ACTOR · BORN 1978
Katie Holmes
- Born
- 18 December 1978
56 archived facts 5 topics 1 source Last reviewed Sep 2026
15 Facts About Katie Holmes' Life and Family
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On April 18, 2006, Katie Holmes gave birth to her first child, a daughter named Suri Cruise, at the age of 27. The child's father is her boyfriend (now ex-husband) Tom Cruise.
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Katie Holmes graduated from Notre Dame Academy, an all-girls Roman Catholic school in Toledo, Ohio.
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On November 18, 2006, Katie Holmes married Tom Cruise in front of family and friends at Odescalchi Castle on Lake Bracciano in Italy. Among the many celebrity guests were Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, Brooke Shields and Chris Henchy, Richard Gere, Victoria Beckham and David Beckham, Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony, Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg, John Travolta and Kelly Preston, Jenna Elfman and Bodhi Elfman, and Leah Remini.
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Katie Holmes's mother, Kathleen Ann (Craft), is a homemaker and philanthropist. Her father, Martin Joseph Holmes, Sr., is a lawyer specializing in divorce.
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Katie Holmes's favorite film is My Best Friend's Wedding (1997).
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Katie Holmes's father is three-quarters German and one-quarter Irish; the family surname, originally "Holm", was changed to "Holmes" by his German immigrant ancestors. Her mother is of Irish and English descent.
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Katie Holmes twice postponed attending Columbia University, but eventually took a single photography course there in the summer of 2000.
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Katie Holmes is the mother of Suri Cruise, the only biological child of her ex-husband Tom Cruise.
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Katie Holmes's brother-in-law Joseph Jeffrey Fretti, the husband of her eldest sister Tamara Holmes, was found dead on 12 April 2009 at his mother Shirley's home in Sarasota, Florida. He was 48 years old.
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As of 17 June 2005, Katie Holmes was engaged to Tom Cruise.
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Katie Holmes is the youngest of five siblings and a grandchild of her father's father.
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Katie Holmes is the former stepmother of Tom Cruise's adopted children: Isabella and Connor Cruise.
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Her brother Martin Joseph Jr. works as a lawyer in Ohio.
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In 2013 she hosted a shoeless party for editors of a special fashion magazine, inviting the gathered guests to take off their shoes if they wished.
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In 2015 she was the guest speaker at the University of Toledo's spring commencement ceremony.
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