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
Even actress Sela Ward would deceive any idiot being rather tanned, would look like a half-breed or Spaniard (though there are pretty blond or even red-haired Latinos and Spaniards like the brazilian model Gisele Bundchen or Marina Ruy Barbosa, other brazilian actress). But her whiteness is in features and ancestry too, not if she burned her butt on the beach.
There’s no such thing as a “half breed”. And plenty of Spaniards and Latin Americans are fair, and the darker ones can be attractive too. What a ridiculous comment in every way.
https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/campbell-clay-craft_16561359
She looks your average white American to me. As in, german plus British ancestry. She has a pan euro look imo.