Kristin Davis turns 60: This is how she differs from Charlotte York

Kristin Davis (60) know many series fans as Charlotte York. Since 1998 the actress, who is celebrating her 60th birthday on February 23, has been playing the role of the hopeless romantician: only in “Sex and the City” and the spin-off films, later in the serial offshoot “And just like that .. . “. In addition to Sarah Jessica Parker (59), Cynthia Nixon (58) and Kim Cattrall (68), she immortalized herself with “SATC” in a cult show that caused her breakthrough.

Davis, who completed her acting studies in 1987, became known for the first time in the mid-1990s by the “Melrose Place” series. In the US series, she embodied three and four Brooke Armstrong in season, which with her arrogant and sometimes malignant character caused a lot of turmoil. After 34 episodes, the time for Davis was over for Davis: her serial figure died after falling into a pool when she was drunk.

For the actress, the TV show opened some doors. So she could then be seen in a guest role in the popular series “Seinfeld”. It did not take long until her “SATC” casting: in 1998 she first embodied Charlotte York. However, she almost received a different role, as she said in her in January 2025. Originally, the series creator Darren Star (63) asked her to prereginate for Carrie Bradshaw. However, Davis had doubts to meet the role and was very stressed. “I thought: ‘I can’t do it,’,” she said in the podcast. Instead, she discovered Charlotte York for herself. “In her view, she seemed to be younger and more open than the other characters, which I was able to identify very much at the time,” said Davis.

If you ask the actress today how much she resembles her serial figure, she gives another answer. In 2023 she explained that the “essence” of her personality was the same, but she and Charlotte had “very different ways of life”. In contrast to the traditional gallery owner, she does not strive for marriage. “I’m not married. I have never been married. That is not my thing. I was never concentrated on it,” she said. Accordingly, in order to be able to embody your character as well as possible, it took “some acting”.

Kristin Davis has two children. In 2011 she adopted daughter Gemma Rose, and in 2018 adoptive son Wilson joined her small family. At the time, she was not aware that Charlotte also christened her daughter in “Sex and the City”. 2012 with talk show host Anderson Cooper (57) that she had “totally forgotten”. “Since I made the whole thing secret, I didn’t talk to anyone about the choice of names or adopting and I did not recognize the connection,” she said.

As a mother of two, she is still open to a relationship, but the dating as a mother is “hard,” said Davis. She is currently not actively looking for a partner. Sarah Jessica Parker apparently even wanted to help. “My friends think that I should go to dates because life is short,” said Davis. Her fellow actor wanted to register on a dating app, but Davis prevented her from. “I said: ‘Sarah Jessica, I’ll kill you’.”

Davis also got to know the dark side of the acting business in her career. Even during her “Melrose Place” time, she saw herself confronted with ideals of beauty. For her, the set was “a place full of Dürrer women with blond hair and blue eyes”, which is why she asked herself: “What do I actually do here?”. But the pressure also affected them from the outside in another way. She told her at the time, her then co-star Thomas Calabro (66) came to her and said: “Oh, I know that the producers are very stressed, but I just think it’s great that we have a woman who has corners . ‘”Then she was looking for a conversation with the manufacturing manager who emphasized that she looked” beautiful “but should not gain weight.

The beauty pressure of Davis also accompanied Davis later because the public commented on her appearance. “It is difficult to constantly be confronted with your younger self. And it is a difficult task to remember that you don’t have to look like that. The internet wants you to look like this – but at the same time it doesn’t want that either You look that way, “Davis said her experiences. At first she had a forehead fold in spraying away with Botox before she had done with fillers against her wrinkles. She had good and bad experiences, but finally let her dissolve. Davis was “ruthlessly mocked”, she explained in retrospect about the comments about her appearance. Today she deals more relaxed with everything. She has “no time” to stay with such things.