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Today's birthday, February 24: US actress Kristin Davis (1965-)
Kristin Davis is best known for portraying Charlotte in the hit television show Sex And The City.
Born on February 24, 1965 in Boulder, Colorado, Davis moved to South Carolina as a child with her mother and professor stepfather.
She moved to New York after university, paying the bills by acting in theatre productions and commercials.
Davis acted in a number of TV movies and had one-off roles on TV series such as ER and Dr Quinn, Medicine Woman but for years failed to land a breakthrough role.
Then in 1995 came a role in the television soap Melrose Place. Davis played Brooke Armstrong for 30 episodes before leaving the show in 1996.
Off the back of her Melrose success, Davis scored a brief role as Jerry's girlfriend in Seinfeld (1997).
Her character, Jenna, was one of only a few of Jerry's girlfriends to appear in more than one episode.
The following year she began portraying Charlotte in Sex And The City. The show was a hit that ran until 2004, but the franchise continued beyond the series' six seasons.
After a few roles in children's movies, Davis returned as Charlotte for the Sex And The City movie in 2008.
The film grossed almost $US153 million and spawned a sequel in 2010. Davis said recently a third film is "in discussion".
Davis has never married but has been linked to a number of men over the years including actor Alec Baldwin and West Wing writer Aaron Sorkin.
She lives in Los Angeles with her daughter Gemma Rose, whom she adopted in 2011.
