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Holly Marie Combs (born December 3, 1973 in San Diego, California, USA) is an American actress who has worked in movies and television series. She is best known for her roles as Tom Skerritt's and Kathy Baker's TV daughter and older child, Kimberly Brock in Picket Fences and as Piper Halliwell in Charmed. From 2002 until 2006, when the series ended, Combs was a producer for the show.
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 immediately got the job. Picket Fences ran for four years, winning Combs critical acclaim and a Young Actor's award.
Combs was with her friend Shannen Doherty when she saw the pilot script for Charmed on the back seat, and 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 because they didn't "fit". Alyssa Milano and Combs both became producers for Charmed in the fifth season. For the last five seasons of Charmed (debuted in 1998 and was a hit TV series, which ended in May 2006), Combs played the oldest of the three sisters, while ironically she was the youngest of the three actresses. Wikipedia
Films
2001 "Ocean's Eleven"
1995 "A Reason to Believe"
1992 "Chain of Desire", "Dr. Giggles", "Simple Men"
1989 "Born on the Fourth of July", "New York Stories"
1988 "Sweet Hearts Dance"
1985 "Walls of Glass"
TV series
1998-2006 "Charmed"
1997 "Relativity"
1992-1996 "Picket Fences"
TV movies
2003 "See Jane Date"
1997 "Love's Deadly Triangle: The Texas Cadet Murder", "Our Mothers murder"
1996 "Sins of Silence"
1994 "A Perfect Stranger" |
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