Kristin Davis

Biography of Kristin Davis

Kristin Landen Davis was born on February 23, 1965 in Boulder, Colorado. She is an American actress and film producer.

Kristin Davis was born the only child of married couple Dorothy and Tom Atkinson in Boulder, Colorado. Her parents divorced shortly after her birth and she was adopted by her mother's second husband, Keith Davis, in 1968. The family soon moved to Columbia, South Carolina. She then studied acting at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in New Jersey, graduating in 1987.

After Davis played the role of Brooke Armstrong in the US television series Melrose Place, she also appeared in other series such as Seinfeld and Friends. In 1998 she had her breakthrough role as Charlotte York Goldenblatt on the series Sex and the City. In 2001-05, she was nominated for a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Ensemble in a Comedy Series for Sex and the City, along with Kim Cattrall, Sarah Jessica Parker and Cynthia Nixon. In 2002 and 2004 she received this award. In 2002, she was also nominated for an Emmy (Best Supporting Actress - Comedy Series) and Golden Globefor her role as Charlotte York.

Davis made her big screen debut with a starring role in Doom Asylum (1987). She also had starring roles in the films Road Trip to Hell (2000), The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3-D (2005), Shaggy Dog (2006) and Deck the Halls (2006) opposite Matthew Broderick and Danny DeVito.

Davis was voted the most beautiful woman in the world by readers of Eve magazine in 2006.

Kristin Davis is an ambassador for the development aid organization Oxfam, with whom she traveled to South Africa in 2005 and to Dadaab in Kenya in 2011. In 2010 she received the Wyler Award for her commitment.

Davis adopted a girl on October 7, 2011. She currently resides in Los Angeles.