Kristin Davis

Kristin Landen Davis (also listed as Kristin Lee Davis; born September 23, 1965) is an American actress. She is known for playing Brooke Armstrong on the soap opera Melrose Place (1995–1996), and Charlotte York Goldenblatt on HBO's Sex and the City (1998–2004). She received a 2004 Emmy Award nomination for her role as Charlotte, and reprised the role in the films, Sex and the City (2008) and Sex and the City 2 (2010). 
Davis made her Broadway debut playing Mabel Cantwell in the 2012 revival of The Best Man, and her West End debut playing Beth Gallagher in the original 2014 stage production of Fatal Attraction.
==Early life and education==
Davis was born in Boulder, Colorado. She is an only child, and her parents divorced when she was a baby. She was adopted by her stepfather, then-University of Colorado Boulder professor Keith Davis,Doug Nye (September 19, 2000). "Kristin Davis, 'sex' symbol". The State (Columbia, South Carolina). after he married her mother, Dorothy, a university data analyst, in 1968. She has three sisters from her father's first marriage. 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 9, when she was cast in the Workshop 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. Davis graduated with a BFA degree in Acting from Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts in 1987.
==Career==
===Television===
After graduation in 1987, Davis moved to New York and waited tables before opening a yoga studio with a friend. In 1991, she acted in a couple of episodes of the daytime drama (soap opera) General Hospital. Her big break came in 1995 when she landed the role of villainess Brooke Armstrong Campbell on the nighttime drama Melrose Place. She left the show after one year when producers decided to kill off the 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. In 1999, along with the rest of the cast, she was awarded the Women in Film Lucy Award in recognition of her excellence and innovation in her creative works that have enhanced the perception of women through the medium of television. She received an Emmy nomination for her role as Charlotte 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 starred as Miss Spider in the animated television special Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids and its spin-off series Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends and was recently a guest judge on the Lifetime (TV network) program Project Runway.
===Films===
Davis's films include The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3D, opposite David Arquette and George Lopez; the 2006 version of The Shaggy Dog, opposite Tim Allen, and Deck the Halls, opposite Matthew Broderick and Danny DeVito. 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. 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.Trio of Ladies Going on Couples Retreat" TV Guide. October 15, 2008. Retrieved October 15, 2008.
===Stage===
Davis made her Broadway debut in July 2012, when she replaced Kerry Butler in the revival of Gore Vidal's The Best Man at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. She made her West End debut playing Beth Gallagher in Fatal Attraction at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket, in March 2014. 
===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.
==Personal life==
In 2011, she adopted a daughter, Gemma Rose Davis. They reside in Los Angeles, California. Davis has never married.
Davis is a recovering alcoholic. 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." She went sober at the age of 22, later stating, "I miss it. You don't go to rehab and then suddenly it goes away."
During her 2009 visit to Africa, Davis, a lifelong lover of elephants, discovered an abandoned baby elephant and arranged for it to be taken to a wildlife rehabilitation center. In recognition of the attention she has brought to the plight of orphaned African elephants, Davis won the Humane Society's 2010 Wyler Award, which is bestowed on a celebrity or public figure who has made news on behalf of animals. She is also a patron of the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust which works to protect elephants and other wildlife in Kenya. 
==Filmography==
===Film===
Year	Title 	Role 	Notes 	
1987	Doom Asylum 	Jane 	 	
1991	N.Y.P.D. Mounted 	Young Lady 	Television film 	
1995	Nine Months 	Tennis Attendant 	 	
1995	Alien Nation: Body and Soul 	Karina Tivoli 	 	
1996	 	Claire McGrath 	Television film 	
1997	 	Babette Watson 	Television film 	
1998	Traveling Companion 	Annie 	 	
1998	Sour Grapes 	Riggs 	 	
1999	Atomic Train 	Megan Seger 	 	
2000	Take Me Home: The John Denver Story	Annie Denver 	Television film 	
2000	Blacktop 	Sylvia 	Television film 	
2001	Someone to Love 	Lorraine 	Television film 	
2001	Three Days 	Beth Farmer 	Television film 	
2002	Dangerous House 	Michelle Silverman 	 	Voice role
2004	 	Mandy 	Television film 	
2005	Soccer Moms 	Brooke 	Television pilot 	
2005	 	Max's Mom 	Minor 	
2006	 	Rebecca Douglas 	 	
2006	Deck the Halls 	Kelly Finch 	Main role 	
2008	Sex and the City 	Charlotte York Goldenblatt	 	
2009	Couples Retreat 	Lucy Tippaglio 	 	
2010	Sex and the City 2 	Charlotte York Goldenblatt	ShoWest Ensemble AwardGolden Raspberry Award for Worst ActressNominated–People's Choice Awards For Favorite Cast	
2012	Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 	Elizabeth Anderson 	 	
2012	Of Two Minds 	Billie Clark 	Television film 	
===Television===
Year 	Title 	Role 	Notes
1991 	General Hospital 	Betsy Chilson, R.N. 	
1992 	Mann & Machine 	Cathy 	Episode: "Billion Dollar Baby"
1993 	 	Bri 	Episode: "The Breakdown: Part II"
1994 	Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman 	Carey McGee 	Episode: "Thanksgiving"
1995 	ER 	Leslie 	Episode: "Luck of the Draw"
1995–96 	Melrose Place 	Brooke Armstrong 	Recurring cast (season 3) Main cast (season 4) 32 episodes
1997 	 	Leslie 	Episode: "Johnny Hollywood"
1997 	Seinfeld 	Jenna 	Episodes: "The Pothole" / "The Butter Shave"
1998–2004	Sex and the City 	Charlotte York Goldenblatt	Women in Film Lucy Award (shared with cast)Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series (2001)Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series (2003)Nominated–Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series (2004)Nominated–Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film (2004)Nominated–Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series (2004)
1999-2002	The Duck Bros. 	Michelle Silverman 	Voice role, 30 episodes
2000 	Friends 	Erin 	Episode: "The One with Ross' Library Book"
2000 	Sex and the Matrix 	Charlotte York MacDougal 	short parody
2004 	Will & Grace 	Nadine 	Episode: "Will & Grace & Vince & Nadine"
2004–09 	Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends	Miss Spider 	Voice role, 35 episodes
2014 	Bad Teacher 	Ginny Taylor-Clapp 	7 episodes
===Theatre===
Year	Title 	Role 	Notes
2014	Fatal Attraction	Beth Gallagher	
==References==
==External links==
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* Barnes and Noble biography
* Kristin Davis at Emmys.com
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