Katie Holmes
New York, NY, USA – April 25, 2018: Katie Holmes attends the Brooks Brothers Bicentennial Celebration at Jazz At Lincoln Center, Manhattan Photo by vonora/bigstock.com
Birth Name: Kate Noelle Holmes
Place of Birth: Toledo, Ohio, U.S.
Date of Birth: December 18, 1978
Ethnicity: German, Irish, English
Katie Holmes is an American actress, model, and filmmaker. She is known for her role as Joey Potter on the teen drama series Dawson’s Creek.
Katie’s father is of three quarters German and one quarter Irish descent. Katie’s mother has Irish and English ancestry. Katie’s family’s surname was originally Holm.
She has a daughter with her former husband, actor Tom Cruise.
Katie’s paternal grandfather was Frederick Carl Holmes (the son of Herman Holmes/Holm and Anna Palm). Frederick was born in Ohio, to German parents. Herman was the son of Charles A. Holm and Mary Young.
Katie’s paternal grandmother was Helen Marie Maher (the daughter of Martin J. Maher and Mary Acker). Helen was born in Ohio. Martin was Irish, from Tipperary, the son of John Maher and Mary Cormack. Katie’s great-grandmother Mary was born in Ohio, of German descent, the daughter of Antonius/Anton/Anthony F. Acker and Elizabeth Weaver.
Katie’s maternal grandfather was Charles Edward Craft (the son of James Henry Craft and Annie/Anna O’Bryan). Charles was born in Kentucky, and had English and Irish ancestry. James was the son of Campbell Clay Craft and Nancy Ritter Webb. Annie was the daughter of Charles O’Bryan and Annie Lee Faubush.
Katie’s maternal grandmother was Jacqulyn A. Chambers (the daughter of Thomas Chambers and Margaret Meretta/Rita Walsh). Jacqulyn was born in Ohio. Thomas was born in Nottinghamshire, England, the son of John Chambers and Emma A. Ford. Margaret was born in Ohio, the daughter of George Edward Walsh and Mary Ann Mullen, and had Irish ancestry.
Sources: Genealogy of Katie Holmes – http://www.geni.com
Katie’s paternal grandfather, Frederick Carl Holmes, on the 1920 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Katie’s paternal grandmother, Helen Marie Maher, on the 1910 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Obituary of Katie’s maternal grandfather, Charles Edward Craft – http://news.google.com
Katie’s maternal grandmother, Jacqulyn A. Chambers, on the 1930 U.S. Census – https://familysearch.org
Katie Holmes in 2011, joe seer/bigstock.com
She looks Southern German (Bavarian) or Hungarian.
It is interesting that Katie Holmes is 3/8ths German, 3/8ths Irish, and 1/4th English, while Tom Cruise is 7/16ths German, 7/16ths Irish, 1/8th English.
BTW, all the previous information on her genealogy up here was completely wrong… it was from that blame grandma blog and other online genealogies of Katie, who totally misidentified her mother’s maiden name (it’s “Craft”, not “Stothers”) and all of her grandparents’ names.
Her parents aren’t cousins or second cousins, either, like in that Holmes-Stothers genealogy.
“It is interesting that Katie Holmes is 3/8ths German, 3/8ths Irish, and 1/4th English, while Tom Cruise is 7/16ths German, 7/16ths Irish, 1/8th English.”
If I’m informed rightly, these are three of the largest ethnic groups of the US, perhaps the largest, all three with similar cultural background, so I think it’s quite natural … ? Very many people on these sides have similar ancestry.
I meant the arrangement of their exact fractions is similar in a way.
Yes, I realized that after I posted … It’s nearly identical.
But that hadn’t helped to save their relation. ;-)
She looks very French. Anyway also wears its other ethnicities, since one sees it and says, for example: she has German ancestry.
Agreed, that would have been my first guess.
She has no French Canadian and Scottish in her she is primarily English Irish German and Russian it’s proven on ethnic celebs she has Russian ancestry.
Exotic…not Spanish or Italian in her?
the only Spanish thing she has is the name of her hometown, Toledo, a beautiful city in Spain
Exotic?????? How? She looks white as hell.
So you think italians or spaniards from spain (both originally White european) are exotic?? sorryyyyy???
Just the people that we’re not used to a lot.
I also include Scandinavians as “exotic”.
A typical white person like Tom Cruise and Gwyeneth Paltrow are not “exotic” in my eyes.
well sicilian italians do look exotic
that is just a stereotype. They just look like the other Southern Europeans. Many Sicilians don’t even look Mediterranean.
she has some french ancestry and as you should know, Italian, spaniard or french people are ver very similar, a they all have latin origins….
Katie Holmes has no French ancestry.
“Latin” is not an origin. Latin peoples were mostly multi-ethnic descendants of various ethnic groups who speaks a Romance language.