Kristin Landen Davis Bio

Davis was born in Boulder, Colorado. A single child, her parents split when she was just a newborn. Her stepfather adopted her professor Keith Davis, after he married her mother Dorothy an academic data analyst, in the year 1968. She had three half sisters from her father's previous marriage. Early in her childhood, she and her parents relocated to Columbia, South Carolina, where her father was provost , and also taught psychology at the University of South Carolina. Davis was an actor in the local theater production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at the age of 10. Davis lived in South Carolina until she graduated from A.C. Flora High School in 1983. After graduating from A.C. Flora High School in 1983, Davis emigrated to New Jersey and attended Rutgers University. In 1987, Davis received a bachelor's from Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts. After graduation in 1987, Davis moved to New York and worked at tables, before starting a yoga studio with a fellow. In 1995, she received her "big break" getting the role of Brooke Armstrong Campbell on Melrose Place. She left the show after a year, when the producers realized that viewers did not like her character. Davis has also played the roles of other shows on television like Friends, Will and Grace and Seinfeld. In 1998, Davis was cast as Charlotte York in Sex and the City and remained an integral part of the cast until the show's end in 2004. For her role in the last season she was nominated to win an Emmy.