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Let’s get this out of the way: amongst the howling phantasmagoria of celebrity psychos currently available for our consumption, Katie Holmes registers nary a blip—just the way she likes it. The 43-year-old actress, best known professionally for teenage ingenue roles like Joey on Dawson’s Creek and tentpole fare like Batman Begins, last thoroughly held the public’s attention during her romance with besotted Scientologist Tom Cruise.
Holmes is the woman who inspired Cruise to jump for joy on Oprah’s couch, and she’s also the woman who blindsided the Top Gun: Maverick star by filing for divorce in 2012, allegedly in part to protect their daughter, Suri, from Cruise’s religion. After the settlement, Cruise reportedly didn’t see or speak to Suri for more than two and a half years.
But it’s been a long time since all that went down, and all parties have presumably moved on. While Cruise continues to reach new peaks of Hollywood super-stardom, Holmes is living a low-key life in the Big Apple; she’s still frequent fodder for paparazzi, but her existence is, for all intents and purposes, drama-free.