Kristin Davis

Kristin Davis is an American actress whose three-decade career has produced multiple defining American TV roles — particularly her 1998–2004 lead role as Charlotte York Goldenblatt on HBO's TV series Sex and the City. She was born Kristin Lee Landen on February 23, 1965, in Boulder, Colorado. Her biological father Eugene Charles Landen was a Colorado academic, and her biological mother Dorothy Landen was a professor of statistics. Her parents divorced when Kristin was an infant, and her mother subsequently married South Carolina psychologist Keith Davis (whose surname Kristin took at age four).

Her education at Rutgers University Mason Gross School of the Arts (B.F.A. in Theater, 1987) launched her early-career path. Her 1987 New York City arrival and her subsequent 1990 first New York City TV appearance launched her early-1990s American TV career. Her 1995–1996 lead role as Brooke Armstrong Campbell on the Aaron Spelling-produced Fox prime-time soap-opera TV series Melrose Place launched her late-1990s American TV public profile.

Her June 6, 1998 first-broadcast appearance as Charlotte York Goldenblatt on HBO's Sex and the City — the Darren Star-created and Michael Patrick King-developed sex-and-relationships comedy drama, alongside Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, and Cynthia Nixon — launched her late-1990s and 2000s American TV-comedy-drama public profile. The series ran for 94 episodes across six seasons (1998–2004) and produced her 2004 Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy Series.

The 2008 first Sex and the City feature film and the 2010 sequel Sex and the City 2 — both reuniting her with the original Sex and the City cast — extended her American TV-comedy-drama public profile. Her later HBO Max sequel TV series And Just Like That... (2021–present) — across which she has reprised her Charlotte York Goldenblatt role across three seasons — produced her later American TV-comedy-drama public profile. She is a single mother who has adopted two children (one in 2011 and one in 2018), and has been continuously single across her career.

Her name Kristin is a Scandinavian feminine form of Christian (from the Latin Christianus). Kristin rose sharply in American naming through the 1970s and 1980s.