Kristin Landen Davis Bio

Kristin Landen Davis, an American Emmy Award-nominated actress as well as an American Golden Globe-nominated actress is best known for her role in the role of Charlotte York Goldenblatt, on HBO's Sex and the City. As a single parent, her parents split when she was a baby. She was adopted by her stepfather, University of South Carolina psychology professor Keith Davis, after he married his mother, Dorothy, a university data analyst, in 1968. There were three step sisters from her father's previous marriage. She and her family moved to Columbia, South Carolina in the early years of her childhood. Her adoptive father was the provost of Columbia and also taught psychology at the University of South Carolina. Davis was a passionate actor from the age of 10, when she appeared in the community theater production Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Davis was born in South Carolina and graduated from A.C. Flora High School in 1983. After that, she relocated to New Jersey, where she attended Rutgers University. Davis was the host of the VH1 show 200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons. In 2005, she appeared in a television pilot entitled Soccer Moms in which she along with Gina Torres star as suburban mothers who moonlight as private detectives. 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.