Katie Holmes
Joey Potter on Dawsons Creek
Much like her character Joey Potter, Katie Holmes possesses an exceptional maturity both on and off the screen. Born and raised in Toledo, Ohio, eighteen-year-old katie holmes began acting in high school productions in spite of her belief that actin careers couldn't be sustained living in the Midwest."I'm a small town girl just like Joey. I wasn't the one who got the boys in high school.", she says.
Her character, Joey Potter is something of a tomboy. As Katie explains "Joey is a fifteen-year-old girl that uses a tough atitude as a guard because she's been through so much.she's been hurt so many times that she doesn't want to be vulnerable and prt herself out there for everyone. She has to be tough. She lost her mom and her dad's in prison. She doesn't have the best reputation in town because her sister, Bessie, is pregnant by Bodie, her black boyfriend, and they all live together. Her relationship with Dawson has been the only stable thing in her life and now it's beginning to change."
Although a newcomer to the entertainment world, Katie has already experienced icrdible success, landing major roles in bothe feature films and television projects while participationg in only a handful of auditions. On her very first professional audition, Holmes dazzled the casting director for the acclaimed featur film "Ice Storm"
When the next pilot season came up during her senior year of high school, Holmes opted to skip coming out to Loos Angeles to perform in ger school's production of "Damn Yankees" as Lola. For the "Dawson's Creek" audiition, She sent in a videotape from Toledo, and when the call back conflicted with her play's opening night, she declined rather than let down her classmates. Fortunetly, the producers weere avle to reschedule her audition and she landed the series regular role of Joey Potter.