Holly Marie Combs

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Holly Marie Combs

Combs with Lauren Holly at the 1991 Emmy Awards
Born Holly Marie Combs
December 3, 1973 (1973-12-03) (age 34)
San Diego, California, U.S.A.
Occupation Actress, Presenter, Producer
Years active 1985–present
Spouse(s) Bryan Travis Smith (1993–1997)
David W. Donoho (2004–present)

Holly Marie Combs Donoho (born December 3, 1973) is an American actress. Her roles have included portrayals of Piper Halliwell in the American television series Charmed and Kimberly Brock in Picket Fences, for which she received a Young Artist Award.[1][2]

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[edit] Biography

[edit] Early life

Combs was born in San Diego, California. At the time of her birth, her mother, Lauralei Combs (née Berckhem), was fifteen years old and her father was seventeen.[3] Combs' biological parents married, but the two split up after two years,[4] feeling they were too young to make a marriage work. While Combs was learning to walk, she hit her head on a marble table, resulting in a scar over her right eyebrow. She went through many different homes with her mother, often having very little privacy, while her mom attempted to pursue an acting career. When Combs was seven, she and her mother moved to New York City. She was 12 when her mother married her stepfather. In New York City, Combs attended Beekman Hill Elementary and then The Professional Children's School of Acting.

[edit] Career

Although she had a number of minor roles in the late 1980s, including a brief speaking part in Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July, Combs' major acting debut arrived in the 1992 TV drama series Picket Fences. She auditioned for the role of Kimberly while she was in New York. The casting agent told her that she wasn't right for the part because, "She didn't have a big enough heart." Combs retorted, "If you're looking for someone with a big heart, what the hell are you doing in New York?" She was later called back and offered the job.[3] Picket Fences ran for four years, winning Combs critical acclaim and a Young Artist award.[1][2]

In 1992, Combs made her appearance in Simple Men, Chain of Desire, and Dr. Giggles, in which she plays its protagonist, the 19-year-old daughter of Cliff De Young's character and boyfriend of Glenn Quinn's character, Jennifer Campbell.

Combs was with her friend Shannen Doherty when Doherty was given the pilot script for Charmed. Doherty took Combs along to the audition when Combs said she wanted to take part in the audition. When they did, Combs auditioned for the role of Prue Halliwell and Doherty for Piper Halliwell, but they ended up switching roles. Alyssa Milano and Combs both became producers for Charmed in the fifth season.[5] For all eight seasons of Charmed (debuted in 1998 and was a hit TV series, which ended in May 2006), Combs played the second oldest of the three sisters, then the eldest once Doherty left, even though she was the youngest of the four actresses.

[edit] Personal life

In 1993, Combs married Brian "Travis" Smith; they divorced in 1997. [6] She then went on to marry former Charmed key-grip and long time boyfriend David Donoho on Valentine's Day 2004. They are parents to two boys.


Combs has a total of four tattoos: she has a rose on her right shoulder blade, a butterfly on the inside of her right wrist, an Anglo Saxon design around her left wrist, and a Tribal design around her right wrist, which was repaired in November 2000 because the original design was unbalanced.

In an article in ePregnancy Magazine, Combs admits she had been smoking from the age of fifteen whenever she was nervous.[7] That changed as soon as she found out about her pregnancy with first child, Finley Arthur, when she decided to immediately stop:

“ To [stop smoking] was actually really easy because I had already started to cut down. My husband is asthmatic, and he just can't for the life of him imagine why anybody would put smoke in their mouth, so he really helped me to start cutting down.... Then when I got pregnant the smell of other people's cigarette smoke was so heinous to me that it made me not want to have a cigarette ever again. It's kind of like cheating [when] it's so easy to quit because you can't take the smell! ”

[edit] Filmography

[edit] Film roles

Year Title Role Notes
1985 Walls of Glass (aka Flanagan) Classmate In Flash Back Uncredited
1988 Sweet Hearts Dance Debs Boon
1989 Born on the Fourth of July Jenny Uncredited
New York Stories Costume Party Guest Section 'Life Without Zoe'
1992 Chain of Desire Diana
Dr. Giggles Jennifer Campbell
Simple Men Kim
1995 A Reason to Believe Sharon
2001 Ocean's Eleven Herself Uncredited

[edit] Television roles

Year Title Role Notes
1992-1996 Picket Fences Kimberly Brock Award-winning role (Young Actor's Award)
1997 Relativity Anne Pryce Guest Star: Season 1, Episode 14
1998-2006 Charmed Piper Halliwell 2002-2006: Series Producer
2008- Untitled Janie american version of Mistresses. Filming begins mid July
2009- Cupid Dr Claire Allen

[edit] Televisions movies and miniseries

Year Title Role Notes
1994 A Perfect Stranger Amanda Hale
1996 Sins of Silence Sophie DiMatteo
1997 Love's Deadly Triangle: The Texas Cadet Murder Diane Zamora
Daughters (aka Our Mother's Murder) Alex Morrell
2003 See Jane Date Natasha Nutley
2007 Point of Entry (aka Panic Button) Kathy Alden
2009 Unwelcome Guest Danielle Jackson

[edit] References

  1. ^ a b Holly Marie Combs - Awards. IMDb.com. Retrieved on 2007-04-05.
  2. ^ a b Young Artist Award. youngartistawards.org. Retrieved on 2008-05-06.
  3. ^ a b Deanna Kizis. "Holly Charms Hollywood", Cosmopolitan, December 2000. 
  4. ^ Ask Men.com Feature
  5. ^ "Charmed" Full Cast and Crew. IMDb.com. Retrieved on 2006-06-21.
  6. ^ "Breakthroughs: Holly Marie Combs", People Magazine, December 1998. Retrieved on 2008-05-06. 
  7. ^ "The Charming Holly Marie Combs", ePregnancy Magazine, June 4, 2004. Retrieved on 2008-05-06. 

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