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Kate Noelle
"Katie" Holmes (born December 18, 1978) is an
American actress who first achieved fame for her role as
Joey Potter on The WB teen drama Dawson's Creek from
1998 to 2003. Her part on the show, only her second
professional role, made Holmes a star. Her movie roles
have ranged from art house films such as The Ice Storm
to thrillers such as Abandon to blockbusters such as
Batman Begins, but she has not found the same success in
films as she did on television and admits most of her
films have been "bombs" films that did not
meet expectations at the box office.
Days after ending her engagement with actor Chris Klein,
Holmes began in early 2005 a highly publicized
relationship with actor Tom Cruise, sixteen years her
senior. In June, two months after they first met, she
became engaged to Cruise. Their relationship has made
Holmes the subject of international media attention,
much of it negative, the press speculating that the
relationship was a publicity stunt to promote the
couple's films. Many reports commented negatively about
the interest of Holmes, raised Roman Catholic, in
Cruise's religion, Scientology. The couple announced
Holmes was pregnant in October 2005; on April 18, 2006,
she gave birth to a daughter, Suri Cruise. On November
18, 2006, she and Cruise were married in Italy.
TV stardom can be both a blessing and a curse for
wannabe film actors. For every George Clooney there's a
hundred David Carusos, those whose charisma could fill a
living-room but who faded to impotence when the screen
turned silver. One of the more interesting cases of the
mid-Noughties was Sarah Michelle Gellar, who cleverly
paced herself from Buffy the Vampire Slayer through two
Scooby-Doo movies into the US remake of shocker The
Grudge.
Another would be Katie Holmes. Having earned a huge and
loyal teenage following via six seasons of Dawson's
Creek, wherein she cemented her image as the feisty but
virginal and decent Joey Potter, her move into films
would see her gradually, carefully draw away this veil
of innocence and, as she grew deeper into her twenties,
reveal herself as an actress of great intelligence and
ability. Scarlett Johansson would often be described as
the finest screen actress of a new generation, but
Holmes was the dark horse, coming up quietly on the
rails.
She was born Katherine Noelle Holmes on the 18th of
December, 1978, in Toledo, Ohio, a large-ish town on the
Maumee River, right by Lake Erie and some 40 miles south
of Detroit. Her father, Martin, was a lawyer, doing well
enough for his wife Kathleen to work as homemaker for
their five children, of whom Katie was the youngest -
following sisters Tamera, Holly and Nancy, and brother
Martin. Dad was tall, very tall, an ex college
basketball player, and Kathleen was far above average
height, too, a reserved and lady-like beauty.
Young Katie would inherit some of this height
(eventually reaching 5 foot 9), her concomitant
skinniness making her a gawky kid. This did not help as
she attempted to follow in the family tradition of
sporting excellence, an attempt part-thwarted when, in
7th Grade, a schoolmate accidentally hit her in the left
eye, messing up her vision. When tired she would now see
double from it, requiring corrective glasses. Thus sport
was not to be her field of expertise.
Instead, having taken piano and singing lessons from a
young age, Katie found her place in theatre, excelling
in productions put on at the nun-run Notre Dame Academy,
a Catholic all-girls high school her mother had attended
before her. As the school's strict codes of conduct saw
all the pupils wearing uniform, Katie had little
opportunity to think about the likes of clothes and
boys, instead focusing on work, excelling in chorus,
dance and drama. Her father helped to keep her on the
straight and narrow, his size intimidating predatory
would-be boyfriends. Consequently, she only ever dated
"nice" boys, and never broke her parents'
curfew.
With Katie being something of a tomboy, her mother
decided that it would be advantageous to let her
ambitious daughter enrol at a local modelling and talent
school, where she could boost her artistic education (by
now Kathleen and Katie's teachers recognised that the
girl had real talent) and also learn "proper"
manners and sophistication.
