Kristin Landen Davis, is an American actress and producer (also written Kristin Lee Davis). She rose to fame as Charlotte York Goldenblatt in the HBO romantic comedy Sex and the City from 1998 to 2004.
She was nominated for a Golden Globe and an Emmy in 2004 for her role on the show. Davis reprised her role as Charlotte in the films Sex and the City (2008) and Sex and the City 2 (2010), as well as in the HBO Max relaunch of the series And Just Like That… (2021–present).
After receiving her degree in 1987, Davis relocated to New York and began working as a waitress before starting a yoga class with a friend. In 1991, she made a few cameos on the daytime show General Hospital.
Later, she had guest appearances on Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, and ER in addition to appearing in made-for-television movies.
Davis rose to fame after being chosen to play the evil Brooke Armstrong Campbell in the Fox primetime serial opera Melrose Place. She left the show when the character was killed off after a year. The next year, she made two guest appearances on episodes of Seinfeld.
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Colorado’s Boulder is where Davis was born. Her parents divorced when she was a baby, and she is the only child. Davis was adopted by her stepfather in 1968 after Dorothy, a university data analyst, wed Keith Davis, a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder at the time.
As a result of her father’s first marriage, she has three half-sisters. She moved to Columbia, South Carolina with her parents when she was young since her father was the provost there and also taught psychology at the University of South Carolina.