01/09/02

The Bear Basics....

Name: Katherine Noelle Holmes

Age: 19

D.O.B.: December 18, 1978

Birth Place: Toledo, Ohio

Height: 5'8

Hair Color: Brown

Eye Color: Brown

On December 18, 1978 god gave us a goddess, Katie Holmes. Born in Toledo, Ohio, on that special day. She was the youngest child in her family. Here father is a lawyer and mother a homemaker.

Katie Attended an all girls high school. At the Notre Dame Academy she started her young acting life. She always said "I want to be an actress, but I'm from Ohio. I told my self. Get a grip" However she did not know that her dream would come true.

The summer following her 17^th birthday would bring her "The big" break. A local Toledo modeling agency led her to a 1996 New York modeling convention. During the convention, she was asked to spend six weeks in Las Angeles, by a LA based talent scout. Her father did not want his daughter to go, But after her family pleading he gave in. So with her mother she went of to LA.

Unlike most "New Actors' Katie got a job on the first movie audition. She got her first job in Ang Lee's "The Ice Storm". In the coming of age movie, "The Ice Storm", that takes place in the 1970's during the sexual revolution, Katie played the role of Tobey Maguire's wealthy up town girlfriend. Midway through the first day on the set Katie was asked to come into Lee's trailer. Of course Katie thought the worst, but it was just a harmless discussion for her role. "The Ice Storm" won the "Cannes Film Festival."