So, initially against the wishes of Martin, who wanted
Katie to become a doctor, the youngster joined Margaret
O'Brien's Modeling School in Toledo. Come 1995, this
extra tuition would pay off big-time when Katie, along
with several other pupils, attended the International
Modeling And Talent Association's Hooray For Hollywood
convention in New York City. Here, before the
talent-scouting panels, she would dance, sing and recite
from To Kill A Mockingbird, receiving much acclaim but
no offers. Having at the same time read unsuccessfully
for a TV commercial, Katie would return to Toledo
believing she was not up to standard. Now she would
throw herself into acting classes with added vigour
(though she'd not neglect her other studies, maintaining
a straight-A success-rate).
Unbeknown to Katie, the New York jaunt would actually
prove to be a breakthrough. She'd caught the eye of
talent manager Al Onorato and he encouraged her to go to
Los Angeles to audition for parts. This was TV pilot
season, with many companies casting for new shows. And,
of course, there was always the chance of a film role.
She'd take six weeks off from school but to no immediate
avail. Despite her now-supportive father helping her
rehearse, she found no work, even missing out in
auditions for the soon-to-be mega-hit Scream. But soon
she would audition again for Scream's wunderkind writer
Kevin Williamson, to career-making effect.
Despite these disappointments, and the fact that she had
received no formal theatrical training, Holmes would
still strike lucky within six months of her first
assault on the film industry, scoring a part in Ang
Lee's The Ice Storm. Set in Connecticut at Thanksgiving,
1973, this would concentrate on the families of Kevin
Kline and Sigourney Weaver as they casually dabbled in
drink, drugs and infidelity.
Katie would appear as the love interest of young Tobey
Maguire, a spoiled Park Avenue teen and a classmate at
the posh New York school he's been sent to. Their
relationship would mirror the selfishness and
disappointment of the movie's adults as Maguire,
desperate to lose his virginity and seeing Holmes as his
prime target, tries to jolly her up with drugs only for
her to wind up face down and unconscious in his lap - so
close yet so far.
Having filmed The Ice Storm in 1996 (the only job where
she'd require an on-set tutor), Holmes returned to Notre
Dame, graduating the following June. She was auditioning
throughout, sending tapes to casting directors, but had
been turned down for the likes of mega-soap As The World
Turns, and Party Of Five. Now, on the cusp of leaving
school, she sent another tape to Kevin Williamson.
He was at this point perhaps the hottest property in
Hollywood, having hit big with both Scream and I Know
What You Did Last Summer, teen-based horror flicks where
good-looking kids avoided the butcher's knife for long
enough to gab knowledgeably about popular movies. His
plan was to step out of the horror genre and place
similar smart and sassy kids in a new TV soap, based on
his own youth, to be called Dawson's Creek. The series
(hopefully several series) would be based on the
up-and-down relationships of four friends - two boys and
two girls - with the main focus being on Dawson Leery, a
wannabe film director, and his best friend and neighbor
Joey Potter.
Joey was the role Holmes was after and, once Williamson
had seen her audition tape (made in the basement with
mum playing Dawson and Katie at one point asking her,
quite weirdly when you think about it, "When do you
masturbate?"), that was the role she was asked to
fly to Los Angeles and audition for again. This was her
big chance, and it says much for Katie's sense of
loyalty and decency that she turned it down.
At school, she was now set to play Lola in a production
of Damn Yankees and the auditions would clash with
opening night. So, she decided not to let her friends
and colleagues down and nixed the offer from Williamson,
as said one of the hottest properties in Hollywood.
Fortunately, Williamson was hot for good reason. He had
a very clear vision of the high school characters he
wanted and had seen something he liked in Holmes' tape,
something he liked so much he delayed the auditions for
Joey Potter until Katie was available. Unsurprisingly,
she got the part and, just as unsurprisingly, she
deferred her entrance to New York's Columbia University.
She would defer again a year later, only attending the
college in the summer of 2000 for a brief photography
course.
