Kristin Landen Davis Bio

Kristin Landen Davis is an American Golden Globe- and Emmy Award nominated actress. She is well-known for her role of Charlotte York Goldenblatt on HBO's Sex and the City.Davis was born in Boulder, Colorado. Her parents divorced as a child and she was an only child. Her stepfather adopted her, University of South Carolina psychology professor Keith Davis, after he married her mother, Dorothy, a university data analyst, in 1968. There were three step sisters from her adoptive father's initial marriage. The family relocated to Columbia, South Carolina in her early childhood. Her father who adopted her was the provost of Columbia and also taught psychology at The University of South Carolina. Davis had a dream to become an actress since the age of 10 when she was a part of a community theatre production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Davis lived in South Carolina until she graduated from A.C. Flora High School in 1983. After that, she relocated to New Jersey, where she went to Rutgers University. Davis was the host of the VH1 show 200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons. She played a suburban mother who moonlights as a private investigator in the pilot called Soccer Moms. It was her first TV appearance. She was also Miss Spider in Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Kids, and its spinoff Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends. In June 2008, Belk was released shortly after the film's release to the general public.