Sex and the City Hot Kristin DavisKristin Landen Davis (age 43) She also listed as Kristin Lee Davis. Kristin was born February 23 or February 24, 1965 in Boulder, Colorado, United States. She is an American Golden Globe and Emmy award-nominated actress best known for the role of Charlotte Goldenblatt on HBO's Sex and the City.
An only child, her parents divorced when she was a baby and she was adopted by her stepfather after he married her mother in 1968. Early in her childhood Kristin and her parents moved to Columbia, South Carolina, where her adoptive father served as provost and taught psychology at the University of South Carolina. She lived in South Carolina until she graduated from A.C. Flora High School in 1983. She then moved to New Jersey, where she attended Rutgers University.
After graduation in 1987, Davis moved to New York and waited tables before opening a yoga studio with a friend. In 1995, she got her big break when she landed the role of Brooke Armstrong Campbell on Melrose Place. She left the show after one year when producers found that viewers disliked her character. Davis also had roles in other television series including Friends and Seinfeld. In 1998, Davis was cast as Charlotte York in Sex and the City and remained an integral cast member until the series ended in 2004.
She has also hosted the VH1 show 200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons. In 2005, Davis starred in a television pilot entitled Soccer Moms in which she and Gina Torres star as suburban mothers who moonlight as private detectives.
Films include The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3D, where she plays Max's mom, opposite David Arquette and George Lopez; the Walt Disney film The Shaggy Dog, where she plays Rebecca Douglas, opposite Tim Allen, and Deck The Halls, opposite Matthew Broderick.
She performed in ABC Family channel's Christmas movie Three Days in 2006 and in a commercial for Head and Shoulders shampoo. Davis is currently shooting the Sex and the City feature film, under the direction of executive producer Michael Patrick King.
