Kristin Landen Davis Bio

Davis was born in Boulder Colorado. Her parents divorced when she was when she was a young girl and she became the sole child. She was adopted by her stepfather, professor Keith Davis, after he married her mother, Dorothy an academic data analyst in the year 1968. She was blessed with three half sisters from her father's previous marriage. When she was a child Davis and her parents moved to Columbia, South Carolina, where her father served as provost and teaches psychology at the University of South Carolina. Davis would like to become an actress at the age of 10, when she was chosen to be in the community theater production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Davis resided in South Carolina until she graduated from A.C. Flora High School in 1983. After graduation from A.C. Flora High School in 1983, Davis emigrated to New Jersey and attended Rutgers University. Davis earned an associate's degree from the Rutgers University's Mason Gross School of the Arts in 1987. Davis graduated in 1987, and then moved to New York where she worked as a waitress, before opening a studio for yoga with a friend. In 1995, she had her "big break", landing the role of Brooke Armstrong Campbell on Melrose Place. After a year, the producers found that viewers did not like her character , and she resigned from the show. Davis also appeared in other TV shows like Friends, Will and Grace and Seinfeld. In 1998, Davis was cast as Charlotte York in Sex and the City and remained as a key cast member until the series ended in 2004. In the last season, she was nominated for an Emmy.