Given Dawson's Creek's modern style, where the kids
spoke as adults might after years of avid cinema-going
and deep therapy (this was Williamson scripting high
school life as he would have liked it to've been), and
with all action backed by state-of-the-art pop music,
industry insiders were initially non-plussed. The show's
pilot would thus remain unaired. But the show itself was
a near-immediate hit. Warner Brothers' WB Network had
been hoping to break into a lucrative and
newly-identified teen market and had done so
successfully a year earlier with Buffy The Vampire
Slayer (Katie had in fact auditioned for the part of
Buffy but had been considered too young).
Rejected by Fox, Dawson's Creek was snapped up by WB and
introduced mid-season, in January, 1998, cunningly
paired with Buffy and backed by an unheard-of $3.3
million publicity campaign that saw it advertised on
billboards, buses, TV and radio. It appeared on the
trailers of movies (most notably Williamson's new hit
Scream 2) and its stars were used as models in the
latest catalogue for J.Crew.
Onscreen, with Williamson at the helm, the show was
bright, witty and, if you could get past the oddly adult
tone, exceptionally watchable. The kids would endlessly
dissect lives involving jealousy, drunkenness, seances,
detention, resentment, lost virginity and complex
life-choices, quoting from movies all the way - indeed,
some episodes were straight reworkings of hit films.
Of course, for many the main attraction was the
continually unanswered question of whether Dawson,
played by James Van Der Beek, would ever sleep with
Katie's Joey, and Williamson kept viewers on tenterhooks
for six whole seasons. Wisely, he recognised the
importance of this romantic frisson, and had the couple
come together, then split, then reunite, as
misunderstandings and changing circumstances drove them
into the arms of others.
Joey would be a tremendous experience for Holmes, a
multi-faceted character and the only one to appear in
all 128 episodes of Dawson's Creek. With her mother dead
from cancer and her father in jail, Joey would be cute,
angsty, verbose, intelligent and often cranky. Rowing
over to Dawson's house, she'd do everything he might
have expected from a dream lover in a perfect tryst,
then pull back at the last second, usually fearful,
confused or annoyed.
In the meantime, she'd enjoy a relationship with, and
lose her cherry to Joshua Jackson's Pacey, the other
male member of the show's love quadrangle, then move on
to Eddie, a writer and rebel, as the kids grew up,
attended college and took their first tentative steps
into the world of work. Naturally, the final double
episode, set 5 years after the previous one, would be a
hugely popular cliffhanger, where Joey would have to
finally choose between Dawson and Pacey.
As said, Dawson's Creek was a monumental success,
scoring WB's highest ever ratings as, along with Buffy,
Felicity and Seventh Heaven, the network crushed its
rival Fox's Party Of Five and Beverly Hills 90210. As
well as altering the way teens were treated on TV, the
show had even changed the way music was used. New deals
were struck with publishers where songs featured during
episodes were highlighted at the end with a 5-second
snippet and a picture of the band's latest CD.
Thus charged less for the music, the producers saved a
fortune while the bands and publishers gained fabulous
advertising space (often the acts featured would be
signed to Time Warner, WB's parent company), and some
bands actually broke big in this manner, one example
being Sixpence None The Richer, their single Kiss Me
burning up the charts after soundtracking the Dawson
experience.
At the beginning of the show's run, the upfront Holmes
would ask out Jackson and they'd engage in an 8-month
affair while filming in Wilmington, North Carolina
(they'd live here for 10 months of the year from 1997 to
2002, usually shooting for 12 hours a day). Come 1999,
she'd be ensconced in a long-term relationship with
actor Chris Klein who'd just broken through with
Election and, especially, the gross-out comedy American
Pie.
Hailing from Hinsdale, a suburb of Chicago near to Lake
Michigan, Klein came from a very similar background to
Holmes. Neither New York sophisticated or LA glitzy, it
was just what the fans would expect from Joey Potter, by
now a major role model for teenage girls. In the fame
stakes, Katie had now utterly outstripped her Dawson's
Creek co-stars.
