no less attractive, Arena magazine declaring her "the most coquettishly sexy woman on TV. Anywhere." 





The show was aggressively marketed by The WB Network before its premiere in Jan. 1998 (13 years ago). The cast was featured in the J. Crew catalog and trailers for the program were shown in movie theatres. Before the premiere, the show's talk of sex caused a stir in the press; one of the show's producers, Procter and Gamble, withdrew after negative press in its hometown newspapers. Holmes was soon on the covers of magazines such as Seventeen, TV Guide, and Rolling Stone. Jancee Dunn, an editor at Rolling Stone said she was chosen for the cover because "every time you mention Dawson's Creek you tend to get a lot of dolphin-like shrieks from teenage girls. The fact that she is drop-dead gorgeous didn't hurt either." 





Reviews were mixed. The Blade said the characters "just talk like they came from a planet ruled by Manhattan psychologists, one where small talk is punishable by death." Holmes herself needed help with the dialogue. "Sometimes before we read a script, I have to get my dictionary and call people to make sure I'm pronouncing some of the words correctly." The show brought her national attention and many fans back home; Toledo's Thanksgiving Day parade in Nov. 1998 (13 years ago) had record attendance when Holmes was named grand marshal. 





Dawson's Creek ran from 1998 (13 years ago) to 2003 (8 years ago), and Holmes was the only actor to appear in all 128 episodes. "It was very difficult for me to leave Wilmington, to have my little glass bubble burst and move on. I hate change. On the other hand it was refreshing to play someone else", she said in 2004 (7 years ago). Holmes confirmed that, as is often the case on soaps, the character was a caricature of the actor: 





“ I miss her spirit, and her spunk, and I miss her anxiety. She always had these long speeches about her fears and her future and love. It was a great tool for me personally because I got to get it all out. I was able to psychoanalyze all of it everyday with her and then I wouldn't have to do it on my own. So much of me is in Joey and it really felt like I grew up on TV. ” 





"As Joey", said Life magazine, "Holmes has had seismic influences on teen life... Through it all, Joey has managed to hang on to her integrity... The show—and Katie's character in particular—has touched a nerve." 





Film

In 2005 (6 years ago), Holmes characterized her movie career as being a string of "bombs." "Usually I'm not even in the top ten", she said, the highest grossing movie of her career at that time being Phone Booth, in which she played a supporting role. She lamented "It's not like I have a lot of stuff that's great just waiting for me to sign on to." 





Her first leading role came in Disturbing Behavior (1998, 13 years ago), a Scream-era Stepford Wives-goes-to-high school thriller, where she was a loner from the wrong side of the tracks. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote her character, Rachel, "dresses in black and likes to strike poses on the beds of pickup trucks and is a bad girl who is in great danger of becoming a very good one." The actress won a MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance for the role, though Holmes said the movie was "just horrible." 





Holmes played a disaffected supermarket clerk in Doug Liman's acclaimed ensemble piece Go (1999, 12 years ago). 





She had an uncredited cameo with Dawson's Creek co-star Joshua Jackson in Muppets from Space (1999, 12 years ago), which was also filmed in Wilmington. 





In Kevin Williamson's Teaching Mrs. Tingle (1999, 12 years ago), which he wrote and directed, Holmes played a straight-A student whose vindictive teacher (Helen Mirren) threatens to keep her from a desperately needed scholarship. 





In Wonder Boys (2000, 11 years ago), directed by Curtis Hanson from the novel by Michael Chabon, Holmes had a small role (six and one-half minutes of screen time) but nevertheless attracted the attention of numerous movie critics with her performance as Hannah Green, the talented student who lusts after Professor Grady Tripp (Michael Douglas), her creative writing instructor and landlord. Kenneth Turan of The Los Angeles Times said she was "just right as the beauty with kind of a crush on the old man." 





In The Gift (2000, 11 years ago), a Southern Gothic story directed by Sam Raimi and starring Cate Blanchett, she played the antithesis of Joey Potter: a promiscuous rich girl having affairs with everyone from a sociopathic wife-beater (Keanu Reeves (5 walls)) to the district attorney (Gary Cole), and is murdered by her fiancé (Greg Kinnear). Holmes did her first nude scene for the film, in a scene where her character was about to be murdered. Of the scene, she said, "I just hope there aren't a lot of pauses on DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) players." Her appearance was lamented by Variety's Steven Kotler: "It seems the only time we see a naked woman on screen is when someone like Katie Holmes needs to break with her sanitized WB past and Mar. brazenly into a new future." In Ohio, the scene met with disapproval, Russ Lemmon writing in The Blade: 





“ Toledo's Katie Holmes—whose popularity is probably directly proportional to her perceived level of sweetness and innocence—bares her breasts in The Gift... Say it ain't so, Katie... Katie's topless scene was gratuitous. It added nothing to the movie.. I hope it added to her checking account, above and beyond what she would have received for appearing fully clothed throughout. I also hope her contract stipulated that she will receive a percentage of DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) rentals and sales. As one Internet writer on roughcut.com put it: Katie's topless scene assures that "The Gift will be the DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) most rented by teenage (and not teenage) boys in the history of freeze frame"... It seems to me that the four years that she spent cultivating a wholesome image (wallpaper) vanished in just a few seconds—in a potential box-office bomb, no less. ” 





In Abandon (2002, 9 years ago), written by Oscar winner Stephen Gaghan, Holmes was a delusional, homicidal college student named "Katie." Todd McCarthy of Variety and Roger Ebert commended her performance, but other critics and audiences savaged it. The actress played the mistress of the public relations flack played by Colin Farrell in Phone Booth (2002, 9 years ago) and Robert Downey, Jr.'s nurse in The Singing Detective (2003, 8 years ago). Holmes's next starring role was in Pieces of Apr. (2003, 8 years ago), a gritty comedy about a dysfunctional family on Thanksgiving. Variety said it was "one of her best movie performances." "Each actor shines", wrote Elvis Mitchell, "even Ms. Holmes, whose beauty seems to have fogged the minds of her previous directors" in playing "a brat who is slaving to find her inner decency and barely has the equipment for such an achievement, let alone to serve a meal whose salmonella potential could claim an entire borough. Yet it is her surliness, as well as her intransigent determination to make Thanksgiving work, that keeps the laughs coming." 





Holmes played the President's daughter in First Daughter, which was originally to be released in Jan. 2004 (7 years ago) on the same day as Chasing Liberty, another movie about a president's daughter, but was ultimately released in sep. 2004 (7 years ago) to dismal reviews and ticket sales. First Daughter, directed by Forest Whitaker, also starred Michael Keaton as her father and Marc Blucas as her love interest. The Hollywood Reporter's Kirk Honeycutt called her character, Samantha Mackenzie, "a startling example of how a studio movie can dumb down and neutralize the comic abilities of a lively young star." In the 2005 (6 years ago) movie Batman Begins, the most successful movie of her career to date, she played Rachel Dawes, an attorney in the Gotham City district attorney's office and the childhood sweetheart of the title character. Variety was unenthusiastic. "Holmes is OK", was its critic's sole remark on her performance. She received a Golden Raspberry nomination for "worst supporting actress" for the film. 





In 2005 (6 years ago), she appeared in the movie version of Christopher Buckley's satirical novel Thank You for Smoking about a tobacco lobbyist played by Aaron Eckhart, whom Holmes's character, a Washington reporter, seduces. Variety wrote one of the film's "sole relatively weak notes [came] from Holmes, who lacks even a hint of the wiliness of a ruthless reporter" and The New York Times said the cast was "exceptionally fine" except for Holmes, who "strain[ed] credulity" in her role. 





After speculation about her reprising her role in The Dark Knight (13 walls), the sequel to Batman Begins, it was finally confirmed that she would not appear. Her role was later recast with Maggie Gyllenhaal in her place. Instead, she decided to star in the comedy Mad Money, opposite Diane Keaton and Queen Latifah. 





Holmes had agreed to play in Shame on You, a biopic about the country singer Spade Cooley written and directed by Dennis Quaid, as the wife whom Cooley (played by Quaid) stomps to death. But the picture, set to shoot in New Orleans, Louisiana, was delayed by Hurricane Katrina, and Holmes dropped out because of her pregnancy. 





In early Jul. 2009 (2 years ago), Katie began filming a remake of the 1970 (41 years ago) ABC telemovie Don't Be Afraid of the Dark in Melbourne, Australia. The horror/thriller movie is co-written and produced by Guillermo Del Toro and directed by Troy Nixey. It also stars Guy Pearce. 





Stage

Holmes made her Broadway debut in the revival of Arthur Miller's All My Sons in sep. 2008 (3 years ago). She opened to mixed reviews. The New York Times' Ben Brantley claimed "the neophyte Ms. Holmes" is a "sad casualty" of director Simon McBurney's "high concept approach" to the play. He adds that "Ms. Holmes delivers most of her lines with meaningful asperity, italicising every word". Clive Barnes of the New York Post was similarly unimpressed by Holmes - and had few compliments for her co-stars. He wrote, "Lithgow starts in a sunny, benign fashion, but eventually finds himself screeching alongside Holmes, looking tough under a glossy wig." However, The New York Daily News' Joe Dziemianowicz was won over by the actress' first stint on stage, writing, "Holmes, a TV and movie vet, makes a fine Broadway debut. Her rather grand speech pattern takes getting used to, but she seems comfortable and adds a fitting glint of glamour." In 2009 (2 years ago), Holmes appeared in the National Memorial Day Concert on the Mall in Washington, D.C. in a dialogue with Dianne Wiest celebrating the life of an American veteran seriously wounded in Iraq, José Pequeño. 





Holmes in the media

Holmes hosted Saturday Night Live on Feb. 24, 2001 (10 years ago), participating in a send-up of Dawson's Creek where she falls madly in love with Chris Kattan's Mr. Peepers character and singing "Big Spender" from Sweet Charity. On the Nov. 9, 2003 (8 years ago) episode, she was Punk'd by Ashton Kutcher (6 walls) and the next year she was the subject of an episode of the MTV program Diary. 





Holmes was annually named by both the British and American editions of FHM magazine as one of the sexiest women in the world from 1999 (12 years ago) forward. She was named one of People's "50 Most Beautiful People" in 2003; its sibling Teen People declared her one of the "25 Hottest Stars Under 25" that year; and in 2005 (6 years ago), People said she was one of the ten best dressed stars that year. She has appeared in advertisements for Garnier Lumia haircolor, Coach leather goods, and clothing retailer The Gap. 





On Nov. 4, 2007 (4 years ago) Holmes ran, and successfully completed, the New York Marathon in 5:29:58. 





After much speculation, in late Nov. 2008 (3 years ago), it was confirmed that she is the new face of the Spring '09 campaign for the high-end fashion line Miu Miu. 





PERSONAL LIFE

Holmes purchased a townhouse in Wilmington in 2002 (9 years ago). When Dawson's Creek ended its run in 2003 (8 years ago), she moved to Los Angeles, California, then New York City in 2005 (6 years ago), before going back to Los Angeles when she married Tom Cruise. Holmes dated her Dawson's Creek co-star Joshua Jackson for all the first season and part of the second season, the relationship ending peacefully. She told Rolling Stone, "I fell in love, I had my first love, and it was something so incredible and indescribable that I will treasure it always. And that I feel so fortunate because he's now one of my best friends." Holmes met actor Chris Klein in 2000 (11 years ago). A Midwesterner like Holmes—he grew up in Illinois and Nebraska—Klein and Holmes were engaged in late 2003 (8 years ago), but in early 2005 (6 years ago) she and Klein ended their relationship. Press accounts cited the distance imposed by their careers as a factor. In the fall of 2005 (6 years ago), Klein said of the split, "We grew up. The fantasy was over and reality set in." Holmes told a reporter in 2005 (6 years ago), "Chris and I care about each other and we're still friends." 





In Jul. 2009 (2 years ago), Holmes, Nigel Lythgoe, Adam Shankman, and Carrie Ann Inaba announced the launch of a dance scholarship fund called the Dizzy Feet Foundation. 





Relationship with Tom Cruise

Weeks after her relationship with Chris Klein ended, Holmes began dating actor Tom Cruise. Their first public appearance together was on Apr. 29, 2005 (6 years ago), in Rome, Italy, at the David di Donatello Awards, the Italian equivalent of the Oscars. Her family expressed support, with her father stating, "We're very excited for Katie", and saying his daughter was "a very mature young lady with a good head on her shoulders. From all we have read and heard about [Cruise], he's a humanitarian and a real class act. From the perspective of a parent, we're very excited for both of them". Holmes's sister Tamara said, "They're both wonderful people." 





