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Kristin Landen Davis (also listed as Kristin
Lee Davis; born February 23 or February 24,[1]
1965 depending on the source) is an American
Golden Globe- and Emmy Award-nominated actress,
known for playing the role of Charlotte York
Goldenblatt on HBO's Sex and the City.
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,
University of South Carolina psychology professor
Keith Davis,[3] after he married her mother,
Dorothy, a university data analyst, in 1968.[4]
She had three stepsisters from her adoptive
father's first marriage.[5] Early in her
childhood, she and her parents moved to Columbia,
South Carolina, where her adoptive father
served as provost and teaches psychology
at the University of South Carolina.
Davis wanted to be an actress since age 10,
when 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.[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
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.
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.
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
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 and Shoulders shampoo.
Davis appeared in 2008's Sex and the City
feature film, under the direction of executive
producer Michael Patrick King.[6] On October
15, 2008, TV Guide reported that Davis has
signed on to co-star 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,
will play her husband.[7]
Filmography
Nine Months (1995)
Traveling Companion (1998)
Sour Grapes (1998)
Blacktop (2000)
The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in
3-D (2005)
The Shaggy Dog (2006)
Deck the Halls (2006)
Sex and the City: The Movie (2008)
Couples Retreat (2009)
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