In the meantime, there had been a crazy rush into the
movies. During the first season of Dawson's Creek,
Holmes had filmed no less than three pictures, a
nonsensical work-rate that could not and would not be
continued. The first of these was Disturbing Behaviour,
directed by David Nutter. In keeping with Nutter's input
into The X-Files and Millennium, the movie saw a new boy
arrive in a small-town where he comes to suspect that a
clean-cut school elite called the Blue Ribbons is
actually a gang of brainwashed, often homicidal Stepford
Kids. Katie would play Rachel Wagner, a stand-out rebel,
who'd help the newcomer in his search for the truth,
even though, given her nose-ring and goth gear, she was
a prime candidate for Stepfording. Holmes would win Best
Breakthrough Performance at the MTV Awards, but still
the movie was not up to much.
Far superior would be Go, the latest effort by Swingers
director Doug Liman. Structurally inspired by Pulp
Fiction, this was an earthy black comedy covering the
same weekend from several different perspectives. One of
the main plotlines would see store clerk Sarah Polley
decide to make a little extra cash by acting as a
go-between in a minor drug deal. Unable to pay upfront,
she leaves disapproving mate Katie with the dealer as
human collateral, then the situation goes pear-shaped
as, in fear of undercover cops, she flushes the drugs
before the deal is made.
Now she doesn't have the stash or the money to pay for
it. Katie should be in deep trouble, but the dealer's
nowhere near as vicious as he makes out and instead he
falls for her, the couple making out with an exuberance
that would have shocked the more straight-laced fans of
Joey Potter. This was entirely in keeping with the
movie's anarchic spirit as it charged through a seedy,
sexy world of pumping raves, topless bars and even kinky
partner-swapping, featuring Ally McBeal's dependably
slutty Jane Krakowski.
After she'd briefly popped up, along with Joshua
Jackson, as Joey and Pacey in Muppets From Space, where
she was outrageously propositioned by Clifford the
Rastafarian, there'd be the high school-set comedy-drama
Teaching Mrs Tingle, written and directed by Holmes'
now-mentor Kevin Williamson. The film had understandably
had its release date delayed and its title changed in
the wake of the Columbine massacre, Killing Mrs Tingle
clearly being no longer appropriate.
Here Helen Mirren would star as the hateful, sarcastic,
cruel and spiteful teacher of the title, Katie playing
an honours student who desperately needs to score big in
Mirren's class in order to make Valedictorian.
Unfortunately, she has little chance as Mirren seems
ever-keen to ridicule and humiliate her.
So when Holmes is caught with stolen exam papers, she
knows she'll be expelled, so she goes to beg for
Mirren's mercy but inadvertently ends up kidnapping her
and tying her to a bed while she works out what to do
with her (probably unbeknownst to Williamson, this is
actually quite a common fantasy amongst British males).
Despite the plot's inherent tension, the movie, like
1997's rather similar Suicide Kings, was unfortunately
rather lifeless. Nevertheless, from Holmes' point of
view it had given her a chance to work with one of the
greatest actresses of modern times. Very sensibly, she'd
realised that, though a hugely successful young actress,
she had not really earned her position. Her lack of
training and experience weighed upon her and drained her
confidence. So she decided that she would do best to
take small roles in movies featuring mature performers
of proven talent.
Mirren was clearly one, so were Michael Douglas and
Robert Downey Jr, who she joined in her next big screen
outing, Wonder Boys. This, Curtis Hanson's follow-up to
the Oscar-winning LA Confidential, saw Douglas as an
English professor in the midst of his third divorce, an
affair with chancellor Frances McDormand and a 7-year
struggle to complete his latest book. His life then gets
even more complex as he's drawn by moody and
compulsively lying pupil Tobey Maguire into a chaotic
and professionally dangerous situation where McDormand's
dog is killed and Marilyn Monroe's wedding suit is
stolen.
