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Katherine Noelle "Katie" Holmes (born December 18, 1978) is an American actress who first achieved fame for her role as Joey Potter on The WB television teen drama Dawson`s Creek from 1998 to 2003. 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.

In early 2005 Holmes began 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 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. 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 Suri Cruise. On November 18, 2006, she and Cruise were married in Italy.

On April 18, 2006, Katie gave birth to a baby girl named Suri, out of wedlock. It was said in the Vanity Fair article that Suri arrived exactly one year after Tom and Katie met, April 18, 2005. 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 Jewish, not Hebrew, derivation of "Sarah".

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".[98] 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."

In an April 2006 interview with ABC News`s Diane Sawyer, Cruise said he and Holmes were "just Scientologists" and that Suri would not be baptized Catholic.

Katie 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, before 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 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