Born Kristin Landen Davis on February 24, 1965 in Boulder, Colorado, Kristin Davis is an only child to her divorced mother who remarried in 1968. She moved to Columbia, South Carolina at a young age and was educated A.C. Flora High School and Rutgers University after she moved to New Jersey. Her pre-Hollywood work was waiting tables and managing her yoga studio in partnership with her friend. Her big break was when she was cast for the series Melrose Place. A year later she left the show and had appearances on
Friends and
Seinfeld . In 1998 she was given a project as Charlotte York in
Sex and the City . She also appeared in the movie The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl in 3D.
Charlotte York is played by Kristin Davis in
Sex and the City . Born in May 1967, Charlotte is of a wealthy Connecticut blue-blooded upbringing and is a graduate of Smith College. She is an art dealer and the most conservative of the four major characters. She has an old-fashioned view towards love, stating that she is in search for her knight in shining armor. She has been married but had divorced her husband for irreconcilable differences. She later married her divorce lawyer.
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