In a minor role, Katie would appear as a form of decoy
love interest. A student renting a room in Douglas's
house, she would attempt to seduce him, as well as
serving as the object of Maguire's affections, But,
despite a strong performance, she was really only there
as a distraction. Interestingly, after The Ice Storm,
this would be the second movie where she was seen
sharing a classroom with Maguire.
Aware of a need to avoid being typecast as a "nice
girl" in teen movies, Holmes' was choosing her
parts carefully. Having been beaten to the lead in
Wicked by Julia Stiles, and also missed out on The Beach
(Virginie Ledoyen) and Brokedown Palace (Claire Danes)
she'd broken out somewhat with Go. Now she went a step
further in The Gift, written by Billy Bob Thornton,
directed by Sam Raimi and featuring yet more stellar
talent from which Katie could learn her trade - Cate
Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi, Keanu Reeves and Hilary
Swank.
Here she'd have a pivotal role as a country club tart
who's engaged to school principal Greg Kinnear and
enjoying a bit of rough of the side with redneck Reeves.
When she disappears without trace, psychic Blanchett is
brought in by the cops to help in the search, lakes are
dragged, accusations fly and the pot boils nicely. As
said, it was a small role for Holmes, but she was
impressively dirty, and appeared topless for the first
time. Dawson's Creek would last for three more years,
but Joey Potter was already dying.
2001 would see no new movies, only a series of TV ads
for Garnier. The next year, though, would add two
important items to her fast-growing CV. First came Joel
Schumacher's Phone Booth, a taut little thriller that
saw Colin Farrell as a dodgy control-freak publicist
trapped at a street pay-phone by sadistic sniper Keifer
Sutherland.
The reason he's not using his mobile is that he doesn't
want his wife to check the bill and find he's been
romantically liaising with a naive but ambitious actress
- Holmes, in another small but well-chosen and
well-performed part. The movie, also featuring Forest
Whitaker as a cop trying to understand what the
seemingly insane Farrell is up to, would be a great
critical success and, like Teaching Mrs Tingle, would
stir up controversy, as the murderous real-life
Washington sniper was still at large.
Following Phone Booth would come Abandon, Holmes' first
leading role. Written and directed by Stephen Gaghan (an
Oscar winner for Traffic, later to write Syriana for
George Clooney), this saw Katie as a smart and
articulate college student, under severe pressure to
pass her exams and score a lucrative corporate position.
Two years earlier, her oddball boyfriend disappeared and
now cop Benjamin Bratt shows up asking her about the
case. Katie begins to fall for Bratt but then starts to
see spooky glimpses of her ex-boyfriend around campus.
It was a reasonable thriller, well-written and
well-played, but it really worked best as a snapshot of
contemporary student life.
With Dawson's Creek still popular but running out of
steam, it had become all the more important for Katie to
establish herself as an adult player. This would
certainly have explained why she'd turned down the teen
sex comedy 40 Days And 40 Nights and instead took on the
film adaptation of Dennis Potter's extraordinary The
Singing Detective, perhaps the greatest and most
ambitious TV show ever screened. Here Katie's Wonder
Boys co-star Robert Downey Jr would take the Michael
Gambon role as the hospital-bound patient, suffering a
horrible skin condition, whose fevered hallucinations
combine with his memories of a traumatic childhood and
disastrous marriage to turn his reality into a bizarre
world of disappointment, resentment, hilarity and savage
drama where anyone, at any point, might burst crazily
into a song and dance routine.
Katie would appear as Nurse Mills, the role that had
originally provided a breakthrough for Joanne Whalley,
contributing much of the beauty and decency that ever
appears in Downey's environment of ugliness and agony.
Obvious financial constraints would force director Keith
Gordon to cut the project down from 400 minutes to just
over 100, but Katie would still get to use her earlier
training in song and dance and, of course, they could
never have cut out the fabulous sequence where the
bed-ridden anti-hero cannot stop himself from
ejaculating in front of her. The greatest of all
cum-shots, and not a penis in sight.
