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Kristin Landen Davis (also listed as Kristin Lee Davis) (born February 23 or February 24, 1965 depending on the source) is an American Golden Globe and Emmy award-nominated actress best known for the role of Charlotte Goldenblatt on HBO's Sex and the City. A pert, energetic actress with a knack for verbal comedy, Kristin Davis charmed television viewers with her Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated turns as well-bred, conservative New York art dealer, Charlotte York, who endured a seemingly endless string of uptight and offbeat suitors on “Sex and the City” (HBO, 1998-2004), only to find true love in the arms of her rough-hewn lawyer. Prior to her stint on “Sex,” Davis was a visible presence on television in the late 1990s, most notably as a scheming villainess on “Melrose Place” (Fox, 1992-99). Davis was born in Boulder, Colorado. An only child, her parents divorced when she was a baby and she was adopted by her stepfather after he married her mother in 1968. Early in her childhood Kristin and her parents moved to Columbia, South Carolina, where her adoptive father served as provost and taught psychology at the University of South Carolina. Her childhood hero was Gloria Steinem, and wanting to be an actress since aged 10 she was cast in a community theatre 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. After graduation in 1987, Davis moved to New York and waited tables before opening a yoga studio with a friend. In 1995, she got her big break when she landed 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 and Seinfeld. Davis’ perseverance paid off in the early 1990s, with a small recurring role on the venerable daytime soap “General Hospital” (ABC, 1963- ). She soon graduated to primetime with guest shots on “The Larry Sanders Show” (HBO, 1992-98), “ER” (NBC, 1994- ) and in the TV movie “Alien Nation: Body and Soul” (1995), which required her to don a very un-Charlotte-like spotted bald cap in her portrayal of an extraterrestrial. By 1995, she was tapped by the producers of “Melrose Place” for a recurring role as wealthy Brooke Armstrong Campbell, whose obsessive hold on Billy Campbell (Andrew Shue) put her at odds with her romantic and business rival, Alison Parker (Courtney Thorne-Smith). Davis’ turn was so impressively evil that she was made a regular cast member for the 1995-96 season, but audiences eventually found Brooke so loathsome that she was slated for an untimely (if well-deserved) demise in the Melrose Place pool after discovering that her stepfather (Perry King) had married Alison. However, Davis did not want for work, even long after the end of her “Melrose” stint; she was soon appearing in several TV movies and logging time on various series, most notably in two episodes of “Seinfeld” (NBC, 1989-1998) as Jenna, a potential girlfriend of Jerry’s who becomes persona non grata after her toothbrush falls into a toilet, unbeknownst to her. When she uses the toothbrush, the germaphobic Jerry spends the whole episode trying to figure out how to dump her. “Seinfeld” creator Larry David was suitably impressed with her skills to later tap her for a role in his little-seen and roundly disliked feature comedy, “Sour Grapes” (1998). 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 was the only one of the four actresses of Sex and the City (1998) not to get an Emmy nomination, until the final season in 2004. For her efforts, Davis shared two Screen Actors Guild Awards with her co-stars, but went away empty-handed at the Emmys and Golden Globes in 2004, which was surprising, given her heartfelt performances in the Trey and Goldenblatt storylines. If the losses affected Davis, she never showed it. Instead, she kept busy between seasons, assisting screen husband Rob Lowe in slowing an out-of-control train carrying a radioactive payload in the 1999 TV movie “Atomic Train,” and playing singer John Denver’s wife Annie in “Take Me Home: The John Denver Story” in 2000. Other TV features soon followed, but Davis’ focus remained with “Sex” until its highly publicized and widely viewed finale in 2004. After “Sex,” Davis remained remarkably active on television and in film. She shot “Soccer Moms” (2005), a comedy pilot for ABC about suburban housewives who also solve crime, and logged time in the innocuous but popular kids’ features “The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D” (2005), in which she starred as the mother of the boy who creates the title superheroes, as well as a remake of “The Shaggy Dog” (2006) with Tim Allen in the title role. She later appeared with her “Sex” co-star Sarah Jessica Parker’s real-life husband, Matthew Broderick, as his long-suffering wife in the limp holiday comedy, “Deck the Halls” (2006). On television, she was seen as the fictional love interest for baseball legend Honus Wagner (Matthew Modine) in TNT’s “The Winning Season” (2004), and provided the voice of the caring Miss Spider in the Annie-nominated animated series “Miss Spider’s Sunny Patch Friends” (Nickelodeon, 2004-06). She also appeared frequently as a commercial spokesperson for Maybelline cosmetics and Head and Shoulders shampoo. She has also hosted the VH1 show 200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons. In 2005, Davis starred in a television pilot entitled Soccer Moms in which she and Gina Torres star as suburban mothers who moonlight as private detectives. Films include The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3D, where she plays Max's mom, opposite David Arquette and George Lopez; the Walt Disney film The Shaggy Dog, where she plays Rebecca Douglas, opposite Tim Allen, and Deck The Halls, opposite Matthew Broderick. She performed in ABC Family channel's Christmas movie Three Days in 2006 and in a commercial for Head and Shoulders shampoo. Davis is currently shooting the Sex and the City feature film, under the direction of executive producer Michael Patrick King. Davis says as part of her southern upbringing, she was introduced to alcohol early. A liking that turned to an excess, from which she battled back in her mid-20's. Having admitted to a preference for dating actors, her ex-boyfriend list is high profile and extensive, including: Alec Baldwin (with whom she guest starred on both "Will & Grace" 1998 and "Friends") Jeff Goldblum and Liev Schreiber. She says: ""If I had one wish for myself, it would be to fall in love. That's asking for trouble, but that's the truth.", Davis currently resides in Los Angeles. |
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