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Holly Marie Combs (born December 3, 1973
in San Diego, California, USA) is an American actress
who has worked in movies and television series. She is
best known for her roles as Tom Skerritt's and Kathy
Baker's TV daughter and older child, Kimberly Brock in
Picket Fences and as Piper Halliwell in Charmed. From
2002 until 2006, when the series ended, Combs was a
producer for the show.
Biography: Holly Combs was born in San Diego,
California; at the time, her mother, Lauralei Combs (née
Berckhem), was just 15 years old and her father was 17.
Combs' biological parents married, but the two split up
after two years, feeling they were too young to make a
marriage work. While Combs was learning to walk, she hit
her head on a marble table, resulting in a scar over her
right eyebrow.
She went through many different homes with her mother,
often having very little privacy, while her mom
attempted to pursue an acting career. When Combs was
seven, she and her mother moved to New York City; she
was 12 when her mother married her stepfather.
In New York City, Combs attended Beekman
Hill Elementary and then The Professional Children's
School of Acting. It is reported that one of her
teachers was Ernie Martin. Already, Combs' looks were
turning heads and she landed many print ads and
commercials. She soon grew to love acting, just like her
mother had.
In 1993, Combs married Brian "Travis" Smith,
but they divorced in 1997. Later, she became engaged to
Storm Lyndon, but they split in 2000. Since 2001, Combs
has lived with David W. Donoho, who worked as key grip
on Charmed. They married on February 14, 2004, and had a
son Finley Arthur Donoho on 26 April 2004. On October
26, 2006, Combs gave birth to her second child, a boy
named Riley Edward Donoho.
Combs is an animal lover, and counts three horses, five
dogs, three cats, four rabbits and two lovebirds among
her pets. When her first son was born, a turtle had to
be given to a friend due to the salmonella risk.
Career: Although she had a number of minor roles
in the late 1980s, including a brief speaking part in
Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July, Combs' major
acting debut arrived in the 1992 TV drama series Picket
Fences. She auditioned for the role of Kimberly while
she was in New York.
The casting agent told her that she
wasn't right for the part because, "She didn't have
a big enough heart." Combs retorted, "If
you're looking for someone with a big heart, what the
hell are you doing in New York?" She immediately
got the job. Picket Fences ran for four years, winning
Combs critical acclaim and a Young Actor's award.
Combs was with her friend Shannen Doherty when she saw
the pilot script for Charmed on the back seat, and said
she wanted to take part in the audition. When they did,
Combs auditioned for the role of "Prue
Halliwell" and Doherty for "Piper
Halliwell," but they ended up switching roles
because they didn't "fit".
Alyssa Milano and Combs both became
producers for Charmed in the fifth season. For the last
five seasons of Charmed, Combs played the oldest of the
three sisters, while ironically she was the youngest of
the three actresses. Charmed debuted in 1998 and was a
hit TV series, which ended in May 2006. |
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