The youngest of five siblings, this brainiac actress was a 4.0 student at her all-female high school and scored 1310 out of 1600 on her SAT.
She was offered the lead in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” but turned it down.
She won the role that put her on the map with an audition tape shot in her basement.
Her wholesome image was shattered when she appeared nude in a film in 2000.
She has been described as “the Audrey Hepburn of her generation.”
Who is she?
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Kate Holmes attended Notre Dame Academy in Toledo, Ohio, and was accepted to Columbia University, where she attended for a summer session.
Asked to come to Los Angeles to audition for “Dawson’s Creek,” Holmes was doing a school play and told the WB she had other commitments. The producers permitted her to audtion on videotape. She read for the part of Joey Potter on a videotape shot in her basement, with her mother reading Dawson’s lines.
In 2000, Katie appeared topless in the film “The Gift.”
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