Jennifer Grey

She had an uncredited cameo with Dawson's Creek co-star Joshua Jackson in Muppets in Space (1999), which was also filmed in Wilmington. Next she was a disaffected supermarket clerk in Doug Liman's stylish ensemble piece Go (1999). Holmes won a MTV Movie Award for Best Breakthrough Performance for the role, though Holmes said the film was "just horrible". Her first starring part came in Disturbing Behavior (1998), a Stepford Wives-goes-to-high school thriller where she was a loner from the wrong side of the tracks.

While she often draws great notices, her films have tended to be badly reviewed or box office duds. Holmes' movie career has not been as successful as the show. So much of me is in Joey and it really felt like I grew up on television.". I was able to psychoanalyze all of it everyday with her and then I wouldn't have to do it on my own.

It was a great tool for me personally because I got to get it all out. She always had these long sppeches about her fears and her future and love. Holmes confirmed that, as is often the case on soaps, the character is a cariacature of the actor: "I miss her spirit, and her spunk, and I miss her anxiety. On the other hand it was refreshing to play someone else," she said in 2004.

I hate change. "It was very difficult for me to leave Wilmington, to have my little glass bubble burst and move on. Dawson's Creek ran from 1998 to 2003 and Holmes was the only actor to appear in all 128 episodes. Anywhere.".

But her "type" was no less attractive, Arena magazine declaring her "the most coquettishly sexy woman on television. "The Katie Holmes type," the reporter claimed, "is a throwback to the 1950's: 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. Variety, reviewing the pilot, said Holmes "is a confident young performer who delivers her lines with slyness and conviction." So good was Holmes that The New York Times Magazine would claim everyone in Hollywood was looking for the "Katie Holmes type" when casting shows. "The Audrey Hepburn of her generation," was one typical comment.

At 5'9" (some sources say 5'7"), the tall brunette enchanted the press. Holmes moved to Wilmington, North Carolina, where the show filmed, and for a time lived with creator Williamson. Her life parallels mine, which is all about new everything--relationships, personnel, perceptions--and about being guarded." Dawson's Creek filmed its first season in the spring and summer of 1997. Joey tries to be articulate and deny that she doesn't have a lot of experience in life.

I was a tomboy. I come from a small town. "I think they saw that. "I'm a lot like Joey," she said.

Williamson said "She had those eyes, those eyes just stained with loneliness.". Holmes won the part. Holmes read for the part of Joey, the tomboyish best friend of the title character, while her mother read Dawson's lines, including dialogue about sex and masturbation. One reached the producers of a new show created by Kevin Williamson for Columbia Tri-Star Television: Dawson's Creek. Her appointment to read for it was unknowingly set by the producers for the same day as her high school production of Damn Yankees (she was playing Lola), but they permitted her to send a videotape rather than make her miss the show.

She returned to Toledo but her audition tapes continued to circulate. She did not land a television role, but was cast as the improbably named Libbets Casey in the film The Ice Storm (1997), directed by Ang Lee and starring Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver. While in high school, she went with her mother to Los Angeles to audition for pilots for television shows. She attended Catholic schools in Toledo, including the all-female Notre Dame Academy.

Born Katherine Noelle Holmes in Toledo, Ohio, she was the youngest of the five children of Martin, an attorney, and Kathleen Holmes. Katie Holmes (born December 18, 1978) is an American actress best known as Joey Potter on Dawson's Creek .