Holmes would now move on to Pieces Of April, another
high-grade project but this time resolutely indie, being
shot for a mere $200,000. Here Katie would star as April
Burns, tattooed and punky black sheep, who invites her
family to Thanksgiving dinner for the very first time,
hoping to impress them and be drawn back to their bosom.
As you'd expect from the writer of What's Eating Gilbert
Grape?, though, the family, led by the supremely wacky
Patricia Clarkson, are hugely, comically dysfunctional.
Their journey provides many laughs, as does Katie's
behaviour when her oven breaks and she starts suspecting
her boyfriend of nefarious doings. But there's some
serious twanging of heart-strings, too, as Clarkson is
revealed to be suffering from breast cancer. Her
performance would see her Oscar-nominated, while Holmes
would be nominated for a Golden Satelite Award.
2003 would end with Holmes finally getting engaged to
Chris Klein, rumours telling of a $500,000 diamond ring
being placed on her finger. All seemed to be going well,
until she made a very uncharacteristic choice and agreed
to star in First Daughter. Though directed by her Phone
Booth co-star Forest Whitaker (usually an interesting
artist) and starring Michael Keaton, this was unarguably
the kind of teenie pap she'd consciously avoided for
years.
Yet here she was, playing the President's daughter,
going off to college and yearning to be treated as
normal, defying her bodyguards, falling for her faculty
advisor and going ever-so-cutely off-the-rails. It's not
that it was poorly made or performed, just that it was
wholly unnecessary and heavily undermined by Chasing
Liberty, a Mandy Moore comedy on the same subject,
released earlier in the year.
Though it began with an unexpected split from Klein,
2005 would see Katie bounce back with some infinitely
superior projects. First, having just appeared beside
former Dark Knight Michael Keaton, would come
Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins, where Christian Bale
became the Caped Crusader, the film following his
horribly interrupted youth, his training in the dark
arts of violence and his early battles with mobsters and
super-villains in Gotham City.
Having beaten off Natalie Portman and (oh, succulent
revenge for that Buffy disappointment!) Sarah Michelle
Gellar, Katie would play Rachel Dodson, childhood friend
of Bruce Wayne, and now both an assistant DA and the
movie's love interest. Once again she'd be learning from
some of the greats, this time Morgan Freeman, Michael
Caine, Liam Neeson and Gary Oldman.
The Batman experience would change her life in more ways
than one. For a start, the heavy promotional demands
would cause her to drop out of Factory Girl, where she
was to have played Andy Warhol protegee Edie Sedgwick,
the film following her descent from up-market innocence
to drug-addled oblivion. On top of all this furore, she
became perhaps the world's most sought-after tabloid
fodder when, just a few weeks after announcing her split
from Chris Klein, she was said to have begun a
relationship with Tom Cruise, 16 years her senior.
Many were suspicious of the news, considering it to be a
publicity stunt to aid the success of Batman Begins and
Cruise's War Of The Worlds, both released in June, 2005.
Matters were not helped when Cruise appeared on the
Oprah Winfrey Show, bouncing on the sofa and shouting
"I'm in love! I'm in love!" While Cruise
angrily turned on the cynics, Holmes maintained her
dignity as best she could in the midst of such a media
whirlwind, simply confirming that the couple were indeed
an item.
The year would end with Katie joining Robert Duvall,
Maria Bello and William H. Macy in a fine ensemble cast
for Thank You For Smoking, a satirical comedy where
Aaron Eckhart played a spokesman for the Academy of
Tobacco Studies, promoting smoking and receiving death
threats while trying to remain a role model to his
12-year-old son. Holmes would play a canny Washington
Post journalist on the trail of Eckhart's darkest
professional secrets.
Already Toledo's most famous offspring since Jamie Farr
struck big as Klinger in MASH, Katie Holmes is set for
even greater things. You'd think, after her
straight-laced upbringing and early entry into tough
employment, that she'd be a prime candidate to kick
back, party on and live a little. But, still eager to
escape forever the prim image of Joey Potter, she's
highly unlikely to do this. Bright, pretty and now
fairly well-experienced with several Oscar-winning
productions behind her, she's in it for the long haul.
