Katie Holmes Net Worth

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Katie Noelle Holmes is an American actress. She first gained fame after appearing as Joey Potter on the hit TV series Dawson’s Creek from 1998 to 2003. Before Dawson’s Creek, she made her debut through a supporting role in the feature film The Ice Storm, 1997. In that film, she co-starred along side of Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver. Besides her acting career, she also ventured into directing, modeling, and theater acting, significantly affecting her net worth.

She then appeared in big- and small-scale films, including Batman Begins and Thank You for Smoking, 2005; Mad Money, 2008; Jack and Jill, 2011; and Miss Meadows, 2014, to name a few.

Early life

Katie Holmes was born in Toledo, Ohio, on December 18, 1978. She is actually the youngest of five siblings. Holmes was raised by their mother, Kathleen, who is a philanthropist and homemaker. Her father, Martin Joseph Holmes Sr., is a lawyer who used to play at Marquette University. She was baptized a Roman Catholic and also attended Toledo’s Christ the King Church.

She participated in a competition spearheaded by the IMTA or the International Modeling and Talent Association at fourteen. The event happened in New York City in 1996. After her monologue performance of To Kill a Mockingbird, Holmes signed with an agent.

It was also reported that she received an offer to lead the supernatural drama Buffy the Vampire Slayer. However, she turned it down to focus on her studies and finish high school.

Career

Holmes’ role as Joey Potter brought her into the national spotlight. Soon, she found herself on magazine covers like Seventeen, TV Guide, and Rolling Stone. She also continued to appear on several projects while doing Dawson’s Creek. The film Disturbing Behavior in 1998 won her Best Breakthrough Performance during the MTV Movie Awards.

Holmes was the only actor who appeared in every episode of Dawson’s Creek until it ended in 2003. In 2011, Holmes saw herself playing the role of Jacqueline Kennedy in the TV miniseries The Kennedys. It was also a role she played again in The Kennedys: After Camelot in 2017.

Holmes took a hiatus to give birth to her daughter Suri in April 2006. She then came back to the big screen in 2008 with the film Mad Money. In the same year, she appeared as Grace on an episode of Eli Stone.

In 2016, Holmes made her directorial debut in the film All We Had, in the film she also starred in. The film also had Stefania Lavie Owen, Richard Kind, Luke Wilson, Eve Lindley, Judy Greer, and Mark Consuelos.

Theater

Shortly after her hiatus, in October 2008, she debuted on Broadway through the revival of All My Sons by Arthur Miller. Her monologue on To Kill a Mockingbird indeed was an early training on her debut. However, this debut performance in the theater got mixed reviews.

In 2012, she again appeared on Broadway through Dead Accounts by Theresa Rebeck. While there might only be a few of Holmes’ stints on Broadway, she sure looked past the spectrum of acting on small and big screens. Furthermore, Holmes experimented on how well she could do in theater plays.

Dawson’s Creek Salary

Holmes indeed ventured from being an actress, director, brand endorser, model, and broadway actress. However, her stint with Dawson’s Creek was a significant aspect of her career. Hence, when looking at Katie Holmes’ net worth, you cannot count out her salary from the show.

She appeared as the leading actor in all 128 episodes of Dawson’s Creek. During the early seasons, she earned approximately $30,000 each episode. In the later seasons, which also saw her peak, she was getting a salary of $175,000 in each episode.

Personal Life

Katie Holmes and Dawson’s Creek co-star Joshua Jackson dated during the early parts of the show’s run. Holmes added that her first love was Jackson. She also met actor Chris Klein and got engaged in 2003. However, in early 2005, they ended their relationship.

Her marriage to Tom Cruise might be one of the significant and controversial moments of Holmes’ personal life. She and Cruise began dating in April 2005, and in June of the same year they got engaged. A year after, Holmes gave birth to Suri Cruise. Holmes, who grew up practicing the Catholic faith, started studying Scientology.

Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise — Photo Credit: Everett Collection

In November of the same year, they married through a Scientologist ceremony in Bracciano, Italy. However, a little over five years into their marriage, Holmes filed for divorce from her husband Tom Cruise in New York on June 29, 2012.

In July of the same year, their lawyers announced that the two had signed a divorce settlement. Holmes eventually got custody of Suri.

Between 2006 and 2012, when the couple was married, Tom Cruise’s net worth was approximately $250 million. Meanwhile, Katie Holmes net worth was around $10 million. Based on the divorce settlement, Cruise must pay Holmes $400 000 annual child support until 2024.

He is also responsible for Suri’s education, medical bills, insurance, and other extracurricular activities she chooses to participate in. Additionally, Holmes did not seek any dollar in spousal support to get sole custody of Suri. This was the third divorce for Cruise and the first for Holmes. Following the divorce, Holmes returned to Catholic Church and started attending St. Francis Xavier Church.