On May 23, 2005 (6 years ago), Cruise appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, jumping on Winfrey's couch and vociferously declaring his love for Holmes. He went backstage and pulled the embarrassed actress onto the program. Cruise proposed to Holmes in the early morning of Jun. 17, 2005 (6 years ago), atop Paris's Eiffel Tower; she accepted. At the press conference, attended by Holmes's mother, Cruise announced the news, declaring, "Today is a magnificent day for me. I'm engaged to a magnificent woman." 





Back in Toledo, the news was greeted with skepticism. Even before Holmes' engagement, her hometown paper was already speculating about "what happens if our very own 'good ole Katie' morphs into 'Katie Holmes, the former actress now better known as Tom Cruise's third wife.'" Asked in an interview how she felt about reports that friends in Toledo are worried about her, Holmes replied, "People who say that aren't my friends." Following the engagement, the Chicago Tribune sent a reporter to Toledo who found the citizens felt the biggest star from their city was not Holmes, but Jamie Farr, who played Corporal Maxwell Klinger on M*A*S*H. "I think he's bigger than Katie. He's so humble and he's so proud of his hometown—he name-drops it all the time. If it wasn't for Jamie, I don't think people would really know about Toledo", said a Toledo waitress. Others quoted by the newspaper were puzzled by her interest in Scientology. Farr subsequently wrote a letter to the newspaper declaring "I admire Katie Holmes. She is a wonderful, beautiful actress" and "I do not feel that Katie and I are in any form of competition in the city of Toledo." 





On Nov. 18, 2006 (5 years ago), 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. The day after the ceremony, the couple left for a honeymoon in the Maldives. 





Scientology

Holmes, who was raised a Roman Catholic, joined the Church of Scientology shortly after the couple began dating. Soon after beginning her relationship with Cruise, Holmes fired her long-time manager and agent and acquired a new "best friend", Jessica Rodriguez, who is from a prominent family of Scientologists. Robert Haskell, who wrote W magazine's cover story on the actress, said Rodriguez "was described to me as Holmes's 'Scientology chaperone' and it was clear that she would be on hand during our interview despite my protests." This was in contrast to Holmes's earlier press, which noted approvingly she "arrives without the ubiquitous PR person in tow." 





Suri Cruise

On Apr. 18, 2006 (5 years ago), Holmes gave birth to a baby girl named Suri. It was said in the Vanity Fair article that Suri arrived exactly one year after Cruise and Holmes met, Apr. 18, 2005 (6 years ago). The Los Angeles Times summarized the written statement Cruise released on the birth as 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 Yiddish, not Hebrew, derivation of "Sarah". 





Until sep. 2006 (5 years ago), Suri had not been seen in public, which led to tabloid stories questioning the existence of the child, contrasting Holmes and Cruise to other celebrity couples with newborns such as Angelina Jolie (147 walls) and Brad Pitt. Typical was the US Weekly cover story "BABY MYSTERY: Best friends' visits denied, baby photos cancelled, a wedding delayed, and Katie in seclusion." 





The first photographs of the child appeared in the Oct. 2006 (5 years ago) issue of Vanity Fair, shot by Annie Leibovitz. In the accompanying story, Holmes said "we weren't trying to hide anything" and said she was bothered by the press coverage. "I do know what is being said in the press. This is my future. This is my family and I care so much about them. The stories are not okay. It eats away at me because it's just not okay." This issue of Vanity Fair became the publication's second best selling issue of all time, selling more than 700,000 copies. 





In an Apr. 2006 (5 years ago) interview with ABC News's Diane Sawyer, Cruise said he and Holmes were "just Scientologists" and that Suri would not be baptized Catholic. 





FILMOGRAPHY

1997 (14 years ago): The Ice Storm

1998 (13 years ago): Disturbing Behavior

1999 (12 years ago): Go

1999 (12 years ago): Muppets from Space

1999 (12 years ago): Teaching Mrs. Tingle

2000 (11 years ago): Wonder Boys

2000 (11 years ago): The Gift

2002 (9 years ago): Abandon

2003 (8 years ago): Phone Booth

2003 (8 years ago): The Singing Detective

2003 (8 years ago): Pieces of April

2004 (7 years ago): First Daughter

2005 (6 years ago): Batman Begins

2005 (6 years ago): Thank You for Smoking

2008 (3 years ago): Mad Money

2008 (3 years ago): Eli Stone

2010 (last year): The Extra Man

2011 (this year): Don't Be Afraid of the Dark





TV-SHOWS (SERIES)

1998–2003: Dawson's Creek









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