Holmes in the media: Holmes hosted Saturday Night
Live on February 24, 2001, participating in a send-up of
Dawson's Creek where she falls madly in love with Chris
Kattan's Mr. Peepers character and singing "Hey,
Big Spender" from Sweet Charity. On the November 9,
2003 episode, she was Punk'd by Ashton Kutcher 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 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, 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.
Personal life: Holmes purchased a townhouse in
Wilmington in 2002. When Dawson's Creek ended its run in
2003, she moved to Los Angeles, California, then New
York City in 2005." Holmes dated her Dawson's Creek
co-star Joshua Jackson for all the first season and part
of the second season, the relationship ending amicably.
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. A
Midwesterner like Holmes—he grew up in Illinois and
Nebraska—Klein and Holmes were engaged in late 2003,
but in early 2005 she and Klein ended their
relationship. Press accounts cited the distance imposed
by their careers as a factor. Klein in the fall of 2005
said of the split "We grew up. The fantasy was over
and reality set in."
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 April 29 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."
Holmes, baptized a Roman Catholic, became interested in
the Church of Scientology soon after she began dating
actor Cruise, a longtime member of and outspoken
advocate for the church, who had himself been raised as
a Catholic. On May 23, 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 June 17 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." The engagement ring to symbolize their
impending union is a five carat oval diamond set in rose
gold and platinum in a vintage, art deco design with a
split shank.
Scientology: Many stories in the press negatively
noted Holmes's interest in Cruise's religion, the Church
of Scientology, some suggesting she had been coerced or
"brainwashed" into it. Soon after beginning
her relationship with him, Holmes fired her long-time
manager and agent and acquired a new "best
friend", Jessica Rodriguez, a prominent member of
the Church of Scientology described as part of its
"royalty." Rodriguez has been referred to as
Holmes’s Scientology "minder" as she follows
the actress everywhere and tells Holmes what to say
during interviews. 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." In an April 2006 interview with ABC
News's Diane Sawyer, Cruise said he and Holmes were
"just Scientologists" and that their child
would not be baptized Catholic.
Hometown reaction: 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.'"
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."
Holmes's child: On October 6, 2005, Holmes and
Cruise announced they were expecting a child and days
later took a walk in a Los Angeles park to show to the
world Holmes's very visible pregnancy. Holmes's Dawson's
Creek co-star Oliver Hudson said, "She almost seems
born for motherhood. She's a nurturer. She's got mother
qualities a lot of girls her age don't have."
On April 18, 2006, the first anniversary of Holmes's
first date with Cruise, she gave birth at St. John's
Medical Center in Santa Monica, California, to a
daughter, Suri Cruise.The Los Angeles Times quoted
Cruise's publicist Arnold Robinson saying "everyone
is wonderful" but noted "he declined to give
any other details, saying the couple wished no comments
to be made beyond those in the release. He declined to
give the time or place of birth or the rest of Suri's
name, nor would he discuss the duration or nature of the
labor." The 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."
Until September 2006, 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
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 "FreeKatie" website,
which had criticized Holmes's relationship with Cruise
from the beginning, offered a bumper sticker for sale
that read "Honk If You've Seen Suri".The first
photographs of the child appeared in the October 2006
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."
Marriage to Cruise: 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. Italian authorities
said the ceremony was not legal since no paperwork had
been filed. Bracciano's mayor, Patrizia Riccioni, told
the British newspaper the Sunday Mirror that "No
civil ceremony has taken place and no paperwork has been
received. The wedding is not legally-binding." 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.
In March of 2007, it was reported that Holmes had called
friend Victoria Beckham to discuss troubles in her
relationship with Cruise, and that she may have had to
undergo retraining in Scientology techniques. According
to one source close to Katie, Tom has told her that she
needs to undergo "mommy classes", taught by
Scientologists.
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