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Kristin Davis
Kristin Davis in 1999
Born	Kristin Landen Davis February 24, 1965 (1965-02-24) (age 45) Boulder, Colorado, U.S.
Occupation	Actress
Years active	1987–present

Kristin Landen Davis (also listed as Kristin Lee Davis; born February 24,¹ 1965) is an American actress, known for playing the role of Charlotte York Goldenblatt on HBO's Sex and the City.

Contents 1 Early life and education 2 Career 2.1 Television 2.2 Films 2.3 Additional ventures 3 Personal life 4 Filmography 4.1 Films 4.2 Television 5 References 6 External links

Early life and education

Davis was born in Boulder, Colorado.² An only child, her parents divorced when she was a baby. She was adopted by her stepfather, professor Keith Davis,³ after he married her mother, Dorothy, a university data analyst, in 1968.⁴ She had three half sisters from her father's first marriage.⁵ Early in her childhood, she and her parents moved to Columbia, South Carolina, where her father served as provost and teaches psychology at the University of South Carolina.

Davis wanted to be an actress from the age of 10, when she was cast in a community theater production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Davis lived in South Carolina until she graduated from A.C. Flora High School in 1983. She then moved to New Jersey, where she attended Rutgers University. Davis graduated with a bachelor's degree from Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts in 1987.⁵

Career

Television

After graduation in 1987, Davis moved to New York and waited tables before opening a yoga studio with a friend. In 1995, she had her 'big break', landing the role of Brooke Armstrong Campbell on Melrose Place. She left the show after one year when producers found that viewers disliked her character. Davis also had roles in other television series including Friends, Will and Grace and Seinfeld.

In 1998, Davis was cast as Charlotte York in Sex and the City and remained an integral cast member until the series ended in 2004. She received an Emmy nomination for her role in the final season.

Davis hosted the VH1 show 200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons. In 2005, she starred in a television pilot entitled Soccer Moms in which she and Gina Torres star as suburban mothers who moonlight as private detectives. She also starred as Miss Spider in Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids and its spinoff Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends.

Films

Davis's films include The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3D, opposite David Arquette and George Lopez; the Walt Disney film The Shaggy Dog, opposite Tim Allen, and Deck the Halls, opposite Matthew Broderick. She performed in ABC Family channel's Christmas movie Three Days in 2001, and in a commercial for Head & Shoulders shampoo.

Davis appeared in 2008's Sex and the City feature film, under the direction of executive producer Michael Patrick King.⁶ In 2009, Davis co-starred in Couples Retreat, a comedy chronicling four couples who partake in therapy sessions at a tropical island resort. Jon Favreau, who also wrote the script, played her husband.⁷

Additional ventures

Shortly after the wide release of the Sex and the City feature film, in June 2008, Belk, the nation's largest privately owned department store chain, announced a partnership with Davis. The arrangement includes a ladies' apparel and accessories line that debuted in 2008 in 125 store locations and online, with eventual plans for expanding availability to other store locations. In Belk's press release about the product line launch, Davis cited her upbringing in South Carolina as part of her inspiration for working with the chain.⁸

Personal life

Davis is a recovering alcoholic.⁹ She says she was introduced to alcohol early as part of her Southern upbringing: "Alcohol freed me. I was really shy and I didn't know how to come out of my shell. I drank for the same reason I loved acting. I wanted to feel things and express myself and be free. And I'm not naturally that way."¹⁰ She went sober in her mid-20s:⁵ "I miss it. You don’t go to rehab and then suddenly it goes away."¹¹

Davis currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

Filmography

Films

Year	Film	Role	Notes
1987	Doom Asylum	Jane
1991	N.Y.P.D. Mounted	Young Lady	TV movie.
1995	Nine Months	Tennis Attendant
	Alien Nation: Body and Soul	Karina Tivoli
1996	The Ultimate Lie	Claire McGrath	TV movie.
1997	A Deadly Vision	Babette Watson	TV movie.
1998	Traveling Companion	Annie
	Sour Grapes	Riggs
1999	Atomic Train	Megan Seger
2000	Take Me Home: The John Denver Story	Annie Denver	TV movie.
	Blacktop	Sylvia	TV movie.
2001	Someone to Love	Lorraine	TV movie.
	Three Days	Beth Farmer	TV movie.
2004	The Winning Season	Mandy	TV movie.
2005	Soccer Moms	Brooke	TV movie.
	The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D	Max's Mom (voice)
2006	The Shaggy Dog	Rebecca Douglas
	Deck the Halls	Kelly Finch
2008	Sex and the City: The Movie	Charlotte York
2009	Couples Retreat	Lucy
2010	Sex and the City 2	Charlotte York

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1991	General Hospital	Betsy Chilson, R.N.
1992	Mann & Machine	Cathy	"Billion Dollar Baby"
1993	The Larry Sanders Show	Bri	"The Breakdown: Part 2"
1994	Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman	Carey McGee	"Thanksgiving"
1995	ER	Leslie	"Luck of the Draw"
	Melrose Place	Brooke Armstrong	1995-1996
1997	The Single Guy	Leslie	"Johnny Hollywood"
	Seinfeld	Jenna	"The Pothole"; "The Butter Shave"
1998	Sex and the City	Charlotte York	1998-2004
2000	Friends	Erin	"The One with Ross' Library Book"
	Sex and the Matrix	Charlotte York MacDougal	short parody
2004	Will & Grace	Nadine	"Will & Grace & Vince & Nadine"
	Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends	Miss Spider (voice)	2004-2008

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Kristin Davis

• Official Kristin Davis Facebook Fan Page
• Kristin Davis at Allmovie
• Barnes and Noble biography
• Archive of the original Sex and the City newspaper columns

Persondata
NAME	Davis, Kristin
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Davis, Kristin Landen; Davis, Kristin Lee
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Actress
DATE OF BIRTH	February 24, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH	Boulder, Colorado, United States
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH